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ALWAYS Set Your Parking Brake

Payback says...

No parking brake? By choice?

newtboy said:

That turned out way better than when I did that with a U-Haul truck in town. My truck rolled back about 1/2 block before turning into a neighbors yard and taking out their fence, mailbox, and front landscape. I was incredibly lucky it didn't hit 20 cars on the way there. These days I don't even have a parking brake in my car, so if I have to leave it unattended, I have to turn it off and leave it in gear.

BMXer Vs. THE MAN ;)

MilkmanDan says...

I can see this one from both sides. The potential for litigation -- which could be truly catastrophic for a school / business / private person / whatever -- is real. It's fucking retarded, but it is a real danger.

In the early 2000's, I was living in a trailer park with a buddy while we were going to college. We lived right next to a movie theater that had a nice, huge, paved asphalt parking lot in the back. We used to take roller blades, sticks, and a PVC hockey goal into that lot and play roller hockey after closing time -- like 2AM or so. Nobody there, no parked cars, no property around to damage with errant shots or whatever.

One night we went a bit earlier than usual, and the manager had happened to stay late to close. He saw us as he was driving out and started driving towards us. I figured "well, there goes this spot". He asked us what were were doing, we explained. He asked us if we had asked anybody for permission, and we admitted we hadn't. He asked if we knew that companies sometimes got sued by people who wiped out and broke a leg or whatever, and we said yes.

And then he surprised me. He said "OK, consider this me, the manager, giving you permission to keep on playing here, on these conditions:

1) Never play there if there are parked cars in that part of the lot behind the theater.
2) Come in and ask for permission again if we want to play with more people, or if any other conditions change.
3) Look me in the eye and give me your word as a man that you wouldn't sue me for being an idiot and falling down and breaking your arm or whatever, and shake my hand to seal the bargain."

Awesome theater manager. Not sure if things have gotten enough worse in litigation-crazy USA that he'd be willing to make that same bargain again. But that wouldn't be his fault, it would be an outcome of our crazy legal system.

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Two Canadians discover the US is now a police state.

rottenseed says...

Unfortunately, reacting by instinct will sometimes get you in trouble. I know somebody that was pushed against the wall from behind by a cop and resisting arrest was added to his charges because he naturally resisted having not known it was even the cops. It's kind of fucked up...I think they dropped that charge though.

Oh and in case you were wondering why, it's because he was angry at his girlfriend so he kicked one of those temporary folding "no parking" signs. Half a block later he was eating brick wall.>> ^Lendl:

Pulling away from an officer is assault?
I hope they get lawyers.
I hope anyone planning to shop in the US hears this.
Fuckers.

An Early 1950's View Of London From The Back Of A Bus.

Barseps says...

>> ^A10anis:

Clean and orderly. Few people and fewer cars, being allowed to get on with their business. No parking restrictions and no filth (metaphor) on the streets. I was born in this era, i miss it. Take a look at the same streets today, wtf happened to us?


It would seem we got "civilised" bud. Oh to have been around in those times.

An Early 1950's View Of London From The Back Of A Bus.

A10anis says...

Clean and orderly. Few people and fewer cars, being allowed to get on with their business. No parking restrictions and no filth (metaphor) on the streets. I was born in this era, i miss it. Take a look at the same streets today, wtf happened to us?

How a garage door meets historic building codes in SF

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blankfist says...

@NetRunner: The old left-right struggle was basically a question of whether the landed nobility should get to have total authority (since they owned all the land), or whether authority should flow from rule of law set by an egalitarian democratic process. The left pretty much won that fight, and ever since the right wants to make the government the enemy, because it gives commoners some sort of power over them.


I don't think we have the same federal government. Last time I checked my government embolden corporatist interests. In fact, even my local government in Los Angeles seems to want to keep the people poor. I work from home and forgot to move my car during street cleaning yesterday - that's one day out of the past six years. Well, I got a $65 ticket. Is that a fair price? I ran a red light by accident five years ago, got caught by one of those red light cameras and received a $400 ticket. I won that in court, but they never paid me back (yes, you have to pay before you're found guilty). I actually made a long trip the courthouse months later to get my money back, but the line for the court teller was so long it wrapped around the outside of the building. True story. I didn't have the time to waste an entire day waiting for repayment on something they should've never taken in the first place.

Funny thing is a lot of the times the street cleaners never come (yes, I've actually watched). But the parking enforcement during that 3 hour window of no parking are out like swarms of mosquitoes. California is about as egalitarian a state as any in the union. Seems to me they aren't trying to hard to help us out with their "total authority" flowing from the "rule of law set by egalitarian democratic process".

