OK, maybe I should say that the city of Phoenix is a racist city that has one set of laws for Spanish speaking people and another set of laws for English speaking people.
I shot all these photos at Ramada 13,
which is in Phoenix's Papago Park.
Phoenix Papago Park is a rather large park which stretches 2 or so miles from McDowell Road on the north to Van Buren on the south, and from Priest Drive and Galvin Parkway on the west to the Crosscut Canal on the east.
Papago Park includes the Phoenix Zoo and the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.
I happened to be in Papago Park one day and I noticed that signs with the regulations and rules for fishing in the parks lakes had different rules on the English and Spanish signs.
A number of the fishing limits on the signs in Spanish were higher then the fishing limits in the English signs.
I don’t know if the city of Phoenix is teaming up with Sheriff Joe Arpio's gang of racist thugs and attempting
to find creative ways to run Latinos out of the country by setting higher
catch limits in the Spanish signs and then arresting Spanish speaking people that
break the law when they think the higher limits are legal.
The following photo is the sign with the rules listed in English
trout for children
The English sign says 1
the Spanish sign says 2
(trucha … para jovencitos)
largemouth bass
The English sign says 1
the Spanish sign says 4
(robalo de boca grande)
sunfish
The English sign says 5
the Spanish sign says 10
(pez luna)
white amur or grass carp
the English sign says 1
no limit is listed on the Spanish sign
The following photo is the sign with the rules listed in Spanish
On Tuesday, December 8, 2009, the East Valley Tribune wrote an article about how the light rail signs have a different set of rules for Spanish speaking people then English speaking people.
Also this isn’t the first time the city of Phoenix has made up imaginary laws and posted them in Phoenix Parks.
The one I remember are signs that are used to run homeless people out of Phoenix parks which say something like:
No shopping carts allowed in park - CC 24-26But then you go to the Phoenix city code and look up CC 24-26 it doesn’t say a thing about shopping carts being illegal in Phoenix parks. It says
No person shall operate a skateboard, conventional or in-line roller skates, bicycle, wagon, or other wheeled vehicle or device in a public park where one or more signs are posted prohibiting such activity, or in a manner which causes injury to any person or damage to public or private property.I wouldn’t have a problem if the city of Phoenix posted a silly sign that said
Operating shopping carts in a reckless manner is illegalBut of course a sign like that wouldn’t serve the purpose of running homeless folks out of the park so the tyrants at the city of Phoenix simply lied and made up the sign which said shopping carts are illegal in city parks.