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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by pertsix »

Aloisius wrote: post #290
geor9e wrote: post #246

"each possible ticket number follows a pattern: add 11, except add 4 if the last digit is 6…Only God knows why" That pattern feels suspiciously like how a tacked-on modulo check-digit would act. It seems the real citation number, x, excludes the last digit, and you only needed to +1 increment to it. Then they tack on a last digit, a check-digit, of (x+1) mod 7. That would be the same pattern. The contract for the sys…

It's just x % 7. They started their example pattern with an citation number 984,946,606 they earlier said wasn't valid rather than 984,946,605 given initially (and shown in the image).

But why?

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Spivak »

apsurd wrote: post #289
Lammy wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Have I misunderstood? It doesn't count the glass shop bill when the fire fighters gleefully fuck up your car to run the hose between the side windows.

Gleefully? because they should express remorse and handle your car with care vs you know, putting out that fire?

Brother in law is a firefighter, gleefully is exactly the correct term here. According to him getting to bust windows to run the hose is literally their favorite thing to do. To the point where even if they don't actually need to, or it would be slower, they'll still do it. It's apparently a matter of principle.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Aloisius »

pertsix wrote: post #291
Aloisius wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just x % 7. They started their example pattern with an citation number 984,946,606 they earlier said wasn't valid rather than 984,946,605 given initially (and shown in the image).

But why?

Just a mistake, I imagine. Probably just typed the pattern out starting with the last number they wrote, which unfortunately was invalid.

> I was looking at ticket 984,946,605. When I type in 1 higher, 984,946,606, no ticket is found. ... So the ticket after 984,946,606 is actually 984,946,610

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by toast0 »

OJFord wrote: post #280
Lammy wrote: post #7

Love the leaderboard feature. Relevant fee breakdown: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

Seems weird to me (from nowhere near SF) that some of the cheapest things to do are to block fire stations, fire hydrants and 'fire lanes' (I assume that's like a bus lane but for fire engines, in places that's common enough for whatever reason, like right by a fire station?) - wheelchair/disability related stuff is much more penalised, but even all sorts of other 'regular' mis-parking seems for some reason slightly…

> 'fire lanes' (I assume that's like a bus lane but for fire engines, in places that's common enough for whatever reason, like right by a fire station?)

Fire lanes are not express lanes for fire engines. They're more like reserved parking for fire engines only. Typically the curb is painted red, and you'll see markings 'no parking - fire lane'. I think of these showing up in parking lots everywhere you're not allowed to park.

Most of the parking violations are about the same level of fine. There's tiers, really big fines are for using disabled placards inappropriately, pretty big for blocking disabled parking, then blocking busses, abandoning vehicles, defaced license plate, no registration, blocking bike, then kind of everything else.

Fire lanes fit in the everything else, but they probably get more enforcement, so the low per instance fees add up if you are highly likely to be ticketted if you park in a red zone.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by apsurd »

Spivak wrote: post #292
apsurd wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gleefully? because they should express remorse and handle your car with care vs you know, putting out that fire?

Brother in law is a firefighter, gleefully is exactly the correct term here. According to him getting to bust windows to run the hose is literally their favorite thing to do. To the point where even if they don't actually need to, or it would be slower, they'll still do it. It's apparently a matter of principle.

As not a fire fighter, I agree!

I suppose I took OP to say gleefully as if it was uncalled for. But maybe it's what you said and they're just on the inside. Good to know all around.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by bee_rider »

Spivak wrote: post #292
apsurd wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gleefully? because they should express remorse and handle your car with care vs you know, putting out that fire?

Brother in law is a firefighter, gleefully is exactly the correct term here. According to him getting to bust windows to run the hose is literally their favorite thing to do. To the point where even if they don't actually need to, or it would be slower, they'll still do it. It's apparently a matter of principle.

I think apsurd interpreted Lammy’s post as a complaint, like the firefighters are too gleeful.

Then apsurd is pointing out that there’s no reason to complain, and they shouldn’t waste time with remorse.

I don’t think Lammy actually meant it as a complaint, though, which ended up making apsurd’s correction confusing.

Anyway, I think everyone in the thread agreed: park in front of the fire hydrant and nobody feels bad but you as you get your window smashed. Broad anti-fire consensus.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by malux85 »

In my early career NZ traffic cops used to walk around with a Bluetooth printer strapped to their belt, that would print the tickets.

I purchased a long range (I think 400m) Bluetooth dongle and with a bit of bash scripting we could continuously sweep the local area and then go out and move our cars, we tried pairing to the printers too but they had passkeys and we couldn’t, but they still had whatever broadcasting was active so we could at least detect them.

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