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Obnoxious Corvette owner...; just looking for trouble.
Topic Started: Sep 25 2014, 02:26 PM (1,066 Views)
Hosspower98
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I had an old beater '67 Fury III that I parked like the Jeep owner. If the Corvette owner was that concerned why didn't he park away from congestion? There are people out there that get riled and would drag a key down the length of that pretty Vette in the blink of an eye. That is a "look at me, see my pretty car?"

Oh my, butthead why are you taking up two spots? Haahaaa, screeeeeeeech, opppps, sorry!


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Looks to me like they might know each other. Together they still only take up two spots since the rest of the Jeep is on the sidewalk. I'm not defending parking like that, and obviously have no way of knowing if that's the case, but if the Jeep didn't know the Corvette and was trying to point out the Vette's idiocy, then I would assume the Jeep would have parked closer to the Vette.
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:thumbup: to the Jeep owner.
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bigtractormike
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I'd tow them both !!

Just don't understand why some people think they are better than others !! or that the rules don't apply to them

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rlyoung
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As much as I hate people taking up 2 parking places I really hate people that park on the sidewalk. In my opinion the Jeep owner is no better than the Corvette owner.
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I heard about this on the radio this morning. In my opinion, two wrongs don't make a right, but the Jeep owner is in clear violation here. They could argue that there may not have been another spot, that the corvette owner took two, but if the lot was otherwise full, would you park on the sidewalk?

Parking at an angle like that is actually recommended to some folks who buy expensive cars as a way of preventing them from getting dinged by the doors of people who park too close. Here, the owner obviously took the advice, but chose to park in the most obvious spot. Whether this was to show off his/her car, or to keep an eye on it from inside, I'm not sure. There's the distinct possibility that they might've thought parking this way would look obnoxious to some, as Jack pointed out, and chose the most visible spot in the open to prevent a wisea$$ from keying his car.

I think a better question for this news report would be: If you're worried about your car getting damaged, how do you park without making people angry? People see an expensive car parked this way, there are certainly folks who will feel the owner has money and is taking liberties. Do you take your chances and park normally? Take the same risks as everyone else? Do you leave your prized car at home when dining out when parking might be limited? Lots of questions, and most of them would make the owner of the car feel they have less rights because they own a car the average Joe might not be able to afford. Because let's face it, all you have to do is drive through a WM parking lot and you'll probably find several people taking up more than one spot for no other reason than they pulled in aimlessly. This is always annoying in spite of the reasons when you're looking for a parking spot. I totally understand that part. But I would have more understanding for the vette owner than the average careless consumer.

My two cents worth on the subject.
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W_Body_Geek
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I think they're both in the wrong. Yes, the Vette owner was a douche, but the Jeep owner is an even bigger one for "retaliating". If I see someone parked like this, I'll take a picture at most. I think we should be bigger people than these guys, where all we should do is point, laugh and take a picture, not try to "one-up" them.
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Sep 25 2014, 06:51 PM
I think they're both in the wrong. Yes, the Vette owner was a douche, but the Jeep owner is an even bigger one for "retaliating". If I see someone parked like this, I'll take a picture at most. I think we should be bigger people than these guys, where all we should do is point, laugh and take a picture, not try to "one-up" them.
What signal does that send? Be a douche, its OK, nobody will do anything?

I disagree. A bully is a bully is a bully, and bullies should not be rewarded for being bullies.

I've done what the Jeep owner did before, except I parked across the backside leaving no way to wiggle out. Then I wrote down his License number so I knew who to sue when he keyed "my" car. (And I would do it again without hesitation. I also write down and report license numbers of people parked in handicapped zones with no tags)

Having a nice car is one thing, abusing others with it is your problem. Want parking for high dollar cars? Look around back. A little hike will do you *and* your wallet a bit of good.
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W_Body_Geek
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So, by your logic, if you parked across 4 spaces, you'd be fine with a hoard of cars blocking you in? Good to know.
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Sep 25 2014, 10:23 PM
So, by your logic, if you parked across 4 spaces, you'd be fine with a hoard of cars blocking you in? Good to know.
Short of a stretch limo, a pre-77 Hearse or Ambulance, or some ultracreative and uber-obnoxious parking, I don't see that happening with a single vehicle smaller than a very large RV or Semi-tractor trailer rig (the later two being excused in my book by pure physics and geometry).

