January 31, 2004

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  Drivers fuming over tickets for snow emergency -- without snow!

  By The Associated Press
  (1/29/04 - SOMERVILLE, MA) — Some residents of this Boston suburb are being asked to pay for the mayor's snow job.
  

   Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone declared a snow emergency at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Within hours, with nary a flake in sight and barely any on the way, 3,000 cars were ticketed and another 200 were towed before the ban was lifted at 4:20 a.m.

  
  

  The tickets cost $50, and the tow jobs $145.

  
  

  The mayor said that he has no plans to forgive the tickets or the towing charges, which could combine for a possible $179,000 windfall for the city.

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