When you're pulling a scam and you almost get caught, it's usually a good idea to let it slide. Don't draw too much attention to your grievance, or you just might blow the whole deal.
In Boston, a city parking ticket-writer was herself given a parking ticket for not having a residential sticker on her car. She was outraged, and went to her boss to get the ticket voided. She had a residential sticker, and did not deserve the ticket. The supervisor followed her out ot her car, and there it was -- an appropriate parking sticker, right where it should be on her windshield.
But his curiosity was aroused, so he looked a little closer. The sticker was seriously faded, more than it should have been. So he ran the number on the sticker, and found it was issued to someone else entirely.
The officer in question is now suspended without pay, and may get fired. She first said she "found" the sticker, then changed her story to being offered the sticker by some anonymous stranger outside a laundromat.
She's blaming the whole incident on a "lapse of judgment," and I agree. But the lapse was on the side of the people who first hired her.
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Excellent post... (Below threshold)1. Posted by don surber | May 26, 2006 12:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Excellent post
1. Posted by don surber | May 26, 2006 12:59 PM |
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Posted on May 26, 2006 12:59
2. Posted by mantis | May 26, 2006 1:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's like when people call the cops because someone stole their drugs.
2. Posted by mantis | May 26, 2006 1:45 PM |
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Posted on May 26, 2006 13:45
3. Posted by Old Coot | May 26, 2006 2:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dan Rather reporting:
The sticker was given to her by Lucy Rameriz with allegations that it originated with Karl Rove.
Courage, I'm outta here.
3. Posted by Old Coot | May 26, 2006 2:10 PM |
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Posted on May 26, 2006 14:10
4. Posted by Adjoran | May 26, 2006 11:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I believe her.
I can't tell you the number of times I'm at the laundromat, and some character is hanging around outside, wearing a trenchcoat and offering parking decals for all the nearby neighborhoods.
He said he didn't need them anymore because he is taking up bicycling.
Nonetheless, she should be fired for stupidity in trying to appeal the ticket.
4. Posted by Adjoran | May 26, 2006 11:50 PM |
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Posted on May 26, 2006 23:50
5. Posted by Jason | May 27, 2006 12:24 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You'd think people this dumb would've forgotten how to breathe a long time ago.
5. Posted by Jason | May 27, 2006 12:24 AM |
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Posted on May 27, 2006 00:24
6. Posted by McGehee | May 27, 2006 9:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You'd think people this dumb would've forgotten how to breathe a long time ago.
The one thing our public schools actually manage to teach.
6. Posted by McGehee | May 27, 2006 9:35 AM |
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Posted on May 27, 2006 09:35