Posted on 02/17/2015 9:00:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Warning to anyone tempted to snag a spot marked by a space saver.
Last week, a Craigslist post told the story of one Boston resident, who felt his rights were violated when someone removed his space saver and took ‘his spot.’
“So I put all the snow back,” the now deleted post read.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
What is a space saver?
To be fair, Responsibility2nd... he did leave the passenger door accessible in case of an emergency. The picture made me howl with laughter!!
Good for him. There are too many jackasses around who think the world revolves around them.
It was an item created back in the 1970s to save space in your closet so you could pack more junk into it.
... LOL ... good move!
You know, I get that people have no places to park and that they have some “code” that they get to claim a public parking space hours after they have left it, simply because they shoveled it out....
But I also get that is a weak and lame code.
If you own a car then you should own or rent a private place to park it or shut up.
The history of ‘dibs’ in Chicago: http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150202/downtown/dibs-began-with-big-snow-of-67-but-was-chicago-first
if you shovel the snow then you get the spot. At least enough time to put your car there.
NY plates, “nuff said”
You sound like a libertarian ;-D. With a reasonable time limit understood, 'dibs' is society's solution to a real problem.
A Real Problem???
Not in my book. IF you want to live in a city like Boston, NYC, or DC, and IF you want to park where you want to, then buy or rent that place.
A public street - even in front of your home - is fair game legally for anyone to park there.
You are so wrong, at least as far as residential streets are concerned. Parking rudeness is one of the major causes of neighborhood strife. If someone digs out a spot, it's mean and lazy to take that spot. What if it's a little old lady who went out to get groceries, and when she comes back, must put her osteoporoded bones in danger as the sun is falling and ice is forming to dig again? No.
I love this guy's solution. We have numbered, assigned parking in our neighborhood, but there's always some ahole who wants to use others' hard work for nothing. This is a non-violent, non-destructive solution so much better than an indignant note on the windshield or damage to the offender's car.
“... there’s always some ahole who wants to use other’ hard work for nothing”.
I agree totally. Once again in our society, there are those (in this case the NY’er) who got something based on another’s hard work. The original space guy... simply allowed him/her to “earn” their space by removing the snow. It was a non violent, non destructive solution and message in my opinion.
My solution is to live somewhere where I have a driveway and a garage for my cars, so I’m not fighting over space on the public roadways. Seems to work pretty good.
What’s snow?
Seems to cause a lot of trouble.
That's what the cops have told me. They also claim that I have an obligation to maintain the sidewalks/landscaping in all of the public space that I don't own that's in front of my house. I have no doubt that the guy who put the snow back will be fined by the police, for obstructing the space that he previously cleared.
I was on the guys side till I read this: “he left February 8 to work an evening shift driving for Uber.”
Uber drivers = Shiftless bums living in their parents basements who can’t get or keep a real job.
I love this guy’s solution.
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Fine. Make it a law. Oh wait. There already are laws. 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.
Thank God I live in Texas.
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