Adam writes:
“the parking enforcement person told me that I couldn’t wait in the car for my wife to get her prescription. Then I saw him parked like this and said he wasn’t allowed to park like that. He said, “I am allowed to.” Is he? He began writing tickets for other people.”
Photo by Alex Byers
From DPW:
“Every year our street sweepers mechanically cleaned over 57,000 miles of DC streets!”
“Dear PoPville,
Wanted to share my experience this morning as both a chance to vent and an opportunity to warn drivers in DC. I had my car booted this morning for $96 in tickets, from 2 parking tickets. This seems like an incredibly trivial amount to boot a car over, and for two tickets I had honestly not remembered (an email warning would have been nice, as I’m signed up for email alerts). In addition to this, they scratched the wheel they attached it to. I have a RPP and DC plates, having just renewed. Seems like something that could have been brought to my attention then!
The man that came to un-boot me was quick, knowledgable and super kind. He polished off the wheel with a cloth after removing the boot, and then gave me a direct supervisor number to file a complaint, at which point he said it this happens “all the time” and that for such a small amount the government would absolutely lose money after paying for the wheel repair.“
Thanks to Alex for sending from Monday: “US Senate tags parked past a no parking/stopping sign, in front of a hydrant and in a crosswalk. Judiciary square”
Update: Martin Austermuhle tweets: “That’s no U.S. senator, but rather one of D.C.’s shadow senators.”
2nd and H Street, NE
Thanks to Carl for sending: “Fun congressional spouse parking on the sidewalk.”
Ceci n’est pas une parking on the sidewalk pass: (more…)
Thanks to Amanda for capturing this dumpster fire of a parking job:
“This gem in SW made it about 36 hours.”
Not quite as entitled as the previous examples we’ve seen this week but, well, I can’t really think of a scenario for parking like this unless you are blind drunk or waaaaay to old to be driving. Remind me to tell you a story about the later that I witnessed a couple weeks ago.
Sherman and Harvard St, NW
Thanks to Amanda for sending this morning:
“I thought this was an appropriate follow-up to yesterday’s Jaguar in front of Call Your Mother. The pic makes it look like the 4Runner is moving, but no. It’s parked (if you can call it that) fully in the crosswalk. No driver. DC plates.”
Thanks to Adam for sending the shot above: “Mind blown, the new Jaguar I-PACE parked in front of Call Your Mother at 8:00am on Sunday! I had not previously heard of it or seen it, and it looked like a spaceship as I crossed the street (stopping to gawk caused me to be second in line for bagels instead of first). An electric car partially parked in the crosswalk… concerned about the environment, but less so the rule of law.”
And Darren sends the shot below: (more…)
Thanks to Bob for sending: “From the corner of Brown Street and Newton this morning.” (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
My car, which was legally parked in a Resident Only Zone on 3rd Street NE, between L and M Street (East side, closest to M Street) was ticketed and towed on Monday at 9:37am. I learned of the ticket on Tuesday morning, via an e-mail notification from the DMV Ticket Alert Service. I didn’t learn of the tow until the third inquiry call made to the Towing Control Dispatch Center, but that’s another story.
The stated reason for the ticket was that I was parked in an Emergency No Parking spot which, per the DMV Associate I’d spoken with, had been reserved for the day by a resident/neighbor. It’s my understanding that these notices are supposed to be put up 72 hours prior to the time the area is being reserved, meaning that there would have been a sign up on Friday on/before 9:37am. There was no sign up on Friday at 4:00pm and there was no sign up when my boyfriend walked by the car on Saturday. (more…)