Comments on: Father Clegg Offers Insight

By: jj

jj — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:26:56 +0000

OK folks, here’s the deal: YELLOW CURBS ARE ALL
NO PARKING AT ANY TIME. No matter where they are, that is what they mean. If you park on a yellow curb, you will get a $36 ticket in the city. The parks do not have a “parking office.” Therefore, if you park on a yellow curb in the parks, you will be towed. Yes, the curbs are faded and getting worse in town. You want to know who is responsible? ACHD has decided that it is too much trouble to keep up the painted curbs AND the stall marks in our city. If you want to complain, do so to the ACHD.
Mrs. Clegg is FAMOUS for abusing her privileges
at City Hall and until she got caught, parked in the city garage whilst going to her private business close to said City Hall. Apparently, she has taught her daughter well……”don’t bother daughter dear, I can get you out of trouble, after all, I am a Council Person.” Now she’s upset because her daughter BROKE the LAW and got caught. Monkey see, monkey do does not make it acceptable.
There is a FREE booklet from the DMV that clearly explains ALL the parking laws in this state.
Easy to read…..anyone can do it, even poor little Miss Clegg. I suggest she might learn to take responsibility for her actions. So should
MRS Clegg, who never HAD my vote in the first
place.
A City Hall person

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:36:03 +0000

Commenter #4, Ms Daniel, refered to the “heavy-handed policies” of the parks department. Well, why should they be any different from the BPD?

By: Sam the sham

Sam the sham — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:30:04 +0000

Gosh, I know we need to be kind, after all, parents do worry. However, if it were my child in this situation I would have very little influence with the city; so when Clegg uses the power of given by the public for a personal situation I think that it is unethical.
Lost my vote because I do not think your child’s situation is more important than anyone’s child. If there were more concern for all young drivers perhaps I would not see the ethical problem.

By: Shoogi

Shoogi — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:34:20 +0000

Mrs. Clegg must be an avid Guardian reader as she knew better than to express her concerns to the mayor’s office and went right to P&R. I would have loved to have read the response from “Queen Elizabeth”.

By: slim jim

slim jim — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:52:04 +0000

I agree with bike boy.
This may sound harsh, but a part of being a responsible driver is to learn to read the signs and obey them. If this were my daughter I would have been upset, but would have also let her see that next time she needs to look for and read any parking instructions – and pay attention to them. Bad law or not, it was posted to read and pay attention to.
I do hope that the Cleggs are not teaching their daughter that she is above the law, pay no attention to parking signs and this situation was not her fault, because it really was.

Perhaps we could let the parks become Boise’s parking lots. It has become the CITY OF CARS rather than the city of trees.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:42:01 +0000

Although I don’t believe that anyone questioned the Cleggs’ parenting abilities, it is re-assuring that the young lady had consequences for her bone head move. I believe the biggest problem was when Mama Clegg chose to register her displeasure in an official capacity. That was a no-no.

By: Mike Murphy...

Mike Murphy... — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:39:27 +0000

P.S.

Boise Parks not friendly?

Puh-Leeeese!

Go peddle that line of K-Rap to the sheep at some Pyramid Scheme (Ahem, I’m sorry: “Multi-Level Marketing”) meeting.

We’re friggin lucky to have the beautiful parks we have, maintained and operated by the great people of Parks and Rec’.

By: Mike Murphy...

Mike Murphy... — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:09:44 +0000

Narcissists (spare me) who illegally park their cars in parks, in fire lanes, bus lanes, blocking alleys, etc., don’t especially care about a truly nominal parking ticket; but they sure as hell care when their car is booted and / or towed.

Think they’re likely to do it again afterwards?

Not Bloody Likely!

Tow, tow, tow away I say.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:10:29 +0000

Yep, most places cops have the sense to look the other way during an event, unless the parked vehicle poses a clear and immediate danger — such as blocking egress from a fire station or something.
Of course, tow truck drivers aren’t cops; they generally will tow any vehicle they’re instructed to tow, no matter the reason or logic.
Yep, I could phone them and tell them to tow your car, and they probably would do it.

And, yes, I too would have parked there, figuring it must be OK during the events, or those other cars would all have tickets on them (or, now knowing Boise, would have been towed away).
Guess the tow guys waited until they had a good supply of victims before they started taking the cars.

In Emmett, the only time the cops are super strict about parking is when there’s going to be a parade. Then signs are put up every few feet saying no parking between such-and-such times. Then, when it’s close to parade time, a cop car cruises up and down the street, using a loudspeaker to announce repeatedly that cars on that street need to be moved before parade time.

The result: Of the dozens to hundreds of cars parked along the parade route, maybe one or two get towed because the drivers didn’t move them in time.

If a city wants to attract people to its events, it needs to accommodate them as best it can. Much better than, “Welcome to Boise. Hope you like it here, cuz you don’t have a car anymore.”

(Can’t help but feel the towing comes awfully close to car theft, though.)

By: dog

dog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:12:11 +0000

Dear Mr.&Mrs.Clegg,
I suggest you use your influence to promote the painting of curbs in Boise on a regular basis by Boise Juvenile Court charges so they can pay back their debt to society. I also propose that your daughter talk to the judge and propose that she paint it (with City supplied paint) herself, in lieu of a fine. Cars get ticketed almost everyday near where I work because the paint is faded. It sure is a money maker for the city.

EDITOR NOTE– Part of the issue here is there was no ticket, no fine–only a $140 tow.