While visiting family in Maryland, I came across an article in the Baltimore Sun that I find funny on multiple levels. The article, entitled “New Meters Paying Off”, is about how a switch to centralized parking meters that enable customers to pay with credit cards has generated a big increase in the city’s parking fee revenues.
In the first place, it’s comically sad that this passes for front page news, albeit below the fold.
What really got me laughing, though, was this awesome quote from a Baltimore balla:
John Furst, who was parking at Broadway Market in Fells Point recently, said he quickly realized that he could buy time on a meter on Eastern Avenue- where the city charges 50 cents an hour- and use that receipt a few blocks over in Fells Point where it costs one dollar an hour to park.
“If you are in the know in Baltimore, you can do well,” Furst said.
Way to scam the city out of fifty cents an hour, John, you badass!
Bad ass and fearless, letting them use his real name.