This goes out to the park ranger at point pleasant park who could have been a nice guy but instead decided to be a complete asshole to my family and I. I’m fucking sorry that I didn’t see the sign that said I couldn’t walk my dog on the main path after ten am…maybe that’s because there were about 50 other people there with their dogs…not on the right path. But I even said I was sorry and didn’t see the sign and I was from out of town TO WHICH YOU FUCKING SAID “mam I don’t care if your from out of town I still give tickets to violators”. Jesus man come down off your high horse! Maybe you shouldn’t be driving on the walking trail! Oh and thanks for not giving us a map or telling us how to get back to the king lot using the dog trails when we asked…we got lost. So thanks for being of no help and going on a power trip…but remember its fucking tourist season and people make mistakes, get some fucking manners asshole.
—pissed off parker
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2009.
Yeah, I’m sure that was the first time the ranger had heard “I’m sorry”, “I didn’t see the sign” or “I’m from out of town”. Ignorance is no excuse. Him not providing you with proper directions to get back to your vehicle along the designated paths is a valid point, but the fact that you got a ticket for breaking the rules is your own fault.
He works at Point Pleasant dump. You’ve already won this battle.
Sieg Heil !
You have just been welcomed to Halifax…you are actually quite lucky, most people residents & visitors alike are frequently given lovely $25.00 tickets for having “gasp” parked their vehicle for a couple of minutes past the meters time limit !
Ever noticed in your life that you can take a usually very normal (so you believe) person & make them a hall monitor, or cross walk guard, security guard or commissionair & they turn into an absolute asshole with (In their mind anyway) the assertion that what they are doing is going to somehow PROTECT & HELP HUMANITY !Instead of actually being a pain in the ass/jerk.
They’re just pathetic control freaks that have no life, but please try to excuse their bully behavior & welcome from those of us who stay away from these assholes & their tiny fiefdoms as much as possible.
PS; come on out to the country, & enjoy the free parking, many small parks & back roads & friendly people .
Follow the rules and you will not get hassled. Perhaps a literacy course may help? I get a kick out of people like More who feel that anytime they get caught it is the establishment’s fault.
Perhaps the OP visited Hali expecting Nova Scotians to be the “friendly people” tourism Canada advertises them to be. OP, I’m sure you didn’t see a single fucking fiddle either. Congrats, you’ve been snowed.
Yeah Bobby, but it sounds like the guy was being a dick though. It is possible to politely (re)explain the rules while still writing out a ticket. Also, giving directions when asked would be a courtesy too…especially since the OP was trying to comply with the rules by taking the dog-paths out of the park.
I wonder where the OP is from that they know to bitch here about it? Maybe they happen to be one of the friendly Nova Scotians that don’t exist.
More: How is a parking enforcement officer supposed to know if you’ve been there a couple minutes after it expired or a couple hours? They see an expired meter, they write a ticket. That’s how it works.
Gotta agree with nevermind.
Any park patrol I’ve encountered, especially at Point Pleasant, have been assholes on a power trip.
While agree with the previous posts on the rules etc. I have to say that those “Park Rangers” are notorious for being absolute douchebags and have not one iota of intelligence nor any real sense. Consider this though…they are on the lowest level of a pretty moronic career path…not only are they too dumbscaredathletic enough to be an actual cop, they can’t even acquire a real security job…they have be lame losers that drive around in pickup trucks, on doggie bag patrol.
@Kay, yeah yeah yeah, we have heard your little song and dance what…about a MILLION times. Seriously…do you have that on your clipboard so you can cutpaste it on every post? Get a new tune and stop painting all of the East CoastHalifax with the same brush, you are worse than a broken record…at least the record finally wears out and stops fucking playing.
“they are on the lowest level of a pretty moronic career path…not only are they too dumbscaredathletic enough to be an actual cop, they can’t even acquire a real security job…they have be lame losers that drive around in pickup trucks”
Wow Der? – who are you to judge how someone makes a living? Not everyone can have some cool, glamourous job. A lot of people have to take whatever jobs they can to pay the bills and provide for their families – particularly in touch economic times.
Only an asshole judges a person based on their job.
