UPD caught engaging in extortion?
The University (MS) Police Department has always been known to be shady and in it for the money. To boil it down, the agency is essentially another fundraising arm of Ole Miss. Don't believe me?
Try asking six Ole Miss students who reportedly had their vehicles towed from the Ford Center parking lot Wednesday afternoon because the university wanted that space to be empty for an event being held later that night. Nevermind that the area is zoned open parking and the barriers around the parking lot did not go up until midday, well after class had already begun. I guess UPD expects students to magically know when to move their cars so that people who do not even attend Ole Miss can have their designated parking spaces.
Just to put this in perspective, each of those students had to pay $85 to retrieve their car from Shivers Towing. If they returned to their car while it was being loaded on a truck, they only had to pay $45.
We are....Ole Miss! We are....Ole Miss!
Try asking six Ole Miss students who reportedly had their vehicles towed from the Ford Center parking lot Wednesday afternoon because the university wanted that space to be empty for an event being held later that night. Nevermind that the area is zoned open parking and the barriers around the parking lot did not go up until midday, well after class had already begun. I guess UPD expects students to magically know when to move their cars so that people who do not even attend Ole Miss can have their designated parking spaces.
Just to put this in perspective, each of those students had to pay $85 to retrieve their car from Shivers Towing. If they returned to their car while it was being loaded on a truck, they only had to pay $45.
We are....Ole Miss! We are....Ole Miss!
posted by Steven G. at
9:28 AM
1 Comments:
I would like to know if your blog on the parking issue was ever resolved. I am a parent who has paid over $1,000 in parking tickets for my daughter in the past two years, and am mad as hell about it. When a campus only has 4000 designated parking spaces, but 8,000 students vying for them then there is something radically wrong, and I wish someone had the guts to bring a class action law suit against the university and their UPD ticketing policy. I personally have driven around the campus parking lots for over 40 minutes looking for a space only to give up and park in the JC Penney lot across the street and walk onto the campus to pay my daughters fines. I have a son attending UGA who has only ever received two tickets in his four years at school, and both were half the price of the Ole Miss tickets...What a racket Ole Miss is running. $85 per ticket indeed. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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