Current mood:

annoyed

Transit Police Rampage
As I do everyday on my way home I got off the commuter boat at Hingham today, walked to the parking lot, up the aisle I thought I'd left my car in... and then down another aisle... then up the previous for good measure... after 30min of this and some concern for my mental wellbeing I walked to the MBTA office and asked a question I never thought I'd have to ask. "Hello... have... uhm... any cars been towed or anything from the lot today?"

To my rather conflicted reassured and bemused surprise, the response I got was "Oh yes! Lots and lots! That guy over there too! *points to the seat in the corner*" The guy hands me a sheet of paper with a LOT of license plates, makes, models, colors listed on it. "Is one of these yours?!" I'm thinking jesus christ, was this a massive drug swoop or something?! The guy that was in the corner comes over and starts detailing his 30min headstart on the situation.

So as it's almost end of the month, and as the commuter boat parking lot has about 2,000 spaces most of which are full every single day, apparently the transit police decided to get their budget up to spec a little and audited EVERY, SINGLE, CAR in the parking lot for expired inspections and registrations and all those good things and TOWED, EVERY, SINGLE, CAR that failed to comply. The best part is that the towing company has, you know, normal business hours so you can't actually resolve the issue until tomorrow, oh but that doesn't matter because you can't rightly prove your stickers are valid until tomorrow either (the Mass. RMV website crashed on me too, yippee!)

Being as this is Mass., Christ knows whose brother's cousin's towing company is getting extra big Christmas bonuses this year.

So I just wanted to rant in case anyone else was greeted to this same crazy fiasco as I this evening.