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I'm getting out here.
All right, I'm going to pull across the street, all right?
See you later, Kenny.
Have a good day, Tys.
All right, bro.
I'm the parking enforcement officer
for the city of Philadelphia, and I represent the city
when I'm out on the street.
He may be the shortest ticketer in the PPA,
but he does a good job.
I look at it this way.
I'm small.
My father was small.
My father was the toughest guy you'd ever see,
so it doesn't bother me.
Hey, guys, I need you to please move this vehicle.
You're parking in a no park at any time.
Where am I supposed to park my truck with the tools?
Sir, I can give you a courtesy for the RPP.
I can't give you courtesy for safety.
No parking at any time is considered a safety violation.
I can't give you a courtesy for that.
If you stay here, I'm going to have to write you a ticket.
Let me just give him what he needs.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry to do that to you, sir.
But--
I've been here six months, working,
fixing up the neighborhood.
And every time there's a new one, there's new rules.
Since I started this job, I got more than $2,000
worth of parking tickets.
She's a lot nicer than some of the other ones.
[RECORD SCRATCH]
Hey, hey, hey.
I'm sorry.
He's a lot nicer than some of the other ones.
I get that a lot.
People think I'm a woman because I'm small.
I don't know.
I guess I'm used to being around big guys.
Even my little guys are big guys compared to that.
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I don't think I look like a woman or sound like a woman.
But I guess because I'm small, they figure that I am.
And you know, you try to help 'em.
I'm not a policeman.
No problem.
I'll give it to my supervisor.
All right.
Actually, when I was a kid, I always wanted to be a cop.
At the time, I was too short.
But that's what I like about this job.
I feel like a sheriff.
[GLASS BREAKING]
Are you OK?
Are you all right?
You all right?
Hold on.
I'm going to get the police for you, OK?
Yeah, go ahead.
Pull over right here.
Ma'am, this is unit 283.
I'm on the primary block of South 22nd Street.
There's been an accident.
She's OK, but she needs police.
OK, ma'am.
I just got in touch with police.
They should be here, OK?
It's part of my job, too.
If we see something like that, or we see somebody who's sick,
or has, you know, fallen down, god forbid,
you want to call that in.
You know, thank god she wasn't hurt.
That's the most important thing.
How are you doing, sir?
I'll write a ticket for 'em, sir.
You may be working here, but you can't
block somebody's driveway.
Excuse me.
Yes, sir?
We're doing a job here.
I understand that, sir.
But you're blocking the driveway.
And a gentleman just came out that lives here,
and he asked me to write you a ticket
because you're blocking his driveway.
He can't get out.
We asked him yesterday if it was OK.
He just told me no.
My wife's coming home in about 20 minutes.
All you had to do was ask us.
I'm sorry, sir.
You're blocking the driveway.
You can't block a driveway.
What's that, man?
We're working here.
I understand that, sir.
How are you going to violate us-- give us
a violation if we're working?
I'm sorry, sir.
I'm not going to fight with a citizen over a ticket.
My wife worries about me.
She's heard stories about some people
getting in fights and things.
But I just tell her, look.
I'm not worried about that.
I'm not that kind of person.
If it happens, it happens.
This meter's expired, so I'm going to write him a ticket.
Yes, sir.
Your meter's expired, sir.
You see it's blinking zeros?
Yeah, I wasn't sure.
I saw the sign that said two hours.
That's why.
Yeah, it means you put only two hours into the meter.
So I already wrote that ticket.
I can't take it back.
It's all right.
I was in law enforcement.
So he's doing what he has to do.
I'm sorry, sir.
All right, but like I said, I was in law enforcement
up in Massachusetts.
And we usually would've gone by a meter, looked at it,
maybe given 'em five or 10 minutes.
He walked up on it and saw that it was blinking.
He just wrote the ticket there.
He didn't give a chance to a civilian that--
he could've gone down, checked out the rest of the block,
and came back--
Well, actually, I came from that block.
Exactly.
You came to it, and you saw it, and you wrote it.
Well, we're not supposed to give any time, sir.
If the meter's expired--
- You're not supposed to. - No, sir.
Oh, OK.
So you came right up to it, and you just--
Right.
See, if you would have came up to me
before I printed that ticket, I would
have given you a recision. - I understand.
You're doing your job.
Thank you.
Like I said, I would have given--
I probably would have walked the whole block,
and given the person an extra five, 10 minutes,
and then gave him the ticket.
I understand that.
You came over, saw the meter.
That's my job, sir.
I hear you.
I'm not knocking you.
I'm just saying that some people will give other people chances.
Some people don't.