I had an interesting experience tonight, and wanted to ask a question.

Around 12:15 tonight, I dropped my girlfriend off in front of tj. I got out of my car to help her carry her stuff from my car to her room. I was in TJ long enough to go to 4 south, drop her stuff off, say goodbye and leave, no more than 5 minutes. When I come back out, there's a campus police officer writting me a ticket for illegal parking! He then said I was lucky because I came out and he tore up the ticket. When I tried to explain that I was just unloading my car to help with my girlfriend's stuff, he told me I couldn't use that, I would have to park across the street. Now, when I used to live in the dorms, that turn around section in front of tj was called a loading/unloading zone and you could use it for a few minutes to unload your car without having to walk a mile back and forth. Has this changed now so you can't stop there at all or what?

As far as I know, that little circle in fromt of TJ is still a loading zone with a 30 minute time limit. If that has been changed, then they certainly did not make anyone aware of it. I would email either Dana (the TJ Director), or Jennie Nixon (works in Res Life office). Either of them should be able to give you the answers you seek.

Unfortunately, now the UMR PD control that lot, so they can make whatever rules they want to enforce on it.

The parking ticket people are a bunch of reactionaries.

On Thursday i walked out to my legally parked car to find a ticket under the wiper. $20 for "invalid parking permit". My permit was on the passenger side of my car, i guess it was supposed to be on the driver's side

Luckily i was able to go up to the parking office and get it reduced to a warning, and they made me peel off the old sticker and put a new one on the driver's side.

What a bunch of nazis.