- The growing ire over Chicago's parking meters took on yet another dimension Thursday when roughly 50 coin-fed meters were vandalized in the two North Side neighborhoods of Uptown and Ravenswood.
The damage included globs of goo smeared on the parking meters or left to dry in the coin slots. The vandals also wrote the words "SLAVE" and "KILL COPS" on a few of the meters' display windows in black marker. Many display windows were completed covered by silver spray paint.
The goo obstructing the coin slots was likely an adhesive thought to be glue or putty, Chicago police said.
The putty is removable, and the meter usable if a motorist has "something to scrape it with," Chicago police spokesman Robert Perez said.
The media has done such a fine job of painting cops as bad guys that the "meter revolt" thinks we actually control the meters, set the fines and write tickets. While we're sure they are out there, most cops don't really give a shit about the meters. There's too much other stuff to write.
In any case, irate citizens are using wadded up gum, putty, expandable sprays, etc., to jam up the meters. It's obvious to anyone paying attention that a line has been crossed in many eyes. Maybe it's the blatant selling of city assets, the incompetency that accompanies fixed contracts, the insiders profiting once again in the middle of a recession, who knows?
But we'll opine that there aren't many cops looking too hard for the perps.
In any case, irate citizens are using wadded up gum, putty, expandable sprays, etc., to jam up the meters. It's obvious to anyone paying attention that a line has been crossed in many eyes. Maybe it's the blatant selling of city assets, the incompetency that accompanies fixed contracts, the insiders profiting once again in the middle of a recession, who knows?
But we'll opine that there aren't many cops looking too hard for the perps.
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