Meter Maids Jump the Gun in Fort Greene
It sounds like the traffic cops didn’t get the memo from DOT that the new alternate side of the street parking rules in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are not in force until Monday. According to this tip we got, they were just a little too anxious to start making everyone’s lives miserable again: I…
It sounds like the traffic cops didn’t get the memo from DOT that the new alternate side of the street parking rules in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are not in force until Monday. According to this tip we got, they were just a little too anxious to start making everyone’s lives miserable again:
I came home to Willoughby Street today to find cars all the way up the block with tickets (including mine). It seems a Traffic Agent Blackett decided to ticket everyone even though alternate side goes back into effect next week. I’d be interested to hear if other streets had this same problem.
How ’bout it: Anyone else get hit with premature ticketulation?
They’re also known as brownies.
Don’t complain too much. Back in the day, they would have just lined up the wreckers and hauled ALL THE CARS down to the Navy Yard for no reason…except end of the month quota.
Happened to me twice 🙂
>good. ticket everyone. the city needs as much money as >possible. ticket stupid bikers too. and jaywalkers. hells >i think people should be ticketed just for being stupid.
that’ll be $255 please. i kid.
they’re meter maids. and even that is a glorifying term for those brainless vultures. how about ‘mobile tax collecters’? oh, and can we put them back in the silly little cars, and stop this pretending to be a police car thing? even police look down on them and want nothing to do with them (so a police officer tells me)
I think you are supposed to call them “traffic enforcement officers” over here but everyone calls them “wardens”
also “meter maid” is a derogatory term. just sayin’.
*rob*
How do they enforce a bicycle or jaywalking ticket??? What if you refuse to produce an ID?? It surely can’t be tied into your driver’s license.
I remember many years ago the Post published someone’s jaywalking ticket on the front page!!!!
Arkady, the UK gov needs $$$ in an even worst way than us in the states
It sounds like people got unfairly ticketed. I do feel sorry for the meter readers. I saw a guy last weekend in Brooklyn Heights running and screaming at on older man who had just written him a ticket for an expired meter. I thought the meter man was going to get killed. It must be a tough job – although I’m not excusing them for the unfair tickets they write.
A friend of mine got a 30 pound (about $45.) ticket in London for making a wrong turn off Oxford St on his bicycle!