Traffic On Ocean Avenue!

queencallipygos wrote: I'm only saying that, as evil as I DO think religious profiling is, that I don't think this IS a case OF religious profiling.

If it's not religious profiling, what is it?

Yep, and I could prove it. Any good civil rights attorneys out there?

Apparently Ocean Ave is ground zero for double parking, I'm a ways from there so I know nothing about that. Around me there is plenty of double parking though. Not anything to do with churches though. In a year I have seen exactly ZERO tickets written for it. Usually the cops just drive around them like everyone else. Right when Operation Impact started (like that week) I saw them actually enforcing double parking for a couple days, which consisted of them blowing their horns and threatening to write tickets until the offender moved his or her car. Within two days then seemed to give up and things went back to normal. *shrug* I guess double parking isn't high on their list. Go to the community meetings and complain, I guess.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=queencallipygos]I'm only saying that, as evil as I DO think religious profiling is, that I don't think this IS a case OF religious profiling.

If it's not religious profiling, what is it?

Well, Daver above seems to reinforce my argument that it's just lax policing.

oh, well since Daver says so, then it must be!

Whatever. Your religious righteousness blinds you.

queencallipygos wrote: Well, Daver above seems to reinforce my argument that it's just lax policing.

Except if they normally write tickets on Ocean Ave for double parking on non-church days. Which I wouldn't know. I just know that they don't around me very much.

daver wrote: Except if they normally write tickets on Ocean Ave for double parking on non-church days. Which I wouldn't know. I just know that they don't around me very much.

I agree that the police don't do much of anything most of the time (but don't tell them that).

I was driving down Flatbush avenue one saturday and there was horrible traffic, mostly caused by double-parked cars. I noticed that there was a cop car a few cars ahead of me and he was totally ignoring the double-parking. When I finally got behind him I found out why, he was talking on his cell phone while driving. I guess it's OK for cops to do that.

Being a cop is one job where you don't have to do your job and you still get paid. In fact you can ignore any law that you choose and enforce any law that you choose whenever you feel like it. Most of the time cops ignore most laws. But then again they don't live in the neighborhood they patrol, so really, why should they care?

Sure they want to make arrests, that looks good, but giving tickets? Well why bother?

Sad.

But their apathy is still no excuse.

FWIW- Usually people who double park on Flatbush aren't really parked- they're standing. If someone's in the driver's seat, car running, while their co-pilot is picking up a pizza from Franny's, they're not double parked.

Whatchuwant wrote: FWIW- Usually people who double park on Flatbush aren't really parked- they're standing. If someone's in the driver's seat, car running, while their co-pilot is picking up a pizza from Franny's, they're not double parked.

Actually I think you're wrong. But anyway, standing is illegal not to mention just plain rude and it causes an unsafe situation!

MeredithB wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]FWIW- Usually people who double park on Flatbush aren't really parked- they're standing. If someone's in the driver's seat, car running, while their co-pilot is picking up a pizza from Franny's, they're not double parked.

Actually I think you're wrong. But anyway, standing is illegal not to mention just plain rude and it causes an unsafe situation!

Standing is illegal, rude and unsafe, but seriously, I've driven/walked/bused/biked/dollar-bused down Flatbush for over a decade. My eyes are fine. People aren't double parked, they're standing. But, whatever, Meredith, please resume your tear on this thread without sucking me into it.

Whatchuwant wrote: People aren't double parked, they're standing. But, whatever, Meredith, please resume your tear on this thread without sucking me into it.

Oh you are right! They are standing! However, NYC says standing or parking it's all "double-parking"

#46 Standing or parking on the roadway side of a vehicle stopped, standing or parked at the curb; in other words, "double parking".

Seems as at $115 a pop, the police could be making some serious scratch for NYC!

And stop dragging yourself into this thread!

MeredithB wrote: oh, well since Daver says so, then it must be!

Whatever. Your religious righteousness blinds you.

:roll: Thank you for confirming my suspicions about what this is actually all about.

If you actually do calm down long enough to ask whether I actually belonged TO any organized religion, perhaps you'll also appreciate the irony of having accused an agnostic of "religious righteousness."

SPEAKING AS A MOD NOW:

let's back up and try this again without the personal attacks.

thank you.