I'm pretty bad sometimes about obliging people who show me how they wish to be treated. Do unto others and all that. And I can look the other way for something unintentional. But when you do to me with intent, yes...I am only too happy to return the favor. That is, afterall, how you have shown me you wish to be treated.

So the short answer is you would never find me taking four spaces, and absolutely not without necessity...so the only person that ever had just cause to block me in was a police officer running a check on my expired tags.
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That sort of makes sense, I suppose. I generally get the "bad parkers" at work towed.. We have one particular douche who has a lime green wrapped E92 who continually parks diagonally across all 3 handicapped spots. So I advised a wheelchair van to park him in. :D Unfortunately, they left before he did :(
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Obnoxious parking where I used to live abounded. Mostly when I saw it it was large 4X4s. Not always, but more than a few times. The most annoying was a couple who moved into the apartment below mine in a complex I had lived in a number of years. There was no assigned parking spots, but everyone parked near their apartments and no one tried to force others out of their spots. This couple had two cars and wanted both spots directly behind our respective apartments. So much so that the guy parked his jeep in sideways to save his GF the other spot.

Needless to say I reported him. The apartment manager said it was BS, but if she told him to move directly, there goes my good neighbor policy. So she sent out a general memo about parking to everyone. Which worked pretty well on all nights but friday when they always had several friends over who took up every spot. Coming home late on friday was insane. So good neighbor policy or not, I ended up banging on their door several times and reminding them where visitors were supposed to park.

Of course, they reacted like I was putting them out. My point being: common sense is not something equally distributed among us as a race. And it often gets confused with the notions we are raised with about standing up for ourselves under any condition deemed an aggressive one. People are fighting for what they believe in while standing for nothing but the notion of standing. And by the time such people reach adulthood, there's almost no talking to them in a way that makes them actually think outside the box they've been placed in.

As a nation, we seriously need to wake up and think for ourselves instead of being fed a bunch of crap, or operating blindly on auto-pilot. There used to be a saying about walking a mile in someone else's shoes. But then, think about those neighbors who didn't respect the parking spot of the neighbor who lived there before them from the beginning, moving in and standing on the grounds of some sort of entitlement, or the fact that no assigned parking meant shoving their neighbor out because they interpreted the rules as I had no recourse because it's every person for themselves.

It's sad, really. That couple fought like crazy and split up, BTW before the year was over. And at the end of the year, the woman left with her kid. As a reflection, I sensed their lack of respect went both ways and their instability and lack of self respect manifested outwardly. If you're standing for no other reason than to fight without looking for justification, life will throw a steady stream of ugly into your path. I don't envy people like that. But neither do I want their selfish frustration lapping over into my life. Most of us don't. And looking at it from that angle, people like that are going to have few decent, lasting friends. They become their own worst punishment for themselves.

So the other old saying about what comes around goes around, really does apply. Life is what we feed it--not the other way around. Many will say, "Sure, but life fed me nothing but crap, so why should I be any different to life?" Thus, an open ended proposition is born based on false reasoning and the assumption that beating everyone down will show the world they should mess with you and leave you alone when all you really do is attract the same sort of people with the same set of beliefs and you kill one another, take a lot of moments and fill them with grief.

Okay, I'm getting off this soap box...LOL!
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as a people we should accept everyone !!

Just because you accept them does not mean you agree to believe in their ways.

treat people how you would like to be treated, this is not an easy thing to do !!

My favorite bible verse :

James 1 . 9

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to respond and slow to become angry !!

it is NOT EASY !!!

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Brilliantly said Dragnet
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bigtractormike
Sep 26 2014, 03:55 PM
as a people we should accept everyone !!

Just because you accept them does not mean you agree to believe in their ways.

treat people how you would like to be treated, this is not an easy thing to do !!

My favorite bible verse :

James 1 . 9

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to respond and slow to become angry !!

it is NOT EASY !!!

btm
Send me a terrorist, I'll show him how passive I can be.
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bigtractormike
Sep 26 2014, 03:55 PM
as a people we should accept everyone !!

Just because you accept them does not mean you agree to believe in their ways.

treat people how you would like to be treated, this is not an easy thing to do !!

