Frozen Auto Redux

[glatt]

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?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by glatt

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.

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.

[dar512]

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

[russotto]

Originally Posted by Griff

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.

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.