Parking meter revolt in Chicago

[unixronin]

Folks in Chicago aren’t happy about their elected thieves selling the city’s parking meter concession to a private company that promptly raised the meter fees by seven times, and they’re taking action.  They’re boycotting city parking, vandalizing the meters, filling them up with pennies or nickels, and other tactics.  One commenter says,

This is what happens when a king makes decisions without the voter’s consent - when people have no voice.

Another has had enough, and is leaving Chicago forever.  But he plans to leave the city a parting message:

“After more than 20 years here I’m done, just done,” says Chicago Tom.  “Our condo is for sale and when it does, we’re outta here.  In one last act of defiance, my wife is going to drive our car and intentionally get a red light ticket with photo/video - we’ll have the plates disguised.  When the video/photo is viewed, they’ll see my bare ass pressed against the back window accompanied a couple middle fingers.  We’ll then drive out of town for the last time.”

Comments

[hrrunka]

Heh. Why do I find myself humming snatches from "Grandma went out with a bang" (MP3 available from The Virtual Filksing)... ;)

[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

I think it's a great idea that people are clobbering the meters. I wish there were masked, caped avengers willing to go out in dark of night and cut the cameras off the traffic lights, then take them down to a junk yards and pile them in the crusher.

Skrunch.

Irreparable hardware.

[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

Superman doesn't need the powers of flight. He just needs an unregistered cherry picker that can be camouflaged and hidden away in the daytime. And a blowtorch. And sufficient electrical know-how to cut the power before he fries himself.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

MMMM. Fresh Aire VI. You've got good taste in New Age music. it was Fresh Aire VI that turned me on to the Steamroller.