First parking ticket

Posted on September 4, 2006 | Category: Of mention

After almost two years in Oz, I got my first parking ticket today – I almost got a heart attack when I saw the amount of the fine – $107 !!(approx. 65 Euros – even organised crime is not that greedy). The moron that gave me the ticket must have been hiding waiting for his next victim to show up because the time on the ticket was less then two minutes after I parked the car!

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2 Responses to “First parking ticket”

1. Steve Tucker Says:
   September 9th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

   Damn, thats one heavy duty fine. Did you punch the sucker?

2. bradley Says:
   November 20th, 2006 at 1:03 am

   (Sorry for the random-ness of this post)…

   Four months ago I posted on many blogs, letting everyone know that we were trying to start a podcast (Rabbit Hole Daily) by people who had emigrated to other countries…

   I thought it would be interesting to share all of our “misadventures” and news… I had hoped to get a contributor to/from every continent (i.e., a Brazilian in Japan, a Japanese person in France, a French person in Australia, etc.).

   People leave their respective home-countries for all kinds of reasons; some people marry a “foreigner” and leave their country, some people take a job or do academic research out of their country, some are forced to leave for political reasons, some do it for the adventure. The podcast was designed to welcome all of these points of view. We’ve been working with mixed success to get all types of voices…

   Podcasts are a great way to get complex stories out that would never make it onto tv or radio, and we’d like to use the medium to create something that’s informative, eclectic, and interesting, all voices and topics welcome (provided they’re well-written)!

   At any rate, I’m writing to renew my call for contributors and say that we’re still around. We were accepted by itunes, we’ve been publishing consistently, and although we’ve had some technical concerns (people write articles, read them into a mic, then get them to me via internet or skype; getting it all edited evenly has been a challenge), we’ve just received some equipment donations by listeners that will make it possible to produce with ever-better audio quality.

   Please consider listening to the podcast, and more importantly, contributing articles. (Articles are 2-3 pages, submitted 4-6 times per year, contributors are featured on our “contributor profiles” page, rules for contributing can be found on the “contribute here” portion.) If you know someone who has emigrated from their country of origin and is a good writer, please pass the word!

   Thanks!

   Bradley.

   http://www.freewebs.com/rabbitholedaily
   rabbitholedaily@hotmail.com

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