Parking violators can pay tickets with toys

[Champ]

BOSTON - For a limited time, the city of Boston is accepting a new form of payment for parking tickets: Cabbage Patch Kids, Morphibians, even Mega Blocks.

To help boost donations to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign, city officials are allowing motorists to pay their fines with toys equal in value to the amount owed. Offenders must produce a sales receipt.

Marcia Harris showed up at City Hall on Wednesday with stuffed animals, a yo-yo and other toys to pay off her $36 violation for an expired meter.

She said she was initially irritated to get a ticket just "20 seconds" after her meter ran out. The meter maid handed her a piece of paper informing her of the offer.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1208ToysforTickets08-ON.html

[WindRavenX]

1. AWESOME

I love this idea.

[thedailyshow]

2. that's actually a better way to contribute back to society

[Blue in a Red State]

3. Bah, HUMBUG!!! Do you want this kind of agenda for all infractions?

Let's have tithing to a fundamentalist church in lieu of paying for your parking in a hospital tow away zone. Let's have donations to the touring Ten Commandments substitute for the fine for disturbing the peace. It's Christmas, blah, blah, blah!

Kids don't NEED toys at the holidays. Lotsa folks (and their chitlins) need basic things like food, meds, jobs, shelter, clothing...but it's still all about shiny new crap for the kiddies at the holidays. The have-nots have no vehicles to park for that irritating little "20 seconds", let alone the wherewithal to buy a stuffed monkey to beat some minor rap.

Let them get coats.