This is a very grave concern.
Where I live, parking tickets are generated by a little hand-held computerized device that the officer keys information into. The ticket includes the VIN, which I had always assumed was gotten from the DMV database, rather than being read off the front inside window (although I could be mistaken).
Either way, the computer has the information, so it ought to just be automatically run to check for theft/outstanding warrants/whatever. Are the cities that are not doing this using a different system to issue parking tickets, or are they really so incompetent that they already have the information in electronic form but can’t manage to connect one database to another to find obviously stolen cars?
If this happened to me I raise a fuss loud enough to wake the . . .
Oh, wait a minute.
Someone should undertake to find out just what happened; imcompetence like this should not be left to fester.
Didn’t they already do this on Castle? You guys watch Castle, right?
“Whatcha gon, whatcha gon, watcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys…”
I hope they scan every car that gets more than two tickets in the same spot now. That’s just stupid.
Maybe they can write him a ticket for that, too.
They’ve got him dead to rights on that one.
What did one necrophiliac say to the other?
Let’s crack open a cold one.
I keep reading the title in the Soup Nazi’s voice. Wouldn’t the Soup Nazi make a great big city parking policeman?
Fuckin’ scofflaw. Throw him in jail 'til he rots!
You had better look at the side windows on a mini van the next time you are out and about. They come from the factory in limo tint or darker. Being side windows there is no regulation as to how dark they can bee.
Realistically, what’s the alternative here? Would ya’ll appreciate a policy wherein it becomes police policy that they must look into every car they ticket on the off chance that there’s a dead body laying in there? Obviously this will slow down the meter maids, so the city and ultimately the tax-payers will have to pay to hire more meter maids to carry out the usually very fruitless effort of looking into the back-seats of cars for dead bodies. That’s not necessarily how I want my tax dollars spent, but if it gets just one dead body located in three weeks instead of two, it’s worth it right?
But I would propose that the situation to play out would be this: meter maids locate naughty-looking things far more often than corpses. If a cop sees a bong or other drug paraphernalia in a parked car, shouldn’t they break it open and search it? What about all of the other illegal looking things that would grant them probable cause to go opening cars? Are you guys going to appreciate all of the searches of unattended cars?
Maybe it really is best just to have cops ticket cars without looking inside.
When you see cars abandoned by the side of the highway here (as I had to do once with a flat, myself) they get these orange tags, the kind that you have to take off with damned nail polish remover, that says you better come get it in 24 hours. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that they were beginning that because of an abandoned car by the side of the road with a corpse in it for some absurd length of time. (I’m sure they do look in your windows when you put that tag on.)
You’re right- I just went out and looked at the passenger and back windows of my 2009 Toyota Sequoia, and they are pretty dark. A casual glance would result in someone’s own reflection, nothing more. Only when someone “peers” in using their hands, can they see details inside the car. Well, I’ll be damned- ignorance fought.
Just as bad: My daughter’s car was stolen. A month later she’s notified that her car is in the impound lot and she needs to come get it. When she arrives, she’s given a $300 bill for “storage”!! What?!? The cops had actually found the car the day after it was stolen, but neglected to do anything further about it for a month! All they had to do was look up her tag - she’d reported the car stolen; the cops knew her phone number and address. But she still had to pay the bill to get her car back. What a scam! :mad:
Looking in a vehicle that is getting a ticket would take almost no time. It’s not like they need to look under the floor mats or in the glove compartment for a person.
Anybody leaving drug paraphernalia in view through a window should have the station called and a drug search done.
It’s a car… I believe you mean *Naugahyde *nap. 
That was my first thought, too. (My main problem with that episode was they way everyone was leaning over the week-old, heat-marinated corpse and not, you know, gagging.)
Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead in a minivan.