Thursday, June 06, 2013

More Extortion via Impound

  • Chicago motorists who open their car and SUV windows, dump their trash and turn Chicago streets into a dumping ground would risk losing their wheels and their wallets, under a crackdown proposed Wednesday by an influential alderman.

    Ald. Howard Brookins (21st), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, wants to impound the vehicles of those who commit the driver version of fly dumping. He also wants to dramatically increase the fines — from a current range of $50-$150 to $1,500 a pop.

    Vehicle impoundment — and the hefty towing and storage fees that come with it — has become a catch-all penalty for an array of offenses ranging from prostitution to loud music-playing and curfew violations.

    It might sound a bit harsh to use it to punish littering, but Brookins said it shouldn’t.

First up, since they stopped allowing coppers to actually appear at hearings, impounds dropped off precipitously from the 1990's. Second, we imagine that the neighborhoods that actually could use this sort of enforcement are the ones that are going to scream the loudest should this Ordinance actually pass.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic: D-Day Jun 06, 1944

6/06/2013 12:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Enough, already. This isn't Disneyland. Why not set the fine at a thousand dollars? Make it a million! Off with their heads!

6/06/2013 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another Compstat metric for CPD ;)

6/06/2013 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well said! Loud and clear.

6/06/2013 12:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry but I for one agree whole heartedly. Throw your trash out the window and I'm taking your car!

6/06/2013 12:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

impound for curfew got scrapped while back

6/06/2013 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When in doubt, raise fees, taxes, and fines...it's the Chicago democratic way.

6/06/2013 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's something fun! Need to disperse some idiots off the corner? Take out your cell and roll up and start taking pictures. They pull up their shirt/hoodie/etc and scatter like roaches! We had a blast today doing it. We said it was for gang Intel /parole violators, but be creative! Happy shooting!

6/06/2013 12:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Impounds would increase 10x fold if the city would make it more convenient and safe for police officers to attend impound court. It takes me over an hour to get to impound court, then I have to pay for street parking, often next to or near offenders vehicles. sometimes as they are at their vehicles. now they know what I drive. now they have my plate number. now they or their homies can vandalize or damage my car while I'm attending impound court. Once inside, I am disarmed. They have security guards working the entrance, not police, not sheriffs, but security guards who always have their heads up their asses not paying attention. Then you have to put you gun in a cheap metal box in one room. A room that is a mere 10 to 15' from dozens of bangers and drug dealers that hate the police are is a great mood having to spend $1,200 plus to get their car out of impound. One cop guarding the room, who sometimes isn't even in there or most of the time not paying attention either. So, no thanks. I wont be impounding any cars. Make an impound North, Central and South with secure parking and letting officers be armed while on the clock and you'll see the impounds go through the roof. Same goes for traffic court. Make a North, Central and South Traffic Court and I'll start writing tickets, lots of them. I lose money going to traffic court plus they disarm me, so that's why I don't write any tickets.

6/06/2013 01:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the pound are privately owned and operated, check out e & r towing, should have been enough to indite daley along with his mob cronies

6/06/2013 01:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I find it funny that Brookins would endorse this. His ward is one of the worst for this type of shit. It's also one of the wards where the first words out of everyone's mouth is "You're stopping me for this petty shit? People are getting kilt and you're stopping me for this?" Followed by phone call to alderman.

6/06/2013 01:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT did anybody notice that chicagos very own commie,neil steinberg of the slum-times,got demoted from 4 columns a week to just one?.....HAHAHAHAHA...leftist prick....oh sorry,good luck neil,take grumpy mary with you.

6/06/2013 01:48:00 AM  
Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...

" Second, we imagine that the neighborhoods that actually could use this sort of enforcement are the ones that are going to scream the loudest should this Ordinance actually pass."

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So true.

And even if they didn't complain, you'd have greater success eliciting water from a rock than getting a "Usual Suspect" to pony-up for an ordinance violation.

The only way to guarantee an income stream from this latest aldermanic abortion would be to arrange payment debited from any/all of their entitlements. But we sure as hell know that'll never be an option open for discussion (let alone implementation) in this democratic Sanctuary Shitty, so I'll quit dreaming.

