Better would be loaded in to flatbeds for the inpound lot.
I guess it depends how many vehicles they have to remove from the street in neighbourhood being swept. Driving back and forth to the impound lot sounds like a waste of time and fuel.
I guess it depends how many vehicles they have to remove from the street in neighbourhood being swept. Driving back and forth to the impound lot sounds like a waste of time and fuel.
Sure. But if the folks who can never move their cars had to go get them from the impound lot this year next year they'd be off the street. I have a neighbour who leaves 2 of his 3 vehicles on the street every year and openly brags he never gets tickets. It would be nice if our road got cleaned, as some of the gravel under where he parks is like 5 years old.
They towed in my neighbourhood, but now the truck on the street across from my house that was dropped there has been there a while. The owner probably has no clue where their truck went.
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I always have to stop and think wait, is it "affect" or "effect"? I should know this by now but it still trips me up.
A piece of advice I saw somewhere years ago: In most cases, you can substitute the word "impact" for either "affect" or "effect" and your sentence will still work.
How will this affect me? = How will this impact me?
What effect will this have? = What impact will this have?
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They towed in my neighbourhood, but now the truck on the street across from my house that was dropped there has been there a while. The owner probably has no clue where their truck went.
The city enables this behaviour with their soft, kid gloves treatment. If they actually towed cars like they say, this would not be an issue. Have a fleet of two dozen tow trucks move in at 8:00am; then these useless twats will learn in a hurry.
I was told that prior to the sweepers hitting the community that a parking person comes and photographs license plates and those cars get ticketed in the mail. Over 30k tickets handed out last year. My feeling is that if you are handing out over 30k tickets annually, then maybe $90 isn't enough of a deterrent.
Why do you take the call? Unless it's work related where you might need to answer unknown numbers, I can't see any reason to answer.
I have a couple of kids and sometimes these numbers come from other parents from their sports teams, various people my wife does business with, etc. Sometimes if the number looks somewhat familiar I may pick it up. I did acknowledge in my original post that it was a mistake answering.
I always have to stop and think wait, is it "affect" or "effect"? I should know this by now but it still trips me up.
In the most common use affect is a verb and effect is a noun (when you affect somethig you cause an effect on it). However there is also the verb effect and the noun affect which have different meanings. Don't you love English?
To make it more efficient (and fun), the tow trucks can move the vehicles into the nearest driveway with space. Hopefully the shame they feel when their neighbours come by and ask them to get their car out of their driveway will be some good negative reinforcement.
You're assuming these people feel shame. You should know by now that the most common response to calling or violators of societal norms (and parking rules) isn't contrition, it's indignation.
Try asking someone to put their dog on a leash or pick up its ####. Or to leave the curbside pickup spots for picker-uppers. Or to use earphones in a crowded airport. 10:1 ratio of "piss off" vs "sorry about that."
I guess it depends how many vehicles they have to remove from the street in neighbourhood being swept. Driving back and forth to the impound lot sounds like a waste of time and fuel.
Drop them all off in the nearest Community Hall parking lot, along with a fat parking ticket.
The city enables this behaviour with their soft, kid gloves treatment. If they actually towed cars like they say, this would not be an issue. Have a fleet of two dozen tow trucks move in at 8:00am; then these useless twats will learn in a hurry.
Naw....I think we have to go more 'Mad Max' and have a huge fire-spewing truck with a giant plow on it to move those cars out of the way.
Preferably driven by a drunken one-eyed lunatic.
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I was told that prior to the sweepers hitting the community that a parking person comes and photographs license plates and those cars get ticketed in the mail. Over 30k tickets handed out last year. My feeling is that if you are handing out over 30k tickets annually, then maybe $90 isn't enough of a deterrent.
I have a couple of kids and sometimes these numbers come from other parents from their sports teams, various people my wife does business with, etc. Sometimes if the number looks somewhat familiar I may pick it up. I did acknowledge in my original post that it was a mistake answering.
Fair enough, I skimmed your post and missed that part.
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I was told that prior to the sweepers hitting the community that a parking person comes and photographs license plates and those cars get ticketed in the mail. Over 30k tickets handed out last year. My feeling is that if you are handing out over 30k tickets annually, then maybe $90 isn't enough of a deterrent.
I have a couple of kids and sometimes these numbers come from other parents from their sports teams, various people my wife does business with, etc. Sometimes if the number looks somewhat familiar I may pick it up. I did acknowledge in my original post that it was a mistake answering.
What if they don't want to deter? They clean around cars, don't really go back to clean and collect a sweet 2.7 million bucks claiming it's a parking penalty.
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