***tough economic times.
ignorance of the law is never a defense..law enforcers are always deemed assholes when they apply the laws,this couple from away were wrong and i doubt if i would be afforded the same if i visited their city..relax and enjoy life
Bobby ##, If it was me I would have stuck his ticket up his ass, if he had attempted to touch me or hand me his BS. He would have had to get back-up, to give me a ticket…& exactly what would the ticket say ?
Ticket to male unidentified person.
You think for 1 second I would offer any information on my identity ?
The guy was being a DICK HEAD . When confronted with assholes, I become one as well. The woman along with others were walking in a park where some parts allow dogs & some don’t, it is easy to become confused or lost when one is unfamiliar with the place.
Anyone want to bet this dickhead would have been a little less confrontational, if instead of a woman, he was talkng to a large male ?
(At 6’1″ 118 kilo’s as of my last check up, I consider myself to be a large male)
Break the rules, pay the price, although the ranger didn’t have to be an a$$ about it. Oh and as far as getting a parking ticket for a couple minutes over the meter, give me a break, it’s the same anywhere in the world where they have parking meters…if not enforced, what would be the point…people would park at meters for days…try finding a spot then !
I’m still trying to figure out how the “50 other people there” prevented this woman from seeing a sign-Were all those people and their dogs standing in front of the sign? It is good to know though that, despite what my mom used to tell me, “But everyone else was doing it!” IS in fact a valid excuse for one’s own behaviour.
I found it hard and confusing when I took my dog there trying to figure out where I could be off leash and where I couldn’t. It could be more clearly marked.
DER, the OP says they’re from out of town. I want them to know people who have relocated here and “get it” are still stunned over the false-advertising of Tourism Canada. It wasn’t a cut & paste but, then again, you bitches haven’t changed my mind about the mean people here. If anything, DER, you reinforce the idea that friendly is far from the average Nova Scotian’s mind.
Kay….you ARE one of the mean people here.
Why do you always make the comments about bitches into something else?? Seriously I want to know….
I get that you have an opinion and that’s great but you really need to start writting your own bitches. This bitch is about park patrol, not mean haligonians. If you have a bitch about the meaness of people, or gays and lesbians, or the government, please, write your own bitch about it.
If every Nova Scotian that you have dealings with is mean then maybe the problem is you.
Give the ranger a fake name and address. You’re not legally obligated to give them ID. I do it all the time.
My name is Armand Rothschild and I live at 878 Queen St.
Wow….sounds like a vampire name. Do you suck blood?
I mean, does the fake you suck blood? 🙂
Hahaha, well, I do consider The Rothschilds to be nothing more than parasites so its very possible that I’m a blood-sucker to, MR lol
Well don’t worry about it, vampires seem pretty trendy these days, so it could be a good move 😛
Yeesh, I know! Zombies and ninjas, then pirates, now vampires! Next it’ll be were-hippos and samurai.
Sounds like he was professional talking to you. He called you ma’am and being from away doesn’t exonerate you from a ticket, no more so if a State Trooper caught me speeding on an interstate.
Some people actually enjoy the jobs they have, regardless of what we may think. I know a woman who works for Mickey Ds and loves it and has no intention to “better her lot in life”. It provides her with all her needs, so who the fuck are we to judge.
Meter readers know approximately how long you have been parked in one place, as they not only make note of a car that has an expired meter, but they will mark the tires with chalk (or the ground in front of tires) of the cars whose meters are close to expiring. This tactic tells them if the car has just expired or that it expired some time ago or if it has moved and come back. (In timed spaces, you may have noticed people going to their parked cars, moving ahead a few inches and then leaving again.) It is likely that reasonable ticket givers (the one’s that actually take the time to use the chalk) skip those that recently expired.
That said…
I once got stopped for speeding in Dartmouth, but I did not get a ticket, because when the officer asked me if I knew the speed limit, I answered no, and he admitted that there was no speed limit sign up to that point in the road. He was being fair. Yet, a few weeks later, I was stopped because an officer said I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt (which I was). He accused me of putting it on after I passed him (which I didn’t). I argued with him, and since there no proving it, he instead checked my inspection, and then (strangely) he asked me for my fishing license (I had my gear on the back seat). After I produced it, he asked me for my license, insurance card and registration. I didn’t have my license on me (I don’t take my wallet when fishing). He triumphantly wrote out my ticket. This had nothing do with me breaking the law, as we both knew that I was going to take my license into the station the next day and have the ticket voided. He simply would not back down–he had to make a statement about the power he had over me.
