Liz Said: >In protest of the Trash tickets, >I have had several, usually for recycling violations. >Since I am a block Captain, and a rabid recycler, and have made >extraordinary efforts to encourage my neighbors and tenants to recycle, >the tickets make me feel wild. >Some days it is only the knowledge that arbitrary rules and enforcement >by clique are probably even more likely in smaller communities that keeps >me close to home. You probably all remember my trash tickets -- after the first one, I started photographing my front yard almost daily. In 2004 I got a ticket for "tall weeds" which boggled my mind because I had a very well maintained front yard and my next door neighbors had a five foot weed bed complete with tigers. It was obvious that the streets department officer had confused the two building numbers. But it drove me completely nuts to have to go downtown and defend it.
There have been other tickets that make me suspect that whoever's writing them might not even live in the state and that they're just filling out arbitrary tickets from the balcony of some resort hotel in Florida.
