We just got back from a walk to find that Suzette got a ticket sometime today. It’s a “plate missing” ticket that’s going to set me back $65. I will register her in the morning, and I figured it would be safe for 32 hours, but I always seem to underestimate the diligence of NY Police when it comes to revenue.

Lisa just said “They’re essentially no shows when something get stolen, like Suzie, but they’re all over the place when there’s revenue to be collected.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. New York is a study in doing the least for those who provide the most and vice-versa. Most police work in NY seems to be quite unconcerned about real crime solving, instead the carefully detailed and extensive list of infringements for which you can be fleeced of what you earn is where the effort and budget seem to go.

Perhaps it’s no surprise then that the traffic deparment of the NYPD is actually housed under the umbrella of the NY Department of Finance. You can say that again, and again, and again.

After 4 months of mourning the theft of Suzie, our Suzuki Burgman 650, Lisa and I took a drive up to Baltic, CT yesterday to pick up our new freedom; another 650 with the same mileage, color, and year as Suzie. We’ve decided to name her Suzette, not to replace her, but in honor of the fun and convenience Suzie brought us. I’m incredibly excited about having easy and handy transportation again. We’d been spoiled with Suzie and then when she was stolen it was a suprisingly hard adjustment to get back in to the routes, schedules, and frequent expenses subways, buses, and cabs. Now I have to take extra measures to make her difficult to steal.