Comments on: Fighting Crime, Toledo Style — Tickets For Parking In Your (Gravel) Driveway

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:36:41 +0000

# 31 morram said, “City managers and workers.. I got a story for you…”

IF true, you handled the situation appropriately.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:31:04 +0000

#31, morram,

Something about your story reeks of bullshit.

By: morram

morram — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:20:47 +0000

City managers and workers.. I got a story for you. Been living in this small California town for a while. Had a repo’d house on one side and a couple of beaches with two pit bulls on the other. The pit bulls had long ago busted a hole in the fence trying to kill me. I had complained to the city that the owners were not willing to help pay for a new fence, city said, take them to court… Then a real estate dude decides that the repo isn’t selling because I have two trucks I’m restoring in the backyard and they can be seen from the upstairs window if you press your face against the wall and are 9 feet tall. City sends out a worker to “inspect” my back yard. I never heard the guy knock but I heard the dogs going at him and when I went out front I could see this guy running for the gate so I leaned back and gave him a good crack in the head with the baseball bat knocking him out cold! Then I noticed he’s a city worker cause he’s wearing a gay jump suit. I freaked and looked around for his truck. Got his key and wallet (he owed me) then pulled the truck up into my driveway, drained all the gas out and filled my truck’s tank before loading him up and pushing his truck into the street and scraping my knee on the driveway near the gate before calling the cops. Hey I was assaulted.
City tries to sue me over the dogs.. D!OH they are not mine.. City pays me $55 for cutting my padlock. Been over a year now waiting to see what happens. City worker can’t remember what happen haha!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:00:24 +0000

# 29 Nimby said, “It’s still your property and you can do anything you like with it. ”

In most states you don’t actually own your property, you rent it from the government. Thus, it can be confiscated if you don’t pay the state on an annual basis for it.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:58:35 +0000

#27 – “If the city owns a part of my property, why am I paying taxes on it?”

The city does not “own” the property. They hold an easement which means they can use it for such things as sewer lines, electricity or other things that serve the public good.

It’s still your property and you can do anything you like with it. (As long as you ask nice and they say yes.)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:58:12 +0000

Ah, yet another personal freedom hating Dem liberal.

By: N74JW

N74JW — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:43:29 +0000

#6, I’d park in the City Hall parking lot. Most folks fail to reemember that no matter how much of your property the city says it owns, you are taxed on the entire zoned lot. If the city owns a part of my property, why am I paying taxes on it?

This is a money-making scheme on behalf of the city. I’d get a Pit Bull and a ‘Beware of Dog’ sign with an invisible fence (which I already own).

Come an ticket, folks

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:05:50 +0000

Well, I’m sure HE has a paved driveway. I guess everyone should start parking there.

By: deowll

deowll — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:32:14 +0000

I wonder if it occurred to anyone to change the law?

By: Nimby

Nimby — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:50:25 +0000

Two words: Holy Toledo!

By: a teen who knows Finkbeiner is a dimwit

a teen who knows Finkbeiner is a dimwit — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:47:28 +0000

I live in a town a little south of Toledo and I visit Toledo allot and I see all the things that Mayor Carty Finkbeiner as gotten huge amount of funding for go down the drain Toledo is a mess and there crime rate is through the roof they just laid off allot of police officers but just put huge amount of money in a mall that went belly up in under a year he needs to be recalled

By: speed cleaning

speed cleaning — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:20:14 +0000

Now this is just nuts. LOL what a great use of public funds.

Sally

By: duh

duh — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:49:22 +0000

{Believe it or not, he’s a Democrat.}

Duh. The Dems are the ones who want to control every part of your life. I’ll bet there are more Republican rednecks with gravel driveways than well-heeled Democrat contributors.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:53:49 +0000

I think it’s so drivers can turn around on your driveway.

By: stopher2475

stopher2475 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:35:46 +0000

15# Does anyone know why he’s only targeting people who park on gravel driveways? The story implies this is some attempt to get people to pave them. What’s wrong with gravel?

I’m sure their official story is that gravel is bad but my guess is that this is a law that was intended to stop people from parking on grass and off street areas and now they’re applying it in a way that was never intended as a cash grab.