[Jim Mac]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/us/politics/libertarians-trail-meter-readers-telling-town-live-free-or-else.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias:s&url=http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&region=Masthead&pgtype=SectionFront&module=SearchSubmit&contentCollection=us&t=qry946#/Keene%20NH

KEENE, N.H. — In most places, the parking enforcement officer reflects the municipal compact. Armed only with a gadget that can spit out a ticket at the forgotten drop of a dime, the officer quietly serves civic and commercial life by ensuring that meters are fed.

In most places, yes. But not here in charming Keene, where parking officers figure in a philosophical tug of war between a small band of activists who live by the motto “Free Keene,” and the great majority of residents who were unaware that their city was in bondage.

Keene’s two parking officers, both women, are often videotaped by young adults known as “Robin Hooders.” They track the whereabouts of the officers by two-way radio, feed expired meters before $5 tickets can be written, and leave a business card saying that “we saved you from the king’s tariff.”

 

[Pesqueeb]

That's either a lot nutty, or some genius troll work.

 

[jonKranked]

That's either a lot nutty, or some genius troll work.

your venn diagram contains but 1 circle

 

[mattmatt86]

5 dollar ticket?!?!?! I'll take that all day long, in Baltimore the tickets for an expired meter start at 32 dollars.

 

[JohnE]

Either way, the King is getting his. If they were truly bad ass, they would be bashing the parking patrol and stealing their ill gotten booty...