Its kinda like thinking they can collect back taxes on a property that's been vacant for 30 years. Those properties will never sell when the back taxes are greater than the value.
Michigan legislative action thread
*ping*
That’s enough money just to pay off one union.
“owed”? They should say “extorted”. After all cities are notorious for setting up impossible parking conditions then fining the beejebbers out of the unfortunate.
I remember my first parking ticket. I was 16 or 17, had to go to the down town OKC library for some reason. I don’t remember the reason. It must have been school related as you couldn’t pay me to drive downtown.
But I remember coming out of the library and seeing a tow truck hooked up to my orange 1971 Opel GT. Meter maid in present. I asked her why as my meter was paid up. She pointed to the bottom of the meter poll and it had a sticker wrapped around it. The sticker allegedly gave a time of operation otherwise it was a tow zone. Well the sticker on the meter was weathered to illegibility. That fact I pointed out to the heroic meter maid. She told me “everybody knows you can’t park here between (such and such a time)”. I responded “everybody but me”. I still got the ticket and had to pay the tow truck driver $50 I didn’t have to not tow my car.
So I have zero zip nada respect for cities and their parking schemes.
Go soak your head Detroit. Screw you overstuffed worthless gubment cheese swilling tyrants!
As Nelson would say: HA! HA!
Colemmanism.
Sounds like a whole city of Keith Ellisons.
Maybe they could start ticketing people from other states who have never been to Detroit.
Governments cannot fund themselves from parking tickets -- for very long. Detroit ran out of that time long ago. They oughta be happy anyone's there at all and learn to capitalize on that.
Did the city maintain the streets on which the tickets were written? Or did the crooks take the street tax money and squander it of pay off bribes?
They need to sue the Democrat party. They caused Detroit’s problems, and they have LOTS of money.
Please.....they weren’t trying very hard to collect.
Atlanta has their own ge-parking-stapo that are fairly notorious. When I had to go to City Hall for work my company paid my parking fine because it’s just a part of business in Atlanta.