In Boston, pay your parking tickets with toys

By Sarah Korones | December 1, 2012, 7:53 AM PST

The city of Boston is spreading the holiday cheer this year by softening the blow of the dreaded (and seemingly inevitable) parking ticket.

This week Boston embarked on its 19th annual “Toys for Tickets” campaign, which allows residents to pay for any non-public safety parking ticket issued between November 29 and December 1 with toys for charity.

The ticket-for-toy exchange works in partnership with the Marines’ “Toy for Tots” program and allows ticket holders to resolve their fines by donating a non-violent, unwrapped toy of equal or greater value than their ticket. Those with tickets have until December 8 to bring in toys and have their fines nullified.

Last year, Toys for Tickets brought in $3,800 worth of toys for families in need.

Image: Charleston’s TheDigitel/Flickr

[via The Atlantic Cities]

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In deguise as toys

While I see this as basically a good idea it lends a narrow window of time for past parking violations. And when do inanimate objects become violent? Do we not already have a culture of television drones exposed to more violence than any combat survivor can tell you. Violence is at the hands of man not objects of free expression. And don't get me started on the military working with local and state governments in disguse as toys for tots. Now it's DUI checkpoints in the name of catching drunk drivers spawned by a culkture of acceptance of outside bars to get drunk then drive home to the misses. When the foot is in the door slam it. The kids need more than toys they need a future and presently it doesn't look good. When is society going to stop focusing on the manusha and look at the whole painting.

Posted by JHarpster

2nd Dec

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