Posted on 05/14/2013 8:27:28 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
The city of Keene, New Hampshire, is suing a group of do-gooders for allegedly topping off parking meters of strangers. The group, which calls itself "Robin Hood and his Merry Men," likes to leave notes on the windshields of cars that are in danger of getting a ticket due to an expired meter, according to the Union Leader.
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cop would tell you it’s an ordinance, not a law. then tell you yes.
Yet the city fathers wonder why folks like me flat out refuse to go downtown unless it’s unavoidable.
Last time I went for sushi there was one other car parked on the street, it was 6:45pm, and I got a $40 dollar ticket while I was getting change for the meter.
Luke cut off the heads of the meters, one after another.
Exactly! The meters are about tickets not the measly quarter.
And who the hell ever said that the job of government is to maximize revenue????
Contemplate that ratio.
If this whole Robin Hood thing continued, the city might have to raise even more taxes (and meter rates) to continue to employ such an army of parking...mai...enforcement officers.
Why on earth does that small of a town EVEN HAVE parking meters? Control, that's why. I hope that the Robin Hoods take this lawsuit as the hint that it is time to stop pecking at the cat, and instead eject it.
The government.
“Feeding the meters I can kinda understand,”
Feeding the meters is a kind, human gesture. Something people should be doing more OF, imo.
Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters.
Yeah but Luke got put on a chain gang in Louisiana for doing that.
My solution for avoiding tickets in Anchorage...I avoid downtown Anchorage at all costs. One of the many things I like about Wasilla...no parking meters.
There’s no such thing as a small tyranny.
“Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters.”
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.
In today’s world of online shopping, online banking, and strip malls with free parking, any town that is trying to maintain parking meters in their downtown area, is killing any hope of revitalized downtown businesses. Especially for a town of 23,000 people.
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.and
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work.
“At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the marketplace and saw some people standing around doing nothing. 4 So he hired them, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. 5 So they went to work in the vineyard. At noon and again at three o’clock he did the same thing.
“At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
“They replied, ‘Because no one hired us.’
“The landowner told them, ‘Then go out and join the others in my vineyard.’
“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first. 9 When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage. When those hired first came to get their pay, they assumed they would receive more. But they, too, were paid a day’s wage. When they received their pay, they protested to the owner, ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
“He answered one of them, ‘Friend, I haven’t been unfair! Didn’t you agree to work all day for the usual wage? Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’
The main difference here: The stories from the bible positively assert not only ownership, but both freedom and accountability.... whereas the city is asserting neither ownership, nor revenue, but only cold-blooded control.
If they’re doing nothing wrong, they have no reason to fear being recorded.
Every agent of the government should be subject to recording of their actions in the line of duty.
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