Instead, like city sticker and street cleaning violations, we'll have selective enforcement...

certain demographics will be unofficially exempt from enforcement after Jesse, Jeremiah and Pfleger declare it racist. Meanwhile, the responsible taxpayer who is steadily targeted for separation from his or her hard earned cash at every corner will have yet another discriminatory fine levied against them.

Flamin' Hots and pizza puff wrapper tumbleweeds will be blowing down ghetto streets til the end of civilization.

6/06/2013 03:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good! Throwing your trash out the window is ignorant. I have always gone out of my way to stop people who throw trash out of their window as well as pedestrians who throw trash on the ground.

6/06/2013 03:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great idea. Fuck these jagoffs who think it's okay for someone else to have to clean up their shit.

6/06/2013 04:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great idea. Fuck these jagoffs who think it's okay for someone else to have to clean up their shit.

6/06/2013 04:08:00 AM
Why not. Someone else is paying for everything else they have. Cradle to the grave, taxpayers are paying for these burdensome leaches now and for eternity.

6/06/2013 05:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love it. More reasons to get these animals to lose their wheels. Only in the hood would one need to be told it is wrong to throw trash onto public way.

6/06/2013 05:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT did anybody notice that chicagos very own commie,neil steinberg of the slum-times,got demoted from 4 columns a week to just one?.....HAHAHAHAHA...leftist prick....oh sorry,good luck neil,take grumpy mary with you.

6/06/2013 01:48:00 AM

No, I didn't notice. Neither did anybody else because no one reads the Sun Times any more, or the Tribune for that matter.

I could take a little of their one sided journalism, but they both became left wing cheerleaders a long, long time ago. That's why they are going under.

6/06/2013 05:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

just curious, you are disarmed at impound court? what can they do to you if you refuse to disarm? seems like one hell of a safety violation

6/06/2013 06:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I always wondered why the ghetto had so much trashed dumped on the streets. Is it a culture thing or a civil rights issue?

Seriously, we understand your poor but why must you litter all the time? I mean come on, even poor trailer park people know to put the trash in the trash can.

6/06/2013 06:40:00 AM  
Anonymous bobbo said...

Sounds good, there's lots of folks throwing stuff on their car windows. How about for another city money maker, put meters on all residential streets too.

6/06/2013 06:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Enough is enough. This impound scheme is a racket to raise money. I oppose increasing the already too high number of infractions that result in overly expensive and ridiculously inconvenient impounds. Ticket the offender. If guilty, punish with reasonable fine.

6/06/2013 06:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Non-CPD and Pedestrian: I am sick of picking up trash and all of the flyers in my hood. Lady Bird piggies???
I hand people back their trash all of the time. I assume that one of these days. At least they have to think about it a second time before they throw it down again.

6/06/2013 06:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That be Racist.

6/06/2013 06:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

they don't disarm you going to traffic court..when were you last there? 1990

6/06/2013 07:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is Lincoln Park Towing when you need them.

Those were the days.

6/06/2013 07:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now we take the car if you litter but not if you don't have a license?

6/06/2013 07:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Make a North, Central and South Traffic Court and I'll start writing tickets, lots of them. I lose money going to traffic court plus they disarm me, so that's why I don't write any tickets."

We aren't disarmed at traffic court, moron. We haven't been for quite a while and it didn't last long.

Quit your bitching. Sounds like you stopped doing anything constructive a long time ago. Don't break a hip running for checkoff on time.

6/06/2013 07:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of taxes and fees,
did anyone notice the blurb
in yesterdays newspapers
that since the pension funding failed in Springfield, mayor Emmanuel
has not ruled-out a property
tax increase and class-size
increase for Chicago public schools. He's closing 50 schools so why does he need
more money ? SCC please share your take on this with
us. Thanx.

6/06/2013 07:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brookins hates Police Officers and he has been clear about that. He has spoken in closed company about his disdain for Police Officers who throw stuff out of squad car windows. He fully intends to use this proposed ordinance against the police, his words!!

6/06/2013 07:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think it's a great idea. I work in a district that takes in part of brookins' ward, and he'll be the first one calling the commander demanding to know why his "constituents" are being harassed and accusations of racial profiling will fly!

