Example: cop parks his $70,000 Corvette on River Terrace at Warren Street. Parks in the exact same spot for 14 months. Uses his unmarked car to hold his spot when he takes his Vette out. In the above picture, said Vette with car cover that hasn’t been moved since before last months’s storm cannot possibly be on ‘official police duty.’

Transportation Alternatives, champion of drug-addled cyclists and 12-step pedicab drivers, says — and we agree — that municipal employees, especially the police, abuse their city-issued parking permits. The group estimates that at least 150,000 drivers — more than 12.5 times the number of yellow cab drivers — have such permits.

Parking permits, says TA, have become de facto salary bonuses. A Police Department Spokesman disputes this, claiming that permits do not allow police or other vehicles to park at bus stops or fire hydrants. Indeed, several weeks ago, the Police Department towed 12 vehicles displaying police and court permits that were parked illegally in Chinatown.

Okay, but did they pay the $600 ticket and pound fees?

– Swapon Nath

Another two journalists who oughta have their tushies paddled: first, our old classmate from NYU journalism school, Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s puffy-lipped “money honey,” has been caught accepting private jet rides from ex-Citigroup honcho, Todd Thomson, a person she was supposed to be objectively covering. Commenting on Bartiromo’s “close friendship” with Thomson, Steve Adler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Week, where Bartiromo writes a regular column, said, “We’re confident that she’s been complying with our journalistic code of ethics…we think it’s a useful column for our readers and we’re continuing with it.” In other words: she’s hot. On a second front, the New York Daily News published a non-apology for its shmaltzy and completely innaccurate coverage of Cesar Borja’s death, and Cesar Jr’s grief.

Our favorite snow storm story is Mayor Bloomberg’s bizarro decision not to suspend parking regulations, even though thousands of cars were plowed in and couldn’t be moved unless owners — many of them elderly — grabbed shovels and chipped away at frozen drifts. For years, the Mayor has tried to prove he’s not just another insensitive billionaire, dangerously out-of-touch with the peasants. He rides the subway sometimes, he listens to Aretha Franklin, and unlike his creepy predecessor, he makes nice with everyone. Fortunately, the picture of cops issuing tickets to snow-bound cars created such outrage, the Mayor back-tracked today.

Memo to City Council: You morons.

– Zachary Cohen

Not surprisingly, the city’s Traffic Rules, Section 4-08, says the guy was wrong. “Unofficial reserving of parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person to reserve or attempt to reserve a parking space, or prevent any vehicle from parking on a public street through his/her presence in the roadway, the use of hand-signals, or by placing any box, can, crate, hand-cart, dolly or any other device, including unauthorized pavement, curb or streroadway.”

The guy won.