Parking Authority Goes After Top Scofflaws

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At the Metro, columnist Brian Hickey comments on the Philadelphia Parking Authority's very public pursuit of violators with the most unpaid tickets: "Following J. Edgar Hoover’s lead from 1950, the Philadelphia Parking Authority broke out their best press conference attire yesterday and launched its “Top 25 Philadelphia Parking Ticket Scofflaws” initiative.  As best I could tell, the stated message was, “Let’s publicly humiliate those loophole-exploiters responsible for 3,490 unpaid tickets worth just more than $308,000.” What interests me more, though, is what I perceive as the unstated message: “What better way to make people forget our inherent godlessness than a time-tested PR gimmick? Sure, the public will forever hate, but the PPA does what the PPA wants to do. Should that mean relying on excuses to skimp on the money being pumped into the schools, so be it. If you don’t like it, we’ll wait by your meter till it expires. Till you snap.”"

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1. Anonymous said... on Feb 15, 2010 at 01:07AM

“FIRST OF ALL THE PPA SUCKS I HATE THEM THERE USELESS THERE OUT HERE TO (LIKE YOU READ JUST ABOVE) TO JUST MAKE YOUR LIFE COMPLETELY MISEREABLE THEY THINK BY DOING THIS NEW SCAFFLLAWS THERE GONNA GET PEOPLE TO PAY THIS IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT YOU GUYS ARE WORSE THAN THE MOB WHY CAN YOUS EXTORT AND IN THE GANSTER WORLD THATS A FELONY RIGHT???????SO THE PPA DOES WHAT THE PPA WANTS ISN'T THE WAY TO GO YOU SOUND LIKE ORGANIZED CRIME YOUS SUCK WHICH IN THE GANSTER WORLD YOUS BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DELAWARE!!!”

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