6/06/2013 07:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Ghost of Policeman Past said...

I think it's great too. Let the animals who creat their own mess pay to have it cleaned up. They may not pay any fine for throwing out the window, but you know they will come up with the case for that ride! Fuck these animals.

6/06/2013 08:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Ghost of Policeman Past said...

Sorry! Create and cash were misspelled !

6/06/2013 08:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

murder rate is up and shitcago worried about litter on the street, lol.... well i guess it makes good for PC.

6/06/2013 08:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what else can the lane brain alderman think of next...you cant even make this shit up....."FREEZE!!! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!!!! YOUR UNDER ARREST FOR CASTING REFUSE"!!!

6/06/2013 08:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

city needs more revenue!!! what a great tool....what a swell idea!!!

6/06/2013 08:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cant wait for the ordinance to pass!!!! ima be all over it

6/06/2013 08:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Off topic: D-Day Jun 06, 1944

6/06/2013 12:10:00 AM

God Bless those brave men who sacrificed on behalf of our Nation.

6/06/2013 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

While stealing millions of tax dollars, the won't let a police officer get some overtime for hearing. Then they wonder why very little money is going to the coffers so they can divert more of it.

6/06/2013 08:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brookins will recommend that enforcement begins on a trial basis on the NW side.

6/06/2013 08:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does this mean I won't have to cleanup the Popeyes' chicken boxes and used condoms that people toss out their window on my street? If only we could do something about all the people who take their dogs for a walk and leave the dog poop on everyone's front lawns......I realize the occasional prostitute taking a dump in my alley is an anomaly. I don't litter and I really get tired of picking up after everyone else. Besides there are not enough police to enforce what parents should have taught their babies about being good neighbors and good citizens.

6/06/2013 09:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a great idea. During processing download the video from the in-car camera. Use the video at the hearing. PO is not needed at hearing. This is good for me. I lose money going to the hearing: travel time, parking $, exposing my car to the offenders, etc. Use the $ to fix the car cameras. It would be fun snatching the litter bug rides.




6/06/2013 09:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the city wants us to impound more cars then give us a court day for each one of them. I promise you, impounds will go through the roof. The city will be happy and we will be happy.

6/06/2013 09:49:00 AM  
Anonymous John Scalise said...

Just another tool to establish probable cause to stop.

6/06/2013 09:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you kidding me? That ordinance will never go anywhere. Even if city council passes this and coppers do it and the trash tossing is on video the softball judges will throw it out or reduce the fine and give the car back to the poor democratic voters. Plus people will complain to IPRA and say the usual: "You stopped me because I'm black. Because I'm Hispanic. Because I am white and have tattoos."

6/06/2013 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every time one of the west side mutts takes a bus into my community to do a survey to get free dope money. The first thing they do when they get of they bus is throw shit to the ground.

It's they way of life. I for one will have a field day with this. Now pass the saggy ass pants ordinance and we can really have some fun!!!

6/06/2013 10:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How do they disarm you at traffic court? I wear mine every time.

6/06/2013 10:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Traffic court whore said...

To 1:19 am: While I agree with you about impound court. When have you ever been disarmed at traffic court? I've been going to traffic court for 10 years and never once had to secure my weapon. And how are you losing money going to traffic court? You can ride the train for free. And if you do drive, you can park in the parking garage across from the Goodman theatre for $13. You sound like the typical dog ass who makes excuses as to why you don't do anything.

6/06/2013 10:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm glad that the aldercretin has this as his top priority for crime control.

6/06/2013 10:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Impounds would increase 10x fold if the city would make it more convenient and safe for police officers to attend impound court.....I lose money going to traffic court plus they disarm me, so that's why I don't write any tickets.

6/06/2013 01:19:00 AM

Thank you for the explanation. I feel the exact same way.

6/06/2013 10:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

does that include cigarette butts?

because the world is my ashtray!!

especially when I'm driving, and never mind the "COEXIST" and "save the whales" bumper stickers on my car!!

6/06/2013 10:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I haven’t noticed the streets covered in filth lately. This is just another revenue scheme that will cost the city more then it takes in because it will encourage productive tax paying people to move away.