I've noticed Democrats seem to love it when government takes our money. Car registration used to cost nearly $400 here in LA before the Governator came in and changed that. Now it's still over a hundred. Parking on my street costs me an annual fee, and I have to purchase annual parking passes for guests. We have meters everywhere, and they're not cheap. Some meters cost a couple dollars per hour.

You claim the Libertarians want a toll road society, which makes me laugh, because we already have that in the Democratic state of California.

Portsmouth Police exempt from the law

nanrod says...

OK people enough of the radio crap. Whether or not it's legal for a cop to park in a no parking spot will depend on the jurisdiction you are in. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the appropriate sections of the Motor Vehicle Act of BC are shown below. To summarize, a vehicle is an emergency vehicle if it is operated by a police officer in the performance of his duties (it doesn't have to be an emergency situation) and an emergency vehicle is exempt from most provisions of the act provided it is operated safely and with regard to the nature of the use of the vehicle at the time.

To sum up with examples; parking in a no parking spot while having lunch in a donut shop - not permitted; parking safely on the side of the road in a no parking spot while observing the ebb and flow of traffic and ever ready at any time to pursue blankfist, I mean violators - specifically permitted.

While I'm as much against cops taking liberties or gaining advantages the rest of us do not enjoy, to think that a situation like the one in this video is the first step on some slippery slope is just a tad paranoid.

And the guy in the video is a douche




"emergency vehicle" means any of the following:

...
(c) a motor vehicle, or cycle as defined in Part 3, driven by a peace officer, constable or member of the police branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the discharge of his or her duty;

Exemption for emergency vehicles

122 (1) Despite anything in this Part, but subject to subsections (2) and (4), a driver of an emergency vehicle may do the following:

(a) exceed the speed limit;
(b) proceed past a red traffic control signal or stop sign without stopping;
(c) disregard rules and traffic control devices governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions;
(d) stop or stand.

(2) The driver of an emergency vehicle must not exercise the privileges granted by subsection (1) except in accordance with the regulations.

(3) [Repealed 1997-30-2.]

(4) The driver of an emergency vehicle exercising a privilege granted by subsection (1) must drive with due regard for safety, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the following:
(a) the nature, condition and use of the highway;
(b) the amount of traffic that is on, or might reasonably be expected to be on, the highway;
(c) the nature of the use being made of the emergency vehicle at the time.

Portsmouth Police exempt from the law

Porksandwich says...

If he's on duty and he's supposed to stay in a visible place because businesses have been robbed or because it has been requested by the public. Him being in traffic making loops around the neighborhood constantly or being parked at the back of a parking lot with the rest of the vehicles is not performing his job.

Dude filming this video has some kind of axe to grind, and in all likelihood it stems from some illegal activity he has been caught participating in so he feels like he's "sticking it to the man" with this mountain out of a mole hill stuff. In my mind this kind of stuff is stoner logic, because I see it most in potheads that can't get their weed fix without getting caught or have been caught enough that one more will get them in serious shit.

Next we'll be pissed when firefighters park in the no parking zones to put out fires, LOOK OUT.

Leaked Memo: No Parking Tickets For Rich (Just For Poor)

Yogi says...

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Certainly true in LA. When I used to drive an old 88 Toyota truck, I got pulled over plenty. Several times I got pulled over, and was told I could go as soon as the cop saw that I was white. Since I got my Element two years ago, I've not been pulled over once (except for speeding in Montana, where everyone is white).


OMG I own an Element too! We can be Element buddies cause I love my Element...Mines Red whats yours?

Superhero Rescues Illegally Parked Cars with Angle Grinder

MaxWilder says...

This isn't a case where it is "always" bad or people are "always" getting what they deserve. The clamps are simple, fast, and cheap. Some municipalities are using them to generate revenue, but others are actually trying to discourage parking in places where parked cars and people moving around those cars frequently are in danger. For example, the street in front of my apartment allows parking on my side of the road, but not the other during rush hour. They don't want everybody parking there and trying to run across the busy street to get home. That's understandable. However there is also no parking there overnight. Why would it be ok to park there at noon, but not midnight? There's no telling. But if enough people get pissed about it, we could petition the county to change the policy.

My point is that there are valid reasons for locking a car down and not wasting the money to tow it away, when the problem is not the presence of the car but the activity of people stopping to park and moving about outside the car. But it must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, looking at it from a safety and traffic-flow point of view. And if the reason is bullshit, go ahead and cause a little civil disobedience. Politicians should fear the people. It's healthy.

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