Is it illegal to put change in meters?

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: notfred
Depends on your municipality. They made it illegal in my hometown (Santa Cruz, CA) because there was this guy who would dress up as a clown on weekends and go downtown with a bunch of quarters and jsut feed parking meters and make balloon animals for kids and stuff all day. I guess he wanted to make the world a better place for it. Anyway, the police dep't was losing a LOT of money on parking fines, so they made it illegal and cited the clown guy for it. Bunch of assholes.

dang...

i agree...sigh...

but yeah..her209..that's a really nice thing to do..aha

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: gopunk
that's why y'all should vote for me... i'll make it a federal crime to prevent anybody from feeding a parking meter. federal laws trump local laws

too many laws now

yea but that's really the only way to stop this atrocity

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: notfred
Depends on your municipality. They made it illegal in my hometown (Santa Cruz, CA) because there was this guy who would dress up as a clown on weekends and go downtown with a bunch of quarters and jsut feed parking meters and make balloon animals for kids and stuff all day. I guess he wanted to make the world a better place for it. Anyway, the police dep't was losing a LOT of money on parking fines, so they made it illegal and cited the clown guy for it. Bunch of assholes.

FEAR THE CLOWN!!!

The guy might be nice, but that's sorta strange. People just aren't THAT nice these days.

 

[lukatmyshu]

From what i recall about how those who "feed" meters are prosecuted, it is mostly because they would walk in front of the meter-maid and put money in those that were failing. So basically they would wait until the meter maid was about to approach the car, and then put a quarter, or some other change in it. Since the city was losing money (not only in fines, but in meter revenue) they cited him for defrauding the city's meter services. I think that if you just walked down the street and added change to every failing meter they couldn't cite you for it .... it was only 'cuz these individuals usually did it immediately before a meter-maid came by.