palad: If I spend 2hrs digging out a spot, I own it for the rest of the day. Park there at your peril, because I will farking slash your tires, I swear to god.

Someone around here did that once, too bad the guy he did it to was a city cop. I think he did 6 or 8 months for felony vandalism or something like that. And he somehow "fell down" a few times when he was arrested.

I talked to the cop after it happened, he said if he'd seen someone slashing his tires, he could have shot them dead and no one would have said shiat about it since it would have been a man facing him with a knife in his hand.

I really want to walk down my street and take all the busted-arse lawn chairs, brooms etc and throw them in the dumpsters. I guess I can do that because I don't have a car so I'm not worried about getting it farked up, and my service could be viewed as removing litter from the street. On the other hand, there's a family of scary-looking meth head types about five houses down that I'd rather not get involved with that.

/Bucktown, Chicago

Je5tEr: Someone around here did that once, too bad the guy he did it to was a city cop. I think he did 6 or 8 months for felony vandalism or something like that. And he somehow "fell down" a few times when he was arrested.

I talked to the cop after it happened, he said if he'd seen someone slashing his tires, he could have shot them dead and no one would have said shiat about it since it would have been a man facing him with a knife in his hand.

Heh. I never thought i'd find myself agreeing with police brutality.

TsukasaK: Je5tEr: Someone around here did that once, too bad the guy he did it to was a city cop. I think he did 6 or 8 months for felony vandalism or something like that. And he somehow "fell down" a few times when he was arrested.

I talked to the cop after it happened, he said if he'd seen someone slashing his tires, he could have shot them dead and no one would have said shiat about it since it would have been a man facing him with a knife in his hand.

Heh. I never thought i'd find myself agreeing with police brutality.

Well, it WAS icy....

Cereal Fetish: gunsmack: Can't save your space, but you can sure a hell pay a punk $20 to strip any car that takes your spot.

Suppose one shovels their car out and leaves, placing a chair or garbage can in its place. Some guy comes, moves the crap and parks there. Then that guy leaves and a third guy parks there, not knowing the spot was "reserved" at one point. The first guy comes back goes all wharrgarbl-y and damages that car.

That is just one of several reasons why this whole premise is completely stupid.

Wanted for questioning.

Foaming: Just to be evil: What happens if someone marks a spot with hazardous materials that the sanitation department can't take?

They call the DEP on you.

Enjoy me parking my car in the middle of the street while I dig out a spot to park since it's so bad of me to save it while I grab my car.

Am I the only person who read that as "saving your parking space with your junk"?

/I thought, "wouldn't that be cold?"

Klivian: Yea, good luck trying to save a spot here. I live in Somerville (just over the river from Boston for you non-locals), and while Boston lets you reserve spots, this town doesn't. They're actually somewhat insane about snow rules. When a snow emergency is declared, you can only park on one side of the street. Go ahead and see how long that chair lasts when there's suddenly only half the spaces available.

And what's with this 2 hour nonsense? Even this winter the longest it's taken me to get out of my space is 15 minutes.

My block is covered in smashed chairs. I live on a private block, people are trying to save the spots, it is not going over well. I just never move my car.

/also in Somerville

reillan: Am I the only person who read that as "saving your parking space with your junk"?

/I thought, "wouldn't that be cold?"

Nope. Glad to see my mind is firmly in the gutter.

/I thought "Only as long as it takes for someone to get you hauled away for a sex offense"

Glad my apartment has a parking lot with reserved parking, I'd hate having to park on the street in my tight neighborhood (in Seattle, not NY). That said, "saving" parking spots like that is stupid. Yeah, it sucks to lose "your" spot, but you don't own the street. You want a private parking spot, you pay for it or live someplace less crowded.

Every few months somebody does park in my reserved (and paid for) spot, so a while back I got a pad of those passive aggressive novelty parking tickets that say "hey, you suck at parking, stop making the world a bad place to drive" with a checklist of what they did wrong. There is a big pickup truck that has occasionally parked on the sidewalk parallel to real parking spots but clearly on the sidewalk and partially blocking the driveway to my parking lot. So I finally got to use one of my notes and feel appropriately Seattle passive-aggressive-y.

/next time a magazine dump on their hood and windshield
//not really, not an ITG
///maybe next time I'll call parking enforcement
////oh snap
//CSB

towandarox: Lived in VA, huge snowstorm with ice hit; neighbors had hammers, ice picks, and other implements trying to cut the 2 foot high pile of ice away from their car tires. Hours went by. I watched out the window with amusement and I decided to figuratively biatch slap them all....so I boiled a huge bucket full of water, walked out the door, and said, "TAH DAHHHH!!," and I spilled the boiling hot water on the ice. It melted in like, 2 seconds flat. Their eyes bugged out of their heads, and groans were heard all around. Then I laughed, went back inside, and made everybody some hot cocoa while they continued to hack away with their implements, telling me "it'll just refreeze."

But it didn't.

