I live in a gigantic high-rise with limited parking available (and pretty pricey), and almost no legal street parking for a few blocks in any direction. But there are around five perfectly legal parking spaces directly in front of my building that people are always competing to get–they’re very rarely available.
BUT these past few weeks someone has left parked in one of the five spots a car that’s not driveable, mainly because its windows are covered in ads for the car itself “FOR SALE” “718-555-5555” “83 k” “5500 $” like that.
It pisses me off, and mostly on principle. (I have only one car, and I have a very nice indoor parking space for it, so I rarely have use for one of the outdoor spaces, though occasionally, if one’s open, and I’m running to my apartment to get something I forgot, or to use the bathroom and get back in my car or something, I might find an outside space convenient.) But I know how badly some people need these 5 parking spaces, and it burns me up that some asshole is using up one of them more or less permanently as free advertising for his junker.
So I’d like to mess him up. The spot is monitored on-camera, though, so I can['t just toss a brick through his windshield and hope to get away with it. What, other than a chill pill, would you recommend? Legally, he’s allowed to leave his car there, AFAIK. Morally and ethically, it’s a whole nother question.
Cities often have ordinances prohibiting parking vehicles on a public street that have for sale signs. The reasoning is to prevent commercial car dealers from doing the same thing around their lots. Otherwise, the dealer is using tax dollars for storage of private vehicles on public streets.
Yes, that is pretty good. Actually, it’s brilliant – minimal effort required.
I’m not as clever, so I’d probably accidentally on purpose drop a grocery bag containing empty glass bottles around the tires, or accidentally drop my dog’s waste bag on the windshield, but I like the test drive much better.
Just so we’re all clear here, you’re talking about a public parking place? Are there any signs posted saying whether or not people get to park there 24x7? Aside from being a jerk for monopolizing 20% of the visitor parking for a huge apartment building, is he actually doing anything wrong?
In my city (and probably in the OP’s), yes, he is. Cars parked on public streets must be moved every 72 hours here. Public streets are not junk yards, available for anyone to just leave their cars there indefinitely. I would have already have called the city to have it declared abandoned and towed to an impound lot.
Man, what a wad you are. I mean you really are an unbelieveably screwed up person as are those who suggest ways for you to hurt this other person by damaging property or causing trouble.
Assuming he doesn’t actually live there (which he might, dunno)… being a jerk is doing something wrong. And deserves to be reacted to, perhaps nicely at first, then with progressively more force.
I think it’s funny that you talk about morality in the same paragraph where you lament that you can’t get away with tossing a brick through his windshield.