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Worcester Sheriff pulls parking fee prank here
Trying to save $15 can be embarrassing
Worcester County Sheriff My Guy Glodis (on right)had the entire weekend to produce a semi-plausible excuse for his embarrassing attempt to park at a Cape Cod beach for nothing, which is probably how he came up with this cute answer when I asked why he didn’t just pony up the $15 fee like everyone else.
"I guess,” he said yesterday, “it’s because I’m as frugal with my own money as I am with the taxpayers’.”
Ha. Nice try, My Guy. But I fear that the cause of his behavior is symptomatic of a condition far more serious than frugality.
My Guy, alas, has been struck by the Sheriff of Nottingham Syndrome (SONS), a highly contagious and progressive disease that afflicts members of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Department and is characterized by an uncontrollable urge to be treated differently from everybody else...
The T&G story goes on to say that the sherrif's rude conduct was first reported by Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr. My Guy and his family had gone to Corporation Beach in Dennis Aug. 13 and was told by the young girl manning the booth that it cost $15 to park. At that point, according to a report later filed by Dennis police, My Guy flashed his badge and told her he worked for the state. The girl, apparently unfamiliar with the symptoms of SONS, repeated that the parking fee was $15.
According to the police report, My Guy then responded, “I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not parking. I work for the state.” He then drove into the parking lot, parked, went to the beach and was slapped with a $50 ticket after police on routine patrol were informed that a driver had parked without paying.
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Cops used to flash badges to get intoevents all the time. My boss was adamant that we never refuse a cop entry for free. "We used to do it.... they come after you on your spare time for it."
Once I started digging around, I found out that about two years before, a cop was refused admittance. He then went to the employee lot and ticketed every car. The tickets were repealed, but each and every person had to go to the courthouse in order to get their ticket repealed.
Then came the cop's ignoring when we'd call them for help, ie street fights outside the Centrum, drug dealers, etc... My boss learned his lesson, and cops quite likely still get into every Centrum event for free.
"My girlfriend told me to kiss her where it smells... so I took her to Worcester." Mark Parentau
Similar example of tickets written at
annoyingparkingticket.blogspot.com
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