So I have to appear in court about my truck being parked on the sidewalk … I have parked my truck next to my house on the sidewalk for years … It started with the bread truck, and then when I got the box truck that took its place … Never had a problem except the occasional ticket that I paid and didn’t mind paying because I felt much safer with the truck parked right outside … When this CLIP program started in Philadelphia, one of my illustrious neighbors felt it was their part to call in my parking the truck on the sidewalk … There was even a period there where I got a ticket every day … I can’t remember if that was before the CLIP program, but we got word back that someone up the block had a bug up their butt about me parking the truck where I have for years … Eventually, I was served a notice that I had to “Cease maintaining a private parking area” and I had to move my truck … I had 10 days to comply or something … So for a couple weeks I parked the truck outside of my sister-in-law’s house … When that blew over, I just started parking the truck back where I always had, on the sidewalk … This last violation to “Cease maintaining a private parking area” was a summons to appear in court …
So I go to court … and explain all this … that I have not constructed anything to maintain a private parking area, and that I simply park on the sidewalk … I said that I would move the truck, and I paid $48 court fees … Our government hard at work …