{"id":18926,"date":"2013-02-06T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18926"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:18:10","slug":"municipality-really-eager-to-get-their-parking-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/municipality-really-eager-to-get-their-parking-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipality really eager to get their parking revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Tel Aviv was lucky to be able to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/NationalNews\/Article.aspx?id=302190\" target=\"_blank\">security camera footage<\/a> to prove her innocence here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Tel Aviv Municipality found itself in hot water on Tuesday, after a Facebook post by a woman whose car was towed after city workers painted a handicapped space around the vehicle went viral, becoming a mini-scandal and garnering coverage across Israeli media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Security camera footage from a store above the parking spot on Yehuda Halevi Street shows the car parked at a legal blue parking spot, before city workers arrive and paint a handicapped spot around the car, which is towed shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The video was obtained by the owner of the car, Hila Ben-Baruch, from the surveillance camera of the store above the parking spot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I once saw something similar happen in real time: in the mid-1970&#8217;s, I was waiting for a Mississauga Transit bus when a work crew from the city came along. The crew started putting up &#8220;No Parking&#8221; signs along the road, and a Peel Regional Police officer came along a few minutes later to write parking tickets for all the cars which were now illegally parked. The bus I was waiting for was on something like a 45 minute schedule, so this all took place within that stretch of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Tel Aviv was lucky to be able to get security camera footage to prove her innocence here: The Tel Aviv Municipality found itself in hot water on Tuesday, after a Facebook post by a woman whose car was towed after city workers painted a handicapped space around the vehicle went viral, becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,370],"tags":[111,291],"class_list":["post-18926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-middle-east","tag-cars","tag-israel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18927,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions\/18927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}