Updated March 10th, 2008:
So I'm pulling up to my parking spot and sure enough parked in my way is a D.O.T parking enforcer...or whatever cool name they give themselves to feel special.  And guess who it was?...the same asshole that wrote me up for a $140 parking ticket when I had stopped to ask him a related question a few months back.

It's not that he was parked like a vulture waiting for 3PM (Parking is prohibited 3-7PM) so that he can deliver his $140 + tickets of love that pissed me off.  No, it's that he was actually parked after 3PM...yes, that's right - the guy sits on his ass blocking the very lanes he's supposed to keep clear!!! 

He parks his car at 2:50, drinks his bottle of coke and waits...and waits... like a vulture, until he musters up the energy to move 100 yards down the street and starts writing out tickets. 

Of all the jobs in the world...all the jobs that can help contribute to society, why pick one that involves towing people's cars?  I mean, everyone hates parking enforcers...so imagine all that karma, all the hatred people wish upon you?

So here's what happened a few months back...

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If you care, I'll explain.  About a month ago, the 'No Stopping/No Parking' street signs changed from 4-7PM to 3-7PM.  What's the big deal?...nothing really except for the fact that the people living around the area were never notified - that is until they found their cars ticketed and towed.  

After living in an area for 5 years, you learn what streets and what signs you need to pay attention to.  Well, one day leaving my building with a girlfrind, to my our horror, her car was gone.  But, but...it was only 3:30, maybe it was stolen?  

It was stolen all right, stolen by the City of Los Angeles to the tune of $320 BUCKS!!! $140 for the parking tickect and $180 to the impound yard.  

Pleased as punch, I took my girlfriend to find the impound yard.  Along the way, we saw the 'Traffic ticket guy' along with 4 tow trucks lined up in the street blocking the very lanes they are supposed to keep clear.  

So without warning, pixies came in the middle of the night with their silent drills and camoflaged army stealth trucks and swapped out the No Parking Signs.

The Traffic Officer told me that the residents in the neighborhood all received letters warning them of the new regulations.  NOT TRUE.  Not even my building manager received a letter, nor did 12 of my neighbors.  3 of whom were also affected by Tom's machiavellian ways.  

Not pleased, I let the explatives fly.  Not even a phucking warning ticket?  Assholes, Phuck you...somewhere between telling the Officer to phuck himself and that I hope his wife leaves him... he cited me for parking in a red zone...

Yup, when I stopped to ask the Officer where the impound yard was, and to ask him how much he hates his job, the phucker wrote me a parking ticket.  I had stopped in a red zone, behind the tow trucks and it cost me another $140.

So the day cost me $460 - $140 of it because I don't know when to shut up.  

I wrote a letter and called the D.O.T all of whom gave me different information.. oh no sir, a letter was mailed out... And finally I was told the person responsible was Tom LaBonge, my city councilman.

Tom, here's an idea for the next time you decide to screw your voters, give us a heads up.  At least lube it up before you ram it in.  

Why so down on Mr. Labonge?  Well, if he's not trying to tear down green spaces in Los Angeles' Runyon Canyon, he's passing traffic laws without warning his voters. 

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