The Geek is an idiot, who gets a lot of parking tickets, and knows how to fight back.
The South Chicago "Stop the Meters" protesters have brought their anti-parking meter message home. More specifically, to 10th Ward Alderman John Pope's home.
Tuesday evening at 6 PM, a busload of protesters, along with another few car loads of people totaling 60-75 people, showed up on Ald. Pope's doorstep.
Armed with signs and their anti-meter sentiments, they marched and protested for close to 45 minutes.
According to one of the organizers, Stephanie Puente, many of Pope's neighbors came out to check out the action with a few neighbors verbally showing support for the protesters.
"All his neighbors came out to see
what we were doing," explained Puente. "Some people clapped to show
their support and asked if they could sign a petition against the
meters. All in all in was a pretty successful protest."
However, at least one neighbor, unhappy with the protesters, voiced their feelings and called the police on the peaceful rally. Police showed up, but took no action.
When asked why they decided to bring the protest to Pope's house, Puente said, "It's been nearly three weeks since the first protest and we've been trying to reach out to the Alderman and Neil Bosanko (President of the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce) and they pretend like we don't exist. So we took the protest to his doorstep."
Puente says the "Stop the Meters" sit in, aimed
at discouraging the new pay boxes from being installed, continues
unabated and plans to continue for an indefinite period of time.
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