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| Philadelphia police warn parking violators: #NoSavesies Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014 01:35 PM PST By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia police are using a velvet hammer to crack down on the illegal but widespread practice of saving parking spaces with furniture, toilets and other items, by turning to a Twitter hashtag that warns #NoSavesies. "Shoveling a spot from a public street does not make it yours," Sergeant Eric Gripp, who runs the Philadelphia Police Department's Twitter account, told Reuters on Wednesday. With the value of a no-cost street parking spot rising as quickly as snowbanks this winter, northern cities including Boston, Chicago and Baltimore are familiar with the problem. Philadelphia is using social media to take the lead in raising awareness that saving spots is illegal. Full Story | Top |
| Chaos as thousands are called to Stockholm job office by mistake Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014 07:47 AM PST Police dispersed an angry crowd of job-seekers outside an employment office in Stockholm on Wednesday after it called 61,000 people for a recruitment meeting by mistake. "Something has gone wrong with the mailing list...it has set off a very messy situation at the city office," said Clas Olsson, acting director of the employment office. An email call for a recruitment meeting that should have gone out to about 1,000 job-seekers went out to considerably more people, about 61,000 - apparently all the registered job seekers in Stockholm, police said. Hundreds of people expecting to attend crowded into the alley where the labor office is located and spilled into the adjacent street, a main thoroughfare running through downtown Stockholm. Full Story | Top |
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