Los Angeles Meter Maids Appropriate Newspaper Stands

One has to wonder how it is that a public agency hell-bent on aggravating its denizens, then pushing for punitive measures that imply that its revenue collectors are better than the people from which the agency robs (which even L.A. councilmember Tony Cardenas clearly acknowledged in a tax-payer-funded party: "We certainly do appreciate you as our revenue enhancers in this great city," said Councilman Tony Cardenas, who addressed the group over a lunch of sandwiches and potato salad."), and then is suddenly slow in observing a case that is filmed of one of its own officers attempting to assault a downtown resident (case pending, but soon to explode publicly), deems it necessary to padlock one of its little red bags to a newspaper kiosk.

Were one to decide to employ a metermaid-mobile for some private use, what would be the retribution? I ask because when one is even implied to have made aggravated moves toward a meter maid, one is immediately arrested. But if a metermaid attempts to run down a pedestrian with a car, then exits the car to finish the job, then head metermaid Jimmy Price is slow—to state the least—with having his boys pursue an investigation. To be sure, the hubris associated with the meter maid agency is one that needs to be checked.

What do you have to state about that, Jimmy? No, wait—save it for the judge.

-BusTard