Laaaaaaaaaaate night. And we’ve all gotten parking tickets, but this guy, what a whiner!

lisa! let me guess – this fool is thinking that IOKIYAR applies on the local level?

I think this is what you call a slow learner. The overwhelming sense of privileged entitlement is rather “cute”.

I sorta hope he’sa republican…

I hate people who don’t move their cars on street-sweeping day, because the street-sweepers make a BIG detour around the cars. Lots of trash and debris gets left behind. They should be imprisoned, not on any City Council!

Well Dwyer was endorsed by a republican…Tom Harmon, a state senator

dood needs to have the boot placed on his car and it towed next time he parks illegally.

Teh Googlez sez he is!

It’s $60 here and sometimes we forget what day of th week we are on, and so we’ve all gotten tickets in this household, but hey, it’s city revenue

taxes are the foundation of a civil society and parking tickets are just a form of voluntary taxation

should not do the crime unless ya can pay the fine (or words to that effect)

The stupid tax.

I used to be really irresponsible about my parking tickets, but um, I;d rather spend the money on mani pedis nowadays

In the crusher (his car, not him).

Rich neighborhoods in SF get street-sweeping twice a week, but our poor neighborhood which is also a city-level freeway gets wiped once a week, and not very well. Especially when douchebags forget and leave their cars out! I mean, it’s at noon on Tuesday, when our earthquake test sirens go off — how hard can it be to move their cars.

I don’t have a car, so I’m a hater now I guess.

IF the municipal code is written in such a way that IF the vehicle can only be redeemed from car jail IF the owner of the vehicle pays all parking tickets and the cost of the tow and storage incurred. IF the owner does not do so, depending on how the codes are written, the vehicle COULD be lien sold by the tow company to pay off said outstanding obligations.

lotta ifs but….

He is really pathetic, and a the majority of folks who took the O Rgiser poll feel the same way. I mean, he has pretty much used up his air time and for selfish, stupid reason.

I don’t know what we’re supposed to do with all the right-wing jerkwads who don’t feel like they should have to live in a society. There just isn’t enough wilderness left for all of them to live in the rough.

In LA City, if your car has 5 unpaid tickets go to delinquent, you will get booted or towed, and you have to get to DMV, pay tickets, then either go to tow yard or back to your booted vehicle. If tow yard, you pay them CASH, if boot, not sur ewho you pay (thankfully I havent had that problem)

I think Dwyer has lost his chance to run for higher office because he has proven himself tooooo effing stoopid

We could drop them in small groups into the middle of the Bob Marshall Wilderness up here. I am sure that the grizzlies and mountain lions would enjoy the snack.

some cities has their code written so that vehicles parked in no parking zones are automatically impounded.

costs a lot more than just a fine to get the car outta car jail and tends to teach the don’t park here when posted lesson pretty quickly.

Sweeping keeps trash and debris out of our storm water drains and thus keeps the ocean clean. Dwyer campaigned in part on a policy of “clean beaches and water!”

but, but I got a ticket for that in Berkeley last year. I am sooooooooooooo sorry, Teddy.

I was thinking the same thing. Haul ‘em off and cube ‘em. You could even say you were only going to do it to every tenth car. All but the most hardcore gamblers would get theirs the hell out of the way.

But I do live in the boonies. I have so much to learn.

All but the most hardcore gamblers would get theirs the hell out of the way.

You forgot the Republicans with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

You know you are in trouble when you reply to yourself.

A scar you will have to bear all your life.

This guy thinks he’s the first Mayor Daley ?

naw, that’s just an i forgot this. my rule is i know i’m in trouble when i make 4 comments in a row and no one else has said anything.

Did you have a car when you lived in Chicago (on Halsted?)? My friend who lived on Racine had a space behind the apartment house but parking on the street near Wrigley was a total hassle.

fit him with a Denver boot.

If I try to fill in the spaces when no one has made a comment for five minutes or so does that make me co-dependent?

I’m of the opinion that people who live in cities should be required to use a pogo stick for transportation.

If that’s anything like a Denver omelette, it’s delicious!

I actually was on Clifton, a block east of Racine, just south of Roscoe (about two blocks north of Belmont). I did have a car, but I only drove to the store because finding a parking place could be a real hassle. You never, ever drove during a Cubs game or on weekend evenings (because of the bar crowds).

John, Bob, or Pyle?

