Anonymous wrote:Why not just call park services and report them?

They don't do anything about people who park illegally, they spend their time harassing legal residents.

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Does this mean he's collecting his Army pension while also collecting $150K+ as an SES?

It depends. This is allowed but as a civilian employee you can defer your military pension and count your time-in-service towards your civilian pension. It just depends on the individual circumstances driving the math.

also depends on your age whether you can draw your pension.

I have worked as a Schedule C with a lot of tools as fellow appointees. There is just something about someone who gives up so much of his or her own life in order to "make it" into an appointee position that lends itself to toolishness, I think. I liked my job but I kept it in perspective. A lot of people let it get to their heads and thought they were greater than everybody else. Plus, they had to work such long hours, that their lives sort of became myopic and they certainly lost touch with reality, patting themselves on the back for knowing such arcania and being such sticklers for details that "no one else knew." I absolutely can see a person like this thinking they were the self-appointed traffic cop on the block, and taking it extreeeeeeeemely way too seriously.

Why not just call park services and report them?

This story was on the Today show today. I hope the idiot gets canned.

Does this mean he's collecting his Army pension while also collecting $150K+ as an SES?

It depends. This is allowed but as a civilian employee you can defer your military pension and count your time-in-service towards your civilian pension. It just depends on the individual circumstances driving the math.

Anonymous wrote:I'd be worried he had a brain tumour. It seems like a sudden change in behaviour. Is it possible he hid his nuttiness all these years? I guess it is but unlikely. His wife must be freaking out.

If you've seen the movie "the Beach" with Dicaprio, it reminds me of when he started to go mad and was visualizing himself in a video game... this is probably what this guy was doing with his parking enforcement.

Or an alcoholic.

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Anonymous wrote:What I found more disturbing is that the guy doesn't even live on the same street facing block as the family. They share an alley, but he appears to be on another street on the other side of their city block. So basically he was stalking all the other adjoining streets to find abusers of the VPP? Utterly bizarre.

I'd "get it" if the nanny was parking in "his" spot everyday. But she didn't even park on his street. How weird.

Honestly, it sounds racially motivated.

That was my first thought as well- why is this bugging him so much?

My second thought was - why is he home all the time during the day?

Did you read the WAPO article? He is retired.

In that role, his LinkedIn page says, the retired Army officer “personally advises the Secretary of Defense and senior leadership on the public impact of proposed policies, programs, operations, and activities of the Department.”

He's not retired, as in home all day puttering in the garden. He is "retired military," which means he is no longer in the Army. He is employed by the DoD in a civilian job.

Does this mean he's collecting his Army pension while also collecting $150K+ as an SES?

I'd be worried he had a brain tumour. It seems like a sudden change in behaviour. Is it possible he hid his nuttiness all these years? I guess it is but unlikely. His wife must be freaking out.

If you've seen the movie "the Beach" with Dicaprio, it reminds me of when he started to go mad and was visualizing himself in a video game... this is probably what this guy was doing with his parking enforcement.

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Anonymous wrote:The nanny has VA tags. I know.

The weirdest thing about this is that she continues to work for the family and the crazy neighbor is still RIGHT THERE. Is he supposed to only walk to the right when leaving his house? The poor lady must be so stressed.

And my DH would be so gone if he pulled this. . .

You have NO idea if this man's wife wasn't gossiping or complaining about the nanny's car or the parking situation to him. We do not know if his wife knew what he was up to or not.

Spouses tend to discuss things.

And until the news divulges the nanny had VA tags it really does not matter that you "know". She still had a parking permit to be there and was not staying over night. Citizens on patrol do not trump the rules if they are being followed. Not sure why people cannot accept this.

Pp here -- I also think the nanny wasn't doing anything wrong, just confirming to an earlier poster that the nanny doesn't have DC plates.

If my DH told me that he was going to be spending time during the day documenting parking passes, I would have recommended that he find a better hobby, or maybe even just tell him to go talk with the police and parking permit people. I have a hard time believing a wife (with a military background) would encourage her husband (with a security clearance) to break the law himself by stealing the tags.

How could he not have thought some of the houses might have had security cameras? Or someone may have seen him?

It's a very quiet street in a quiet part of the neighborhood. Although I think there are security cameras on a nearby building.

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Anonymous wrote:What I found more disturbing is that the guy doesn't even live on the same street facing block as the family. They share an alley, but he appears to be on another street on the other side of their city block. So basically he was stalking all the other adjoining streets to find abusers of the VPP? Utterly bizarre.

I'd "get it" if the nanny was parking in "his" spot everyday. But she didn't even park on his street. How weird.

Honestly, it sounds racially motivated.

That was my first thought as well- why is this bugging him so much?

