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The winter parking wars continue. Roughly 15 of the 30 spots on my street are claimed.
It’s quite easy to push those chairs out of the way with a car bumper.
The IRS listening to your phone calls from the yellow van.
Andrew
Does that really stop people from parking? Maybe everyone knows everyone’s car? Do the chairs have names on them or something?
I would toss that chair over to the sidewalk and park as I please.
Can someone call a traffic cop? Surely they don’t approve of games like this.
No car = Open space.
I’ve moved everything to the curb several times but the shit is multiplying so I can’t keep up.
Yes it does prevent a lot of people from parking there because every year there are stories about cars getting keyed, fights, etc. I tried calling the traffic people and the woman recommended I join in on the territorial battle. I said “But the town law says you are not allowed to do this. Are you telling me I should do it anyway?” She got confused and told me to call back tomorrow.
It doesn’t take much digging to find a bunch of stories similar to this one. Although not snow related, people get heated over parking (from the San Fran Chronicle):
In a killing investigators called “silly” and “senseless,” a 33-year-old Oakland man was gunned down in an argument over a parking space at his apartment complex in a normally peaceful neighborhood, police said Wednesday.
there are clearly no mexicans where you live! you put stuff out on the street in southern california and it disappers faster than you can say hasta la vista baby. nobody recycles like mexicans recycle.
there are clearly no mexicans where you live! you put stuff out on the street in southern california and it disappers faster than you can say hasta la vista baby. nobody recycles like mexicans recycle.
Wow, more comments of bigotry from OAD.
bigotry? since when was recycling pejorative?
To you and Matti
Triocd is in Boston, so I don’t know the answer to your question to him specifically. But, this putting lawn chairs, garbage cans what ever in the street to save your spot is pretty common in Chicago and has become a bit of an institution. If you were to move some stuff out of the way to park in a spot in that someone dug out in front of their house, then you may come out to find that you didn’t have any more glass in your car. My guess is that if you called the Chicago Police and wanted to file a report that they’d take your report, but tell you that you shouldn’t have moved the stuff out of the way and found a different place to park. Then procede to lose your report on the way to the station.
So long and short yes, this keeps people from parking there.
Two or three years ago someone in the city councel brought up a new law that would prevent just this. The Mayor pretty much endorsed the practice of saving your spot with your garbage and refused to bring the bill up in session. The only time the city gets cranky about it is when people leave their crap in the street after the snow is gone or rather well cleaned up.
Public street? I can’t think of any reason to even acknowledge a “saved” spot. Anyone who puts something in the street deserves to have it run over.
Read my edited post #6. I’m not going to risk getting murdered over this shit. A quick google search will show you that people DO get killed over taking a saved spot. If I were single and didn’t give a shit, I’d do that and keep a baseball bat with me. But with a family, I’m not going to mess with people I don’t know.
Read my edited post #6. I’m not going to risk getting murdered over this shit. A quick google search will show you that people DO get killed over taking a saved spot
Got it, and I can’t argue. The arrogance and sense of self-import that some people have never ceases to amaze.
What he said.
This mostly happens is in neighborhoods where everyone knows everyone else, and people are pretty particular about parking right in front of their house. If you were to pull up in your ride w/ Fla plates and park in front of someones house in the summer they’d only give you a silly look and realize you’re not a local. If someone spent 3 hours digging out after the plow comes through you’d be asking for trouble by not acknowledging a “saved” spot.
I don’t see anything wrong with a chair being used to save one’s spot so long as someone is sitting in the chair. 
Makes me grateful for the normal city that I live in.
Although this is part of the reason I would hate to live in the city I fully understand it.
Let’s say you live on a street that has 30 spots and there are 20 people that want them.
You wake up one morning and there is 12" of snow on your car and street. You and 9 other folks dig out your car, spot and head off to work. At noon the other 10 folks finally stumble out of bed after a hard night of drinking. They all hop into their cars and head to the liquor store. They just drive away leaving their spots full of snow and dragging some into your clean spot. They then head back home…but park in your nice clean spots. You get home from work and there are no spots left. So you have to shovel out another spot and park. Come Friday you leave work and head home only to find out a couple of your neighbors have already started parting for the weekend and have friends over and you guessed it, parked in your spot…you shovel another out.
For the most part for the average person this may not be a big deal, but for some people shoveling a spot out is a major undertaking and doing 3 in a week is a recipe for a heart attack.
~Matt
I hear what you’re saying and I know it would be extremely frustrating to be a good shoveler. But the key word is PUBLIC parking, which means not owned by the residents.
bigotry? since when was recycling pejorative?
Thanks for proving conclusively that you are not only a troll but a bigot.
At the moment, it’s 74 degrees here in Nor Cal so I must admit I have never considered that problem. On the rare occasion that we do drive to Tahoe to see snow, I really enjoy shoveling. It just feels so productive. Like mowing the lawn, only way more pride in seeing my accomplishment. You guys are lucky.
most towns I’ve lived in with alternate side parking - the snow plows would have thrown that junk way up on the front porch.