LOL what did Sheriff Carter have to do with the Blizzard of 1993?
Posted on 02/17/2015 9:00:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
You have obviously never lived in Boston. You don't mess with the parking spot chair! That goes double for anyone with NY plates.
I don’t get it, though.
Where was their car before they shoveled out the space?
Why aren’t they parking in the space after they shovel it out?
How long does etiquette say they can reserve an open space they shoveled out!
The problem with that, it seems to me from someone who has no experience with this, and therefore no bias, is that it is wasting a space to park if they shovel it out but then leave it open for hours on end.
That’s like cheating.
That presupposes no one else would be able to have dug it out.
I’d think, yes, you dig it out, it is your space, but you have to park in it.
I am not talking about space stealing where, say, someone digs out a space and before they can move their car over to park in it, someone takes it. That is wrong.
I’ve been to Boston. Drove there even.
I determined it is not a civilized place.
It’s winter. It’s New England. In the history of the area, it has had winters before; it has had snowfalls, both minor and major, before!
The major things that New England are famous for, down to including Christmas Season cards are: snow, cold, or at least the fantastic FALL changes of the tree leaves BEFORE the onset of WINTER!!!
There is no ‘rights’ issue, when you shovel out a parking space, you gimp!! It’s called FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
I lived on Cape Cod in the ‘60’s, snow and all.
I lived in Connecticut in my first years, and my last three years, of my school years, snow and all.
I lived on Long Island, when they still just called blizzards, “The Blizzard of ‘93’, etc. I COULD refer to that storm as ‘The Colin Ferguson Storm’.
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“Laws that must make you move your car from one side of the street to the other after a few hours. Laws that limit how ling you can park in that spot. And more. Much more.”
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And where are these laws in effect? This article IS about Boston neighborhoods.
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LOL what did Sheriff Carter have to do with the Blizzard of 1993?
I noted that too.
LOL!
I remember that story and the PICTURE. The car was encased with 2+ inches of ice.
This New Yorker was lucky the shoveler only put back the snow that was there. I would have also let the air out of their tires. Let them try to drive away with 4 flats.
Plus a NY driver knows this is an unwritten law in the city. People have literally been shot over things like this.
“No, I think he should park in his driveway. Or even better, his garage.
That’s what normal people do.”
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Oh for heaven’s sake,stop it.
You are starting to look silly.
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Most people who live in cities like Boston do not have a parking space or garage available to park their car. There are parking spots in NYC that have sold for $1 Million dollars. Only the expensive real estate in Boston comes with a parking spot. Many young people in Boston live three to five people(especially college students) in an apartment because it is so expensive.
It’s a public street, it’s fair game. If these whiners want a spot, they should park in their garage, driveway or rent a spot.
Well one day after a horrible snow storm, I had to dig my car out just to get out of the complex. To aid someone else who may have had a similar problem, I left the shovel in the snow bank in front of the spot I dug out.
Well, when I got home, sure enough, somebody parked in the spot I shoveled out. That didn't set well with me so I proceeded to put all the snow back.........
Most of these spaces are in front of homes, so they put in the marker so they don't have to dig out a new space when they get back. It's a pretty good code for the cramped streets and lack of residential parking.
This is Boston. It, and surrounding communities (I'm most familiar with Somerville), have many homes where there are no driveways, alleys, private garages, or parking garages nearby. They just don't have that luxury. So it's a community thing. It works well for them.
I don’t get it, though.
Where was their car before they shoveled out the space?
(Parked on the side of the street and covered with snow.)
Why aren’t they parking in the space after they shovel it out?
(They do. The chair, usually stashed in the trunk, is left behind in the cleared spot as a place-holder when the car is moved to go to work/store/etc.)
How long does etiquette say they can reserve an open space they shoveled out!
(This gets tricky. Usually snows in Boston melt down pretty quick so things return to semi-normal within a week. The past month as been anything but normal with snow pilled on snow and no melting in-between. The chair thing will go on until the first good thaw, whenever that occurs!)
