Perhaps if traffic cops were equipped with tow trucks people would start obeying the rules.

This is even more ironic because of the post you made a while ago about someone parking in your spot.
What if the owners of that private drive blocked you in for hours?

Don’t park illegally, and you won’t have to deal with them at all. Also the less people that park illegally, the less parking cops the city will need to hire.

You are the reason they need to hire more and more.

Some traffic cops are very pleasant people who love their mothers, give generously to charities, all while being model citizens in their communities.

Some just don’t care if you’re working hard to put food on the table. If one chooses to view the world in absolutes, this behavior could be deemed as “absolutely pathetic”.

I wouldn’t call David “absolutely pathetic” for having a beef with people who choose a line of employment where exacting judgment over others is the sole task. I question whether that’s sadistic.

A self employed individual is in control of their own experience, and only their own experience. They have no authority over anybody. If the conversation is about which job carries greater nobility I side with he whom works with people, not above people as an authority passing judgment.

That said… Choosing your own convenience at the expense of that of others isn’t exactly noble. I can understand why that could rub people the wrong way, especially people who get in line for a left turn instead of cutting in right at the intersection.

I’m sorry if I offended “Meh” and others, but I try to express myself as truly and freely as possible on this blog, whether it’s about real estate or licking envelopes…

I wage war against parking cops. There, I said it. I think they are the scum of the earth, just as other people think that real estate agents are the scum of the earth, or politicians, or actors, or humanitarians…

I hate that the City of Toronto hires more and more ticket “cops” each year to drive up revenues. This army of mobile pencil pushers stake out hospitals, and ready themselves around downtown corners at 3:59PM to pounce when the “No Stopping” goes into effect.

The irony is, parking cops will pull over to the side of King Street at 4:15PM, blocking a whole lane of traffic, only to run across the street and issue a ticket! What gives? Doesn’t this defeat the purpose? Isn’t it hypocritical?

As “LM” points out, the under-resourced City Hall makes it easy for the public to weasel out of paying tickets, and the system in place allows us to waste even more resources by going to court to fight meaningless, insignificant parking tickets!

However, if ever there was a reason to fight a parking ticket (aside from being lazy and entitled, like me, as “Meh” pointed out), it would be the situation I described the other day. I was parked in a private laneway, and a parking officer wrote me a ticket for parking in a public laneway. I had zero recourse, and the ticket officer can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants - including park in the laneway behind me! THAT is when you want to fight the ticket! Take a photo of the laneway, show that it is private and not public, and have the charge thrown out! Damn that parking officer for issuing that ticket when he knew very well that it was a private laneway! But he has his quota to fill, right? Oh boy, that opens another door…

Don’t like parking cops hassling you? Don’t park illegally!

It’s really that simple. People act as if parking in Toronto is hard. It’s EASY to find a parking spot.