Ohioans ticketed for parking in own driveways

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/16/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.

Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-ner) says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways.

[NormsRevenge]

What a country.

[Choose Ye This Day]

‘Fink’ is the right name for him.

[bamahead]

The three-term mayor faces a recall vote in November. Critics have claimed he's wasted city money.



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[greatdefender]

Not surprising considering the fact that The City had layoff their police force. Just a way to obtain more money.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I don’t like the whole parking a bunch of cars on the grass of the front lawn, or having a slew of derelict junkers out back, but on a gravel driveway? What’s wrong with a gravel driveway?

[swarthyguy]

I love it.

The water’s all nice and warm.

Froggie feels real good.

And to the question, what else will they do for revenue.....

Yankee creativity shows its shining self.

[rabscuttle385]

The mayor is a jackass. I hope he gets successfully recalled and then tried for abuse of power and gets sent to jail.

[TurtleUp]

This man is evil. He has found a way of interpreting the law that allows him to “legally” take money from his people, so he’s doing that. Disgusting!

[indylindy]

If I were one of those people I would send that “a hoe” the ticket back in shreads.

[DariusBane]

Yet people in this country, and on this hallowed forum insist that the government should ensure there safety, by force if necessary and in every conceivable way and in every conceivable place. Shame on us for being a lazy, self indulgent, selfish bunch of dolts.

[Joe 6-pack]

The time for tarring and feathering of public officials draws near...I wonder how the mayor will look without eyebrows....:-)

[ASOC]

Finkbeiner (FINK’-by-ner) sounds like sphinc·ter (sfngktr)

See also
trespass n. entering another person’s property without permission of the owner or his/her agent and without lawful authority and causing any damage, no matter how slight. Any interference with the owner’s (or a legal tenant’s) use of the property is a sufficient showing of damage and is a civil wrong (tort) sufficient to form the basis for a lawsuit against the trespasser by the owner or a tenant using the property. In addition to damages, a court may grant an injunction prohibiting any further continuing, repeated or permanent trespass.

[norraad]

Oh, I understand, but I soooo disagree, revenge, my son, keeps “officials” in their place, some communities don't have problems like this, because “discipline" is in place and the "fear level" i.e. respect for one another is in place.

[DJ MacWoW]

I think that they were trying to get this yahoo recalled. Guess nothing is coming of that.

[NormsRevenge]

The Mayor is up for a recall in November.

[DariusBane]

Well if you are going to tar and feather a public official, your neighbors, and your friendly Freepers will insist you wear your seat belt and stay off the cell phone while doing tarring and feathering. Safety is paramount.

[JLS]

You think this guy gets reelected?

[CSM]

“During a news conference Monday, Finkbeiner ignored a reporter’s question of whether the crackdown and fines were related to the city’s budget crisis.”

No kidding.....

[Brookhaven]

Hopefully a judge will throw this out.

You can make a decent argument that gravel is a type of paving anyway. It is designed to serve the same purpose as asphalt: make the surface suitable for automobiles.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Well, I’m sure these folks are at fault somehow, and deserve the tickets.

/big-gov “conservative”

[Joe 6-pack]

LOL...and use free range chicken feathers only!

[DariusBane]

LOL I really am starting to hate this world.

[visualops]

I have a 2-car-wide gravel driveway.
My landlord put in it so we could park off the street after the CD player got stolen out of the truck we used to have.
If someone ticketed me for parking there, they would end up with some serious regrets.

[DJ MacWoW]

Thanks. I moved from Toledo in 1975. Things have certainly changed. Anyway, I went snooping.

Police union president may go to court to halt writing of tickets by other city employees

[DariusBane]

“hopefully a judge will throw this out”... Spoken like somebody who accepts the power the government exercises over day to day behavior. I am now a conservative nihilist. Burn it down and start over.

[CSM]

Ohioans proved that they have no respect for private property rights when they voted to outlaw tobacco use in privately owned bars and restaurants. They can’t complain now.

[Graybeard58]

What’s wrong with a gravel driveway?

The rocks have a way of getting in the yard, I'm sure my grand children contribute to that too. Mine's double wide, I've thought about paving it but it costs a fortune, so gravel it stays.

[Desron13]

This is just par for the course for Carty the Marxist Finkbeiner. Like all good little Socialists everywhere, Carty has ridden the city of Toledo into the financial ground. I'm just surprised it took him so long.

[outhousepatrol]

People have gone POSTAL for a lot less than this.

[swarthyguy]

Ain’t it sweet?

I’m just loving the howls of outrage, and from what I can tell, statezillas are just beginning to deploy their array of phased revenue enhancers.

We’ve forgotten Benjamin Franklin’s dictum, and consequently, we are going to all hang seperately.

[Made In The USA]

Google search tells me he’s a democrap.... Yep, those libs always looking out for the little guy!

[driftless2]

Fined for parking on your driveway? I guess George Harrison’s lyrics in “Taxman” about being fined/taxed for breathing will eventually come true.

[wildwood]

tea party in perrysburg right next to toledo on july 4, 10 a.m., for 1 hour at hood park.

[j_k_l]

If I lived there, I would pave four 6” x 6” squres in my gravel driveway measured out to fit exactly under my tires.

[Madame Dufarge]

Well yes, but that was just aimed at smokers, who have been scientifically proven not to be actual human beings so it’s all good in that case.

[CSM]

“Ain’t it sweet?”

Not really, but schaudenfreud (sp?) is all I have left....

[CSM]

Good one!

[tioga]

even a grass driveway works for me, not everyone can afford gravel, concrete or blacktop driveways.....just not all over the front lawn though.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Just another way liberals have found to destroy the notion of private property. When they control all uses of private property and tax it to hell, there will be no more private property.
Then, the marxists will be happy.

[gigster]

Hey, DB, speak for yourself.
The reason most of us are at this site is because we are precisely not like your description of many others.

[GeronL]

I thougnt this was about HOA’s

[SES1066]

Mayor Finkbeiner is in his 3rd (interrupted) term as mayor of Toledo. Previous fame came from ordering company of USMC Reservists to abandon an urban training session because he hadn't been personally informed (Police knew and approved at least 3 days earlier). As others have said, he is facing a recall confirmation in November unless he can invalidate enough signatures of a 20k petition. Needless to say he is holding on to office like a rabid d**.

[NormsRevenge]

I thougnt this was about HOA’s

arrgghh.. (sign of the cross)

[cva66snipe]

Well if you are going to tar and feather a public official, your neighbors, and your friendly Freepers will insist you wear your seat belt and stay off the cell phone while doing tarring and feathering. Safety is paramount.

They also support Traffic Light Cameras and drive 54-55 mph in the left lane on the interstate till they get to their exit LOL.

[willgolfforfood]

I guess hundreds of the folks that got these tickets should ask for a jury trial. I’d bet most juries would let them walk, and it would cost the city a fortune to try them all in court.

[Choose Ye This Day]

My grandparents never had a paved driveway. I think it’s ridiculous to ticket people for parking there.

[TChris]

The bigger question which people should be asking is this: Who passed such a draconian law, and why didn't the citizens protest it before now?

I can't believe that NOBODY thought of problems with a law against parking on an unpaved suface. That just SCREAMS "likely to be abused" to me.

[Publius6961]

So the Mayor, Carty Finkbeiner thinks that the wild interpretation of the law is cool?
I see an abbreviated tenure for Finkmeister, and a law introduced in the state legislature to clarify the matter. I guarantee that the initial law was not intended to apply to unpaved driveways or areas on private property.

[a fool in paradise]

Interesting that they would lay off police officers and send the remaining force to bring in more revenue rather than violent and theiving offenders.