Trailer Parking Wars: Season 1. Photos Top cast Edit. Sherry Royal Self as Self. Steve Garfield Self as Self. Ricky Roma Self as Self. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The series attempts to humanize parking enforcement professionals, who many view as an annoyance. Did you know Edit. Trivia Rapper Dolla Reed appeared on the first season. His staff gave "promotional Copies" of "Toast to this And Then Came Reed" to staff behind cameras, saying that the album was "going to drop in February," and Dolla gave a signed copy to the main fellow older male, parking authority lot attendant- who seemed quite tickled as thanks for helping him get his van out.
Despite some early success with his singles and modelling, unfortunately Reed was shot to death in before finishing his debut album. User reviews 4 Review.
Top review. Parking officers have feelings, too. The first thing that's clear about Parking Wars is that the often-hated parking officers are individuals with wonderful sense of humours and personalities who are just doing their job. They deal with so many angry citizens who didn't follow the rules that they agreed to by obtaining a driver's licence and owning a motor vehicle.
It's a fair system designed to maintain order, but many citizens don't see it that way, they make up their own rules. This is where the television show gets interesting and we see many "victims" who try to talk their way out of a fine and usually end up personally insulting the parking officer or wasting hours of their important lives arguing about small details at the vehicle impound center.
People yell obscenities from the sidewalk as the clamping van slowly drives by, checking each car's plate for outstanding tickets, as if it's a game. The officers inside the van seem to love it and are never surprised when someone will come running out of a house with some ridiculous story about why the tickets haven't been paid. One of the most popular figures in the first proper season of Parking Wars was Philadelphia Parking Authority employee, Martin Anderson.
As with a lot of so-called reality TV shows, there have been plenty of allegations that producers would sometimes script some of the more outlandish moments, or even set up confrontations with the Philadelphia Parking Authority employees in the name of entertainment. Seven years passed between that first Parking Wars documentary film and the first episode of the TV series by the same name, so it is perhaps unsurprising that the makers of the show would choose to make a few changes.
The first five seasons of Parking Wars were filmed entirely on location in Philadelphia and concentrated very much on the same small group of PPA employees. However, variety is the spice of life, and the makers of the show realized they needed to change things up a bit.
For season six, they introduced the parking enforcers of Detroit, Michigan, and eventually, Philadelphia was dropped altogether in season seven, in favor of new cities Providence, Rhode Island, Trenton, New Jersey, as well as Staten Island and North Hempstead in New York.
The first film had followed the Philadelphia Parking Authority through the whole process, from issuing tickets to collecting fines, and from putting boots on vehicles without outstanding fines to towing cars whose owners had racked up significant debts. It also included occasions when PPA staff had to seize vehicles, which were then auctioned off to pay for the fines, a part of the process which was dropped when it came to the Parking Wars TV series, in favor of more on-street confrontations.
Clarence Nichols was one of the Philadelphia Parking Authority enforcers who had been on Parking Wars from the start of the series, driving one of the tow trucks which patrolled the city, picking up illegally-parked vehicles, or those whose owners owed thousands in unpaid parking fine. Considering that he had worked for the PPA for many years, you would have thought that Nichols would have a perfect parking record; however, he actually had his own car towed away once by the PPA.
At least he had a good excuse — he had lent the vehicle to his sister for a few days! While dwindling ratings were partly responsible for the decision to introduce new cities into the show, and to eventually drop Philadelphia from Parking Wars altogether, it was far from the only reason. The local tourist board received dozens of letters and emails from viewers who said that they were never going to visit the city.
They cited the reason was because of the way the Philadelphia Parking Authority dealt with parking infringements, including those committed by visitors to the city, who often found the local parking rules difficult to understand. Given all the bad press that Parking Wars generated within Philadelphia, it was inevitable that the Philadelphia Parking Authority was going to come under criticism for agreeing to take part in the TV series in the first place.
After all, the PPA is a government agency, and they have a responsibility not only to treat the members of the public with respect but also to represent the city when it comes to visitors and tourists. That is why the city can also seize and auction vehicles if the debt is serious enough.
Jeff Widman is another of the Philadelphia Parking Authority workers who were involved with Parking Wars from the very beginning, and was definitely a bit of eye candy for the female viewers! However, the show was broadcast early enough in the evening that any swear words had to be either cut from the show completely, to sanitize the whole argument, or if the producers could get away with it, they would just bleep out the bad words, and leave the rest of the row as it was.
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