Thinking Out Loud - Parking Authority

I watch reality tv from time to time, I don't even know why. I let myself fall into the zombification of people for some reason. Maybe it's relaxing to watch something that's completely mindless and involves no thought sometimes. Even when watching a show so minimal as this I can't help but think of all the things that make a show like this possible, or not only how this could be a show but how it's actually on the air. TV publishing aside, parking authority rustles my jimmies in a way unlike anything else. Where does someone get off giving a $300+ ticket for something like parking in a handicap zone? Granted those spots should be left open for people with disabilities, but seriously? We're talking about a care being six or seven feet too far in one direction. There's murderers who never see the inside of a jail cell for some bullshit loophole or evidence seized "illegally". Even for someone who ran late on their meter or payed the wrong one. That's still going to run you about a  $30 ticket, even though that's a relatively small amount that's more than two hours of work for most people. Two hours of work that's gone just like that, there's a multitude of infinitely better ways to spend $30 than giving it to some stupid parking authority. I may seem pretty outspoken about this, that is because where I currently live requires a permit to park outside of my house for more than two hours at a time and it seems to be patrolled regularly. Now this would be good if there was people constantly taking up space where I would otherwise park my car. The solution seems simple enough, get a permit right? I obviously live where I live so it shouldn't be hard. Except for the fact that this particular permit issuing authority is in stealth mode. My house is considered to be in the "downtown core" of my city. City Hall seems like it would be the obvious place to go, but not only is it not, they don't know where to direct me, nor do they even recognize my house as an area to give parking permits too. Funny to think that this is the City Hall of the city that has been giving me tickets this whole time. Now, after talking to many of my neighbors (those that actually seem to care about this, because the permit is only required for half of the block) I found that I can get a permit from the building where they store the snowplows, of all places. After traversing through this compound I managed to find the office and it was easy from there, but I digress. Now when you think about someone being ticketed you think there is something being enforced, but why is money involved? For something so minimal, so trivial as where a car is parked. I guess those people who actually give the tickets have to be paid somehow, which is probably why they're so loose with their ticket book. There was actually one guy who had personally given me several tickets over the course of a few months and I knew it was the same guy because of the issuer number on the ticket.Now I don't mean to be cruel, but when you see the same car parked in and around one area for a period of time any logical thinking person will be able to deduce that the owner of said vehicle lives there. Living there, implying the need for a ticket is unnecessary. Even when I had the permit, if I forgot to put it on there I would be ticketed. And this is after the same guy will have seen the permit hanging from my mirror and he still writes a ticket. Words cannot express the anger I felt at the time. I have since come to peace with these events, but I will never view parking authority personnel as anyone contributing to society.