{"id":3687,"date":"2016-05-15T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/police-chief-gives-himself-ticket-after-watchdog-citizen-points-out-parking-error\/"},"modified":"2016-05-15T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:48:44","slug":"police-chief-gives-himself-ticket-after-watchdog-citizen-points-out-parking-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/police-chief-gives-himself-ticket-after-watchdog-citizen-points-out-parking-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chief gives himself ticket after watchdog citizen points out parking error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police_chief_parking_ticket\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzE0LzU1L3BvbGljZV9jaGllLmZlNzU2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/30c92166\/278\/police_chief_parking_ticket.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Police+chief+gives+himself+ticket+after+watchdog+citizen+points+out+parking+error&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F14%2Fpolice-chief-parking-ticket%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F14%2Fpolice-chief-parking-ticket%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Where would we be without vigilante parking inspectors?<\/p>\n<p>The police department in Groveland, Florida issues parking tickets to cars blocking the sidewalk \u2014 even if they&#8217;re blocking it from their own driveway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Groveland resident David Bires noticed that police chief Melvin Tennyson had committed this vehicular faux pas, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/david.bires.7\/posts\/225849344463720\">posted photos<\/a> of the offending park job to Facebook earlier this week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/02\/mustache-cop-and-kitten\/\">Mustachioed cop found the cutest little gumshoe to help him on the job<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The photos were shared over 500 times.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Chief Tennyson took the not-so-subtle hint. He wrote himself the appropriate ticket (for a $45 sidewalk violation), and the police department posted his receipt to Facebook. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/14\/police-chief-parking-ticket\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/nufcq0GCHf0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where would we be without vigilante parking inspectors? The police department in Groveland, Florida issues parking tickets to cars blocking the sidewalk \u2014 even if they&#8217;re blocking it from their own driveway.\u00a0 But Groveland resident David Bires noticed that police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/police-chief-gives-himself-ticket-after-watchdog-citizen-points-out-parking-error\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}