Pardon my ignorance, but why wouldn't it refreeze?

palad: If I spend 2hrs digging out a spot, I own it for the rest of the day. Park there at your peril, because I will farking slash your tires, I swear to god.

It took you 2 hours to shovel out a 10'x25' area? you're doing it wrong. When I was a kid, you want to know how I pulled $20/hr shovelling snow? I shovelled three farking driveways in that hour, that's how! Grow a pair and learn how to shovel instead of worrying about how to slash tires FFS.

"If you don't like the traditions of our neighborhood laws of the city then move out."

FTFTFA

Subby: Saving your parking space with junk in NY is in fact illegal

My junk is big enough to save a parking space.

It tends to shrink a bit when it gets snow on it, though.

/Nothing to contribute, moving along now.

literaldeluxe: towandarox: Lived in VA, huge snowstorm with ice hit; neighbors had hammers, ice picks, and other implements trying to cut the 2 foot high pile of ice away from their car tires. Hours went by. I watched out the window with amusement and I decided to figuratively biatch slap them all....so I boiled a huge bucket full of water, walked out the door, and said, "TAH DAHHHH!!," and I spilled the boiling hot water on the ice. It melted in like, 2 seconds flat. Their eyes bugged out of their heads, and groans were heard all around. Then I laughed, went back inside, and made everybody some hot cocoa while they continued to hack away with their implements, telling me "it'll just refreeze."

But it didn't.

Pardon my ignorance, but why wouldn't it refreeze?

MAGNETS!


zodar99: On the plus side, shovel out a spot and you get free junk hauling.

What I was thinking... got something the trash men state you can not throw away.. use it to block the spot. Old couch, banned electronics, etc. Hell, don't even need to own a car, wait until someone pulls out, run down and toss the stuff in the spot! TaaDaa!

As for someone parking right in front of my house where I've worked an hour to clear out a spot using a matic and shovel to break up ice and get rid of it and the snow... you are welcome to it as long as it is gone before I return home. If it stays there, don't go crying when it winds up with busted windows, dented rear quarters, cut tires and a nice drink of water in the tank - to hell with any wussy scratch down the side, kiddy shiat.
(not that I would ever have ANY idea how any of that happened at 1:36am, or even what time it happened at)

It's a city street, not your parking spot.
Don't like it? Don't park underneath the falling snow.

Cereal Fetish: gunsmack: Can't save your space, but you can sure a hell pay a punk $20 to strip any car that takes your spot.

Suppose one shovels their car out and leaves, placing a chair or garbage can in its place. Some guy comes, moves the crap and parks there. Then that guy leaves and a third guy parks there, not knowing the spot was "reserved" at one point. The first guy comes back goes all wharrgarbl-y and damages that car.

That is just one of several reasons why this whole premise is completely stupid.

This is why I don't like driving in Chicago in the winter. No telling if a spot was 'liberated' from a chair or not.

The whole premise came about because of the few asshats who would just pull their car out instead of shoveling and then take a shoveled spot upon their return. The neighbors know who these people are. Instead of dealing with them appropriately this stupid reserving of parking places is done.

Just take a photo of where cars were when the storm starts. Then everyone knows for sure who didn't dig and moved into a clean spot. Move the snow from the unclean spot to where they parked. They'll get the hint eventually.

punkwrestler: Driveways are a lot easier to shovel than on street cars. You can basically run the shovel down the side and toss whereever. On the street you have to clean the car off shovel once then bring the snow to a pile not just toss, be careful not to scratch your car while you do this.

That's still not going to turn a 10-minute job into 4-1/2 hours.

My last house actually had a driveway that squeezed through an alleyway, so I actually did have to carry the snow out one shovelful at a time. Even so, shoveling was a half hour of work.

Pribar: /watch out for electrified fences, I don't care what mythbusters claim I can attest to the fact that pissing on one will ruin your day (and bring merriment to the onlookers)

THIS

palad: If I spend 2hrs digging out a spot, I own it for the rest of the day.

If it takes you 2 hours to shovel out a space the size of a car, then maybe you should park in a handicapped spot.

Also, you massively overestimate the value of your labor. You could get a neighborhood kid to shovel out your space for 5-10 bucks. Can that much money buy you an all-day reserved parking space in NYC?

Je5tEr: "I spend 4-1/2 hours digging out my spot and some guy comes by and takes my spot? I'm pissed off," he said.

In all the years I've had my truck, I've spent maybe 15 minutes shoveling out from all the "snowmageddons".

I have no sympathy for those who choose to buy shiatty, can't handle the weather, vehicles.

How much extra gas do you burn year-round, to save yourself a little shoveling?

gunsmack: Can't save your space, but you can sure a hell pay a punk $20 to strip any car that takes your spot.

Or you could spend half that much to pay the neighbor's kid to dig you out a new spot.

But then you'd have to admit that your backbreaking labor wasn't actually worth all that much.

Pribar: punkwrestler: Pribar: Lamune_Baba: BigRightRear: Us country folk scoff at your little parking spot. I could fit about a dozen cars in my front driveway and about 50 in my race shop driveway.

