On Sep 11, 7:07 am, Stan <stanle...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Another interesting point on this. A TV news reporter caught the
> employees of a Manhattan parking garage is a residential area parking
> customer cars onto the street as soon as the street cleaner passed,
> and moving them only if someone who wanted to park on the street paid
> them $10 (they were parked as far apart as possible while allowing no
> more room at the curb). I wonder how many laws were violated, and
> how hard it would be to prosecute.
My guess is, there wasn't any specific law against it at the time, and classic Yankee ingenuity took advantage of an opportunity to make a buck using a little "presence" in the neighborhood to protect their turf. Which is why the TV did a report on this abuse; if people already knew about it and politicians (or their constituents) were already outraged enough to have passed a law against it, it wouldn't be news anymore.
One of the main reasons new laws keep needing to be passed is, people keep thinking up new ways to screw their neighbor that aren't against the law, yet. Legislative factfinding (e.g. Congressional investigations) are geared not toward uncovering crime, but toward uncovering shady activity that ought to be a crime, so that the legislature can pass a law against it.
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