You know, in DC (Capitol Hill) they started alternate side parking for street cleaning on our block.
I have NEVER, EVER seen a street cleaner. My take: they can get their alternate side parking when I get my NY cuban coffee, greek diner (Burger Joint on 76th Street), Emir’s Falafel, Fairway, The Strand, Symphony Space, etc. etc.

(sigh).

Totally OT:

The Twins won. Is Al Franken throwing out the first ball?

Seems like a lot of the streets prohibited parking on game days. At least you had close proximity to the El.

our Berkeley neighborhood usually has enough parking, but it fills up on Sundays and Friday nights due to church activities down the block. One Friday evening, tired after a long week at work, I could find no parking spaces. However, across the street someone had blatantly parked so as to straddle two obvious (marked) spaces. My billet doux on the windshield read something like:

Congratulations – on an evening where parking is hard to come by, you managed to occupy two spaces with your one car. Was this due to crushing incompetence or a willful disregard of the common good? FAIL!

That said, I really should just ride my bike. It’s only 1.25 miles to work.

it’s late night–no topic!

1.25 miles, good pogo-ing distance.

Yeah, I was about 4 blocks from the El which made it easy to get around. IIRC there were some game day restrictions for night games, but not day games (It has been almost 12 years since I lived there).

LA will ticket you if you’re parked in the street-sweeping zone. Fortunately they don’t usually do both sides of a street on the same day.

Doesn’t this guy have someplace else he can park, or is he just too lazy to move his vehicle – I’m betting it’s a big pickup or an SUV – on the days the sweeper comes through? (Also, I have co-workers whose opinions on HtB are less than flattering of the city management, for other reasons entirely.)

Wow, you must’ve moved out around the same time my friend did. The town just hasn’t been the same without you guys…

That’s a pretty hefty fine, and even though I’m no fan of confusing “no parking on the first Tuesday of blah blah blah” regulations, I think I’d learn to mark my calendar after the first ticket or two. But then, I’m no councilman.

Clearly, Devin Dwyer is one of the Special People. Unfortunately, the Special People often neglect to inform mere peons like us that they are Special People and entitled to privileges above and beyond those awarded to ordinary members of society. I think we should start a fund to tattoo the Special People across the forehead and save us all a spot of confusion.

Heh. Yeah, I moved to Montana in August of ‘98. Best thing I ever did, though I do miss some things about Chicago (though not the crowds or traffic).

and he works at home so like why does he have the inability to dealwith this? because he’s narcissistic dodo

Tatooing is too expensive. Just brand them with a big “S” on their forehead.

Households with two cars and different schedules often took up two spots in Noe Valley when I lived there, in order to save the other spot for the later-arriving spousal unit. That note of yours rings a bell.

A very sensible idea in one inch high letters branded on their foreheads – I am really special so kiss my ass!

Hey, honeys, I’m home.
Lisa, the part where you pay attention instead of paying the fine and then have the money for manis and pedis is the fun part of getting mature. There’s also the leftover, not used pot money to spend on going out to dinner or buying yourself a bouquet of flowers.

LOL demi!

It’s a good thing the Special People tend to have high foreheads.

I often find that when I spend the pot money, dinner follows soon after. Or at least a snack.

Here is an idea.
mass transit.

“I think we should start a fund to tattoo the Special People across the forehead”

I second this, as long as the tattoo is done frat-boy style to drunken, comatose friends. A tattoo of a penis, to be exact.

I’m all for gender inclusive language, but spousal unit is just a tad robotic for my sensabilities. But, go ahead.

BLOCK Letters of course!

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Lisa Derrik and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

As an alum of UC Irvine it’s nice to know that the social psychology of Orange County, including the propensity to lunacy, has not changed in the 33 years since I last set foot in the place. Oh my, Sister Lisa, how DO you handle the place…must be good music and much drugs.

Well, since I’m old and retired now and jest finished celebratin’ the Twins win over Detroit I gotta get go ta bed so I ken get up with the puppies at the buttcrack a dawn.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THOSE DAMNED DEATH PANELS ARE AFTER ME!!

My problem has always been, it’s more like after, let the grazing begin!

Somehow I doubt if Teddy refers to his special guy as a spousal unit. That won’t get him to far.

Moo!

as long as the tattoo is done frat-boy style to drunken, comatose friends.

I don’t know where you live but tattoos in this day and age are done in the light of day. Two people I know have multiple tattooes done in the Asian style. This is normal.

I could be wrong, again, but Lisa doesn’t live in Orange County.

So demi, have you managed to get all the sand out of your… (pause) shoes yet?

Orange County is mostly for the Special People, isn’t it?

If I had my druthers I think I’d rather live in Orang County.