My second thought was - why is he home all the time during the day?

Did you read the WAPO article? He is retired.

In that role, his LinkedIn page says, the retired Army officer “personally advises the Secretary of Defense and senior leadership on the public impact of proposed policies, programs, operations, and activities of the Department.”

He's not retired, as in home all day puttering in the garden. He is "retired military," which means he is no longer in the Army. He is employed by the DoD in a civilian job.

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Anonymous wrote:What I found more disturbing is that the guy doesn't even live on the same street facing block as the family. They share an alley, but he appears to be on another street on the other side of their city block. So basically he was stalking all the other adjoining streets to find abusers of the VPP? Utterly bizarre.

I'd "get it" if the nanny was parking in "his" spot everyday. But she didn't even park on his street. How weird.

Honestly, it sounds racially motivated.

That was my first thought as well- why is this bugging him so much?

My second thought was - why is he home all the time during the day?

Did you read the WAPO article? He is retired.

In that role, his LinkedIn page says, the retired Army officer “personally advises the Secretary of Defense and senior leadership on the public impact of proposed policies, programs, operations, and activities of the Department.”

Um, he retired from the Army in which he served as an officer. He is now a civilian employee of DOD in the SES.

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Anonymous wrote:The nanny has VA tags. I know.

The weirdest thing about this is that she continues to work for the family and the crazy neighbor is still RIGHT THERE. Is he supposed to only walk to the right when leaving his house? The poor lady must be so stressed.

And my DH would be so gone if he pulled this. . .

You have NO idea if this man's wife wasn't gossiping or complaining about the nanny's car or the parking situation to him. We do not know if his wife knew what he was up to or not.

Spouses tend to discuss things.

And until the news divulges the nanny had VA tags it really does not matter that you "know". She still had a parking permit to be there and was not staying over night. Citizens on patrol do not trump the rules if they are being followed. Not sure why people cannot accept this.

Pp here -- I also think the nanny wasn't doing anything wrong, just confirming to an earlier poster that the nanny doesn't have DC plates.

If my DH told me that he was going to be spending time during the day documenting parking passes, I would have recommended that he find a better hobby, or maybe even just tell him to go talk with the police and parking permit people. I have a hard time believing a wife (with a military background) would encourage her husband (with a security clearance) to break the law himself by stealing the tags.

How could he not have thought some of the houses might have had security cameras? Or someone may have seen him?

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Anonymous wrote:The nanny has VA tags. I know.

The weirdest thing about this is that she continues to work for the family and the crazy neighbor is still RIGHT THERE. Is he supposed to only walk to the right when leaving his house? The poor lady must be so stressed.

And my DH would be so gone if he pulled this. . .

You have NO idea if this man's wife wasn't gossiping or complaining about the nanny's car or the parking situation to him. We do not know if his wife knew what he was up to or not.

Spouses tend to discuss things.

And until the news divulges the nanny had VA tags it really does not matter that you "know". She still had a parking permit to be there and was not staying over night. Citizens on patrol do not trump the rules if they are being followed. Not sure why people cannot accept this.

Pp here -- I also think the nanny wasn't doing anything wrong, just confirming to an earlier poster that the nanny doesn't have DC plates.

If my DH told me that he was going to be spending time during the day documenting parking passes, I would have recommended that he find a better hobby, or maybe even just tell him to go talk with the police and parking permit people. I have a hard time believing a wife (with a military background) would encourage her husband (with a security clearance) to break the law himself by stealing the tags.

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Anonymous wrote:What I found more disturbing is that the guy doesn't even live on the same street facing block as the family. They share an alley, but he appears to be on another street on the other side of their city block. So basically he was stalking all the other adjoining streets to find abusers of the VPP? Utterly bizarre.

I'd "get it" if the nanny was parking in "his" spot everyday. But she didn't even park on his street. How weird.

Honestly, it sounds racially motivated.

That was my first thought as well- why is this bugging him so much?

My second thought was - why is he home all the time during the day?

Yes, that was my second thought, as well. How the hell is someone so high level telecommuting so much?!? Is he actually working?
If anything, I think mismanagement/fraud of reported working hours is what will get him sacked.

Wouldn't he be entitled to vacation or personal days? And couldn't some of these events have taken place on a weekend?

All the incidents happened on weekdays in the month of April during the daytime. Highly unlikely he was using PTO over several weeks.
This idiot better have every hour tracked and accounted for work-wise. They will nail him for telecommuting fraud, I guarantee it.

My husband's first thought when I told him about this last night was "that guy is gonna get nailed for timesheet fraud." Is it possible he was on leave for all of these days? Sure, but it's unlikely. Methinks dude was probably "working from home" while patrolling his neighborhood instead.