SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 9:47 P.M. ET:

From London's Telegraph:  A US city is handing out parking tickets with pictures of yoga positions on them in a bid to calm down angry recipients.  Parking control officers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have been issued with 40,000 of the placatory citations. They are the brainchild of one Daniel Peltz, an "artist in residence" with the Cambridge Traffic and Parking Department. The tickets have an image of a yoga position on the front of the envelope, with instructions on the reverse on how to implement various moves.
Susan Clippinger, the city's transportation chief, tells The Boston Herald the purpose of the tickets is to "debunk the idea that all parking tickets are a hostile action. We’re not writing tickets to get somebody. We’re writing tickets to help make the city function.”

Only in a place like Cambridge, Massachusetts, would that kind of logic make sense.  So remember, next time you see the tell-tale summons under your windshield wiper, don't think "I was legally parked."  Think "I'm helping to build a multicultural center to increase peace and harmony."  But you'll still have to pay.

September 23, 2010