Only in the mind of a Democrat does this make good sense.

6/06/2013 10:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off duty and had to go to HQ. Saw three high school goofs in military uniform walking westbound at 35th State. They were each unwrapping what looked like a large energy bar. Without missing a beat or giving it a thought, they each nonchalantly dropped the wrapper as they were walking. It is how they are raised. Dropping the wrapper on the ground and letting nature send it who-knows-where is as natural to them as breathing. It is just how it bees in their world.

6/06/2013 10:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

in this mighty city of photo enforcement, while the speed cameras are on hold, we can put up trashcams.... no flashing bluelights, just a snapshot of your license plate and your air ball shot of trash coming out the driver's side window

especially at the ends of exits ramps....a favorite dumping location while waiting to turn left or right, well at least by my witnessing it surely is at 17th and 290...

6/06/2013 10:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just another money making scam for people who can't afford it,in some cases the fine will be more than the car value,but the Mayor doesn't care he makes 160,000 in interest a year,pays 77,000 in taxes ,and makes over 400,000 a year salary,it's all about who has the most.....money! Oh and good acting classes,cause he really acts like he cares about this city,it's safety and the citizens,it's not about the money......right!?

6/06/2013 11:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Have you seen this SCC?

http://www.forestparkreview.com/News/Articles/6-5-2013/Last_day-fight-at-Proviso-East-involved-300-students,-10-arrested./

6/06/2013 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Talk about making money,I wrote 10 or more a anov's for cell phone daily 1000 a day in fines times 24 days a month I worked equals 24,000 a month in fines,led the city,but who cares ,now everyone is texting driving and holding a phone while driving,again who cares.....just retired....who cares?

6/06/2013 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, I'm okay with it. I've been writing ANOVs for MCC 10-8-480, "Casting Refuse and Solids," for years. Would-be litterers can keep all their fast food and drink garbage in their cars, which I'll then impound for their suspended licenses anyway!

6/06/2013 11:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could they add a 10-year mandatory sentence if the litter is a Cheetos bag, Arizona Iced Tea can, or Phillies Blunt wrapper? Enforce that and watch the murder rate drop like a hammer.

6/06/2013 12:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If these animals can't (or won't) pay the ANOV fine for pissing in the alleys and gangways or smoking pot in the open, what makes this Alderfool think an increased fine for throwing trash and cigarette butts on the street will be any deterent?

6/06/2013 12:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/06/06/off-duty-cop-on-trial-for-fake-911-call-after-being-pulled-over-in-niles/

Classy Chicago Officer here...why no coverage Second City??

6/06/2013 01:43:00 PM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

The common denominator of this idea failing miserably is the city's hardheaded insistence that it's Police Officers be cut out of the revenue stream that the city desperately wants it's Police Officers to generate...

Remember when?

Male Felony.
Male Misdemeanor.
Female Felony.
Female Misdemeanor.
Vehicle Impound along with the attendant Major or Minor Room for Traffic Court.
Gun Court.
Dope Court.
Night Dope Court.
Hoe Court.
Domestic Court.
Juvenile Court.

And a couple others we may have forgotten...

What changed?

Daley Inc. said, "OOOOOH! Lookit all dat FREE MONEY dese coppers are generatin'! Why should they get some of it when WE can get it ALL?"

All about the politics of CONTROL!

Budget authority was stripped from the Superintendent...

CPD was intentionally reduced to begging for table scraps.

Equipment wears out, gets broken, becomes obsolete, needed people aren't hired for years at a time and your Police Department is intentionally walked to an operational standstill while the money they generate is DIVERTED to other things.

Shortshanks loved his "twees an' flowers."

Then the REAL idiocy began...

*Thou shalt not attend the following courts anymore...*

But the powers were crystal clear that they wanted coppers to maintain the revenue stream... Just they couldn't partake of the waters...

The powers honestly thought that Policemen would be good sports about the whole thing and keep the coffers full to their own detriment.

The resulting earthquake was that of an entire Police Department sitting down really hard on their "Revenue Generators."

Daley. Was. Pissed.

"I'll show you guys!"

