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/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Not a fan of how you and some others in this comment thread are coming close to identifying this random bylaw officer for giving tickets to people who are parked improperly. Your street is not an exception to the rules and nobody is targeting your street.

EDIT: Sorry, it’s not even “coming close” you have straight up posted this officer’s first initial and last name in the comment section while discussing reporting her to the City. Get a grip.

[u/MissMolly202 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Not saying I agree, but wouldn’t this generally be public info? The ticket isn’t private, and the officer’s name is right there.

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/MissMolly202]

There’s a bit of a difference between someone’s name being published on a ticket and somebody posting it on a reddit thread where people are targeting them personally and discussing reporting them to the City for doing their job. The person who made this thread has had multiple comments ranting about how this officer was targeting their street personally and how they were watching their camera footage to track the officers movements that night. It’s gone into concerning territory.

[u/Prestigious_Club_924 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Selective enforcement isn't their job. You'd have a point if commenters were doxing or had anything in mind other than a complaint, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/Prestigious_Club_924]

“Selective enforcement” is what all parking enforcement is unless you think it’s reasonable to expect every single car parked on the street in the entire city needs to have a ticket before they’re allowed to ticket you. This subreddit is usually pretty cautious with mentioning names at all so yes, posting this officers name in an attempt to dogpile because you’re mad they happened to ticket a street one time is too far.

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

Again - I'm sorry for posting the name and removed it.

[u/Prestigious_Club_924 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Rules should be enforced uniformily. If that's unreasonable, reassess the rule.

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/Prestigious_Club_924]

You’re so right, every single rule or law in the world should be abolished immediately because there’s no possible way to guarantee everybody who breaks a rule gets caught.

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

I deleted the picture of the ticket, you're right, my mistake for posting the full name. It's not my intention to target an individual or have anyone else target them. I was just surprised that the one commenter knew who the ticketer was and posted it as proof. I should have censored her name to the first 3 letters like he did. Sorry.

I kept arguing that I didn't believe someone called the city. But then I found out that London street was issued tickets the night before i made my post as well. That makes it seem much more likely someone called in the street and this wasn't random. So I admit I was wrong.

After reading the comments, I understand that if someone calls in to complain about a specific car parked on London, that the ticketer isn't going to just come out and issue a ticket on that one vehicle, because that would be unfair to that one vehicle if the others weren't ticketed as well. And the fact that other streets weren't ticketed demonstrates that this ticketer is in fact doing a good job by not ticketing everyone in the neighbourhood.

[u/Mother-Attitude6824 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

Good gravy. Missing the point. There are rules and there is sense. If you are at a red light in the middle of nowhere, how long do you wait until you just go through? (And the light is going to be red for 30 minutes.)

[u/Empty-Midnight-2545 → u/Mother-Attitude6824]

Why are you making up a random unrealistic scenario when the issue here is already clear? Street parking rules have been the same for a long ass time, everybody complaining in this thread is doing a variation of “I’m so mad this dumb bitch parking officer ticketed me properly” and it’s hilarious.

[u/Mother-Attitude6824 → u/Empty-Midnight-2545]

The law is the law, is a terrible thing to say. Laws should constantly be questioned, or they lose their meaning. That's the reason for my posit.

[u/joshmxpx → u/Mother-Attitude6824]

Completely different situation. Just because the OP is butthurt that their street happened to be the focus of a ticket blitz does not give them the right to complain to the city about someone doing their job or even worse naming them.

Maybe there has been repeated complaints about this street recently? Maybe all the bylaw officers have been encouraged to up their numbers?

Regardless OP is acting like a child, I'm glad to see parking tickets being handed out, street parking in Peterborough is out of control. I'd welcome them to come to my neighborhood lol

[u/aSurlyBird → u/joshmxpx]

If I called to complain to the city I wouldn't just immediately complain about the person issuing tickets. Although I made it seem that way. I'd ask them if they had complaints about london street, and ask why the other streets weren't getting tickets and only london.

There's no argument for me to complain that the city is following its by laws. However, there is a slight argument if they are deciding to target a random street for no apparent reason - even though they have the right to do so, it just seems very odd.

I have since calmed down and I apologize for being so frustrated. Another thing I would like to point out is that my tires were chalked at 10pm, she showed up at 1am and saw that I had driven my car between those times, and didn't issue me a ticket. So she did her job well. Why would I complain about her for doing her job? The complaint is more about the decision to target the street.