Do You Have Bad Neighbors?
Aug 20, 2007 7:31 am
They have extra garbage cans; those big bins, because they have a construction crew doing something. Besides generating the extra trash, I'm not sure what.
They put those bins in front of my place, because they don't have room in front of their place, because they park on the street in front of their place, because the construction crew parks in their driveway. (That's so they can get closer to all the trash they create.)
To me, the solution's obvious: stop the construction, send home the crew, park in the driveway --or Heaven forbid-- the garage, and put-out their garbage cans, back in front of their house. Yeah, but that's not gonna happen.
So I guess I'm just stuck, being good neighbor; and I'll just keep doing what I've been doing: I put my trash cans in front of my other neighbor's house.
Posted: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:14 AM by Chimene Williams
Categories: Live from Studio 1A
This morning Studio 1A was paid a visit by justice, “Jimmy Justice.” He’s an average guy from Brooklyn, New York who’s outraged by New York City’s aggressive (his word) ticketing policy. Watch the video here.
“Jimmy Justice” talked to me for a few minutes about why he started trailing traffic enforcement agents with his video camera.
allDay: When did you start making these videos?
I started making videos about a year ago. I collected videos of this sort because I saw a traffic enforcement agent write a civilian a ticket for blocking a fire hydrant and then that same traffic officer who wrote the summons to the civilian got back into his official vehicle, made a u-turn and he parked blocking a different fire hydrant across the street. And he went into a restaurant to eat lunch. And I said there has got to be something wrong with that.
allDay: Do you think it will make a difference?
I hope it will snowball. Everyday the amount of hits are really growing. It’s my hope that after a larger amount of people see the video, they’ll be outraged and force City Hall to change their policy of predatory ticketing and to install a system of checks and balances monitoring the behavior of the traffic enforcement agent.
allDay: What do your friends think, and why?
They love it. For the same reason that the public loves it. Everyone wants to see the bully get what they deserve. And these people are bulling the citizens of New York by being overly aggressive. And now we’re catching them when they’re doing something wrong. And now we’re turning the tables on them.
allDay: How many tickets have you gotten?
I’m a careful driver and I read all the signs and I still get tickets. I get approximately three per year. Every couple of months I get one. Even if I’m super careful I still get tickets. A lot of the signs are ambiguous and I think that may be on purpose.
allDay: Are you political?
Yes.
allDay: Would you ever run for public office?
If I was elected to office I would want to pay attention to what the people have to say because the government is to serve the people and no try to rip the people off through aggressive ticketing.
allDay: How did you come up with the name Jimmy Justice?
It sounds like give me justice and we need things to be fair in this city. Parking tickets should be about public safety and not as a way to generate revenue for the city.
After watching and reading what “Jimmy Justice” had to say, what do you think? How would you handle a situation like this?
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