Jackson Jambalaya

uh oh. just saw this on the Jackson Free Press website concerning the parking dilemma over by Lenny's in Fondren:

"Well JUST SO YA KNOW jackmann22...There is secuirty to keep the bums from hasseling the customers and the ONLY and I stress ONLY time a secuirty guard will not let you in that parking lot is because it is FULL......"
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=13808_0_27_0_C#86874 (kaygee's post)

BUMS??? Did that poster call people begging for money BUMS on THAT website???
Moonbat eruption in 3...2....1.....


note: see earlier post on this subject:
http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2007/05/fondren-parking-lot-woes-and-orchestra.html

Got to love spoiled brats.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=13808_0_27_0_C#85921

Did it ever occur to the "power to the people" crowd that a business needs customers in order to survive? Its pretty simple. No customers=no business. If people can't park close to your business, they can't patronize your business. Apparently this elementary lesson of economics escapes some people.

I wonder how much they would complain if they went to the bank to make deposits( so they could pay their bills ) 30 minutes before the bank closed but were unable to do so because there was a long line of people there to cash checks who did not have accounts at the bank but the bank cashed them anyway.

Lenny's is not the only business that does this. For years the Elite Restaurant on Capitol Street has had a reputation for towing cars if the owners were not patrons if the restaurant. I've yet to hear a peep about all the cars that were towed over the years.

Instead of complaining to the businesses and their landlords or to the city council and Mayor about the lack of parking, they instead complain about a business that does have some parking space but won't let them use it as it fills up with his customers. More than likely he was being nice for awhile and let non-customers park in his lot but then it got to the point where it was hurting his business as his customers were turned away by the filled up parking lot.

However, he is the selfish one.

Right.

Thought I just had. Where is our fearless leader? When he is not playing cops and robbers, cowboys and injuns, or whatever his game of the hour is, you would think that this is the kind of problem he would be interested in solving. Of course, it might not appeal to him as it doesn't involve sirens or guns.


June 1, 2007: Just had yet another thought reading through the JFP thread. Since the leadership of the JFP thinks the owners of Lenny's have gone too far, why don't they allow people who need to park to use their parking lot and put up signs at the affected businesses saying so? I am all for leading by example. ;-)