San Francisco Parking App Refuses Shut-Down Order

[Torgo]

>Dobrowolny said MonkeyParking doesn't sell parking spots, but convenience.

>Herrera spokesman Matt Dorsey described MonkeyParking's statements as "verbal gymnastics." "It's like a prostitute saying she's not selling sex — she's only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you," Dorsey said in a written statement.

Unless something has changed since the last time I was in San Fransisco, the backpages of just about every alt-weekly are loaded with ads for people technically only selling "escorting." A couple hundred feet from my hotel was a bathhouse that technically only sold massages. There was an awful lot of businesses that technically were only selling "glassware" and not recreational drug paraphernilia.

[err4nt]

And who exactly, is preventing the city from building a better mousetrap and making a more convenient app for the same thing? That's a win/win/win!

[bjchrist]

Yes, it's a work-around, but it totally makes sense, at least until the city comes up with a better solution for the parking issues in the city.

[valdiorn]

No, this app is predatory and profiteering of tax payer owned property.

People using that app are a bunch of highwaymen trying to extort a "bridge toll", if you ask me.