Washington D.C. Metblogs » Parking http://dc.metblogs.com Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:31:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How Not to Park http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/11/13/how-not-to-park/ http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/11/13/how-not-to-park/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:38:11 +0000 tonigm http://dc.metblogs.com/?p=7463 Recognize this car?  It’s a late model black Ford Escape with North Carolina tags, and it’s been parked on my street for several weeks.  We’ve discussed this with the meter maids parking enforcement personnel who ticketed it on a regular basis, but the car stayed put.  It’s also been blocking the street sweeper every Thursday, which implies these have NOT been issuing warnings since the beginning of August.

So today we called 311.  Turns out the vehicle was reported stolen six weeks ago!  The very helpful officer who arrived with a tow truck speculated that someone parked for an evening out in Adams Morgan, got a little tippers, and couldn’t find it again.  Or perhaps it was a vicious practical joke, or a sudden and incapacitating injury.  Sadly, we’ll never know.

The wackiest part?  The car was unlocked the entire time.

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