If you don't pay your parking tickets here in Chicago they simply boot your car if you have two or three or more outstanding after a certain period of time. There is a boot-mobile that constantly roves the city, scanning license plates, looking for cars to boot.
Chicago is a city of rackets. One of my favorites is "street cleaning" where neighborhood streets, full of parked cars, are regularly sectioned off to be cleaned. "Cleaning" is simply one of those little trucks that sweeps curbs with it's noisy spinning brush. Most of the time it's not needed. Naturally, they post bright orange signs telling residents when they cannot be parked there... three days before. Out of town? New to the city? Hung over and forgot to move your car where you pay $100 a year to park in the first place? $50 ticket for you. The schedule is available online if you're brave enough to navigate Chicago's system of terrible websites. Planning your life around this nonsense is crucial to avoid tickets, and the game of parking musical chairs that ensues in most neighborhoods would be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.
Naturally, there are always few dozen cars in my neighborhood that forget. And "street cleaning" happens once every 2-3 months. Ridiculous.
Chicago is a city of rackets. One of my favorites is "street cleaning" where neighborhood streets, full of parked cars, are regularly sectioned off to be cleaned. "Cleaning" is simply one of those little trucks that sweeps curbs with it's noisy spinning brush. Most of the time it's not needed. Naturally, they post bright orange signs telling residents when they cannot be parked there... three days before. Out of town? New to the city? Hung over and forgot to move your car where you pay $100 a year to park in the first place? $50 ticket for you. The schedule is available online if you're brave enough to navigate Chicago's system of terrible websites. Planning your life around this nonsense is crucial to avoid tickets, and the game of parking musical chairs that ensues in most neighborhoods would be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.
Naturally, there are always few dozen cars in my neighborhood that forget. And "street cleaning" happens once every 2-3 months. Ridiculous.
i would sponsor a gang of a neighborhood to disobey that shit and all show up in court shouting of the injustice
haha
