Giving 'em the boot...You'd think that a near doubling of the city's unemployment rate wouldn't spur folks to pay their parking tickets on time. You'd think the current economic climate would not put people in the mood to write out checks to the Department of Parking and Traffic. You'd think the proliferation of neon yellow "Denver Boots" immobilizing cars on your humble narrator's walk to and from the office each day would be indicative of more and more San Franciscans falling behind on their a
MIA in SFLast week, we noted that despite a doubling in the city's unemployment rate and a general paucity of surplus cash in folks' pockets, the number of immobilizing boots being placed on San Francisco cars has dropped precipitously.This is counter-intuitive; you'd figure more folks would be letting the five outstanding parking tickets it takes to warrant a booting stack up on their desks in these troubled times. You'd also figure this would be a fairly easy steady source of revenue for the D
