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I don't think this is necessarily malevolent.

If you don't enforce the parking law for the non-functioning hydrants, people may become complacent or confused and start parking in front of necessary ones.

But removing them isn't worth it either, because it's expensive, and there's no particular need to. (The article says they can afford it, but even so, there are probably better uses for the money.)



>there's no particular need to

How about creating legal parking places? Obviously some of those parking places were heavily desired.


So it needs to be clear which ones are non-functioning so people know it's ok to park there. Ignoring that, and profiting off of it is malevolent.


Making it clear (say, by painting them) would still cost money.




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