• Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    Call it in. All cities have a number you can call to report illegal parking. I had a guy park his stupid huge pickup truck and trailer in the alleyway by my house, blocked me into my own driveway. Totally illegal to park there.

    I called the parking violation report hotline I found online for my city. Within about 30 minutes a cop showed up, got out and looked at the truck, made a call on his radio, and 20 minutes later a tow truck got there and towed the whole thing away.

    Didn’t cost me a dime, and the loser who parked it there not only had an absolutely shit day when he found out his truck and trailer got towed, but also had to pay out the nose to get it back from the impound lot. Win win!

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      Is it?

      The most sold car in America is the rav4 which is 72 inches wide. The cybertruck is only 6 inches wider. A Prius is 72 inches wide. The “mini” Cooper is 68 inches.

      Width is pretty standard these days.

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        Toyota Tundra: 80.2 inches

        GMC Yukon 81 inches

        Dodge Ram: 82.1 inches

        CyberCuck: 79.99 inches

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    I flip off every cybercuck I see. You can’t own one without supporting a fascist so everyone driving one is an asshole. I think you should be socially ostracized for owning one of these pieces of shit and I am doing my part.

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      I used to, then I did it in heavy traffic, and saw this guy go crazy. He got stuck behind me, but was trying to catch up, and I noticed his window was down. I figured he wanted to yell at me, but he never got the chance.

      Two days later they arrested a SwastiKKKar owner after he took some shots at someone who flipped him off on the same highway.

      Same guy? I like to think so. SwastiKKKar owners are weirdos.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Why is there a parking payment kiosk next to the bus lane on a road with no street parking? Something isn’t adding up here.

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      Found the location on street view. The bus lane is a weird partial bus lane that only exists on part of the block. Most of the lane is available for parking.

      The bus lane areas are painted red, and there is a sign at the start saying no parking/tow away zone. But they aren’t aligned properly. The red pavement starts about a car legnth before the no parking/tow away sign.

      In most traffic codes, signage takes precidence over painted markings on the street. So as far as I can tell, the truck in the picture is parked legally, despite being on red pavement.

      This is some particularly stupid street design, and this post is an incredibly manipulatively framed picture, with the sign just out of frame, but not an example of illegal street parking.

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        I mean this all depends on if there’s actually a parking spot there. I know in the city I live in parking kiosks each parking spot is numbered so that way when you pay for parking you pay for the numbered spot itself. And bustling areas there are no numbered areas like that.

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          There is a sign that says no parking in front, paid parking behind. Its clearly visible in the picture I attached to my comment if your instance can display it.

          Parking kiosks are not regulatory signs, which is why I mentioned the sign rather than the kiosk.

          Parking is by plate not space. There are no individually marked parking spots on this street.

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        2 days ago

        Illinois, where this pic is from, is one of those states! Maybe this car is from out of town

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          Many teslas in Illinois do not have their front plates. It is the law here and when I questioned an officer about enforcement, he stated, “It will just get tossed out.” That and police hate doing their jobs.

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            I live in Wisconsin and it’s the same here. I don’t have one on the front of my car cause I would have to drill holes in mine to install one (no idea why it didn’t come with a place for one already setup, it’s originally from Illinois), but also I only drive rarely and when I essentially have to, or in the winter because my local bike infrastructure is seasonal. Never had any issue with it.

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              only drive rarely and when I essentially have to, or in the winter because my local bike infrastructure is seasonal.

              You should look into studded bike tires. I was in a similar situation but figured out how to ride in the winter even in my town that completely half asses snow removal. Sold my car and started using uber/lyft and an hourly car rental service (zipcar) to fill in the gaps. I’ve saved thousands of dollars in no time and now I don’t have to maintain a car anymore.

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        Kind of funny to see, “only” used to describe 3/5 of a whole. That’s most states, though even the ones that do require it rarely use it as more than a pretense for a stop.

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    Lol people are too fucking stupid. Why would anyone buy this POS car  its a literal spying machine and its not even spying on others, ITS SPYING ON YOU

    Also Elon musk is a pedophile billionaire who can come after your kids next and you can’t do anything about it coz you’re slaving a 9-5 and he has billion dollars

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      It also spies on others as well, because the exterior cameras are also uploading to Tesla.

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      They’re there because the city needs to pay the private company that owns the parking spots for the space the bus lane occupies

      (Actually not sure about this specific case, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was, since Chicago Parking Meters owns all the parking meters too)

      Chicago Parking Meters - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Parking_Meters

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      Because its a probably legal parking space. City painted the bus lane about a car length too soon, or the no parking sign a car length too late.

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    No registration plate on the front? That’d be illegal where I’m from. You need to be able to identify the car from both sides, after all.

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        It has a wrap. Which is replaceable at great cost to the owner. It would be a shame if someone used it as a whiteboard or somehow water got underneath the wrap or if it found itself by a fire.

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      Woah now, are we sure killing somebody is the right call here? It’s only illegal parking after all.

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        Chicago city policy is that 911 is the number to call if illegally parked cars are blocking traffic so they can send out a dispatch. Calling the police is literally the correct answer.

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        Woah now, are we sure killing somebody is the right call here?

        Do you think that someone should be allowed to own a Tesla without being murdered?

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      Now I’m wondering how illegal it would be to put a sign like that and a hammer on the sidewalk next to the car.
      Sure, it’s littering. But would it be anything else apart from that?