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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn't fit in many places around here it's owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.

Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn't help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn't ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn't matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.

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[-] lemmy12369@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

I just wish we could return late 1800 transportation methods.. like soo roads are obnoxiously too long.

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[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

One of my coworkers has something like this, big ass 150 thats bigger than our parking spaces that fit 12 seater vans. He's got 4 kids, lives in town and regularly complains about struggling to pay bills. No shit dumbass all your money is tied up in liabilities and he takes any excuse to skip work he can get.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Lentils may well be helpful in this situation also.

[-] skvlp@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, that’s quite the small dick energy.

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[-] Tilgare@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

You could ALMOST Christmas Vacation that Miata under the Denali.

[-] hefejefe@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Everything’s bigger in texa… err. Portland?

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

Construction foam

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I hope you report(ed) it.

[-] lowered_lifted 3 points 1 week ago

wow that overlook neighborhood you're in is especially bad to have a brodozer like that in. I bet the asshole bought a foreclosure from a displaced Black family, what with how the area has been brutally gentrified

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder if vinegar in the bed would attract some flies

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

This is rage inducing.

[-] chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I literally insult the drivers of these every time i see them engaging in menacing behavior (most always) and challenge them to a fight once they’ve been shucked of their prosthesis. I’ve been threatened with a gun a couple times but never have gotten the fight they seem to be looking for. This is what cowards drive.

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