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Originally Posted by VINMAN
One of the things I enjoyed about being Fire Chief was the ability to write fire lane and hydrant tickets. Nothing pissed me off more ( and still does) is lazy azz people who cant park in a regular spot to go into a store. Instead they have pull right up to the front door. I could go out on a Sat or Sun morning, pull in front of one of the supermarkets or bagel stores and write a bunch of tickets. Another good spot was one of the dry cleaners. But before someone calls me a prick, I ALWAYS hit my siren and air horns to let them know ahead of time. I always gave them a chance to move their vehicles. I'd do that a few times before they got written up. Now i'm not talking about someone sitting in there car. I'm talking about parking it and getting out.
Of course there was always the defiant ones who would tell me I cant ticket them, or tell me they would be out in a few minutes, so I would just say " OK, no problem. I should be done writing the ticket by time you come out of the store"
Other times , if we had a fire call at a store and a vehicle was parked in the fire lane in front of the store, I would purposely have my trucks block the vehicle in so they cant get. Oh well too bad, you shouldnt have been there.
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Can you PLEASE call the local fire depts. around here and tell them they should do this? It absolutely drives me nuts - at the local power centre, it's actually rare to see the lane in front of the grocery store, electronics store, dept. store, etc. free of cars. People ALWAYS park there, even if there are tons of free spaces. It absolutely drives me nuts - not because of laziness (well, that too), but because of the sheer arrogance. It just screams to me "I'm more important, I don't have to find a parking spot".