Hence the present over-abundance of Revenuers and other such funny people (and folks) with funny badges and citation books being pulled into the revenue stream now vacated by a thoroughly disenfranchised Police Department now refusing to pull their pens out of their pockets...

"C'mon guys! Generate some revenue fer us fer cryin' out loud!"

"You guys want me to RIDE with you to make you write some God-D@#n tickets? I'll break up partners and fuck with start times if you assholes don't start writing tickets and doing impounds!"

RECORDING: -SAVED-
>Snicker!<

End up being the lawn boy for the entire district...

We're seeing more Coppers fighting back and fighting dirty... Good stuff...

Why is it so important that rank and file Coppers be cut out of the revenue stream?

What is going on that necessitates rank and file Coppers being cut out of the revenue stream?

Epic thievery of tax payer treasure with both hands by City Hall...

Did anyone notice the BIG increase in anti-Police hit pieces in the media starting in the late 1990's?

That was about the time the giant sucking sound of multiple billions of tax payer money became too loud for everyone to ignore.

"Cop pay is too high."
"Cop retirement is too early and too cush..."
"City in financial trouble and it's the Cops fault!"

...It worked like a fucking charm!

You civilians should personally thank Crime King Shorty for wrecking this city.

This proposal by Brookins is symptomatic of the epic thievery, idiocy and political cowardice that are hallmarks of the Chicago Way of Governance that is rotting this republic alive...

6/06/2013 02:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

does that include cigarette butts?

because the world is my ashtray!!

especially when I'm driving, and never mind the "COEXIST" and "save the whales" bumper stickers on my car!!

6/06/2013 10:24:00 AM

Too Funny...Love the humor. But how true about the cig smokers!
Almost all smokers in front of office buildings, restaurants,bars, stores throw their cig butts on the ground.
Look around...if each butt is worth $50.00...the fines add up fast.
Each pack of 20 cigs plus the box and wrapper is 22 pieces of litter.
A pack of smokes is about $10?
Smokers got money. Maybe it is about fining smokers all over the city for the money....a littering tax!

6/06/2013 02:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

city of chitcawgo unable to collect millions in past due water bills from the south suburbs ,wtf
only know how to collect from working people with gun registration fees , water bottle tax, increase city vehicle tax , double water bills etc
the link , wic , welfare mama and daddy , illegal immigrant don't pay for sh-t in chicago

6/06/2013 03:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As for something really important in a historical context, why is this day, June 6, important?



June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
---

I had family that marched across Europe beginning on that day. God Bless those valient soldiers and thank you for the freedom they provide.

A moment of sience and rememberance, please.

6/06/2013 04:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.forestparkreview.com/News/Articles/6-5-2013/Last_day-fight-at-Proviso-East-involved-300-students,-10-arrested./

Me thinks I see a 'pattern' here.

6/06/2013 04:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every penny a moron has to pay the City means there should be additional funds to hire additional police officers, fund our pensions and pay for the retirees health care.
Therefore I will write citations and ANOV's.
When I see a booted vehicle I hope the moron who owns same moves to the suburbs to escape our revenue raising efforts as that is one less tax eater to take care of!

6/06/2013 06:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why make it so difficult for the Officers to attend. Some well addressed comments here. The city wants you to do the job but refuses to even provide parking. Why would I inconvenience myself. Oh You say I get overtime? Subtract my gas, parking fee and major aggravation because I did my job. The city gets a big buck from these impounds. Make an impound court( or at least a few) in every district. Hell we don't have any police officers using the buildings anymore.

6/06/2013 07:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC, Silly question......is 12Jun13 the day the the Zimmerman/trayvon trial comes to a verdict??? Wondering why T/D is denied for that day?

6/06/2013 07:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Off topic: D-Day Jun 06, 1944

6/06/2013 12:10:00 AM

That's NEVER off-topic. My uncle had a plate in his head, protecting his brain, for the rest of his life after D-Day.

Thank God for the Armed Services.

6/06/2013 07:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Citizen says... Good luck. I don't ever see the police enforce stop signs, red lights, talk or text while driving etc etc.

