2007 The Joey Dudley parking saga

[ynkfan42]

There is plenty of parking on campus...always has been. It's called Cajun Field. The bus ride isn't bad but you know people want what they want and they want it now. That's where I came in. Parking Nazi deluxe. You learned to sterotype cars...Greeks, jacked up little dick trucks, jeeps, hoopties,
etc. Those are always the kind of people you find just oblivious to any sort of structure for what they can and can't do. And...Athletes. I towed Hollie Tankersly several times cause she refused to buy a sticker for her little black...Acrua I think it was. Just doing my job...though I want to think that all the rage and frustration I caused her made her hit more long balls.

Parking on campus is a free for all most of the time. These are college students, for the most part they are all somewhat intelligent. You have to outsmart them. Hell we busted a fake ID card ring when somebody had the bright idea of putting Stokes residents in the gated lot next to Madison Hall. They would Xerox the bar code and it would work, so they started selling the copied cards. So we went and staked out in our personal vehicles and waited for anyone to swipe in without a parking sticker. Let them park...walk away from their vehicle...and then call in their license plate to see if they were registered or not. If not registered...they got towed. We got called from one of the residents who sold their scanned card to someone who got towed. He was very angry that we were ruining his business opportunity and that we should be allowing this to continue because he played Football and Troy Wingerter said it was OK. I want to say it was Abdul Levier...or a Bustle running back that I cannot remember the name. Needless to say Wingerter was less than impressed at this and vowed to make him...and I quote..."run so hard he will be ____ting and puking at the same time." Just one of the fun stories of being a Parking Nazi and collecting a check while making everyone's life a living

Could you be any more of a nice guy?

[LaCajunsFan]

Agreed. Except Douche bag might be too weak.

[RedCajun]

There is plenty of parking on campus...always has been. It's called Cajun Field. The bus ride isn't bad but you know people want what they want and they want it now. That's where I came in. Parking Nazi deluxe. You learned to sterotype cars...Greeks, jacked up little dick trucks, jeeps, hoopties, etc. Those are always the kind of people you find just oblivious to any sort of structure for what they can and can't do. And...Athletes. I towed Hollie Tankersly several times cause she refused to buy a sticker for her little black...Acrua I think it was. Just doing my job...though I want to think that all the rage and frustration I caused her made her hit more long balls.

Parking on campus is a free for all most of the time. These are college students, for the most part they are all somewhat intelligent. You have to outsmart them. Hell we busted a fake ID card ring when somebody had the bright idea of putting Stokes residents in the gated lot next to Madison Hall. They would Xerox the bar code and it would work, so they started selling the copied cards. So we went and staked out in our personal vehicles and waited for anyone to swipe in without a parking sticker. Let them park...walk away from their vehicle...and then call in their license plate to see if they were registered or not. If not registered...they got towed. We got called from one of the residents who sold their scanned card to someone who got towed. He was very angry that we were ruining his business opportunity and that we should be allowing this to continue because he played Football and Troy Wingerter said it was OK. I want to say it was Abdul Levier...or a Bustle running back that I cannot remember the name. Needless to say Wingerter was less than impressed at this and vowed to make him...and I quote..."run so hard he will be ____ting and puking at the same time." Just one of the fun stories of being a Parking Nazi and collecting a check while making everyone's life a living hell.

No offense to Cajunhawk, but hopefully that department has been cleaned up in recent years at the top. 2 or 3 heads of parking and transit in a row got arrested for skimming money from ticket fines in the early 2000's.

[Boomer]

No offense to Cajunhawk, but hopefully that department has been cleaned up in recent years at the top. 2 or 3 heads of parking and transit in a row got arrested for skimming money from ticket fines in the early 2000's.

----What ever happened to that entire situation??? Anybody remember??

[cajunhawk]

----What ever happened to that entire situation??? Anybody remember??

The first boss...Joey Dudley got a slap on the wrist, still lives in the area. Second boss got caught...and committed suicide. Dean Pratt retired shortly after...I always thought he was the one behind it all...but no way to know now. Last I heard Joey Sturm, chief of police at UL took over the department and major changes were made.

[RaginDave]

Lucien Gastineau or was all of this post Lucien?

[cajunhawk]

Lucien Gastineau or was all of this post Lucien?

I think Mr. Gastineau retired, I could be wrong. He left the parking department well before the ____ hit the fan, moved over to the union to work with Cajun Card services. Good man.

[RaginDave]

Cool, he is a fraternity brother of mine. Haven't spoken to him in ages, just wanted to make sure he was not involved in this mess. He was/is a good man.

[billbeck451]

I used to always park on frat row in the 80's and would gey tickets the up went as far asnumbering the tickets it was funny till the letter threatening to hold my grades came and I had to cut a deal with head of parking and a paument plan to get my grades released I also think the up hot in some trouble since I was never booted and he numbered the tickets so this isisn't a new problem

[Cajun90]

Cool, he is a fraternity brother of mine. Haven't spoken to him in ages, just wanted to make sure he was not involved in this mess. He was/is a good man.

Lucien is definitely a good guy and so is Joey. Unfortunate what happened in the time between the two of them.

[Cajunmole]

Today I received an email from the Communication and Marketing @ Louisiana, a University of Louisians eNew letter (can be found at media@louisiana.edu) and there is an article with the headlines "Soileau direct transportation service" and of course I could care less who is getting appointed to this position, but now I see why she was recently appointed to this position.

[duggie85]

I got one ticket in 7 years. Placed that one "ticket" envelope on my windshield and never received another.