tonyz
05-27-2013, 10:22
How some European bureaucrats respond to night-after-night of street violence.
This story does not fit in the terror thread nor the war with Islam thread - but it does tend to illustrate a real state of denial (and level of helplessness) by big government European bureaucrats.
Is this bureaucracy gone wild?
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”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.
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Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns
Publicerat den 24 maj 2013 kl 11:19
STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). Owners of cars destroyed in the riots fined for parking illegally while police adopt non-intervention policy.
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Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.
When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.
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http://www.friatider.se/parking-tickets-issued-on-wrecks-while-stockholm-burns
This story does not fit in the terror thread nor the war with Islam thread - but it does tend to illustrate a real state of denial (and level of helplessness) by big government European bureaucrats.
Is this bureaucracy gone wild?
<snip>
”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.
<Snip>
Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns
Publicerat den 24 maj 2013 kl 11:19
STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). Owners of cars destroyed in the riots fined for parking illegally while police adopt non-intervention policy.
<snip>
Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.
When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.
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http://www.friatider.se/parking-tickets-issued-on-wrecks-while-stockholm-burns