Comments on: When You Convert the Police to Revenue Generators http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/when-you-conver.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John P. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/when-you-conver.html/comment-page-1#comment-9666 John P. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:05:35 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/when-you-conver.html#comment-9666 <p>When my car was stolen in Boston in the summer of 2003, I found it before the cops did. The City of Boston mailed me a notice that my car would be impounded unless I paid $300 worth of unpaid parking tickets - most of which I'd accumulated in the month the car was missing. I found the address the car had been ticketed at on Google Maps, went there, and drove the car to the police station to report it found.</p> When my car was stolen in Boston in the summer of 2003, I found it before the cops did. The City of Boston mailed me a notice that my car would be impounded unless I paid $300 worth of unpaid parking tickets – most of which I’d accumulated in the month the car was missing. I found the address the car had been ticketed at on Google Maps, went there, and drove the car to the police station to report it found.

]]> By: JoshK http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/when-you-conver.html/comment-page-1#comment-9665 JoshK Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:27:07 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/when-you-conver.html#comment-9665 <p>In the 2nd part of the clip they show how the NYC department of sanitation took a $30k car that was on the police stolen vehicle list, declared it junk, and immediately sold it to a parts dealer. </p> <p>I was just amazed to see that the garbage guys were given the power to randomly seize $30k of property.</p> In the 2nd part of the clip they show how the NYC department of sanitation took a $30k car that was on the police stolen vehicle list, declared it junk, and immediately sold it to a parts dealer.

I was just amazed to see that the garbage guys were given the power to randomly seize $30k of property.

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