“Ignorance of the law excuses no man: Not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.” – John Selden
Also, I don’t really understand why people are shitting all over the job of park patrol. It’s a unionized position with good benefits and a decent pay scale, there are far worse things someone could be doing for a living that pay much less.
HKM, “…there was no speed limit sign…” Then the speed limit is 50 kph as is true on all Canadian highways without a max speed posting (see any driver’s handbook). He could have given you a speeding ticket anyway. He didn’t. Count yourself lucky that NS cop was having a good day knowing full well the ticket he issued would be void the next day (since the existence of your drivers license is tied to and verified by your car registration). As for the fishing tackle, you don’t need a permit to own the equipment… he was looking for illegal tobacco, drugs and guns but needed some legit reason to pull you over and look in your shit. Gotta love cops for being so dam straight-up with the big bad drivers out there.
ohnogogo, you should know it takes about 12 months to turn what once was a kind, trusting, HAPPY person into a Nova Scotian BITCH. Fuck you very much. Have a shitty day.
Kay: Your posts have never convinced anyone that you even have a modicum of intelligence, you bleat the same tired statements over and over again. It’s all rather tiresome and sad, at least you have stopped trying to reference real life situations to things you saw in movies (you DO remember when you used to do that don’t you…or have you conveniently forgotten that you had based all of your understanding of how things work on Nicholas Cage movies? I remember those posts….I am sure if I dug around I could find a copy, I passed them around the office and we all laughed our asses off)
Frankly I have never denied the fact that I can be an asshole…but it is never without instigation, I can actually be an exemplary individual when required and often I am so when unprovoked (it is my default attitude to be friendly, helpful and humorous).
Jennie I am not specifically attempting to judge any individuals that are forced to take any job just to put food on the table (they usually take a job like that temporarily and then move on to a better job as soon as is possible, most of the park rangers have been doing their sad game for a long time) , I AM judging the power tripping LOSERS that often take security jobs so that they can impose what little power they have on anyone that they can.
Also I am not defending the OP…the signs are pretty large and obvious…I am having a hard time understanding how they were missed, but I do know that the park rangers do not have the best approach when dealing with the public.
Kay- I have a novel idea..if you fucking hate it so much here then do something radical and MOVE! !Fuck lady, life is too fucking short to live in a place surrounded by people you loathe so much! If I was that fucking miserable in my surroundings I would find the money somehow and get the fuck out of Dodge!
DER? I don’t believe for one iota of a second you are an “exemplary individual” in any situation. Such people LEARN something when faced with new ideas. People like you just increase the size of the blinders on your face and continue to pretend you’re something you are not… if you want to talk “tiresome and sad” start there, bitch.
Laugh on. Nicholas Cage’s performance in Leaving Las Vegas provides a very real view into the life of an alcoholic hitting bottom. Nothing funny about that, dipshit. Most people with a “modicum of intelligence” don’t actually live the life but can identify with a fair-accurate interpretation so laugh on with your fellows er girls er whatever the fuck you think you are today.
Bobby33, I come to LTWWB for advice all the time. Sure. Now fuck off because your “novel” idea got old quite a while ago.
I’m here to do my part clean up the goddam mess backward/archaic/red neck thinking has created in this town… bring it into the 21st century. From racist firemen to competing police services… you can all just say THANK YOU when I’m done.
FYI;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8193180.…
enjoy,
I’m sure that you, being one person, will change the views and lifes of this entire city. You seem to think that people who share your values, opinions, whatever, are the majority in halifax. You’re wrong. I’ve never had the misfortune of meeting anyone like you, thank god. Your kind is going out of style and I can’t wait until there’s none of you left.
“Such people LEARN something when faced with new ideas. “
Because we all know how receptive Kay is to new ideas and opinions, especially those that aren’t hers.
Kay, let me know when you are done so I can say THANK YOU.
@Kay: Your previous antics here have only ever proven one thing…you are an idiot, and clearly people have noticed.
You may doubt whatever you want, I am sure you still doubt that the Earth revolves around the Sun…and not around you.
Kay you have spewed more ignorance here in one week than all of the bigoted firemen in all of Canada have in the past 10 years and I am certainly not condoning the fireman bigots…just making a point about your own ignorance.
