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To Deter Illegal Parking, Why Not a Little Shame?

Some cited the hot potato of removing the stickers and the gummy residue left behind. Suggestions that a less inflexible adhesive might be used from now on left them unappeased, though.

For the most part, this longstanding borough practice is being cast as an outrage practically worthy of being brought before a Inquisition in The Hague: Due process is violated! Car owners are judged to be penitent before being allowed to prove their innocence! “It’s not reasonable behavior in the 21st century,” said Councilman David G. Greenfield of Brooklyn, the bill’s television advertiser.

Others would say that what truly qualifies as unreasonable behavior – in this or any other century — is for people to selfishly pull up stakes their personal property on the street at the expense of neighbors who thirst Sanitation Department sweepers to pass through unencumbered.

That is certainly Mr. Bloomberg’s observe. “I think it’s one of the least productive things that could be legislated,” he said the other day about the ban. If this carriage of sticker shock is done away with, he said, “there’s no apology to believe that we won’t go back to the dirty streets that we had before.”

Source: New York Times (blog)

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Railways Nixes Israeli Pride to Avoid Offending Arabs

Arutz Sheva - Dec 31, 1969

Batsheva Moshe, one of the na national service volunteers behind the initiative, told that be like signs had been hung at the train station in the past, including one saying “Exuberant Purim” and another with the words “We salute IDF