enraged, i am.
man. if anyone thinks i’m recommending hunting down and killing, maybe by beating them to death with michael vick’s cast iron goatee, every single person who works for or who is affiliated with in any way the sf dpt, then they would be right. i’m not sure when handing out citations became a pure revenue stream enterprise for the city, as opposed to creating circumstances for safer driving and parking, less congestion… you know, actual civic needs that benefit someone, anyone, besides a city that is currently awash in property tax funds anyway. it’s evil, absurd, venal, and despicable. i think i’m going to start a letter writing campaign, because things have gotten that far out of hand. we can’t even get the residential parking permits that would allow us to park on any of the surrounding streets, since we live on the one (busy) street that doesn’t have residential permitted parking regulations. just because every other street for blocks in every direction does, and there is never any street parking available on this street because people leave their cars in the same spaces for a week at a time, moving only when the street cleaners force them to, doesn’t mean we should be able to park… anywhere, i guess. god forbid someone parks on the 15′+ wide sidewalks in a way that doesn’t block even a 3rd of the throughway, either. especially if you need to unload heavy goods and don’t want to park 2 blocks away down a steep hill for the 20 minutes it will take to unload the vehicle. that, near as i can tell, makes you a degenerate felon in the making, by the city’s rules. the obvious solution is just to double park all the time, blocking traffic and creating a driving hazard, which of course, if you get a ticket at all for that, is a much smaller fine amount. makes perfect sense.
don’t get me started with the stunningly counter-productive and just fucking stupid motorcycle parking laws.