6/06/2013 07:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off-topic: If you haven't renewed your city vehicle sticker yet, check the address on it.
Mine came in the mail last week and it has my old address on it. I haven't lived there in years and my city sticker has been associated with the new address for several years.
Today, I called their office and spoke to a really nice woman whose son is on the job. She says this has happened to a LOT of people, and it's due to information supplied to them by the State. I don't know what the State is doing, supplying info to the City, when the City already has current sticker information on file, but that's what happened.
In our case, it means we have to go to one of the City Clerk's offices, prove where we live, show the old sticker registration, show the current State license registration, then have them alter everything so we can pay for the sticker AND the permit parking. Since the old address is out of the permit-parking zone we now live in, the total due will change, so we can't just mail in a change of address and a check.
Once again, don't just blindly renew until you check the info on it. And, if you didn't receive your renewal, it might have gone to an old address. Good luck.

6/06/2013 08:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I dislike littering as much as anyone else, but didn't the City Council pass a tax hike on fast food purchases which was supposed to be applied for cleaning up these types of messes.

My personal pet peeves are those people who constantly litter to and from school and the clowns who eat in their cars and then neatly bag their garbage and place it alongside of the nearest curb.

There are no untouchables here sweeping the gutters on a daily basis. Take an extra ten seconds and find a garbage can.

6/06/2013 08:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love it! More reasons to get our money back. Money will not come to us but they won't have it either. Order up those orange stickers, i'm game.

6/06/2013 08:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great to see Dougherty and Aguilar from FOP at the Hawks game in L.A. Tonight. A little FOP stuff during the day Hockey game at night it's all good. Wink wink nod nod. Business as usual.

6/06/2013 08:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
they don't disarm you going to traffic court..when were you last there? 1990

6/06/2013 07:06:00 AM

Yup, and damn proud if that fact.

6/06/2013 08:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic: HQ softball team is hosting shortstop tryouts...TP ain't gettin' it done, gonna have to move in a new direction!

6/06/2013 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Most states fine from between $500 and $1000 for throwing trash on the highway. How trash is defined is really up to the state police and ultimately, the judge. I have to agree with the alderman that the current penalties are pretty poor and should be increased. But, towing the persons car? NOt sure I agree with that.
Have you ever wondered that the entire downtown/goldcoast streets do not contain red light cameras? Wonder why?

6/06/2013 09:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just A Citizen says:
Listen, I am very opposed to anyone throwing trash out their windows, however......there are a lot more serious issues going on that need to be addressed. What is up with this city and priorities???

6/06/2013 10:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT
Just read that undercover officers were SHOT AT? I can't even sigh loud enough for this one. My chest got tight. I feel for you men and women of the CPD. I am "Just A Citizen" but I think about you guys every single day. I walk around and see you standing up and down Michigan Ave and all the side streets and the first thing I think of is "I wonder if they'll make it home in one piece today" and THAT'S ON EFFING MICHIGAN AVENUE. I can't imagine what I'd be thinking if I saw you in the jungle down there. God Bless All of You putting your lives on the line so we can walk around. I don't know how you do it, and God knows you do not get paid anywhere near what you should be getting paid (how about we dump these idiot Chicago sport team players salary into all your pockets???) but every morning you do it over and over like effing Groundhog Day. Thank you.

6/06/2013 10:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) looks like the midway airport lease is done! New owners coming in for last look around in 2 weeks, airport spiffed up to impress! Now with the multi-billon dollar deal where will all that cash go to? The pension funds as promised? Nope more likely to connected friends and more money to the do nothing's that get free link,and we speak no English folks! Any news media types with balls care to sniff around this is happening right under the taxpayers noses!

6/06/2013 11:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeh and up on the NW side you will get plenty of old country Polish (illegal all of them)throwing there shit out the windows.They act just like the savage up here,heroin addicts,thieves and link card users etc.....

6/06/2013 11:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

im 100% behind the otherwise ignorant alder-fools idea.............people throwing crap out of car is my pet peeve. I live on a corner lot and im always picking up crap

6/07/2013 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"OT did anybody notice that chicagos very own commie,neil steinberg of the slum-times,got demoted from 4 columns a week to just one?.....HAHAHAHAHA...leftist prick....oh sorry,good luck neil,take grumpy mary with you."

