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    PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World

    Enviro-Dweebs Plan To Plant Small Garden, Play Ping-Pong In Your Parking Spot Today
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    Image of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    What a group of fucking idiots. It's a parking space, it's for a car that people need to get to work and make money.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    To be honest, while I think I have a grasp on the the principles behind reclaiming the artificial construct that society has created with the oppression of personal mobility via transformation of the otherwise-familiar urban landscape into a greater environmental consciousness...some people just need to get to fucking work.
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    Image of Adam Adam
    09/18/09

    @bzr: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the cities where this is a problem also have mass transit systems.
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    Image of Joe Valasek Joe Valasek
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    So, these people think they are cars?

    They're definitely not Smart Cars. Heck, they have no Insight at all. Those nearby will surely overhear the righteous speech about how biking and walking makes one more Fit. If they could think with more Clarity, they'd realize that squandering parking spaces results in bad Karma. Gee Whiz, if I had one Volt to jump start their brains, I'd explain to them how silly they are; however, I doubt even Tesla's wizardry could accomplish that.

    Prius.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    09/18/09

    @Joe Valasek: Damn, dude. Tip o' the hat.
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Joke's on them, my car is parked in their front yard right now.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    09/18/09

    @GreenN_Gold: Your comment is a win.
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    Image of phdbd phdbd
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    I've never really been a fan of cars that are street legal.

    And since the street legal rides I do like and see parked on the street are driven by status seeking douchey types.

    And since meter maids occupy the same circle of hell that tow drivers do...

    I say carry-on.

    Anytime you can get 3 or 4 girls into a spot (regardless of the questionable merit of ukelele music) where otherwise would be parked a dinged up 04 impala, the choice is clear.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    YEAH that's right! People, don't park! KEEP DRIVING YOUR CARS!!!
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    I wonder if the sod they tore up to do this little sit-in will last to be replanted back on the naked ground it came from?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/18/09

    @LoganSix: I think it's petroleum-based astroturf.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    It's long been my belief that free and plentiful parking should be a Constitutionally protected right, like free speech or driving 75 on the interstate. I say leave the parking meters to those weird Europeans with their pay toilets and traffic circles. Free parking is the kind of socialism that I can get behind.

    So I don't really give a shit if some hippies want to have a barbecue on the curb, but would rather see a guerrilla campaign to destroy all the parking meters across the country.
    /red state
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    09/18/09

    @discontinuuity is happy that everything has been set right in the Jalopverse. Now all we need is more of engineerd's Brefas Scotch!: Now that is the kind of change I can get behind! You need a little violence to get things taken care of.

    BTW, I have an opening at the Center of Calamitous Intent.
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    09/18/09

    @Dr.Danger: ::You are awesome:: Sounds good. What kind of benefits do you offer? Is the dress code business casual, or henchmen standard jumpsuits and helmets?
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Begs to wonder how many more tons of CO2 will be pumped into the atmosphere today by cars forced to take another run around the block looking for a place to park.
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    Image of tackett tackett
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Well now... if there were viable options I'd use them. For the most part, I don't have reasonable public transpo that works. I live in Oakland, and the BART stops running at midnightish. Even whe it is running, it takes 30+ minutes to get a cab from BART to my house, and I'd be killed or mugged if I walked home. So I drive to SF. I ride my motorcycle if possible.

    I work as a fabricator, and frequently take tools to jobs, or pick up materials for a job. Thus, I have a full size pickup (which is why I ride when possible).

    I should find some of these kind folks, and introduce them to the "side piped Diesel black smoke club".

    Don't block parking spaces till there's a *real* alternative.
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Ithaca, NY, among other places, has an area closed-off to automotive travel. It's neat to have a designated walk space where college students and the like are unimpeded in their travels to their favorite shopping, cafes and theaters. It's quaint and safe, especially considering Ithaca supports two large colleges and numerous residents. Parking Day activists would be well advised to try something in that vein.

    Otherwise, I would suggest they actually dig out the asphalt and plant sod, trees and flowers. Certainly, this would get them more national exposure.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/18/09

    @Timtoolman, still looking for work.: I've been to Ithaca and wholly agree - provided that the surrounding areas have sufficient parking, a couple of downtown blocks for pedestrians is a beautiful thing.

    For the UK crowd, Dundee has something similar, on a larger scale, and with fewer trees.

    Just don't take away the parking where it's needed.
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    09/18/09

    @FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway: I also submit that even though these people are paying to use the spots, the business owners that pay taxes, the drivers that support the business owners, and the meter readers who ticket expired cars, are all losing some form of income from this.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    It's kinda fun to see those wacky folks from the far side of the bell curve once in a while.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Anyone with a beater that billows blue smoke at every launch...this is your moment to shine.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/18/09

    @bmoreDLJ: OM617 owners... calling all OM617 owners... keep it under 2500 RPM at all times during your trip into the city to build up maximum soot... may be advised to obscure license plates one block in advance... thank you!

    (Veggie-dieselers, when they're not hipster douches, are cool folk.)
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    If I had a motorcycle, I'd ride up onto the astroturf and join them.

    After calling in the location to other riders, that is, and slowly taking over their urban campsite.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    09/18/09

    @FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway: Hijacking a space for motorcycles, scooters, and bikes would be more useful idea.
    I would like to see that.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/18/09

    @Dr.Danger: ::You are awesome:: One out of every so many spaces replaced by a few smaller spaces with three loops for wheel/frame chains. Stick your motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles (so they don't get in the way of pedestrians), and so forth there. I like it.
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    Image of leighzbohns leighzbohns
    09/18/09


    @FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway:

    This is what Portland does. Unfortunately, motorbike parking is not free, so they don't have any spots set aside, but they SHOULD. (In PDX, treet parking for less than three hours costs less than a round trip light rail ticket for one person, so there's your incentive to drive right there, especially if you carpool!)
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    Image of AtlBchGator AtlBchGator
    09/18/09

    In reply to PARK(ing) Day: Anti-Parking Activists Steal Spots Around World
    Man I'd love to back up to one of them hippie camps in that '68 Camaro I had and just idle for a bit. That ought to clear things out.
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    Image of BadIdea BadIdea
    09/18/09

    @AtlBchGator:
    An F-350 diesel would be fun, too.
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    Image of Jon Jon
    09/18/09

    @BadIdea: I have a great image in my head of someone in an F-350 diesel (or, better, my dad's F550 flatbed diesel), and standing on the throttle while next to them.

    "Oh, I'm just waiting for you to be done with this parking space so I can turn off my big polluting truck. Take your time..."
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