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Siesta Seen READ THE SIGNS Just last week, accounts from residents of Avenida de Mayo show that even with season having ended, their parking woes go on. One resident notified Michael Shay, the SKA president, on June 11 — and sent him pho- tos — showing a car and truck that had been parked illegally on the street for three straight days without getting tickets. The truck was obstructing the sidewalk in the first block of Avenida de Mayo, where park- ing is prohibited, the resident pointed out to Shay. The VW bus was on a grassy area. "I don't know what else can be done," the res- ident added in the email to Shay. "I really hate calling [the Sheriff's Office dispatch number] all the time." The next day, Shay contacted Sgt. Scott Osborne, head of the Sheriff 's Office's Community Policing Station on the island, to relay what residents had told him. Shay noted that the truck was parked across the side- walk opposite the driveway for the municipal parking lot. The resident noticed the situa- tion, Shay explained, because the resident saw a woman with a baby carriage who was on the sidewalk and had to maneuver around the truck. Osborne told me on June 16 that when he checked into the problem, he learned that the owner of the truck was renting a house on the street for just a week. In fact, the people stay- ing in the house had a total of four vehicles, plus a boat that was hitched to the truck. The man moved the truck after Osborne explained the parking rules, Osborne added. Avenida de Mayo residents also documented this truck parked across the sidewalk for hours. Contributed photo Residents of Avenida de Mayo contacted the Sheriff's Office last week about this VW bus that stood for hours in one of the 'No Parking' zones on the street. Contributed photo Sarasota News Leader June 20, 2014 Page 73