Brickbat: Snow Job

Schenectady, New York, Mayor Gary McCarthy says the police department should not have ticketed cars parked on the street after a recent snow storm. Residents say the parking regulations make no sense and are rarely enforced, so they were stunned to find their vehicles ticketed after the storm. "That was the police department making a change on its own, and it really wasn't done in the best and most coordinated manner," McCarthy said. Adding insult to the injury, residents note that the city did not clear the streets of snow

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[perlhaqr]

But, revenue!

[Earth Skeptic]

And the imposition of power.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That was the police department making a change on its own, and it really wasn't done in the best and most coordinated manner...

I hope there were snow tires on that bus the mayor just tossed the police under.

[jimc5499]

I'll bite. Why doesn't anybody ask the Mayor or the City Council why the law was still on the books if it wasn't to be enforced?

Oh wait! That would transfer the blame to them instead of the police and we can't have that.

[apedad]

Everybody knows you have to start early to plan for the annual Schenectady Policemen Benevolent Association fall event.

Oh, and this: https://poststar.com/news/state-and-regional/judge-dismisses-schenectady-police-union-lawsuit-to-keep-disciplinary-files-shielded/article_95f79125-b060-58e4-a8cf-f27c6264895d.html

[Earth Skeptic]

To be fair, this could fail in the category of "Do Something!"

If Schenectady can't plow the streets, at least they took some action, right?

[Agammamon]

If all those people hadn't left their cars there then the city wouldn't have needed to plow the streets. Its their own fault.

[mapol]

You have it wrong there, Agammamon! If people didn't leave their cars parked in the street when a huge snowstorm is due to hit, the city would've been able to plow the streets.

[Weigel's Cock Ring]

Some serious "global warming" hitting hard all over the place, from Texas to Saudi Arabia and parts in between.

Remember when Al Gore and his fellow far left lunatics in the media told us years ago that snow was on the verge of disappearing forever? ROFLMAO.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

If only we had a more powerful central government we could have uniform ticketing of cars and not plowing of streets everywhere.

[Agammamon]

Adding insult to the injury, residents note that the city did not clear the streets of snow

That doesn't excuse you parking your car on the side of the street! The law is the law.

And the mayor is full of shit. I can basically guarantee that he knew the plan was to have the cops out in force first thing in the morning to get tickets on all those trapped cars.

[mapol]

It's obvious that the city didn't plow the streets because all those people were stupid enough to leave their cars out on the street, knowing that there was a huge snowstorm headed their way.

[m4019597]

Yes, and the tickets were deserved.

The parked cars blocked plowing, preventing commerce and normal traffic, and creating a safety and ambulance hazard.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

"That was the police department making a change on its own, and it really wasn't done in the best and most coordinated manner,"

Just like voting regulations in 2020.