San Francisco Parking App Refuses Shut-Down Order

>Dobrowolny said MonkeyParking doesn't sell parking spots, but convenience.

>Herrera spokesman Matt Dorsey described MonkeyParking's statements as "verbal gymnastics." "It's like a prostitute saying she's not selling sex — she's only selling information about her willingness to have sex with you," Dorsey said in a written statement.

Unless something has changed since the last time I was in San Fransisco, the backpages of just about every alt-weekly are loaded with ads for people technically only selling "escorting." A couple hundred feet from my hotel was a bathhouse that technically only sold massages. There was an awful lot of businesses that technically were only selling "glassware" and not recreational drug paraphernilia.

And who exactly, is preventing the city from building a better mousetrap and making a more convenient app for the same thing? That's a win/win/win!

Yes, it's a work-around, but it totally makes sense, at least until the city comes up with a better solution for the parking issues in the city.