Originally published at freeconcord.org:
Thanks to Kyle Jarvis for penning a decent Keene Sentinel article, and Michael Moore for snapping photos for a front page story on Robin Hood of Keene and the Merry Men. Robin Hooding has been the interest of local media outlets recently as the city expended over $1,300 to pay for under 50 hours of amateur videography performed by former KPD detective Peter Thomas.
The Keene Sentinel’s Kyle Jarvis has written an excellent piece on Keene’s Robin Hooders – the good men and women who are on the streets daily, rescuing motorists from being ticketed by KPD’s meter maids. In the article, city boss John MacLean makes ridiculous claims and tries to paint the Robin Hooders as shark-like. He claims they are, “circling” the enforcers and “harassing”, “impeding”, and even “standing on top of” them! Unfortunately, James Cleaveland, aka Robin Hood was at his day job when the Sentinel reporter was looking for comment, so I was able to fill-in and answer MacLean’s outrageous claims. Here’s the piece from the Sentinel (so far the comments on the Sentinel page are all pro-Robin Hooders and anti-parking enforcement!):
Keene has its own version of parking wars.
City officials say members of a local pro-liberty group have gone too far in tailing city parking enforcement officers. And the city hired a former police officer to videotape evidence of what’s been happening. (more…)
A letter to the editor was recently published in the Keene Sentinel by David Crawford. In it, he expresses appreciation for Robin Hooders, the people who save motorists from being ticketed for parking at expired meters by placing coins in said meters before the meter maids can reach them to write a ticket.
However, if you read the version the Sentinel published, you did not read the whole thing. David reached out to let us know the letter had a few things that were cut out by the newspaper’s editors, including his naming of former KPD captain Peter “Sturdy” Thomas and a mention of tax dollars. Here’s the original version of his letter, as he sent it to the Sentinel:
Did you get saved from a ticket?
There are people calling themselves “robinhooders” and they are saving people from getting parking tickets in Keene.
Here is how they do it: (more…)
Twenty-four hours after two days in a row of new Aqua Keene Parking Force episodes, entry number seven has just released on the AKPF youtube channel. In this edition, Cinco Tarjetas, the Parking Force must combat the confusion of multiple parking passes on display, inspired by an image which circulated widely across the internet within the last month. Jigsaw doll character guest stars.
It was one month ago when DrDavid Berman removed the feedback mechanisms from his popular youtube video Free Keene Knuckleheads Confronted. Some time recently, the video itself became privatized, making it inaccessible for viewing to the general public. You can see multiple shots taken from Dr. Dave’s perspective in the AKPF episode Dr. David Joins Aqua Keene Parking Force, including audio ripped from the original. Since the video’s debut, Robin Hood of Keene and his Merry Men (of which this author is an active participant) have received a number of apologies and expressions of support from individuals identifying as Christian who believed that the doctor’s actions in the video did not represent their faith well.
While Dr. Dave’s approach was unnecessarily confrontational, I do appreciate that he took the initiative to express himself on video for public dissemination. There are many who never express themselves. Robin Hood and the Merry Men welcome third party videographers to record our actions, and we encourage them to disseminate as much of their footage to the public as possible. The original video description of the Knuckleheads video read:
I’m Confronting these idiots because they are constantly following meter maids around with cameras trying to intimidate them and make their work life miserable. They are acting like little babies because I am calling them names like Jerks and knuckleheads. Aww…did I hurt your feelings? They and those who defend them are just that.
In the sixth installment of Aqua Keene Parking Force, Fred Parsells opens up about his perspective on Keene’s local liberty activism scene. Denying his own statist tendencies, he even dubs himself the ‘original free stater’ after beginning the conversation with “…why you guys are so stupid?” See the exciting conclusion to the cliffhanger ending from Episode 5.
You’re not even from Keene, but now that you’ve moved to Keene…You’re from elsewhere. You’re not native-born. Well, I don’t know, but you’re not from Keene, that’s the point. But yet you’ve come here, and you’re trying to, to tell people in Keene, you know, we did away with meters back in the mid eighties. No, no, that was something, I’m talking in the mid eighties — you probably weren’t even alive then.
-Fred Parsells
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