In this case it’s not a threat to safety or order, but there is always someone out there who goes too far and ruins it for the rest of us.
Somewhere out there, someone got the bright idea of becoming a used car salesman, but he didn’t want to invest in renting a lot to show his vehicles. So he started parking his inventory on the street, in front of other peoples houses, pissing off the neighbors who now couldn’t park their vehicles in front of their own homes. Or he parked his inventory on the curbs of heavily traveled thoroughfares, tying up traffic, and annoying business owners whose precious parking for potential customers was now tied up by these vehicles.
This is what happens in the city I live in, and that is why this parking ordinance was enacted here. It really wasn’t intended to hammer guys like the one in this story, but nonetheless it’s on the books and some copper who doesn't exercise discretion is going to write that ticket to get his one parker for his tour of duty out of the way.
Good post. Thanks for presenting that point of view.