JULY
18, 2004 --
The LPRmobile
got a summons on the east side of Lexington Avenue, between 83rd
and 84th streets, the morning of July 16 -- just two weeks after
LPR photographed Howard Dean at this spot.
The summons was
for standing in a "Trucks loading/unloading" zone. The
fine was for $95. (LPR thought, seeing the
summons on the windshield, that the ticket was for being overtime at a parking
meter, which had been fed, however.)
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Injustice
by towing.
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The
LPR Mobile being waiting to be towed.
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Not very long
after, standing across the avenue at G & R Photo, LPR saw a
city tow truck . A closer look disclosed that the LPRmobile had
been hooked up. As
the car was being moved down Lexington Avenue, the tow truck driver was approached
and informed that Shana, who was not in the car, had to find a means to get
home. The driver stopped and called his supervisor.
Shortly after, Theresa Tolbert, who works at the D'Agostino at the location
of this towing, and another person told LPR that there is no sign declaring
parking restrictions in front of the store.
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The "no-sign" post.
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The
post minus the sign in front of D'Agostino.
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They encouraged
s LPR to take pictures of the non-sign.
And indeed, there is a signpost in front of
D'Agostino's but no sign on it, nothing at all. When the supervisor appeared,
LPR informed him that the car was being towed without parking restrictions
posted on
the block.
The supervisor was not moved and directed the tow truck operator to leave with
the attached vehicle.
LPR thereupon jumped on the link between tow truck and vehicle, while urging
anyone witnessing this matter to call police.
There was a gentleman not in uniform who was close to the tow truck and LPR
suddenly realized that he must be a police officer. LPR asked him to call a
lieutenant in the office of the Deputy Commissioner Public Information.
Thereupon the traffic officer said that he was a lieutenant at the tow pound
and threatened LPR with arrest, accusing LPR of raising the bar on this matter,
giving a free pass to those who wrongly issued the summons and then ordered
the tow truck.
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NYPD
traffic control car at the scene.
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The supervisor
had apparently left while LPR discussed the situation with the
plainclothesperson (who never did show badge and name).
Suddenly he was
back and declared that there is no sign at the location and directed
the tow truck operator to release the car. |
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Had LPR not called
the matter of nearly 15-year old Shana to the tow truck operator,
and had LPR thereafter, not jumped on the tow truck link to the
LPRmobile, and had, as one observer thought, LPR not given the
supervisor pause by mentioning the name of a lieutenant at Police
headquarters, the LPRmobile would have been towed away.
Without reason, other than the arbitrary
and capricious conduct of City officials.
The dashboard declared, when LPR got into the car: "Attempted theft detected." That
got to the heart of this matter. A summons based on a non-existing parking
proscription, and then a towing based on the phony parking reg -- is the stuff
of official theft, confiscation, oppression.
LPR recently received a letter --a form solicitation letter -- from John Kerry
declaring "George W.. Bush's days are
numbered--and change is coming to America." Liberals like Senator Kerry
have been vocal in warning about threats to our people from the PATRIOT Act.
LPR has
yet to see liberals or their media megaphones stand wiith the people against
oppressive bureaucracy.
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John
Kerry and his wife.
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Indeed, to oppose
oppressive bureaucracy, for some libs, is to be "anti-government."
Better that Michael R. Bloomberg do a Rowland. Better that the mayoral term
of Michael R. Bloomberg be numbered. Better that Michael R. Bloomberg retire
to
his glitzy office tower, nearing completion on the east side. Michael R. Bloomberg
may speak in his voice, but the knee below the belt is that of his immediate
predecessor.
And this is to
put Michael R. Bloomerg and his redcoats on notice that this Bronx
resident and American citizen has high blood pressure for which
he takes medication. Pull anolther stunt on this writer like the
one the morning of July 16, on Lexington Avenue between 83rd and
84th Street and this writer brings a pro se
federal lawsuit, alleging a U.S. civil rights action, among other things.
In our country, Michael R. Bloomberg, and his officials have no authority to
take property without due process of law.
While this writer's car was wrongly given a summons and towed, over on the
West Side, cars double park on side streets, on mornings, and are ignored by
parking
violations personnel. (See the photo below.)
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Cars
doubled parked, and not being towed or fined....
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And while this writer's
car was wrongly given a summons and towed, that hole on 84th Street
near Park Avenue was still
there on July 16, and getting bigger. Certainly a great danger to vehicles. And
people.
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The
ever-growing pot hole on 84th Street.
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A
different pot-hole view.
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Meanwhile -- hey
LAW AND ORDER here is a scenario -- man with high blood pressure collapses
and dies on failing to prevent wrongful towing of his car by city.
Mayor is eventually charged with homicide
after conscience-stricken aide tells D.A. that mayor's people ordered harassment
of the man for daring to criticize the mayor. Mayor is acquitted, but loses invite
to speak to Republican convention.
Movement gathers steam to force mayor from office and undo his onerous regulations.
Name of this episode: Independence Day.
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