After all, it's just parking, is it not? When Executive Leopold moved legislation through the County Council to raise fines for parking illegally in "handicapped" spots, CP expressed his pleasure and even received some comments in favor it of as well. Now it seems that judges are letting these violators off with the old $100 fine instead of the new $500 fine.
CP is no legal scholar but if a person is ticketed for this violation and the fine is $500, how can a judge decide they don't have to pay the fine as determined by statute? If a law is unconstitutional, does the judiciary not have power to make such a determination? But is its power mainly to interpret the law and not to make law? And will these lenient judges never understand how serious this is for the person who truly needs a special parking space? When will judges understand that people who violate this law are exhibiting anti-social behavior through this flagrant disregard for the law, and may be guilty of violating other driving laws as well? Are these judges the same ones deciding that other criminals get off easy too?
See The Capital's editorial about it at: www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/02_12-03/OPN
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How 'bout this: nimrods who are far too important to park with us regular shlubs in the parking lot at strip malls such as Bay Forest or Harbor Center and insist on plunking their behemoth SUVs in the fire lane causing the rest of us to awkwardly drive around them should be yanked violently from their cars, so that, in the process, they spill wildly overpriced, piping, hot Starbucks coffee onto their Norah Jones CD collection as they are dragged off to re-education camps in Central New Jersey.
Was that a a rambling run-on sentence? Yes. Was it relevant to Paul's topic? No. Do I hate it when people ask rhetorical questions and then answer them themselves? Oh, yeah.
You would think that made me feel better but, surprisingly, it didn't. Sorry about the handicapped plate-holders. though.
Tim Hamilton
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