Oh and the sanitized tripe “Leaving Las Vegas” in no way accurately portrays an alcoholic hitting rock bottom, you even saying that just shows everyone how acutely divorced from reality you really are. Anything produced in Hollywood by any of the major players is sanitized beyond belief….if you are adamant about applying your movies=real life theory…please stop by Video Difference and spend the next few months viewing some of the independently produced movies…rather than watching what equals to “Top 40” or “Easy Listening” in movies
Virgomom, you’re sorely mistaken; Kay is simply ahead of her time, like Galileo, Van Gogh, and Nicolas Cage. A sad victim of your times, you’re blind to true brilliance. We at LTWWB should be grateful to be in the presence of such unmitigated genius. Only when our minds have been truly blown will she melt away from this plane, leaving us to sob with regret. But fear not – she will return. As long as there are unfortunate sheep such as ourselves, we shall not be forsaken, and she will be with us even unto the last bitch.
Speaking of Nicholas Cage :)…
I have been trying to remember the name of the movie he starred in where he was a vampire, only he wasn’t. He was was just a man going around biting people.
Vampire’s Kiss.
I felt it was a really nuanced portrayal of a man who wasn’t really a vampire but was just going around biting people. The academy really missed the boat on that one.
Crap…don’t read Mole Rat’s comments until you have actually swallowed the coffee in your mouth.
DER, referencing unpopular independent releases is never a good way to support any point since NOBODY’S HEARD OF IT and cannot identify with the story… ya nit-pickin’ idiot. Yeah, that scene where the whore is bleeding from her ass in the shower after getting gang banged in the ass again and again and again is a real… what did you call it?… “sanitized” production. Watching a guy drink himself to death with purpose despite all kinds of supportive resources and people around him is an “unreal” view of alcoholism. You’re an ass. Look up the word ignorant… you won’t be finding any references to kay.
Stop thinking like a cow, DER. Not approving of your fucked up lifestyle and preventing my children from learning about it doesn’t make me the enemy. In all my posts I rally for freedom so you can go fuck yourself any time you like. How ’bout now?
There was nothing wrong with my original post, fool. Get over yourself. Do it soon. Got anything to say about the OB besides proving my point? Good. Fuck off.
No Kay…under the references Ignorant, Moron, Jackass, Obnoxious, Illiterate and Pathetic…it refers to the submission: Kaytard which of course has a picture of you next to it.
You what the scariest thing about you is? You have children…
and they’re all straight.
Boo!
I have had similarly grating experiences with Park Patrol in this city… When the fuck did productive tax payers have to worry about paying a fine for enjoying a piece of THEIR civic property that their tax dollars pay for? If I want to take a stroll in a park at 10:00 at night on a nice summer evening I’m gonna do it.
What kind of hell hole city has Halifax turned into?
Fuck you Park Patrol! Eat Shit!!!
Well gee my taxes pay for the police station and fire trucks too. Maybe I should be able to go into the police station anytime I wish and go through files, afterall I paid for them. And hell who wouldn’t want to drive a fire truck through the city with lights and siren on.
A park and a police station are two different things… even a simpleton like you, Bro Tim, must realize that. Or not, I don’t really care either way. If that’s the best comparison you can make then – well you’ve got the IQ that it takes to be on Halifax’s park patrol.
Gotta say thumbs-up to DER? here.
And Nicholas Cage is a fucking bum. Period.
Ok I wrote this and I didn’t get a ticket thats what I was saying…I told him clearly that I did NOT see a sign…but I wasn’t looking for one because there were tons of other people on the same path with their dogs but none of them were looking for paths elsewhere so I figured it was ok.
I don’t mind paying the price for doing something wrong but I simply had no idea. I can read just fine but when I finally looked around I could only see one sign that said you could NOT walk your dog on the main path after 10am. And thats fine if I had saw the sign I would have navigated my parents, boyfriend, self and overactive puppy to another path.
He was a jerk about it and thats what I was saying. He didn’t need to be rude…being polite goes a long way. I was nice to him so he shouldn’t have been so rude to me and I stand by that.
I used to live here and thats how I knew about the Coast, I only just got a dog and came into the city for the day and had to take her somewhere to walk. It was a simple mistake and I felt like I was being screamed at for stealing a car.
Thanks all.