Towed Away

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

For the second time this fall, your reports on the Cambridge police's parking policy have turned out to be utterly misleading. Following your first announcement that a two-week period of grace would be given overnight parkers in the Harvard area, ticketing went on at a brisk pace. When a friend of mine went down to the Western Avenue station with a ticket, he was told: "The CRIMSON doesn't make our policy."

When I found that my car had been towed away last night, I went to the same station, and in the course of proceedings mentioned that I thought the police were going to take it easy over the weekends. The car was towed from Mt. Auburn Street, and no particular violation had been noted. "Oh, the CRIMSON," he chortled, and had a short belly-laugh on the spot.

From that desk-sergeant's point of view, the CRIMSON coverage of Cambridge police activities is the best joke since Gutenberg. To those whose cars have been tagged, ticketed, or towed in the past two months, your parking tips are the saddest transportation event since brachiation went out. W.E.R. LaFarge '54