Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Good news for parking meter haters (me) the Robin Hood types that spun up their city, have won in their state supreme court, and the city parking enforcement can bite it, kiss it, and go away mad

About 2 years ago some do-gooders with spare change decided to fight city hall, by feeding meters, and keeping people from getting tickets, and from getting fines, and from getting their cars impounded for not paying fines.

The city came unglued, and took them to court trying to get a legal remedy that would keep anyone from helping parked cars stay out of trouble.

The city lost. 1st ammendment freedom of speech wins.


Nearly two years ago, the same court dismissed the two cases brought against the charitable meter-feeders, alleging we were “threatening, intimidating, and harassing” their parking enforcement officers and demanding a 50ft floating, constitution-free buffer zone to protect them.

The city, which had originally wanted a 50 foot floating buffer zone around each enforcer that would prevent all speech and recording by the Robin Hooders, had whittled that down over the 2.5 years this has been in court to a 5-10ft zone that would only be temporary and only if the parking enforcer requested said distance from the Robin Hooder. Mind you, we generally do not wish to be so close to them – it’s best to fill meters at a greater distance, so as to have enough time to fill the meter and leave the Robin Hood calling card on the windshield, BEFORE the parking enforcer catches up to us and gets ahead.

Those tickets threaten, intimidate, and harass their victims into paying their fines so as to avoid the threat of having their car stolen. Talk about intimidation! This is why Robin Hood of Keene exists – we are here to save people from having to deal with the city’s threats.

If the parking enforcers don’t like being called out for their threatening, intimidating, and harassing behavior, they should get jobs in the productive economy. Until the city council ends the parking department and turns over the spaces to downtown businesses to decide how to administer, per market forces, Robin Hooding will continue to rescue peaceful motorists from the threats of the city government.

http://freekeene.com/2015/11/23/court-denies-city-of-keenes-injunction-request-against-robin-hooders/

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