DC going after MD and VA drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:Coincidence this happens right as Trump talks about home rule...

Not everything is about Trump, weirdo. The council passed a law well before the presidential election and then it took a few months to hire people once the funding was in place, then conduct the investigations.

And how many more months would it have taken to get started had Kamala won or Home rule not been discussed? Why did something have to be created from scratch that should be enforcement 101?

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Anonymous wrote:One of the guys DC is suing owes the state of Maryland tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes, in cases that are years old. He's clearly not going to pay a dime, and a good lawyer is going to have a field day with this type of lawsuit.

If DC really wanted to crack down, it would not allow its own residents who owe thousands in speeding tickets to renew their licenses and registrations. But they're allowed to, because Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau think being poor is a valid excuse for being a dangerous driver.

DC is coming after MD/VA drivers - that's fine. How about coming after DC drivers, too?

THIS! There’s a woman in my DC neighborhood who gets speeding tickets every day. She parks her car illegally in our alley blocking trash pick up. Her first car had over 40k in tickets. Booted and towed after months of complaints. Literally days later, there was a new car parked in the alley. That tag got about 10k in daily speeding tickets, then she switched tags, and has over 30k on this third tag. All temp tags. DC knows who this woman is, where she lives, and where she parks her car, yet does absolutely nothing to stop her.

It’s ridiculous they think suing 3 Maryland residents should make us happy, when they’re not addressing criminally dangerous drivers who are right here in front of them.

If I were you, I would reach out to the MPD officer who does traffic enforcement in your ANC - contact your ANC commissioner to find out who that is, if need be - and work with them to deal with this. With your tip off, the officer should ticket the vehicle and then call DPW to have it towed immediately thereafter. Rinse and repeat until problem is solved.

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Probably half of them are posting in the speed camera thread…

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This is great and will bring much needed revenue to the city

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please, two attorneys bringing lawsuits against VA/MD residents is going to clog up DC courts even further and will be ignored. DC has only two employees that boot cars so they won't be doing much more with their expanded authority. Just another example of DC making a law with zero enforcement mechanisms.

I cannot understand this. Why do they have so few people booting cars?

I know, right? With the number of outstanding unpaid tickets they could greatly increase the resources dedicated to booting and impounding cars with thousands in unpaid tickets along with hiring more prosecutors to go after them for less than 5% of the amount of the tickets.

Also, I don't understand why VA and MD aren't offering reciprocal agreements with DC to go after offenders. If they are driving like dangerous lunatics in DC they are doing the same in MD and VA, so MD and VA should be incentivized to bring that kind of dangerous behavior to an end.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the guys DC is suing owes the state of Maryland tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes, in cases that are years old. He's clearly not going to pay a dime, and a good lawyer is going to have a field day with this type of lawsuit.

If DC really wanted to crack down, it would not allow its own residents who owe thousands in speeding tickets to renew their licenses and registrations. But they're allowed to, because Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau think being poor is a valid excuse for being a dangerous driver.

DC is coming after MD/VA drivers - that's fine. How about coming after DC drivers, too?

THIS! There’s a woman in my DC neighborhood who gets speeding tickets every day. She parks her car illegally in our alley blocking trash pick up. Her first car had over 40k in tickets. Booted and towed after months of complaints. Literally days later, there was a new car parked in the alley. That tag got about 10k in daily speeding tickets, then she switched tags, and has over 30k on this third tag. All temp tags. DC knows who this woman is, where she lives, and where she parks her car, yet does absolutely nothing to stop her.

It’s ridiculous they think suing 3 Maryland residents should make us happy, when they’re not addressing criminally dangerous drivers who are right here in front of them.

If I were you, I would reach out to the MPD officer who does traffic enforcement in your ANC - contact your ANC commissioner to find out who that is, if need be - and work with them to deal with this. With your tip off, the officer should ticket the vehicle and then call DPW to have it towed immediately thereafter. Rinse and repeat until problem is solved.

That's what I would do - keep going up the chain until someone is accountable and takes action.

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Anonymous wrote:DC accused me being in a hit and run accident. They wanted me to bring my car down to dc police station so they can inspect it for damage. I didn't do it and told them they made a mistake. This went on for six months back and forth. Then my attorney said we are suing for fraud and extortion. When they got the judgement they called and said they made a mistake on the tags.

Yeah, this totally happened.

They told my attorney they fired the policewoman that falsely accused me. She may have been done other unethical things.

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They should make it mandatory for people to take a "drivers education" class prior to applying for a drivers license.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the guys DC is suing owes the state of Maryland tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes, in cases that are years old. He's clearly not going to pay a dime, and a good lawyer is going to have a field day with this type of lawsuit.

If DC really wanted to crack down, it would not allow its own residents who owe thousands in speeding tickets to renew their licenses and registrations. But they're allowed to, because Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau think being poor is a valid excuse for being a dangerous driver.

DC is coming after MD/VA drivers - that's fine. How about coming after DC drivers, too?

THIS! There’s a woman in my DC neighborhood who gets speeding tickets every day. She parks her car illegally in our alley blocking trash pick up. Her first car had over 40k in tickets. Booted and towed after months of complaints. Literally days later, there was a new car parked in the alley. That tag got about 10k in daily speeding tickets, then she switched tags, and has over 30k on this third tag. All temp tags. DC knows who this woman is, where she lives, and where she parks her car, yet does absolutely nothing to stop her.

It’s ridiculous they think suing 3 Maryland residents should make us happy, when they’re not addressing criminally dangerous drivers who are right here in front of them.

How do you obtain such info?

BTW, I love the show Parking Wars. Every state needs to boot law breakers.

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Dang! That’s a ton of money. I thought 15+ was reckless driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should make it mandatory for people to take a "drivers education" class prior to applying for a drivers license.

They already do. Unless you mean renewal. But seriously, who is going to speed excessively and park illegally during a driving test?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please, two attorneys bringing lawsuits against VA/MD residents is going to clog up DC courts even further and will be ignored. DC has only two employees that boot cars so they won't be doing much more with their expanded authority. Just another example of DC making a law with zero enforcement mechanisms.

Credible source for this? Any source at all?

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Anonymous wrote:Coincidence this happens right as Trump talks about home rule...

The STEER act went into affect last year. Sure Trump may claim credit for it and all other good things done by others - that’s the kind of thing he does.