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The Daily Photoist: November 20, 2009
People are scamming the city's parking machines to the tune of $1 million per year. Apparently you can use an expired pre-paid credit card to park for free because the machines don't check to see if the cards have credit left on them. The Toronto Parking Authority has known about this since 1998, but hasn't done anything because what the hell—it's only money.
Federal industry minister Jim Prentice isn't happy about cellular companies charging for incoming text messages and went so far as to point out that other countries have laws regulating their wireless industries, although immediately walked it back by saying Canada has traditionally tried to let the cellular industry gouge the shit out of Canadians because that's better for all concerned.
The latest update in the never-ceases-to-be-entertaining Igor Kenk stolen bicycles story: police found a stolen bronze sculpture of a centaur stashed away in the middle of the bikes. Kenk explained that the centaur "had inner bike-ness."
Police seized over $5 million worth of drugs this morning, telling reporters that they had watched all five seasons of The Wire and were now using technology to catch the bad dealers, "like when Lester got the DA lady to wiretap the disposable cell phones before they were even sold, except even better than that."
Finally, General Motors posted a $15.5 billion loss for the second quarter of 2008, presumably because they make shitty cars that aren't any good.
Photo by sniderscion from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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The Toronto Parking Authority does nothing about it because they don't want to spend money fixing the issue, when they can just distribute parking tickets to the people who is careless, makes mistakes, or given a ticket just because the guy who patrols the lot just wants to. I remember when my sister's ex-boyfried had his civic stolen. When he found out by the police where it was, it had no steering wheel, and 3 parking tickets sitting under the windshield wipers.
It will be interesting to follow GM's progress on the Volt.
I'm glad someone else up here realises the greatness of "The Wire".
Best cop show since Homicide went off the air.
Thanks for using my shot.
I wonder what McNulty would have to say about the Igor Kenk debacle.
Isn't paying for parking on a public street the biggest scam in the world? No, paying to have a parking authority enforce archaic rules is the biggest scam in the world.