He loves my car.
FTT?
Oh, yeah!
See that?
He knows my license plate number.
He's a [BLEEP].
So there's my one-hour ticket right there.
It doesn't bother me when people call me names.
I'm used to it all by now.
This car is getting a ticket for an expired meter.
It's been here for over an hour and they
didn't have a payment receipt so I timed it for an hour.
Handicap tags, you get one hour for free.
They were timed at 6:12 PM and I issued this ticket at 7:35.
Free!
Boy, no, I'm a handicap car!
You get one hour for it.
[BONG]
No, I was--
I was--I was told by the-- by the police
officer over there that I didn't need to put money in it.
You do, sir.
You get one hour for free with the handicap.
Look.
This is [BLEEP] [BLEEP] [BLEEP]..
You can call the number on the back of the ticket
and contest it and tell them that a police officer told you.
No, I was told-- but, no, take that thing away!
That's all right, we'll take it and call--
Sir, I can't do that.
Once the ticket's printed, there's
nothing I can do about that.
And you know what we'll do with the ticket?
I saw an officer over there.
I said to him, I have handicap tags.
I said, can I park here?
He said, yes, you can park here as long as you want
because you have handicap tags.
I'm sorry if these people think they are policemen,
but they're not.
[BONG]
This is a disgrace, especially that I am handicapped.
I can barely walk from here a half a block.
I cannot walk.
And tell that little [BLEEP] he's a piece of [BLEEP]
cop meter maid [BLEEP] [BLEEP].
Because he was misinformed by a police officer
he decided to take it out on me.
You little [BLEEP].
Happens all the time.
[CAMERA WHIRRING]
Now this guy here, he's blocking the sidewalk.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
You just see a gentleman trying to get past here.
How are you doing, man?
You all right?
Handicapped people in wheelchairs and stuff
have to go out in the street or they can't get past.
Why did you do that?
Why did you give me a ticket?
Why-- when the meter maid start coming up everybody's street?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
How much is this ticket for?
30 doggone dollars.
But it's $20 if you pay it in 10 days.
$30.
This is ridiculous.
The city of Detroit is going crazy.
I've been over here all my life
and ain't no parking meter been coming up no--
So, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let's imagine a handicapped person coming
down the street right now.
I got handicapped people--
In a wheelchair. --in my family.
I'm saying in a wheelchair.
My granddaughter is handicapped.
This is a handicap home!
How am I supposed to know that?
Don't you see my handicap sticker in the window?
[BOING]
You are a meter maid.
So why do you didn't check?
A handicapped person had to get out here.
The law don't say you can block the sidewalk
if it's a handicapped person.
The law is, no blocking the sidewalk period.
But I had to let the handicapped person out
into the house, had to help the handicapped--
But wait a minute, ma'am.
--person into the house, and so I'm just
coming back out to move my car.
The law don't say you can block the sidewalk if you,
if you got a handicapped--
If I'm letting the handicapped person out,
I can to let them out.
Show me the law that says that.
[SNAP]
It's not like your car is halfway there.
It's not like the bumper is hanging over there--
it's all the way blocking.
That's because I pulled up behind the car.
But, look, it's like, it's like, look, look, look.
Look, look. [BOING]
You know?
[CHUCKLES] If a person in a wheelchair
was coming down in the street right now,
how they gonna get by?
Well, they go around.
The wheelchair can go right down here, down the cement.
They got more than enough room to get around, sir.
Oh, OK.
Take the ticket back, sir.
I can't take the ticket back.
Even a better question, what if a blind person was walking
down the street right now?
My brother is blind!
Walking down the street?
And he has a stick.
Anthony, come and prove that I brought a blind man here.
Let me show you what's going to happen, what he do,
this blind man do.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What's going on?
Now, Anthony, show that what you can do.
Show them what you do with the cane.
I lead myself with the cane.
Right.
Walk down here.
Come out and make a left.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
He need to take this $20 ticket back
because I'm not paying for it.
And I'm going to tell--
Oh, you're not.
Take-- I'm gonna take care of that.
You know, it's OK.
I'll pay the ticket.
You know it was a good ticket.
What a lot of people don't know is that just because you've
got a handicap sticker, don't mean the law says
you can block the sidewalk.
[BOING]
They want to park where they want to park
it for their own convenience.
[CAMERA WHIRRING]
Security to see CS.
En route.
The other vehicle that we booted earlier,
got a tow truck waiting on us.
All right, let's go.
That's the owners here.
They're not happy.
Well, I'm down here trying to find employment and I come out
and they've taken my car.
I think it's terrible.
My interview went a little longer than I expected,
which was a good thing.
And as soon as I come out, I see them taking my car.
I actually don't have tickets.
The car is in my fiancé's name and he has a few tickets.
A lot of people don't even realize
how much they owe in tickets, and that's how it get caught
up, because they don't know.
Sometimes you get tickets, you know?
And we live in a city where if you get a ticket
you can't find a job to pay it.
I hate to see anybody go through hardship.
I have a heart.
When you go home at night, do you sleep well knowing that you
just took a single mother's car who just
trying to do something right?
I was a single mom.
It's absolutely about what you want to do in life, it's--
but I know it didn't take a bit of education
to be a meter maid!
Are you speaking to me, ma'am?
Idiot!
You're taking this personal on me?
Were you talking about me?
Are you saying-- no.
Are you talking about me?
I'm speaking of the economy, period, on what happens.
You commented on my comment about being a single mother,
so I'm commenting on your comment.
I'm a single mother.
I'm speaking-- I'm a single mother, ma'am.
