Revenue

As I'm heading out to move my car for monthly street cleaning, I see something hanging off my driver's side window. Ooo, I wonder what event/venue decided to make me aware of their existence? Alas, an invalid question. The brightly colored object was yet another request for money from Chicago. And by request for money, I mean ticket...of which three unpaid ones result in the boot. (Only reason I knew about the boot is because I read the fine print trying to figure out how to contest the ticket.)


Note how this guy couldn't find anything actually wrong with my parking, so he ventured down to the "other" violation line and proceeded to write something in. Cool, thanks dude. On top of that, the ticket was timed at 2:30. Military time. Double cool. Oh, and the only way my plate's not legible is if you're not looking at it.

And where do I go to pay said ticket? "Cityofchicago.org/revenue" Sure, tickets are something to be associated with having a car in the city. This one's a bit more ridiculous than the others though. At least I got a decent chuckle out of it...I actually laughed out loud when I read this one.