Frozen Auto Redux
 

I know that the picture of the car looked familiar when I saw this page. Of course! I'd seen a similar thing on IoTD.

Original from IoTD
http://cellar.org/2002/auto.jpg
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=1105


Check out the other pics: http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/index.html

After seeing all these images of ice coated cars, my sick mind begins to wander.

I remember hearing of a tradition in downtown Boston where people shovel out public parking spots on the street in front of their houses, and then "reserve" them by placing a cone or lawn chair or something in the space. If someone takes their reserved spot, they sometime will vandalize that car. A better solution, in my opinion, would be to set up a lawn sprinkler and let the parking spot thief return in the morning to find their car entombed in ice like this. Would send the message without any actual damage to the car. I wonder what the law would have to say about this?

Takes too much time, but sounds like quite an interesting idea.

In Philadelphia, parking in someone else's lawnchair-reserved space is a shooting offense.

When I lived in Jersey, there was a blizzard that slammed us with more than three feet of snow within some insanely short amount of time. The downstairs neighbor sat in her parking-spot-reserving-lawn chair with a shotgun in her lap. :eyebrow: Yeah, no one else was gonna touch that one.

You figure, though, if you're gonna *sit* out there and wait for your roomate to return, the shotgun would be unnecessary.

Said roomate showed up just a few minutes later, sans incident.

I agree, shoveling does take too much time, but I'll argue about it sounding like quite an interesting idea. :blush:

Another shot of that car from Wunderground. :)
Looks like it was taken a little later.

The present mayor tried to end the practice this year by sending the sanitation crews around to trash all the furniture found in parking places. Folks immediately started putting out all the nasty stuff sanitation normally won't touch like old fridges. They picked them up. :thumbsup:

Anyone know what is (or was) that upside-down V-shaped thing in Bruce's picture?

Looks like power lines bent down under the weight of the ice.

I wonder if this is the same place...

Yes. I understand it's Lake Geneva. There was no ice storm. The wind was blowing hard across the lake, and the resulting spray froze everything within a short distance of shore. Beyond that short distance, everything was normal (but cold.)

I meant waiting for the car to freeze.

If I had any kind of reasonable public transit, I'd just leave the car to thaw out of it's parking space in the spring (on second thought, no I wouldn't. I am a driver through and through. The idea of being without a car gives me a panic attack).

I know, I just couldn't resist.

I think that idea was in grumpy old men, one of them spent the evening showering the other's snow covered roof to effect an avalanche when the guy opened his door or something.

ROTFL. They may be aggressive, angry, mean-spirited bastards, but at least they're CLEVER aggressive, angry, mean-spirited bastards.

I notice that a lot of people in Philly use traffic cones borrowed from PennDOT or a city agency rather than lawn chairs.

This isn't near as icy as the other cars, but I thought it was interesting to see how water can freeze in this position. It looks like the ice was starting to slide off the car and then froze there.

This is my car btw, I took this pic :)

http://www.nexuscore.com/icecar.jpg

Hmmmm, makes one wonder if any people were in those cars, you know napping and waking to find themselves trapped?

I have had to bust my way out of my car after a drive home in a sleet storm. Lots easier than busting in. You got good leverage busting out. Busting in sometimes results in cracking the doorhandles off the car.

i'd seen some pix before.1#

3#

fortunately, i haven't any auto,so i haven't any trouble like this :blunt:

These pictures are now being sent around in email titled "hey, look at the ice storm in massachussets!"

Of course all of the pics have "lakegeneva" in their filenames.

Isn't there a Lake Geneva in NY, also? :)

Geneva, NY is on Seneca Lake, nice place to ride a bike.

Thanks for the pictures, they compensate for the 96.8 degrees down here last friday... (mere 92 yesterday, thought)

You'd think all that ice weight would flatten the tires...

Well, I think there might be an answere at snopes

You're right Emrikol. I'd seen the pictures before where they were clearly labeled Switzerland. I was just wondering if the Geneva name fooled someone into thinking this was part of the northeast blizzard. :)

Most of the people passing around the Mass Snowstorm pics are dumb enough not to look at the names of the photos. Those rare souls who do won't bother trying to figure out what the title might mean.

Psssst....aol ;)

Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting.

And people with hotmail accounts.