He's getting the same money. One column a week, more features. Not a bad deal.

6/07/2013 12:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Got four heads in a car leaving White Castle and tossing little white boxes onto Pulaski, Squad, can I get an event number? Forget VRI money....now comes LRI for Litter Reduction (oh no, the cost of endforcement would negate the gain)...carry on.

6/07/2013 02:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It amazes me that these free loaders get their car our with cash. It's not all the time, but more common. Link and ssi won't cover the impound and storage fees. So how are they getting their cars out with cash? Disgusting.

6/07/2013 05:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Rahm said...

But it's for the children!

6/07/2013 06:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now we can recover trash on the Public Way and send it for DNA. We can secure warrants for littering. I knew Rahmie the Commie would figure out a way to fund our pensions...."You Go Rahmbo"

6/07/2013 07:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Funny. The Black Caucus trying to alter bad black behavior. How about trying to alter the violent, antisocial behavior first. You know, the important stuff that keeps you alive.

6/07/2013 09:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Good! Throwing your trash out the window is ignorant. I have always gone out of my way to stop people who throw trash out of their window as well as pedestrians who throw trash on the ground.

6/06/2013 03:53:00 AM

You don't work in the ghetto, do you? You would be doing that all day long.

6/07/2013 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
It amazes me that these free loaders get their car our with cash. It's not all the time, but more common. Link and ssi won't cover the impound and storage fees. So how are they getting their cars out with cash? Disgusting.

6/07/2013 05:07:00 AM


How else can you get your car out? I saw them refuse Alderman Burton Natarus and make him come back with cash.

6/07/2013 12:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...

Off topic: D-Day Jun 06, 1944

6/06/2013 12:10:00 AM

God Bless those brave men who sacrificed on behalf of our Nation.

6/06/2013 08:31:00 AM


The view of the military cemeteries of France and Europe is breathtaking. To see that ocean of marble crosses and know how those young people gave up everything so others could live free is a truly humbling experience.

May we never forget.

Here is a partial list of American Military Cemeteries:

Aisne-Marne, France
Ardennes, Belgium
Brittany, France
Brookwood, England
Cambridge, England
Epinal, France
Flanders Field, Belgium
Florence, Italy
Henri-Chapelle, Belgium
Lorraine, France
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Meuse-Argonne, France
Netherlands, Netherlands
Normandy, France
North Africa, Tunisia
Oise-Aisne, France
Rhone, France
Sicily-Rome, Italy
Somme, France
St. Mihiel, France
Suresnes, France

6/07/2013 12:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who is chairman of the City Council’s White Caucus,

6/07/2013 05:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They like to keep trash on the ground to hide their dope that they mingle in with the potato chips bags and empty pop bottles.

6/07/2013 07:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just-a-citizen - the dope boys throw their drugs on the ground along with the other trash. Someone is doing a good job arresting them except for this one area of mixing drugs with trash. two locations are the #82 Homan Bus Stop on 18th & Central Park (on the southwest side of the street)and in front/side of the bus shelter on 16th & Central Park (on the southwest side of the street). Sometimes two cars pull up side by side in the parking lot next to the same bus stop on 18th & Central park and make what looks like a hand exchange of drugs.

6/07/2013 08:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It amazes me that these free loaders get their car our with cash. It's not all the time, but more common. Link and ssi won't cover the impound and storage fees. So how are they getting their cars out with cash? Disgusting.
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Simple, they hit one of the ghetto grape pop stores on Chicago and Central Park and get 30 cents on a dollar for their link purchase.

We keep on paying to no end.

6/08/2013 12:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't live and refuse to live in the city. I do dump all my trash there to avoid paying my suburbs trash pickup.

6/08/2013 07:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL, boy I see the IPRA calls already. You targeted me because I am black. LOL. Yeah right. This will go nowhere even if it gets passed.

6/08/2013 03:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Who is chairman of the City Council’s White Caucus,

6/07/2013 05:15:00 PM


Burke & O'Connor

6/08/2013 11:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...I realize the occasional prostitute taking a dump in my alley..."

You should move.

7/15/2013 06:35:00 AM  

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