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City sues ‘Robin Hood’ group over parking meter payments
Yahoo! News ^ | 14MAY2013 | Mike Krumboltz

Posted on 05/14/2013 8:27:28 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine

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To: GeronL

cop would tell you it’s an ordinance, not a law. then tell you yes.


41 posted on 05/14/2013 9:49:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

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.


42 posted on 05/14/2013 9:51:38 PM PDT by Don W (There is no gun problem, there is a lack of humanity problem!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Luke cut off the heads of the meters, one after another.


43 posted on 05/14/2013 9:53:01 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis in Extremis)
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To: doc1019

Exactly! The meters are about tickets not the measly quarter.


44 posted on 05/14/2013 9:54:56 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: doc1019
tickets make for more revenue then what the meter can produce.

And who the hell ever said that the job of government is to maximize revenue????

45 posted on 05/14/2013 9:56:30 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Keene, New Hampshire, is apparently shy of 23,000 people in the glorious town. And it has three meter..parking enforcement officers.

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.

46 posted on 05/14/2013 9:58:40 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Teacher317

The government.


47 posted on 05/14/2013 10:00:33 PM PDT by doc1019 (There is absolutely no difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Feeding the meters I can kinda understand,”


Feeding the meters is a kind, human gesture. Something people should be doing more OF, imo.


48 posted on 05/14/2013 10:06:29 PM PDT by ourworldawry
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To: DManA

Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters.


49 posted on 05/14/2013 10:08:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jack Hydrazine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bneviIHiIKs


50 posted on 05/14/2013 10:19:16 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
"I like Cool Hand Luke’s attitude toward parking meters"

Yeah but Luke got put on a chain gang in Louisiana for doing that.

51 posted on 05/14/2013 11:10:23 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: boop
Uphere in Alaska, Anchorage specifically, I must state unequevically: God bless the the parking faires where ever you are now! Due to long winded bosses I know you saved me $1000,in tickets which I reimbursed when I saw you making your rounds. And yes I frequented your gas station despite your sexaul prefernces, and you were also an independent,local station which I choose to support.
And I wonder what you would think of this crap that passes for public discourse?
52 posted on 05/15/2013 12:11:05 AM PDT by Redak
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To: Redak

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.


53 posted on 05/15/2013 3:08:51 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: IncPen

There’s no such thing as a small tyranny.


54 posted on 05/15/2013 3:39:35 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: dfwgator

“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.


55 posted on 05/15/2013 3:45:46 AM PDT by fnord (My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

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.


56 posted on 05/15/2013 4:35:59 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Politicians SAY parking meters are to keep spots opening up to help business, but that's just bull shiite and always has been.
57 posted on 05/15/2013 5:15:00 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Compare and contrast:
"It's illegal to pay someone else's meter." (the city)
with
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.

58 posted on 05/15/2013 7:33:49 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Paladin2

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.


59 posted on 05/15/2013 7:35:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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