Replying to a message of Mimi Gallandt to TOM WALKER:

 JM>>> Then ticket the cars that are illegally parked. That should be the
 JM>>> end of it

 TW>> Even if you cound get an Officer out theree to write the Ticked
 TW>> ticketing illegal parked cars is a JOKE. Some pile up Hundreds of
 TW>> tickets. Adn with al lelse the Law enforcement has to do you want ot
 TW>> Take them off the Street to Ticket Cars??

 TW>> Even getting a vehicle parked on one spot more then 72 hours, A LAW
 TW>> in most States and here in San Diego, is a nightmare of paper work.

 MG> Chula Vista is so strapped for cash that they're considering closing
 MG> down the Nature Center refuge. They're certainly not in a position to
 MG> pay for extra CVPD officers to ticket illegally parked cars or pay
 MG> the Sheriff's department to do so.

Years ago an apparently perfectly good Chevrolet sedan appeared in the parking
lot behind the building I was then working in.  After it had sat there for a week
or so we started to wonder about it.  We asked the police to check it out and they
said they wouldn't because it was on private property.  After a month or so I noticed
that parts were vanishing off the car - tires, etc., and after another month it was
nothing but scrap.  The police *finally* checked the car - it had been stolen (what
a surprise) and was on their list.  But of course it had no remaining value, which
it would have retained had the police checked on the car when we asked them to, 
Jeez, it would only have taken five minutes of one officer's coffee break to do it.
But I'm talking Omaha here, where police response time to emergencies is best
measured with a calendar, not a stopwatch.

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