White Plains Calls Parking Truce with Marines

According to the AP, the city of White Planes NY and the US Marines Corps has signed a truce, but it may be an uneasy one. The Marines’ recruiting staff have run up a bill of $90,000 in unpaid parking tickets. The problem is that the Few, The Proud, etc say that it is up to the individual law breaker to fess up, and naturally with rotation and all, most of the folks who were driving the Corps owned vehicles are now off fighting in Iraq or whatever.

So they nailed the hapless leatherneck who is there now and through a plea bargain and a kind judge, got their towed vehicle back. He is going to pay his tickets. Now what about the other $89,000? My guess is that that money is history. A good lesson for cities to keep their receivables current.

JVH