If true, he just fucked himself.
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How could he not fuck himself, look at them tiddies.
Can we get that for reporting cars parked in bus and tramway lanes?
And bike lanes.
$1, $5,$3, $7, $4 and $2!
Jokes aside, this is a pretty rad program.
Under the Citizens Air Complaint Program, they can record idling trucks or buses, report them and keep 25% of any fines, which typically range from $350 to $600.
Even if you aren't doing it 6-9 hours a day like this guy is, getting a cool $75-$150 for making a report while out of the house anyway doesn't sound bad at all.
Snitches get riches.
I'm cool with people snitching on someone pouring greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
So am I. If I wasn't, I'd have written "stitches" instead of "riches".
This bounty hunterish thing is wild for me, I actually don't know what to think about it. Good or bad?
Given it's targeting businesses violating a city ordinance that's in place to reduce pollution, I don't see an issue with it. If it was people snitching on other citizens for minor violations or something, I'd be against it.
I guess the qualifier for me is, is the law something that's in place for public good? If so, it should be enforced.
I guess the qualifier for me is, is the law something that's in place for public good? If so, it should be enforced.
That's supposed to be the case for every law.
Yes, but it's also a pandoras box IMO.
Idling is illegal here often but I see vehicles doing it all the time. Would love if a scheme like this existed in the UK
It also depends if they want to enforce it.
A lot of things are illegal to do in the US but ignored, but someone has to actively enforce it. Which is a police problem on its own.
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Every city should do this.
Not sure why the meter maids aren’t doing this instead of turning the people against each other
Where I grew up, meter checkers were getting threatened with assault for writing up parking tickets.
The current city I'm in, the meter checkers never leave their cars. They take a photo of the offense, and mail their tickets.
I guess some trucks need to idle their engine to keep the refrigerator running so food doesn’t spoil?
No, reefer trucks have an auxiliary engine powering the refrigerator.
Would that count as an idle engine for this program? I would think it would be exempt.
That's not an idling engine if it's actively working to keep product cool.
If a motor is performing a job task then by definition it's not idle
Don't wanna get reefer too cold unless you're already done curing it......
well they’d better go catch it