All the lady had to do was pay for her stuff, too. She’s the one who couldn’t keep quiet. Jamie did.
Here jamie, try thisand your favorite charity may gain 20% of the fine.
Oh, well in that case, let me pull up Obama’s number out of my phone book. Improperly displayed card is nbd, but non-displayed… :eek:
Well that’s great and I hope it gets going and things work out well for you. Also if you do get the program going don’t forget to call the A@E network to see if you can get on Parking Wars so I can watch you on TV.
Well, I know nothing about the police in either Chicago or LA, never having interacted with either group. However, the police here are very friendly on the non-emergency line. Now, admittedly, I’ve never called them for a car I thought was parked improperly so I can’t say how they would react, but I’ve called them for stuff that was way stupider (IMHO) and they were perfectly helpful and friendly.
Really, if the choices are phone the police on the non-emergency line or confront people who could be loony, or cranky, or packing heat, the phone call seems superior in every way.
Obviously doing absolutely nothing is also an option; however, it doesn’t sound like one the OP is willing to take.
I think you probably belaboured the point a little longer than really necessary, but I do applaud your getting in people’s faces about the asshole things they do. Would you mind coming up here and policing our parking lots, too? People just do whatever they please and no one (being polite Canadians) ever calls them on it.
They could try enforcing a few laws around here, but they don’t really seem interested in that. 
Oh I don’t know, I think they’re pretty good at handing out speeding tickets.
Very probably. So why didn’t you call them, again?
Look, I’m all for adults trying to resolve their differences without calling the cops. I hatehatehate when people’s first response to noise disorders, or an unmowed lawn or a dog outside is to call the cops, rather than to address the neighbor like a fellow adult and human being. But you did that, and it didn’t work, so the next stop isn’t to ask them again, it’s to call the cops.
Chicago very definitely has a non-emergency number (several of them, 311 being the easiest to remember) and they’ll take a call like this in a professional manner. They may roll their eyes and “hey, guess what I just got” their coworkers when they hang up, but they’ll listen to you vent with due professionalism until they get you off the phone.
hadn’t seen the other thread yet. thanks for the clarification.
Agreed. Lay the problem in the lap of the police, and let them decide how to handle it from there. They might dispatch an officer; or more likely, they’d get in touch with the mall cops and have them deal with the matter. Either way, it’s not your problem anymore, and you can go about your business safely.
On a broader note, I’m sure that the police non-emergency line often fields calls from cranks and crackpots; so they know how to handle what is (to them) trivial and nonsensical, while allowing the caller to feel that the matter is being taken seriously. But at this point, it is the decision of the police as to what to do; it is no longer the caller’s.
Wow, you really went there?
Well, to refine that, in Alberta, it’s perfectly legal to park your pickup truck in two or more spaces in a parking lot.
Just kidding, but it sure seems at times as if pickup truck drivers in this province think the above, since they’re so good at parking in two or more spaces simultaneously.
Whew. Someone understands “catch a case”.
Lmao! You’re joking, right? This is Flint, ma’am. They don’t even respond to most murder calls within 3 or 4 hours, if then. :dubious:
Do you disagree?
What I found hilarious is that Rand Rover was the first to explain it in this thread. Rand Rover. That’s when you’re not cool, when Randy is explaining to you how the kids speak.
I mean, not that you’re not cool, LurkMeister, because you are.
From the OP, Jamie spoke first outside, Jaime also spoke first inside.
Jamie could have just kept his mouth shut. A confrontation inside was not inevitable. There was no reason for him to say anything to her inside (or outside for that matter). If Jaime hadn’t said anything, do you really thing the other lady would have? Or do you think she would have just finished what she was doing and left.
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I’m getting way too saucy. Bowing out now.
Mods?? Am I the only one who is getting the distinct impression that many in this thread are treating it as though it were a “Pit” thread? Enough with the personal shots, geez.
Why isn’t “notify the property management” a reasonable response to seeing an improperly parked vehicle? It is literally the single most insignificant crime I can think of! Do you call the police for jaywalkers and people with a crack in their windshield or too much window tinting or people riding their bicycles on the sidewalk?