My favorite bible verse :

James 1 . 9

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to respond and slow to become angry !!

it is NOT EASY !!!

btm
Slow to respond shows great strength and maturity but it gets to a point as in what Jack implies where being politically correct isn't saving our existence and the freedoms we have fought so hard and sacrificed for.
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I am not any where close to being politically correct !! so lets not be making assumptions here.

And i was not referring to terrorists

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Hosspower98
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Whether the Jeep driver was right or wrong, he was just making a harmless statement.
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bigtractormike
Sep 28 2014, 06:31 AM
I am not any where close to being politically correct !! so lets not be making assumptions here.

And i was not referring to terrorists

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I know you weren't referring to Terrorist but since Jack stated it and it's been on my mind that's why I replied as I did. I like that Bible verse and love God.
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Sep 28 2014, 08:05 AM
Whether the Jeep driver was right or wrong, he was just making a harmless statement.
in my opinion the jeep driver is as much fault as the vette owner, he is blocking the sidewalk , in a civilized world you don't block the sidewalk just to make a point, you force people to go around your vehicle into oncoming traffic and it is wrong no matter how you look at it.
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Jeep driver has my sense of humor...it was probably staged to take the picture and post online. That may not be a sidewalk, just a parking lot partition. In most states, a certain percentage if the parking area has to have curbed islands to preserve green space.

Please btw, no hard feelings intended. I am not a religious man and not a bully either... I have a sarcastic and grumpy side to me though.
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Sep 28 2014, 04:00 PM
Jeep driver has my sense of humor...it was probably staged to take the picture and post online. That may not be a sidewalk, just a parking lot partition. In most states, a certain percentage if the parking area has to have curbed islands to preserve green space.

Please btw, no hard feelings intended. I am not a religious man and not a bully either... I have a sarcastic and grumpy side to me though.


never thought of it being staged !!

looks like what you stated, island inside of a large parking lot, but hard to tell

no offense taken , i can be grumpy and a little ruff myself, but trying to overcome , and keep my mouth shut, but have a hard time making that happen sometimes

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/double-parked-corvette-pranked-viral-video-article-1.1952207
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Thanks for the link, RL. I watched the vid and looked pretty closely at the pics. There are loads of free parking spaces. I'm thinking the corvette owner probably shouldn't have parked by the door...and also that Jack is correct that what the Jeep is parked on is a concrete divided, not a sidewalk.

That being said, I skimmed through some of the comments and it looks like people are ready to blast one another all over the place no matter which side of the fence they come down on. For some, it clearly was the fact that the guy parked by the door in a spot an elderly or handicapped person could've made better use of the space. For others, it wouldn't have mattered where the guy parked his vette. Just the notion of him taking up two spots was enough to deserve his car being keyed.

It really doesn't take much to start a riot, does it? With all that's happening in the world, you'd think people would find a better form of recreation, but the Jeep guy's post went viral. Or maybe it is due to all that's happening in the world that folks are so easily riled. I for one would like to ask: who, or what, does all that emotion serve? Turn of the six o'clock hopeless report and get on with life. If it's making everyone anxious to snipe at one another, then terror wins because that's exactly what they want--for us to live in a constant state of fear and anxiety.

I might also point out that people in this state are more easily predictable and manipulated. I'm not insinuating anything other than this is how people act in countries where constant war and anxiety is a way of life. Can we afford to let that crap spill into this country? Can we be better than that? Or are we allowing media coverage of such things to incite our own brand of terrorism? I for one no longer care about the parking incident after reading the reactions. What I see is a good number of people who might start throwing stones in more primitive times. Sure, they're hiding safely behind their computer screens, but just let something real go down and you'll see how far civilization has really advanced.

I agree with what someone said earlier: you see something like this, call the police. Don't take matters into your own hands. All it takes is for one lunatic to start throwing punches, or worse, pull out a weapon like on some LA freeway and then what? Everyone is on edge and defensive these days. Don't rock the boat when the waters look so unpredictable. All I'm sayin'.
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I guess I'm a little more vindictive when it comes to people doing really stupid, selfish things like that parking job. I would not have parked like the Jeep, but I might have wedged a couple of drywall screws behind the Vettes rear tires - that only costs the Vette owner for the mistake.
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