by JH 21 Replies latest jw friends
Is it a parking lot where people pay to use the parking lot? or a parking lot that belongs to a shopping center that happens to be close to a bus station?
If it is mall parking, then you can call the mall security and get them all ticketed. Mall parking is reserved for customers, not for freeloaders who want a place to park their cars while they are going off to a religious convention off-site.
Love, Scully
I think those cars need some "Jesus Loves You" or "Have you been to ch--rch lately? What's missing U R" bumber stickers
If it is mall parking, then you can call the mall security and get them all ticketed.
That's what it is Scully. Every year the same thing. They take up space and shouldn't be there.
JH
With mall parking, there are usually limits on the amount of time cars are allowed to be parked too - something like 3 hours - unless they are employees at work and parked in designated employee parking areas. These cars are probably there from 7:30/8:00am until 5:00/6:00pm.
I think a nice big fat parking ticket would be an interesting way to end the convention. Do you have a digital camera with a date/time stamp on it?? You could take a picture around 9am, then another one at 12 noon, then another one at 3pm.... you will establish that the cars have been there all day, and there will still be time for the security guy or by-law officer to go and write tickets for all the cars before anyone returns from the assembly.
The congregation won't back them up, the WTS will not back them up. It has nothing to do with freedom of religion or freedom of speech to park on private property without a permit to do so. They are abusing the privilege and courtesy that the mall provides to paying customers. They are trespassing. End of story.
Love, Scully
They have to look out for their "spirtuality" around us and now their cars?
I'm sorry JH, I normally enjoy your questions, but this one makes it seem as if we ( apostates ) are horrible little people who are intent on destrucion of personal property. Let's find the JWs cars so we can commit acts of vandalism?
I realize that this is not what you are implying, yet the question leaves open many possibilities. It's bad enough that we have a "bad rap" and this IMO adds to that feeling of apostates are intent on destruction of everything.
Sorry
Cassi, of the please don't be angry with me class.
Scully,
I know that in Montreal, or any other big cities, people park their cars in shoping center parking lots and then go take the subway. Cameras are put so that they don't do that. These parking lots are for customers of the shoping center, and not for subway users. Those witnesses who parked their cars there are in violation as well.
I'm an apostate, and I am a horrible little man with a streak of vandalism... heh heh heh...
I think the question was presented badly. Try thinking about it this way - What can we do with this opportunity to free our former brethren?
CZAR
Call it a figure of speech.
What about tying helium balloon shaped like this ----------> to their antennas.
It'll be so festive as they are released up to the sky.
Lisa
JH:
Why aren't they in Montreal at the International Convention? People from as far away as New Brunswick are assigned to Montreal, and since they're not official "delegates", they not only have to spend 10-11 hours traveling to the city but they also have to pay for hotels once here, rather than bunk in with the "brothers and sisters", some of whom are relatives of the Maritimers.
Don't ya just love the organizing ability of the WTS? Also, after badgering the congregations about housing the delegates (it must have been mentioned at each service meeting since Frebruary), since each congregation was told to expect around 50 delegates, and not permitting others from cities such as Toronto to lodge with their friends/family, well lo and behold most congregations got maybe 8 people, so the powers-that-be scurried around and invited every Bethelite from Brooklyn to Walkill to come to Montreal and fill up the empty spaces.
Although it is such a grand privilege to house Bethelites, many expressed disappointment that they wouldn't be receiving African or Belgian brothers, or in many cases, their friends and family from other areas who still were not invited in spite of the rooms available.
Yup, great organizing ability that WTS has.
