Peggy writes: "I live in the Sunset on 41st Avenue across the street from West Sunset Playground. For years we had a neighbor who made watching out for our street her full time job. She never slept. She knew all the right people to call and their phone numbers for instant graffiti removal, illegally parked cars towed and ticketed and the like. She passed away about a year ago and our block has gone downhill ever since.

Currently the big neighborhood problem is the parking of vehicles by people not from our neighborhood on the park side of 41st Avenue (between Pacheco and Quintara) and only moving them on street cleaning day and then returning them. We have had someone (not from our neighborhood as he drives away in a car) park their enormous RV across the street from our house for the past 6 weeks. The RV is as long as a single-wide trailer...almost as long as three of our houses side by side. When I open my drapes in the morning instead of seeing the playground and all the romping dogs, the Falcons hunting in the ivy etc., we see only this large trailer on wheels. Needless to say if we wanted to live in a trailer park we would.

I have spent hours and hours on the phone trying to get the local Taraval Station of the SFPD and the DPT to help us. There is the 72 hour parking rule plus I cannot believe it is legal to park such a large vehicle on City streets.

In the midst of trying to get someone to help us, I emailed the Taraval Station. The reply was priceless:

"I will give this to the traffic car in the taraval...... You can go to the sf gov web site and get copies of some fliers that you can hang on the vehicles..... abonandoned vehicles 72hour notice...my wife found them... we have the same problem in my neighborhood.... "

So the SFPD told me to print 72 hour notices and post them on the RV. Okay, I don't know if someone is living there and if I will be shot posting the notices. And since I'm posting the notices instead of DPT, they really mean nothing."

After the jump, the entire e-mail exchange