Hardee har har. My feet are still sore in some places from all of the dancing. And, I did take a moment, right before the wedding to think of you and imagine everyone with their clothes off. It’s an old theatre trick.

Time for me to toddle off. Theory seminar tomorrow with a generous helping of grounded theory, scripts and schemas, post-structuralism, and agency theory. Take care all.

In the town where I live (Evanston, IL) there’s a very simple system of alternate side of street parking for street cleaning in Summer and snow plowing in Winter. I’m lucky to have a driveway and garage, so I don’t have to think about. Other neighbors will notice somebody’s car in the wrong place on the wrong day and go ring the doorbell to remind the owner. It’s nice.
When somebody fails to move their car after a big snowstorm, the plows have to make a wide berth around them and it screws up driving and parking on the block for a week. Parking tickets are not enough punishment.

Also, I was once forced to go to Huntington Beach (as a member of the 6th Army Band) to play for the 4th of July parade (19-forking-76) and I have to say that I have never encountered a more snot nosed attitude of entitlement anywhere in the U.S. That’s saying a lot, as I grew up in Chicago’s northern, lakeside, suburbs (The North Shore.)

Boot the SOB’s car, tow it and make him pay for his antisocial attitude.

Did you save me some cake?

G’nite, DrDick.

I’m actually not in OC, but sometimes I have to drive through it! UCI was built after the college demonstrations and is designed to prevent massing of demonstrators and allow ready spread of troops

Night DrDick!

some cities has their code written so that vehicles parked in no parking zones are automatically impounded.

Downtown Chicago, at least before the present Morgan Stanley era. Three minutes over on a Dearborn St meter with soneome in the car, and you-all will (or perhaps would’ve been) be hiking to Lower Wacker, a couple $00s cash in pocket, to get the thing back and go home.

I have the whole top layer. Thought I’d play Marie Antoinette and take it to the homeless shelter. And, yes, I know, that’s not what she said, exactly.

No, no, I was referring to the frat-boy prank of drawing dicks on their “friends’ ” faces with a Sharpie when said “friend” is passed out drunk.

I thought in Evanston only the servants parked on the street. “g”

For Orange County, any excuse to do anything is good enuf.

Yeah, ’cause it was probably something in French.

Dude, do you, like, work out?

Hey Guess what! Ron and I are being written about in a French magazine. Capital. The photo dood is coming tomorrow to take pics.

Mais, oui Antointette.
(with apologies to Punaise)

Interesting. Please link when article’s available.

Awesome. Does Ron get to photo shop?

That is SO mean!
A few blocks over from mine is Central Park Ave. Very nice mansions (by local standards, not to be compared with California style affluence.)
My street is all little bungalows and cottages, a remnant of the days when city (Chicago) folk had a little summer cottage “out in the country.”

Cool, hopefully they’ll have an online version available when it’s done. Do they send a French photographer or contract somebody local?

Evanston is pretty nifty. Friends and I used to go relax on the lake shore at the Northwestern campus after concerts.

I think it would be sweet justice if the other Councilpeople kept telling the blowhard that they would amend ordinance in order to keep him on the Council. Put it on the agenda and everything….and then put the “tow after six tickets” rule in.

I do think that one should be able to park in the zone AFTER the street sweeper has passed by, though. At the very least the police should only ticket in the fore of the sweeper. Of course, the police might not want to get up when the street sweepers begin work. But maybe the sweepers should keep some sort of records if they were impeded (maybe have a little camera which can photograph the violators license plate) so that someone could protest if they parked in the spot after the sweeper made their rounds.

Heading out, splendid evening to all.

night rat!

Local dood. Sounded about ten.

Sweet dreams, Rat.

Can’t wait!

Thanks for the compliment last night. I’d already headed out, but saw it this morning. You’re very kind.

I’m still amazed that you guys haven’t had more coverage. You’re the Poster People for what’s happening.

Everything I know about ignoring parking rules I learned in college. Draconian fines and enforcement mechanisms.

There’s a lull. Shall we talk about sex some more?

this dood seems to think he is above the law. i’m a’hoping a bench warrant gets issued.

Yeah. What should they tell the children ;

do as i say – not as i do

It was a lovely photo!

And Orange County is FULL of them. They don’t call it the “Orange Curtain” for nothing.

Speaking of Special People. Remember when Tom Delay was reminded by a concierge at the Smithsonian that he would have to take his cigar outside to smoke it, because it was the government rule, and Delay just kept smoking and told the man, ‘I am the government’?