Thursday, December 20, 2007

What we have here, is a failure to …

More than 500 parking meters stolen in Atlanta

What the heck!? How do you steal 546 parking meters?

City officials say crooks sawed off 546 parking meters this year —39 percent of all the meters in the city, at a total loss of $273,000.

Because it happens so often, the city does not report meter muggers to police, said Tenee Hawkins, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Works.

"If they don't report it to us, we don't investigate it," said Ron Campbell, a spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department.


I get it. You do it one at a time and the city never, ever reports the theft so there’s never, ever an investigation.

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