The problem with that, it seems to me from someone who has no experience with this, and therefore no bias, is that it is wasting a space to park if they shovel it out but then leave it open for hours on end.
(Any chair-reserved spots I’ve ever seen are always in the residential neighborhoods; not the tourist areas and certainly not on the main street. Every urban residential street in Boston typically settles out so people have their expected parking spot in more or less the same place; usually in front of their house or nearby.)
That’s like cheating.
(Technically, reserving a public parking spot with a chair is not legal, but after John Q Public just shoveled the 4th 12” snow pile off his car, it would likely cause a riot if the Police started cracking down on the chairs. It might also lead to more of the alternative, and legal action, of simply letting your car get buried in snow on the street until Spring comes.)
That presupposes no one else would be able to have dug it out.
I’d think, yes, you dig it out, it is your space, but you have to park in it.
I am not talking about space stealing where, say, someone digs out a space and before they can move their car over to park in it, someone takes it. That is wrong.
Dear alex,
I forgive you, for being borne after the Fall of The berlin Wall, and not being of age to recognize the name ‘Colin Ferguson’.
He is also known as the Long Island Railroad Shooter. His actions, just happened to be, on the eve of the encroaching blizzard, in late ‘93, thereby stranding many commuters on the various railroad line platforms, on their way home, like me.
Now, who the truck is this sheriff carter you refer to?
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Should have sprayed it with the garden hose after piling the snow back on. Guy would have been stuck there until a thaw.
“Do you want all the northeasterners to move to Texas? I’m sure you wouldn’t like that, either.”
Unfortunately, that IS what is happening, but not just to Texas. The cancer, more often known by its medical name, libtardism, has been malignantly spreading across the nation destroying everything it touches. Most northeasterners are infected with libtardism, as the abundant strains found in areas like Boston and NYC have become especially virulent. Through God’s Love and Grace, some individuals come to recognize that they themselves have become infected, and if they are fortunate enough to have a portion of their brain and spirit remaining, not yet ravaged by the disease, choose to flee those hot zones of death and destruction by any means possible. The problem lies in the fact that there is no quarentine in effect to prevent these poor souls from entering relatively uninfected regions of the nation often refered to as flyover country, rural hicksville, the Rocky Mountain West, the corn belt, and Texas. At first they can unobtrusively establish themselves in these safe havens and all those they come in contact with warmly welcome them. Unfortunately, that phase is quickly passes and the disease progresses. The symptoms usually appear when the infected see their first nativity display, NRA bumper sticker, or a notice tacked up in the post office advertising a rattlesnake roundup or a coyote shoot. From there the disease starts to really take off. The next symptoms usually are multiple calls to the sheriff’s office requesting a deputy because the neighbor’s kids are playing with their .22’s in the nearby woods, or because the same kids are playing on their dirtbikes driving down the dirt ‘road’ past the infected’s house, or because the same kids dad was busy at 7am on a Saturday on his dozer finishing up the work he’d been doing clearing trees and brush to make room for a bigger workshop.
Soon the poor soul infected with libtardism realizes he isn’t the only one in the area with the disease, and a call goes out to all others infected to get together and organize. They meet in secret at first, but soon start attending county commissioner’s meetings, and eventually start running for office so that they may better ‘serve’ all their fellow infectee’s. One knows an area has reached a critical mass beyond hope when the local school board has been taken over by those infected with libtardism. The original community may not know it yet, or they may be in denial, but at that point they have become as badly diseased as Boston or NYC.
I suppose that the only solution is, at all costs, call dibs on these rural and uninfected areas, at the first hint of an infected northeasterner.
“But I also get that is a weak and lame code.”
Dude, you live in Texas. You really don’t “get” the situation, trust me.
Didn’t three annoying muzzies just get themselves iced over some cr@p like this?
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