When I visited Montreal sometime the 1970's I parked my car in the wrong place during a snow storm. When I went to look for it the next day, it wasn't where I parked it. I got really anxious and started looking up and down the street. Some good soul stopped me, told me to calm down and to go look around the corner. There was the car. The city had towed it out of the snow emergency zone and left a ticket on the windshield.
What a civilized way to deal with a problem. There is no chance that Minneapolis would ever consider such a solution. There is too much money to be made and enough special interests to pay back. There is a Guindon cartoon that was published in the Star Tribune that shows an modest south Mpls Scandinavian-looking couple standing in front of an elaborate fireplace. The caption is "The car towing business has been very good to us!" David Wilson Loring Park On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After reading a number of these posts about outrageous towing fees I am > wondering if there are any Council Members monitoring this list. Sure sounds like > a subject that needs some attention at that level. I know we have to keep > traffic moving, but this snatching of cars out of private lots and holding them > ransom sure does give the City a bad name. Why can't we be a friendly City for > a change? > > Jan Del Calzo > Lynnhurst > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
