"Royce Brown" wrote in message
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"Dave Stadt" writes:

It's not like the car owner is completely innocent here. She had tickets
that were unpaid.

$300 worth of parking tickets is chump change if you live in a major city,
especially one like Chicago where they're a major source of revenue.

She was traveling overseas so it's not like she was part
of the "poor and elderly" the press tried to slant the story toward.

Traveling overseas does not imply "lives of the rich and famous." She was a
bloody missionary, probably making no more than the cost of living in
Guatemala or whatever third-world mudhole she was in.

This sort of scam is by definition going to screw poor people the worst.
Anyone who is middle or upper-class will find a way to cough up the cash to
get the car out of hock.

While the price was a little steep if it has been going on for years she
should have known better.

No, the government should not be allowed to do this, period. This is such
obvious crookedness it makes me almost physically ill. Garnish her wages,
put her in jail, whatever, but taking your car and basically giving it to a
campaign contributor to auction off is ridiculous. Daley should be in jail.

-cwk.