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"FREE PATIO AND BEACH CHAIRS!!!!:

"All the free patio chairs and beach chairs you want. I will be dispersing chairs of various types in parking spots around the city before and during the snow storm. Feel free to just go ahead and take them. Some chairs in great condition, some not so great."

(the original post seems to have been removed: http://www.baltimoresun.com/feature...ve-dug-out-parking-spaces-20160122-story.html)
 
JDawg said:
I definitely do not approve of the chair saving method.
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BobStackFan4Life said:
If someone goes through all that effort of digging out a space, you have to think there might be repercussions if you just drive up and take it. But shooting someone over a parking space seems rather extreme.
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RevDeac06 said:
Any decent person understands this - you put in the time to shovel a spot, it's yours so long as it is properly blocked with a chair/garbage can.
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yeah, this is why JDawg and I could never work.
team chair saving FTW.
 
Its a cardboard poster from Philly that reads "If you park in my spot I'll break your fucking windows. Have a nice day".

It is an imgur pic.
 
Lol.

Is there a forthcoming fix to the imgur issue, or do people just need to post URLs?
 
When I was living in Northern Virginia a few years ago, I heard about a woman who shoveled a car in that had parked in her cleared space, then took her garden hose to sort of melt it so it would freeze over night leaving the car in a huge chunk of ice.
 
HeltonCreek said:
When I was living in Northern Virginia a few years ago, I heard about a woman who shoveled a car in that had parked in her cleared space, then took her garden hose to sort of melt it so it would freeze over night leaving the car in a huge chunk of ice.
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I saw a guy stalking spaces and he stopped behind a woman who'd just gotten in her car that was in a shoveled out space. First they both just sat there. Then she started waving him past her and he didn't budge. Then she rolled down her window and yelled at the guy. He just put one arm out his window and flicked her off. So she just got out and went back inside. Her car was still there like 30 minutes later so I guess whatever she was going to do wasn't all that important.
 
So, being a North Carolinian and not understanding this parking thing, at what point are folks allowed to park their cars in available spots? Does all snow have to melt? Where are these folks supposed to park in the interim? Presumably they dug their own cars out to get from wherever they came from. Where the deuce are they supposed to park? This is all very bizarre to me.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
So, being a North Carolinian and not understanding this parking thing, at what point are folks allowed to park their cars in available spots? Does all snow have to melt? Where are these folks supposed to park in the interim? Presumably they dug their own cars out to get from wherever they came from. Where the deuce are they supposed to park? This is all very bizarre to me.
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It's because you are correct. People are weird and think that digging their car out entitles them to something more than just leaving, which is the only reason they dug the car out in the first place.

Some heavy duty machinery is taking care of the snow at the school across the street. Kind of fun to watch.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
So, being a North Carolinian and not understanding this parking thing, at what point are folks allowed to park their cars in available spots? Does all snow have to melt? Where are these folks supposed to park in the interim? Presumably they dug their own cars out to get from wherever they came from. Where the deuce are they supposed to park? This is all very bizarre to me.
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A clarification - if you happened to be parked downtown somewhere and your car got stuck and you dig out, that spot is for anyone. But on a residential street where there are no driveways or garages, the assumption is that the spot you've dug out is in front of your house. So you're coming home from work (or store, or whatever) and since you can't just "park somewhere else," it's only reasonable to expect others to allow you to have the spot that you've made. Where to park in the interim - that's their problem to solve, but stealing someone else's spot doesn't work. This really only applies in residential areas, so if you dig out to go visit a friend, you should know that you may have to park a ways off and walk, or park on a frozen over parking lot, etc. When is it no longer a "reserved" space - when there's enough melt for someone to reasonably park elsewhere without needing a shovel to get into the spot.
 
That's something be said for Winston-Salem suburbs. I can fit about six cars in my driveway and another eight along the curb.
 
RevDeac06 said:
A clarification - if you happened to be parked downtown somewhere and your car got stuck and you dig out, that spot is for anyone. But on a residential street where there are no driveways or garages, the assumption is that the spot you've dug out is in front of your house. So you're coming home from work (or store, or whatever) and since you can't just "park somewhere else," it's only reasonable to expect others to allow you to have the spot that you've made. Where to park in the interim - that's their problem to solve, but stealing someone else's spot doesn't work. This really only applies in residential areas, so if you dig out to go visit a friend, you should know that you may have to park a ways off and walk, or park on a frozen over parking lot, etc. When is it no longer a "reserved" space - when there's enough melt for someone to reasonably park elsewhere without needing a shovel to get into the spot.
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Public streets are public streets. Legally you can't "reserve" your space even if you have spent hours digging your car out. Sure it takes a real jackass to park in a space that someone else has dug out, but being a jackass isn't illegal.
 
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