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“Do you know who I am?”
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“Do you know who I am?”
More importantly, do you know what he is?
While out and about, overnight Quincy Quarry News personnel happened upon a City of Quincy Department of Public Works city ride parked in the no parking fire lane in front of the supermarket on Southern Artery Thursday evening during roughly the dinner break for second shift workers at the DPW.
So what, apparently, for the fact the supermarket is but a couple of very short blocks away from the Quincy Police Department headquarters as well as a not much further walk from the DPW’s office building and corporation yard.
While taking a break is only reasonable, parking in a fire lane in violation of fire safety codes is not, not to mention baiting fair questions about apparently using a city ride for personal business, especially as WBZ Channel 4 previously called DPW workers, including one of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s brothers-in-law, for doing so.
Further problematic, while violating local fire codes by parking illegally the supermarket’s parking lot was all but empty.
“Attention shoppers: Blue Light special on Aisle 3!”
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Even more gobsmacking, the Department of Public Works worker was surreptitiously tailed while he was in the store and was so seen to not have bought anything.
Then again, when one has unrestricted use of a late model year mid-five figure four-wheel drive city ride with a light bar, one apparently can do whatever he wants to do with his city ride even if at local taxpayers’ expense.
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Well, it’s good to know the laws of parking don’t apply to everyone. Maybe next time I’ll just slap a DPW sticker on my car and park wherever I please too. Who needs those pesky rules anyway, right?
Don’t forget the city picks up all the shopping carriages throughout the city — Stop & Shop, Target, Walmart, etc — and returns them so as to clear local sidewalks and such.
John,
I can’t speak for you but Cart Rescue — not city employees — keep hauling away my mobile homes.
Jamie,
Even better, put a Koch for Quincy bumpsticker on your ride. Better yet, drop $500 or more annually on the Koch campaign fund to score a “free” city tree in front of your house, see potholes filled on your street, and be able to drive like a masshole with impunity.
Suppose you are married with two kids and accidentally downloaded ransomware while “watching” hardcore gay porn on a city computer. In that case, you might feel compelled to park illegally so as to more quickly obtain Amazon gift cards to pay a Ukrainian hacker to unlock the department’s computer. Not all emergencies require cops, firetrucks and/or ambulances!