My sister, after a night of debauchery and other assorted goings on, once returned to the last known location of her vehicle to find not only her car, but also the street it had been parked on were gone. No sign, no bull dozers, nothing was there to indicate that her decision not to drive home that night was going to cost her $170 in towing fees.

Cry Me a Water Park
 

Granted I am a shitty driver with not that much experience behind the wheel but what IS wrong with this? I am positive that I have done this many times. (I get lost a lot).

Well, down here we give those tickets to Yankees. I'm not sure who they give them to in California.

Are you Mexican?

Speeding through Oakland is more than justifiable, no?

Cry Me a Water Park
 

Beats the fuck out of me. I do it all the time to avoid traffic lights on the feeder.

Cry Me a Water Park
 

And that would be what's wrong with it.

Fucking Chips
 

I guess that's why I didn't get pulled over. Flow of traffic and all. I was barely keeping up.

Wait - the STREET was gone? Bulldozed? What?

Parking Ticket
 

Was this by chance in Massachusetts?

My honey got one on my street a while ago. We happened to walk up as the ticket was being written. The parking police kindly offered tips for how to avoid paying the ticket but said once he'd set pen to carbon ticket book, there was no turning back.

I was just reminiscing with my best friend from college friend about a parking on the wrong side incident. Right after college, she and her then-SO came for a visit. Driving with them to my favorite shallow bar of the day, I pulled into a spot on the opposite side of the street. There was a single cop busting people for this act. He pulled me over. I got out of the car to go hand him my license and registration and he told me to go back to wait in the car. It seems he had so many people pulled over, there was a backlog. We waited for what seemed to be an eternity. Friend's then-SO said "Just leave [Sparklehorse]!!" I started up the car and drove off. Hell broke loose for the cop -- everyone else bolted. The cop chased off after us down the street but we turned down a side street and "lost" him.

Parking Ticket
 

Way to drive fast and live hard with no regrets.

In the early 2000s, Houston spectacularly pulled off a Beirut circa 1979 motiff on the city streets, including the humble path that leads to my own abode. Finding navigable streets downtown was something of a challenge.

Someone made an "Orange Barrel Capitol of the World" art car at the 2004 parade. I think it won the People's Choice award.

Why would I turn around?

Parking Ticket
 

Years back I saw the Smiths play a show in Philly. Afterwards my drug addled friends wanted to cruise around and see if they score some more weed in areas of town where you can score weed on the street. Cops spot us driving around in BMW and notice the "thing that doesn't fit in" and hit the lights. Someone yells out, "hit it, let's ditch him", so the driver takes off. Hi-speed chase through the streets of Philly. Cut to the end: driver pulls a U-turn over a median, blows out tire, keeps going but speed is impaired, hangs a left turn, dead end alley. Oops. 3 cop cars cordon us off, spotlights on, guns drawn. We all have to get out and lay down on the ground. And apparently, if you are the driver and you have a Military I.D. in your wallet and you are an officer, you get off with a warning: "you have 30 minutes to fix the tire and get the fuck out of Philly. If we see you after that, your ass is ours".

We got out. The tire and wheel damage were somewhere north of $600. Could have been worse.

Parking Ticket
 

. . . Sorry, Penske.

Fucking Chips
 

You're one of those people, aren't you?