Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Two Hundred Forty Four

Even with a one-day holiday "reprieve," the city grabbed a sizable number of cars parked on snow routes:

  • Hundreds of unhappy car owners filed into the city’s impound lots on a bitter cold Monday to retrieve wheels that were towed for the start of the annual overnight winter parking ban.

    The city issued an unheard-of, one-day reprieve on Sunday, giving drivers informational flyers instead of tows on the first night of the ban.

    But 244 drivers were still caught unaware Monday morning and found their vehicles towed, according to the Department of Streets and Sanitation.

    That’s slightly less than the 263 vehicles that were towed last year on the first day of enforcement. The winter parking ban is enforced 3 to 7 a.m. from Dec. 1 to April 1, regardless of whether snow is on the ground.

So 244 cars times $320 for tow, ticket and one day storage is just over $78,000.

How many days of Conehead grooming does that work out to?

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16 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

244 cars towed not a speck of snow to be found! The Chicago way!

12/03/2024 12:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Frank Furillo said...

$78,000 dollars? Wow, that's like a couple hundred luxury hotel stays for illegals....for one night. Fuck this city.

12/03/2024 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In all honesty that’s not really that much. I remember when I first got on the job 22 years ago the amount of vehicles we impounded from the shit heads far eclipsed that number. Has things gotten so bad that even the mayors office or downtown has forgotten the amount of revenue lost by De-policing. Shit I don’t see any of the newer generation of officers impounding cars like we did back in the day. Truth is no one’s even teaching them how to do it and I get it I’m just saying it’s so much opportunity lost.

12/03/2024 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Or the First Lady can redecorate 🤣

12/03/2024 04:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Products of CPS not able to read the flyers

12/03/2024 06:03:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

Fun and games in the big city.

12/03/2024 07:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Someone will do a study...WBEZ, Slum Times...that most were on the South and West sides, don't cha know!

12/03/2024 09:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well can't say they weren't warned!!! Even though they probably will!!!

12/03/2024 09:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's 78k people don't have for food, clothing and rent. It's criminal.

12/03/2024 09:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

$78,000? That's Pritzkers weekly lunch tab.

12/03/2024 09:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Assuming only one day of storage is very generous of you. A lot of cars have title and registration issues. Those cars are going to be in storage for a while before they are released.

12/03/2024 09:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The police should not be policing for revenue.

12/03/2024 11:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So 244 cars times $320 for tow, ticket and one day storage is just over $78,000.

My neighborhood carjacker only charges 150 to steal it back from the city...

12/03/2024 11:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cities across the country have winter overnight parking bans. If people weren't so stupid and paid attention to life, they wouldn't get towed. And these same people vote.

12/03/2024 11:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Karma never forgets.

12/03/2024 02:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

57 years ago you could find couches and kitchen sets on the streets.

12/03/2024 06:44:00 PM  

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