The Real "Dear Public Safety"

Over the past few weeks Public Safety has gone ape shit giving me three tickets. After the latest I got to speak with a Public Safety officer right after he threw it on my car and I learned some fascinating information. Today I decided it was time to fight back and give my own piece of mind so I sent in my appeal. Ass.holes.

"I have been very cooperative with all my citations in the past even when I have even more legitimate grounds for appeal and I have to say that this is getting a little out of hand.

The first I got for parking in D lot saying "Other than Assigned Lot" which is confusing considering that there is a sign saying that I can park in that lot from 730 am to 12 am. What it doesn't specify on that sign and I would otherwise not know if I didn't drive past the red lined spaces is that I, as a commuter, can't park in the yellow lined spaces and I can only park in the red lined spaces.

There are only two rows of those red lines for me to choose from which only amounts to a very small amount of spaces in D Lot for commuters to use. The signs on the red spots say something along these lines "Commuter Parking Only in Red Lined Spots", which when read and comprehended can mean one of two things, either that only commuters can park in those spots during the specified time, or commuters can only park in those spots. That is what I assumed and it made sense to me because we honestly don't have that much to work with in the commuter lots and during peak hours (especially when there was a fair amount of snow everywhere) B Lot and the other lots fill up really quickly.

That was the first ticket I got and I should've been more forthcoming with telling you guys to fuck right off because it's honestly a little ridiculous that you would nail me because your sign policies are absolutely and incoherently stupid. Now that my car is "hot" as some Public Safety Officer told me just minutes after he slapped me with the violation, they are constantly checking the lots for my car (as well as others). If I'm parked too far over a yellow line somewhere (Well in the lots where I can actually park in the yellow lines)then I am more apt to get a ticket.

What if the guy who I had to park next to was a total douche and went over his line so I had to compensate by doing the same? You will probably just say, "you should've found a different spot to avoid this problem".

I don't think you take into account what a commuter might actually be doing at night considering that I, as a cinema student have access to the lab in Abrams Hall 24 Hours a day. I have that luxury yet I don't have the ability to actually park anywhere so I can take advantage of it. This semester, being my final and most difficult, calls for many long nights in the lab editing until the sun comes up in many cases.

Now you will say "Well you should've registered your car on campus to stay the night then". So say I did, and I wasted 25 minutes of mine and somebody else’s time you would just tell me to park in C lot anyway (the lot I got the ticket I am actually appealing).

Honestly I don't park in places intending to make things difficult for anyone, or to try and break the system, I merely just don't understand your broken attempt at a system.

It’s sad that I started writing this appeal in the Public Safety office but then moved my car because I was afraid that maybe I would get a ticket for exceeding the 15 minute time limit I have allotted in the spots in front of the building.

In the future at the start of the night I will have people register my car for the evening so that I don’t run into this problem, but it would be nice if you used a little leniency in at least taking this citation away or at least dropping it down to an overnight charge that I’ve gotten for parking at Konover. I don’t understand why I would have to pay more to park in C lot, then in Konover lot, but hey, most of what you guys do doesn’t make sense."