I'm a single mother just like you're a single mother.
A lot of people will fight for their cars.
When I booted that car, I'd never seen you before in life.
I know.
I didn't come to you and say, well,
I'm fixing to get this car to make our day miserable.
No disrespect to you.
I am upset because they took my car.
And I understand.
All we're doing is doing the job.
It's not directly at nobody.
But it's time to go.
I understand you, and I should apologize--
Sonya!
--because I was upset.
You do have a job to do.
We got a car.
Huh?
We got a car to go get.
I understand.
It's not the end.
A job, when it comes to like this,
it's a job and that's the way I looked at it when I got it.
I'm glad you have one.
Yeah, yeah, so.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Even though they didn't help, you
know, at least she wasn't just totally inconsiderate like,
oh well, pay your tickets.
You know, she did express some--
some care and some concerns.
So they didn't help, but they were appreciated.
I think I calmed her down a little bit.
I made her feel a little better.
We don't know what the person's situation is.
It's a shame, though.
I hope she gets everything straightened out.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAMERA WHIRRING]
We've got another one right here.
There's a beauty school right there on the corner here.
[SIREN]
See, there's a vehicle right there
at the crosswalk right now.
[SIREN]
I didn't get no ticket, am I?
You ain't getting one, somebody is.
You ain't fixing to ticket me, are you?
Uh, nope, unless you want one.
No! I just wanted to make sure.
I can give you-- what about a fake one?
[HONK] - Uh uh!
I don't need none of that. - No, you don't want a fake one?
Uh-uh.
[CHUCKLES] One person see me, they're going to run in there
and they are all going to come out.
[CHA-CHING]
Uh-uh!
Don't give her no ticket!
Here she comes!
You know I done wrote it already.
That is so low.
No it ain't!
Look where that car parked at. Look right here.
Look, look right there.
If somebody in a wheelchair come past,
they're going to come down here, going to be like--
We did all the homeless people here--
- --and boom! - --yesterday.
Y'all gonna still come over here.
We be trying to help the city and y'all come
over here and y'all mess with us every day.
(FALSETTO) I was just bringing it back to my car.
How are you doing today?
OK.
How you doing?
(FALSETTO) I'm doing OK.
You haven't already ticketed me, have you?
(NORMAL VOICE) You haven't already ticketed me, have you?
I had all of this stuff.
I was just bringing in.
I already put the ticket on the car, young lady.
He need a ring on his finger.
Then he won't be up here bothering us!
I'm a young lady.
I need to park closely to wherever I'm going.
I don't want to be walking down the-- you know,
walking a-- a couple of blocks and I have
these beautiful shoes on, so.
Next time I'll be a lot wiser.
[CHATTER]
Out here ticketing all of these women.
All what women?
I only ticketed one.
She was parked too close to the corner.
A beauty school.
Beauty school at that!
You can be beautiful, but that still don't mean
you can park where you want to. [BOING]
You could have been on the inside
and we could even give you a relaxer--
[LAUGHTER]
--but you want to be out here writing tickets.
I got a job to do.
That's what I'm going to do.
Ponytail do his job, and remember that.
We're gonna cut your ponytail off.
That's right!
[TIRE SCREECH]
[SCREAM]
That ain't funny.
[LAUGHTER]
It's time to get out of here.
Can't even turn around 'cause he up here blocking the street.
Right, and how you going to give people tickets
and his car's right in the middle of the street?
That's not fair.
I work for Top Flight Security Company.
Meter maids don't dress like that.
I wrote one violation and that just
brought out the whole building.
I'm going to cut his ponytail off,
that's what I'm going to do.
Meter maid bitches!
People think I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing
but, man, I just got attacked.
They were attacking my ponytail and giving me grief,
but as a good shepherd I have to take
it and move on and know I've done a good deed to the city.
Why did they-- why they keep attacking my hair today?
That ain't going to make me get rid of it.
It's staying right here.
[CAMERA WHIRRING]
Again at my favorite bar.
This black truck here is directly
in the No Standing zone.
[ROCK MUSIC]
I can't believe it's parking in the No Standing zone.
There's still ample parking over here.
Here they go again, like clockwork.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Here they come.
It's too late.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm doing No Standing.
I work here.
Why you didn't park-- y'all don't have
a parking area for you?
They charge us to park over here like 15 bucks.
[CHA-CHING]
You've got your ticket for the day.
What are you going to do?
It's not the first time I've got a ticket.
He's always nasty.
Every time I come over here, that one right there
says derogatory things to me.
It's crazy.
How can you be more angry than the person
that I gave the ticket to?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I was working, seen I was getting a ticket.
Could have paid $10 to park in this lot,
or I could have snuck in here where there's free parking,
but there's too many cars already.
I'm quite sure that he figured that he was going to get
a ticket at some point today.
He probably didn't think that it would be this early in the day.
I try to get away with it all the time,
but, this time I got caught.
Whatever.
These parking maids are vultures.
[LAUGHTER]
They'll do anything they can for quick buck.
Get a job.
You would think that they would learn the lesson now.
And see, look.
They're putting something on my car.
They wouldn't do that to a police officer's car.
That's the city of Detroit's vehicle.
It's not nothing to play with.
It's not a joke.
You need to learn the law, then, because I
have 30 minutes to stay here.
I don't think so.
Lesson learned.
No, they'll be back.
They are horrible.
But, you know, I don't let it kill my spirit
or I don't let it stop my joy or anything,
because life is too short.
[MUSICAL FLOURISH]
Look at that!
Sun is coming out, things are changing.
Hopefully I'll have a beautiful day today.