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Parking tickets for news media
Myung Chun, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 1:53 AM on 05.07.11 |
->> I thought this was an interesting story. I was issued one of these placards when I worked at another paper. It's very useful and its uses are clearly outlined on the back of the placard.
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Mike Brice, Photographer
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SLC | UT | USA | Posted: 2:06 AM on 05.07.11 |
->> Same old story - uneducated and untrained government officials not following the rules of their own agency/department/office.
Great for the paper to do the story even though they don't participate in the program. |
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Michael Chansley, Photographer, Assistant
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Tucson | AZ | USA | Posted: 2:36 AM on 05.07.11 |
| ->> I saw city police park in a no parking zone while they went in and ordered food at the Chipotle last week. I was wondering to myself..."there's no criminal activity here. Where's their ticket?" Here the media is doing their job and get cited. Makes no cense. |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 2:46 AM on 05.07.11 |
| ->> I have the actual CALIFORNIA Media plates so they can't argue with my vehicle EVER. |
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Angus Mordant, Student/Intern
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Sydney | NSW Australia | Australia | Posted: 3:55 AM on 05.07.11 |
->> Interesting, I would have thought that it would only permit parking during spot news where the main concern is time in getting a space, doing a planned shoot of a building is a bit of a stretch?
Also nice cheap parking fines! I have one sitting on my desk to pay this week for $119. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 7:59 AM on 05.07.11 |
| ->> It has been my experience that parking enforcement "officers" aren't the sharpest crayons in the box. |
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Doug Pizac, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | USA | Posted: 8:43 AM on 05.07.11 |
->> Thirty years ago in Los Angeles the TV trucks routinely drove up and parked on the sidewalk forcing pedestrians to squeeze by. Why? Because parking on the sidewalk -- if they got one -- resulted in a ticket far less in cost than getting one from an expired meter. And at some areas of the city a sidewalk ticket was cheaper than the pay parking lot it was in front of.
I remember a line of trucks and cars lined up on the sidewalk outside City Hall where all the unmarked news vehicles got tickets but the logo blazened ones didn't. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 10:45 AM on 05.07.11 |
->> Not to hijack the thread, but the author of the story, veteran LA Times reporter Bob Pool, is one of the best feature photographers I've ever met. Since he moved to the Times from the Thousand Oaks News-Chronicle, he hasn't been shooting as much.
--Mark |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 10:58 AM on 05.07.11 |
| ->> Hey at least you don't get those big impossible to remove stickers slapped on your window after parking for about 35 min in a 30 min loading zone. |
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Heston Quan, Photographer
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Princeton | IN | USA | Posted: 1:46 PM on 05.07.11 |
->> You know, I hate to go against the grain here, but ....
The paper or TV stations should stop paying the $100 per year placard per vehicle if the city isn't going to live up to their end of the deal. And, if you are in danger of receiving a ticket, park in a lot. That has to be cheaper than a ticket and the paper should reimburse for that. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 1:59 PM on 05.07.11 |
->> Just get commercial plates for your car and legally park in any truck loading zone you feel like. In Ohio it's $150 per year for my plates and roughly $180 a year for the extra insurance.
It might sound like a lot but in the years prior to switching plates, I was claiming $1300-$2100 a year on my taxes for parking. Just getting the parking tickets used to be cheaper since they were only $30 a pop back then but then they jacked them to between $65 and $105 depending on the nature of the violation. |
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