I've been fol­low­ing with in­ter­est the rapid de­vel­op­ment of a Face­book page called Bad Park­ers of T&T. It's an on­line fo­rum where the mass­es, armed with so­phis­ti­cat­ed wire­less hand­sets, can all find a sin­gle des­ti­na­tion for their pic­tures of peo­ple across the coun­try who've parked in the worst way.Posters gath­er in droves to com­mis­er­ate over what is yet an­oth­er man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Tri­ni "doh kear" at­ti­tude.

Whether in shop­ping malls, or nar­row side streets, the page pro­vides the widest pos­si­ble cross-sec­tion of of­fend­ers and in­nu­mer­able lo­ca­tions of where these of­fences are com­mit­ted. I laughed most hearti­ly when I saw a pho­to­graph of a wreck­er in down­town Port-of-Spain, il­le­gal­ly parked. The "pho­to-take-out­er" re­port­ed that the dri­ver of the wreck­er had stopped off to get an ice-cream and threat­ened him for tak­ing a pic­ture of his ve­hi­cle.

Vis­i­tors to the page are cur­rent­ly de­bat­ing the le­gal im­pli­ca­tions of putting er­rant cit­i­zens "on blast" by pub­lish­ing pho­tos of li­cence plates.Well, here is some ad­vice for the ad­min­is­tra­tors. It de­pends on the con­text. It is true that a li­cence plate is wide­ly ex­hib­it­ed in the pub­lic do­main. So if a pho­to­graph of a num­ber plate is tak­en in a pub­lic place, the­o­ret­i­cal­ly that should not present an is­sue. Here's where the con­text comes in though. A pho­to­graph does not al­ways tell the whole sto­ry.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers