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The Nissan Xterra with MD plates has been parked on 9th ST, directly across the street from the FBI building, for weeks now. You can see the parking tickets piling up on the windshield, bags & boxes in the backseats, and a coagulating Starbucks beverage in the cup holder. We assume the FBI has already checked it out & deemed the SUV to not be a threat, but with all the (over the top?) security measures in place in DC we’re surprised the SUV has been allowed to sit there for so long.
(IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: PQLiving doesn’t know a damn thing about this SUV or the FBI)
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Surprised it hasn’t been booted. Whenever I see cars like that I always wonder if the owner has just stuck a bunch of old parking tickets on there to keep Parking Services from issuing new tickets (although in theory that shouldn’t matter – they can put tickets on top of tickets)
#2, I wondered the same thing, but really the car has been there for at least 2 weeks (when I first started paying attention to it). Hasn’t moved.
I used to think that the surrounding blocks of the FBI’s Hoover building would naturally be as secure as the interior of the building.
Egg on my face.. The fortress mentality of FBI security is as evident as the architecture of the Hoover building.
I walked by it yesterday meeting someone for lunch, and it still there, no boot. how many tickets till they boot?
perhaps it was stolen & abandoned. did you call the police? it took me about a month to get an abandoned car removed from 9th & K. mark bjorge from the mayor’s office was a big help.
The Department of Public Works (DPW) boots or tows vehicles in the District of Columbia that have two or more 30-day-old, unpaid parking tickets.
Talking about relaxing their standards; I wonder if we’ll eventually get that 99 cents Starbuck$ they are trying our now, coffee coming our way. Recession hitting Charbucks–my my!
At around 5 today, two FBI police officers were investigating the car. They had its doors open and were looking around inside.
2 FBI Police Officers and a K-9 searched the vehicle today the vehicle was deemed not be a threat to the FBI Building or any surrounding buildings. The FBI police force is not parking enforcement and the only violation on the vehicle is an expired meter, yes an extremely expired meter, but an expired meter non the less. Ticketing, booting, and towing is an issue that the city has to deal with, not the FBI. Also if anyone has a fear, issue, or concern on the surroundings of the FBI, the FBI Police Force’s Phone Number is Public Information and they will respond to validated threats.
so it’s not a threat that someone could put something threatening (use your imagination) in the car and since the FBI washed their hands of it they’re not responsible? Even if it is 5 feet away from their building?
sounds kinda foolish to me…
#16 – the car isn’t 5 feet away from the building. it’s on the other side of a four lane street…more like 80 to 100 feet from the building.
I would think that the FBI Police coordinate with DC MPD and hopefully have notified them that it ought to be booted or towed.
Face it, we all see the obvious issues with the FBI ignoring this vehicle for weeks, and after “investigating it,” are apparently ignoring it again. They could easily get it towed as a security issue.
Maybe these buffoons are too busy wiretapping and spying on American citizens to take care of the obvious.
How is this SUV a greater threat than any of the other cars parked along that street? If anything, it’s less of a threat–the longer it sits there, the less likely it is that there’s a bomb or something dangerous in it (unless there’s some advantage to using a bomb with a three-week timer that I don’t know about). It’s a legal parking spot that anyone can park in, and somebody parked an SUV in it–why should the FBI care?
#16 The car was searched vigorously nothing of a threatening nature was found. i.e. the vehicle is not a threat, theyre not washing their hands they did their job. The booting and towing of the vehicle is MPD’s responsibility. It’s nothing more then a parked car with tickets on it, if you’re really concerned that much about a parked vehicle you have way too much time on your hands. The FBI has much bigger threat issues to deal with that the public never sees, or hears about because they’re doing a good job in the protection of their building and it’s surroundings. You can Relax
I think it’s funny how people like #20 characterize those who worry about something that they don’t as having “too much time on their hands.” Exactly why is that? Maybe #20 has too much time on his/her hands to be reading blogs.
I can understand peoples’ concerns with an obviously abandoned vehicle under the FBI’s nose. This is an agency racked with failures that have had a huge cost to our country. What if this vehicle were a test to see how long a potential carrier of a chemical or bomb could be staged outside the FBI, only to set it off at the right time?
But then, maybe I have to much time on my hands to worry about this.
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worried that the little men in black suits are going to show up at your door? heh…