What happens when frogs park illegally?

setup: What happens when frogs park illegally?

[Magistrate] qua robes, gavel, bench Case 412-Charlie. People of Pond County versus Mr. Rivet. Approach.

[Frog] qua green, slightly damp, suit jacket, briefcase Your honor.

[Magistrate] Mr. Rivet. You are accused of illegal lily-pad occupation. Six counts. Read the citation.

[Bailiff] qua uniform, holding a tablet “Defendant was observed on the morning of April 9th occupying lily-pads designated for emergency-amphibian vehicles only, in a non-emergency state, for a period of approximately three hours and twelve minutes.”

[Frog] Your honor. I was sitting on a lily pad.

[Magistrate] A reserved lily pad.

[Frog] I didn’t see a sign.

[Magistrate] The sign is underwater. It is under the lily-pad.

[Shakes] qua court reporter, beaming This is the best of all possible municipal hearings.

[Frog] How could I see it.

[Magistrate] That is the point of the placement. Frogs are presumed to know which lily-pads are theirs.

[Frog] By what mechanism.

[Magistrate] Croak recognition. Each lily-pad has a registered croak.

[Frog] That’s a biometric requirement that was never disclosed.

[Manyfeek] qua impounded lily-pad on the evidence table, leaves curling ((FROM ITS POSITION)) I have been towed forty-six times this year. I have no agency. I am a vehicle.

[Magistrate] Mr. Rivet. The penalty for six counts of illegal parking is six hundred dollars or six days community service.

[Frog] What’s the community service.

[Magistrate] Cleaning the murk.

[Frog] Which murk.

[Magistrate] All of it.

[Frog] I’ll take the fine.

[Magistrate] And your vehicle has been towed.

[Frog] By whom.

[Magistrate] Toad services.

[Frog] Same toads?

[Magistrate] Same toads.

[Frog] Of course it is.

punchline: They get toad.