BUT I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING!

Yea in the middle of the noise and idiots trying to regulate everything you do, I shot a deer from my back porch 3 years ago, no one around to complain. Heck if I decide today is nude Thursday I can strip and go mow the lawn, try that in downtown Brooklyn.


Makes using the outhouse easier...

Another beautiful thing...the outhouse is wherever I decide it is convenient to pee.

/watch out for electrified fences, I don't care what mythbusters claim I can attest to the fact that pissing on one will ruin your day (and bring merriment to the onlookers)

Shocking

Foaming: Just to be evil: What happens if someone marks a spot with hazardous materials that the sanitation department can't take?

Like New Jersey?
Klivian: Yea, good luck trying to save a spot here. I live in Somerville (just over the river from Boston for you non-locals), and while Boston lets you reserve spots, this town doesn't. They're actually somewhat insane about snow rules. When a snow emergency is declared, you can only park on one side of the street. Go ahead and see how long that chair lasts when there's suddenly only half the spaces available.

And what's with this 2 hour nonsense? Even this winter the longest it's taken me to get out of my space is 15 minutes.

That's because Mayor Joe is a Douche who doesn't remember where the fark he came from and has let the parking commission take over the farking City. WTF, is up with Union Square they have a lane that has no use whatsoever. Sorry, as someone who grew up in Somerville and is now a landlord I really hate the crap the city is going through right now.

Course the way the economy is going I may be forced to move back before it's all said and done.

/I screwed with my tenants this week. I told them I was coming up and would need the driveway.
//Like I would drive up to Somerville in this crap.

LavenderWolf: tbyte: "I spend 4-1/2 hours digging out my spot and some guy comes by and takes my spot? I'm pissed off," he said.


More like 4-1/2 minutes. New York averages how many inches a day? Can't be more than a couple in February.

Are you on drugs?

The Incredible Sexual Egg: tbyte: "I spend 4-1/2 hours digging out my spot and some guy comes by and takes my spot? I'm pissed off," he said.


More like 4-1/2 minutes. New York averages how many inches a day? Can't be more than a couple in February.

You don't watch a whole lotta news, do you?

I don't watch news, but I do read the weather online. It's averaged less than 2 inches per day from the articles on all the news sites. All the panic is just B.S.

sirgrim: Ahh my night job, shoveling out spots and sitting there until someone buys it from me.

Moved to San Francisco, the homeless stand in empty spots and sell them with no shoveling involved.

wambu: saving your parking space with junk in NY is in fact illegal

As well it should be, public street and all.

Of course, you could get shot for moving their crap . . .

Though it really needs to be the other way around.

"This your spot?"
"Yeah, what of it?!"
"Oh, so you paid the city for a special permit and it's designated with Roads & Services?"
"Uh... no, BUT I DUG IT OUT!"
"Thanks for saving me the trouble then" *BLAM!*

You don't own the spot, jackass.

palad: If I spend 2hrs digging out a spot, I own it for the rest of the day. Park there at your peril, because I will farking slash your tires, I swear to god.

...because slashing the tires on the "offending" car (and thus rendering it immobile) will totally free up "your" parking space.

sexy-fetus: Enjoy me parking my car in the middle of the street while I dig out a spot to park since it's so bad of me to save it while I grab my car.

So...you will park your car in the street while you shovel out a parking space, as opposed to shoveling the space while the car is parked elsewhere?

If your car is already parked somewhere other than the middle of the street, why do you need to dig out another parking spot for it?

There is no need for any kind of law to be referenced here. "Saving" a space is total and complete bullshiat that only a true asshole even attempts.

One of my friends in Chicago has gotten herself a whole bunch of new chairs this past couple of weeks for use at BBQs and whatnot.

Chair in the street?

Free chair!

The moral of the story: Don't live somewhere where you have to spend four and a half hours shoveling a parking space for your car.

/seriously, why do all of you people voluntarily live in areas where white stuff falls on the ground?

TheSilverOne: On the north side of Chicago they'd beat you over the head with their lawn chairs and hockey sticks for even thinking about telling them they can't save their spots.

This is why you can't have nice things like World Series appearances

Lachwen: palad: If I spend 2hrs digging out a spot, I own it for the rest of the day. Park there at your peril, because I will farking slash your tires, I swear to god.

...because slashing the tires on the "offending" car (and thus rendering it immobile) will totally free up "your" parking space.

sexy-fetus: Enjoy me parking my car in the middle of the street while I dig out a spot to park since it's so bad of me to save it while I grab my car.

So...you will park your car in the street while you shovel out a parking space, as opposed to shoveling the space while the car is parked elsewhere?

If your car is already parked somewhere other than the middle of the street, why do you need to dig out another parking spot for it?

I have this work thing I go to. Sometimes there's not a clear spot close. Usually I'll park a bit away shovel the spot and put a chair their while I grab my car.
More and more people are being told to ignore parking chairs, so I can either make sure my car is close enough to get the spot when I'm done or do all that work for no gain.