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Los Angeles is now home to 1.5 seasons!

I really miss living someplace, where to experience winter, you need to drive up into the Mountains. Then we used to go camping up near 10.000 ft. and had to worry about chance of Blizzards in July. Once just barely made it over Kaiser Pass, on way home due to snow, that had been rain where we camped at Bear Creek.

Also loved that all my bulbs bloomed in Feb. and the roses bloomed all year.

Oh, and then there is this. Man receives $128 ticket for warming up car in his own driveway



The person who got the ticket called the officer a "dip****" on facebook after finding it. So what does the police chief do? Takes the high road, of course...



I've only been driving for something like... 18 years in Michigan. And turning on my car every morning to heat it up and melt the ice before driving to work has been the routine for the last 12 or 13 of them.

In SF we have three seasons: rain, fog and fire.

Rain, smog and fireworks here.

It's such a public safety issue that the officer chose to issue a ticket, while not actually doing anything to resolve said public safety issue. Like, say, walk up to the door of the house which belongs to the driveway the car is parked in and knocking and letting the person know his car is unsafe? Issue a ticket if you want, but if you don't also resolve the supposed safety issue, then it's not really about safety. It's about collecting fines. I suppose it would be one thing if the car is parked on a street, or in a parking lot (the real focus of laws like this btw, since that's where most of the thefts occur, and where the need to leave the car running unattended is lowest), but when it's parked in someone's driveway and thus you should have a pretty darn good idea who's house the car belongs too? That is kind of a dipshit move IMO.



Yeah. I'm not sure what they expect people to do otherwise. Just seems like a cheap and easy way to pad the departments funding with some fines. You could probably do a sweep of any residential neighborhood between about 7-9 AM and toss as many of these tickets on car windows as you wanted.

Again, the intent of those laws is to try to reduce the amount of police effort and expense dealing with cars stolen in parking lots because their owners left them running with the keys in them "just for a minute while I ran into the store to get a paper", or some such nonsense. I honestly have no clue why people do that, but I've personally seen it done probably hundreds of times (work in a convenience store with gas and you'll see this constantly), and have seen several cars stolen because of it. So I get why the police get frustrated at this, and I get why they support laws like this. But to use that in a residential zone, and in someone's driveway? Seems like a huge stretch and a ridiculous interpretation of the letter of the law.

But can you see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

Ten years of glasses free freedom before your eyes fall out just doesn't seem worth it to me.

You'd understand if you had been wearing glasses/contacts since 2nd grade. It's a pretty big deal.

Don't do it, it's a trap.

Last eye exam, I was told I'm developing cataracts and will someday need to have them removed. Then I hope to finally have 20/20 vision again. My dad had the surgery for cataracts and then no longer needed this glasses. Unlike back when my grandmother had the surgery and needed special glasses that limited her vision to a very narrow field of view.

Find a track of screaming children on Youtube and play it the next time they call and make up a story about how you're busy curing meat or something gruesome. Then when the police come by explain to them you got tired of explaining how the school has the wrong number and got tired of the harassment.