Tis the season for turkey and shopping and gifts and holiday spirit. Oh, and tis the season for spirits, too.
Whether you’re drinking out of boredom, self-medicating through an over abundance of family-time, or trying to drink every drop of Christmas Ale that Great Lakes produced this year, there will be much imbibing during the cold winter months and Parma wants to make sure you get home safely.
Here’s their offer: Any bar that signs up with the new Safe Ride Home Program and displays a poster will have vouchers, courtesy of the Parma police, for a free cab ride home. Yes, you have to go home, they won’t take you to another bar.
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2010.
It is about time a city was proactive and helpful instead of just trying to get more money. I once broke down (in a suit no less) on I 77 and it was snowing outside. I was about a half mile from the royalton road exit and a cop car was issuing a speeding ticket just across the highway from me. I got out of my car and looked at the officer waiting for him to finish writing his ticket. He finished, looked at me and drove away!
Is is protect and Serve or just write tickets and make money and screw the public otherwise? all this cop wanted was to write a ticket. I had to walk the half mile or so back to Royalton road to the gas station slipping in my dress shoes all the way and by the way isn’t that dangerous.
A friend of mine told me they get unlimited overtime as long as they come in on an off day and write enough tickets to cover the Overtime. This would explain Rocky river police on I 90 West every morning but when the football games start they are gone. They come in to write some tickets, make some overtime and head out to the game.
I don’t understand when we became a system of write tickets to make money instead of write tickets to protect the public. The city of cleveland gave me a $95.00 ticket for driving 42 in a 35 on a side street with a mobile camera no less. I got a ticket when the streetsweeper came by because my car was parked on the street and I got a ticket when I wnet to apy for the ticket because my meter was broken. What is going on with these cities attacking us and writing tickets constantly? I feel like I am a victim because I decided to live in the city of Cleveland.