*RANT* Why are people such bastards?

[slick230]

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
Next time you see that car, put a nice blanket on the front of your car or something (to prevent paint transfer) and "nudge" the car forward however hard you want to make space. That oughta teach the sucker a lesson.

Yeah do that, but don't park behind the guy if you do. Otherwise don't cry like a cvnt when you come back to your car and there's a cinder block laying on your seat and your window is smashed.

 

[Tom]

so you parked at the intersection of the alley and the street.

based on your profile you are in Washington state ? Maybe Seattle ? (pretty much all cities have the same kind of law)

look at this ..

http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/transportation/parking/drivewaymarking.htm

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Tom
so you parked at the intersection of the alley and the street.

based on your profile you are in Washington state ? Maybe Seattle ? (pretty much all cities have the same kind of law)

look at this ..

http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/transportation/parking/drivewaymarking.htm

huh, that's odd. I've been parking there off and on for three years with no tickets, and I've NEVER seen anyone leave 5 feet between them and the curb (and there are always people parked there). I guess I'll have to eat it then. Eventually someone was going to get towed, and it just happened to be me.

 

[Anonemous]

I remember getting a ticket in NYC for parking within 15 feet of a hydrant... yes 15 feet, never heard of that but they needs their quota. Could've been towed as well if I hadn't came back sooner.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: jagec
Sometimes I think the whole species should be scrapped and we should start fresh.

I think someone tried that already... you had to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed to join his club, though.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: jagec
OK, a bit of background. On Monday I get back from work, and I have a group meeting for a big presentation the next day. Since I can't afford to park on campus (even though I live in a dorm), I cruise the area where I usually park (about a half mile from where I live). Eventually I see a couple spots, on the right and left of an alley. Unfortunately, a couple morons have parked on either side and (either deliberately or out of sheer idiocity) have only left ~6 feet between them and the end of the curb. Well, I need to park, so I pick the bigger spot and get as close to the guy in front of me as possible (about an inch from his bumper). I look at the rear of my car, and it makes me nervous because I'm past the curb by about 2-3 inches, but I figure that's not a big deal. Hopefully the guy in front of me will learn to park next time.

Fast-forward to today, when I get up bright and early and walk the half mile to my car.
Except my car is not there. I walk around the whole area, wondering if maybe I had parked it somewhere else and not remembered, but the car is gone. I call work and tell them the car's gone, I check the mail for a tow notice, I call the house I stayed at over the summer and see if THEY've gotten a tow notice. I start to call the cops, but first I call the impound lot to see if they have my car.
Sure enough, they do. So I take the long bus ride up to the lot, pay my $120 to get my car, and to add insult to injury they give me a ticket for $40, which presumably is extra.

On the ticket, it says "PARALLEL PARK-COMPLAINT-BLOCKING WESTBOUND" (or something like that).
OK, first off, I was "blocking" NO ONE, I was taking up all of two inches past the curb (which is bigger than the alley anyway), and if I was blocking someone it would be north-south, not west. Second....COMPLAINT???!?!? Am I to understand that some concerned citizen decided that not being able to physically compress my car to fit in the spot left by someone elses' crappy parking was an indication of a terrorist plot or something? What kind of worthless waste of genetic material would waste his time and the government's money to call in something like that? I can understand if I was actually BLOCKING the alley, but clearly whoever it was just likes to make other people miserable. I guess I'm not quite used to as perverse and legalistic a country as this.

You know, I TRY to like humanity. I really do. I remind myself of people who have been courteous and gone the extra mile for me, but it's hard for them to have as much an impact as when complete strangers try to make your life a living hell with little to no provocation. Sometimes I think the whole species should be scrapped and we should start fresh.

Cliff notes:
Due to someone else not leaving enough space, my car was about 2" too big for a spot, I get towed and have to pay $160, I'm pissed and hate the Nazis who called it in.

Not to long ago a woman cut her baby's arms off in a fit of post-partum depression.
link

Kind of puts your woes in perspective. Quit whining.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: jagec
OK, a bit of background. On Monday I get back from work, and I have a group meeting for a big presentation the next day. Since I can't afford to park on campus (even though I live in a dorm), I cruise the area where I usually park (about a half mile from where I live). Eventually I see a couple spots, on the right and left of an alley. Unfortunately, a couple morons have parked on either side and (either deliberately or out of sheer idiocity) have only left ~6 feet between them and the end of the curb. Well, I need to park, so I pick the bigger spot and get as close to the guy in front of me as possible (about an inch from his bumper). I look at the rear of my car, and it makes me nervous because I'm past the curb by about 2-3 inches, but I figure that's not a big deal. Hopefully the guy in front of me will learn to park next time.

Fast-forward to today, when I get up bright and early and walk the half mile to my car.
Except my car is not there. I walk around the whole area, wondering if maybe I had parked it somewhere else and not remembered, but the car is gone. I call work and tell them the car's gone, I check the mail for a tow notice, I call the house I stayed at over the summer and see if THEY've gotten a tow notice. I start to call the cops, but first I call the impound lot to see if they have my car.
Sure enough, they do. So I take the long bus ride up to the lot, pay my $120 to get my car, and to add insult to injury they give me a ticket for $40, which presumably is extra.

On the ticket, it says "PARALLEL PARK-COMPLAINT-BLOCKING WESTBOUND" (or something like that).
OK, first off, I was "blocking" NO ONE, I was taking up all of two inches past the curb (which is bigger than the alley anyway), and if I was blocking someone it would be north-south, not west. Second....COMPLAINT???!?!? Am I to understand that some concerned citizen decided that not being able to physically compress my car to fit in the spot left by someone elses' crappy parking was an indication of a terrorist plot or something? What kind of worthless waste of genetic material would waste his time and the government's money to call in something like that? I can understand if I was actually BLOCKING the alley, but clearly whoever it was just likes to make other people miserable. I guess I'm not quite used to as perverse and legalistic a country as this.

You know, I TRY to like humanity. I really do. I remind myself of people who have been courteous and gone the extra mile for me, but it's hard for them to have as much an impact as when complete strangers try to make your life a living hell with little to no provocation. Sometimes I think the whole species should be scrapped and we should start fresh.

Cliff notes:
Due to someone else not leaving enough space, my car was about 2" too big for a spot, I get towed and have to pay $160, I'm pissed and hate the Nazis who called it in.

Not to long ago a woman cut her baby's arms off in a fit of post-partum depression.
link

Kind of puts your woes in perspective. Quit whining.

Doesn't make whoever did it any less of a prick.

That's like saying to a guy whose house is on fire "that guy's wife died last tuesday"...doe it fix anything?