Well, I don't know about you, but I generally get home from work at about 230 - 4 in the morning, and as a lot of you know, a lot of major streets become snow routes during the winter months and parking is banned on these routes from 3 am until 6 am.
For the most part it's an easy way for the city to make a few dollars every night during the winter months as they tow cars away, yeah, it's the law, blah blah blah.......
But anyway, almost every night, I see a Streets and Sanitation SUV parked off of Devon somewhere on Lakewood or Magnolia, in a no parking zone.....and the person is sleeping, with the car running.
Isn't this a blatant waste of city money, or rather our, the tax payers money? Sleeping on the job, I know if I was sleeping on the job, I would get fired, not questions asked, but a city employee is allowed to? and wasting gas that we the tax payer pay for, not to mention polluting the environment and wasting valuable resources just to sleep in his car when he should have been sleeping at home. It's a load of crap that our tax dollars have to go to support a free loading city worker like this one, and the next time I can I WILL get a picture of him.....
And beside this jerk who is sleeping, how much is the city actually making after the towing of a car - consider how many people's salaries have to be paid - tow truck driver, clerks at the lot, drivers at the lot, sleeping streets and sanitation workers salary, gas, repairs on tow trucks, and cars used in the work of towing illegally parked cars, and this is all before we even get to paying the tickets, collection agents for the city for unpaid tickets, etc - it goes on and on, so how much does the city really make on it all, after all is said and done?
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