Big Frog II
Active Member
Only a few. My father was not happy. I went to the TCU Police Dept. and talked my way out of 1 or 2 and payed the 1 or 2 left.
What’s the going rate these days for a tickets?
@RollToad wants lessons on riding a bikeMy Junior year, I bought a motorcycle from my older brother. I rode that thing to class everyday, and would park it RIGHT by the front door of whatever bldg my class was in. Got a ticket (or 3) just about every single day. Some days, I'd pull an old ticket out of my backpack and put it under the windscreen so I wouldn't get another that day. Sometimes that worked, sometimes it didn't. Since my brother had attended TCU as well, the bike had an expired TCU parking sticker and was registered in his name in their system when the TCU cops ran the plates. He had already graduated, so there was no risk of any negative repercussions for him. When I graduated and was packing up my stuff to move out of my house, I had a stack of tickets that was at least 4 inches high. I never counted them, but there must have been a couple hundred.
You award zero points for creative problem-solving solutions?I don't find much humor in this at all. In fact, I've spent a lot of my time recently vetting potential employees for their attention to details and respect for laws/rules and personal accountability. If you aren't disciplined in the "small" stuff it calls into question how disciplined you may be in more important stuff when the pressure's on. Who knows? Maybe you'll get nailed for needlessly targeting a QB in a crucial spot in a game when a bowl game is on the line. There's a reason that the Raiders used some of their precious minutes asking about minutiae like this.
I don't find much humor in this at all. In fact, I've spent a lot of my time recently vetting potential employees for their attention to details and respect for laws/rules and personal accountability. If you aren't disciplined in the "small" stuff it calls into question how disciplined you may be in more important stuff when the pressure's on. Who knows? Maybe you'll get nailed for needlessly targeting a QB in a crucial spot in a game when a bowl game is on the line. There's a reason that the Raiders used some of their precious minutes asking about minutiae like this.
You award zero points for creative problem-solving solutions?
He was accountable. He chose to use HIS money to simply pay the tickets instead. It was a cost/benefit analysis, and he chose the benefits of convenient parking outweighed the costs. It's not like he's bitching that he was "unfairly" ticketed, or entitled to better parking or anything like that. I see no issues with it.I award negative points for lack of personal accountability and cavalier attitudes toward rules and regulations. Here's the creative solution -- if you don't want to park according to regulations, walk to campus. Award even more negative points for those who appear to think that they are more important than others because of who they are. Have more than a handful of former colleagues who wish they'd have learned that before losing their jobs, in a couple of cases their freedom for a while, and a not insignificant amount of money.
I award negative points for lack of personal accountability and cavalier attitudes toward rules and regulations. Here's the creative solution -- if you don't want to park according to regulations, walk to campus. Award even more negative points for those who appear to think that they are more important than others because of who they are. Have more than a handful of former colleagues who wish they'd have learned that before losing their jobs, in a couple of cases their freedom for a while, and a not insignificant amount of money.
Parking laws are a construct of the anglo male. Fight the power, man!
I award negative points for lack of personal accountability and cavalier attitudes toward rules and regulations. Here's the creative solution -- if you don't want to park according to regulations, walk to campus. Award even more negative points for those who appear to think that they are more important than others because of who they are. Have more than a handful of former colleagues who wish they'd have learned that before losing their jobs, in a couple of cases their freedom for a while, and a not insignificant amount of money.