Canada: Meter Maid Tickets Trapped Car

A meter maid slaps a parking ticket on a car pinned under a fallen tree in Toronto, Canada.A meter maid in Toronto, Canada issued a parking ticket to a car last week after it had been trapped by a fallen branch. Heavy thunderstorms knocked over trees and downed powerlines throughout the city on June 19. One tree fell and pinned the Chevrolet Corsica that belonged to Tom and Elizabeth Koukodimos. While waiting for help to free their vehicle, a meter maid slapped a ticket on the windshield."There was a bright yellow parking tag on the windshield of the car. I was just shocked and so were the neighbors," Elizabeth Koukodimos told City News. "It was unacceptable, there's no way I could have moved my car."Although the Chevrolet was parked in front of their home, a city ordinance prohibits street parking after midnight. The couple are challenging the citation in court.Source: City Slaps Storm-Trapped Car With Parking Tickets (City News (Canada), 6/21/2007)


This couldn't happen with our government servants, could it?

NEW POLL COMES UP WITH SURPRISING RESULT ON VOUCHERS
Texas Lyceum-sponsored survey finds 65 percent support for school vouchers.
A new poll designed to gauge Texans’ attitudes on key issues of our time makes its debut this week and it already has yielded an interesting result.
It found that 65 percent of Texans favor school voucher programs "in which parents are given taxpayer money by the government that they can use to pay for a child’s tuition at the school of their choice."
Such high support for vouchers came as a surprise to Daron Shaw and James Henson, the UT professors who administered the poll for the Texas Lyceum. They said that the result could have been influenced by placing the question among a series of questions that measure religious attitudes.
Still, the overwhelming support as evidenced by the poll led Henson to wonder why the issue fared so poorly this year in the Legislature. If this poll result is valid, Henson said, vouchers should have been "a slam dunk."

You have to wonder why the government is opposed to this, don't you? My feelings? Vote everyone out of office and start FRESH!!