This WJLA story, about a group of residents on the 1300 block of Quincy Street NW who all got parking tickets for street cleaning violations last week, would be just a normal amount of frustrating, instead of blood-boilingly infuriating, were it not for this little nugget:

Pender went to the 4th district police headquarters to find our why he and his neighbors got tickets anyway.

“I talked to him and said I got a ticket for parking during street cleaning, but street cleaning has been suspended. He was a little surprised to find out street cleaning has been suspended and said we didn’t know anything about it.”

DCist readers know that street cleaning was suspended for the winter in the District on Nov. 30, just like it is every year. How hard is it to let the people who write parking tickets know about this stuff?