Another thing to worry about. For two years, Tarpon Springs cops have been ticketing cars for parking in valid parking spots.
In a dispute between business owners, one of them put up fake ‘no parking’ signs, and then may have called cops on the other business owners’ customers. A couple years ago, developer Mike Bronson admitted to putting up the fake signs, yet the city never followed up.
Meanwhile, at least 233 unwitting innocent drivers were ticketed.
Dr_Zoidberg
9 months ago
Fake or not, the ticketed drivers chose to ignore the signs and park anyway. I wouldn’t exactly call that behavior innocent or inadvertent. If the signs were enough to fool Law Enforcement, they must have looked official enough that drivers should have heeded them. Not saying they don’t deserve a refund of the fines, but in their own minds they made a conscious decision to become scofflaws.
Denis Baldwin
9 months ago
When did the signs go up? After the cars were parked? or were they there all along?
Dr_Zoidberg
9 months ago
From the article:
“Mike Bronson advised that back around April of 2006 he installed all of the 22 signs due to the parking problems caused by customers of the Tarpon Turtle,” Kochen wrote in the report.
Clark
9 months ago
Nice to see that Wile E. Coyote has found work as a traffic management consultant.