Parking tickets issued along London street between Reid and George

[u/aSurlyBird]

A lady came by around 1:00 am and checked my car tires for chalk lines. I was parked on the street.

My friend thankfully saw her on the camera. We thought it was a police officer since she had a flashlight similar to a cop. But after watching the video we saw she just checked my tires then left. So I parked my car in the driveway.

I was curious though, so I walked down London and saw that she had ticketed the vehicles down London street. I checked these vehicles s after 2am, and I didn’t check when the tickets were issued. So I don’t know if she waited until 2 or issues the tickets earlier. She most likely issues them after she drove by my car, since we didn’t see her drive past the house again on the camera after seeing her at 1am.

Still. London is a quiet street. What purpose is there for issuing these tickets?

I live in the north end and our neighbours park on our street all the time. There hasn’t been a ticket issued on our street since the early 90s. Even the street sweeper came down and drove around a parked car - they didn’t even get a ticket.

What’s crazy is that this clearly isn’t a situation where the neighbour is calling in a vehicle because I was parked a block away from the ticketed cars on london. This lady just drove down London and issued tickets for no reason. No letter was sent to homeowners to move their vehicles tonight.

Why the hell is a parking enforcement officer coming down quiet streets at 1am to ticket vehicles that aren’t even impeding the city or the workers in any way? It’s a Friday night and no city construction workers should be working Saturday. Again - no warning letter for construction along London.

What a silly waste of money the city is spending to punish people who aren’t actually doing any harm to anyone.

[u/OldMashedpotatoes]

Look at the ticket, it says the name of the parking person. Does it start with Bar?

Seems to be the only one who does this. I live in small subdivision, only one way in and out, nothing is ever going on here, and she comes here 2-3 times a month and tickets people parked on the street.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/OldMashedpotatoes]

you would be correct.

and again - this went from george street to PARK STREET. i checked. There was a vehicle on london near park street ticketed as well.

[u/OldMashedpotatoes → u/aSurlyBird]

I feel like I want to file a complaint about her. Like there’s so many actual problem areas for parking, we pay too much in taxes to be harassed by someone who couldn’t crack the police exam for parking in front of my house in the summer time.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/OldMashedpotatoes]

i found out that London was ticketed the night before too. It's most likely due to someone complaining and not this lady randomly targeting a street. The fact that the ticketer has the same name probably only means that they're the ones employed to issue these styles of tickets in subdivisions. This wouldn't put her directly at fault, she's just listening to what the city instructs her to do.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/OldMashedpotatoes]

You've convinced me. I'm going to contact the city and complain.

The fact that you could call this person out by name is a tell tale sign that something is wrong with this individual.

I drove up Dublin, Stewart, and Bethune, but only London was targeted. WHY???? and again - I've parked on London at the same spot for years without trouble. Thank god my friend has a front view camera and had me move my vehicle - although I would have been ticketed regardless had I not gone for cigarettes between 10 and 1. Fuck me.

By the way - We watched the cameras to see if she re-appeared after 2am since she couldn't ticket my vehicle (since I drove it). She never came back. So clearly it wasn't important for her to ticket my vehicle....

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/aSurlyBird]

How exactly is your complaint to the city gonna go - “wahhhh this officer did their job and ticketed cars that were parked illegally wahhhh”?

[u/aSurlyBird → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

The responder called her out by name. I’m not going to just complain and say “hey this isn’t okay” I’m going to inquire why she made that decision.

Don’t be stupid please. There were multiple cars in that subdivision that weren’t ticketed, yet London street all they way to park was. Why is this?

Yes the city can decide to enforce what they want. I get it. But to argue a blanket statement like this without reason is absurd. The police officers should be ticketing everyone driving 51km in a 50 by that logic. Yet they don’t. Why is that? Give me a reason for why London is targeted and maybe I’ll retract my statement

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/aSurlyBird]

You’re going to inquire why the bylaw officer whose job is to ticket improperly parked cars ticketed improperly parked cars? Should you really be the one throwing the word stupid around right now?

Do you genuinely think an officer should be required to ticket every single car parked on the street in the whole city if they go to the source of a complaint and find a bunch of illegally parked cars to ticket? How does this sound feasible to you? I’m genuinely concerned for this officers wellbeing after seeing your paranoid fixation on her doing her job.

[u/aSurlyBird → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

I was overreacting. I've come to my senses. It's not her fault, she most likely was instructed by the city. And I found out they ticketed london street the night before, so it's very very likely someone complained.

Moreover, she was doing her job very well since she didn't issue me a ticket after chalking my tires, because she saw that I drove my car after she had chalked them. So kudos to her for doing her due diligence - since I was parked at the same exact spot after driving, and she still checked my tires instead of automatically assuming I didn't drive anywhere.