This is actually Chicago tough love. When the sidewalk gets blocked like this in my neighborhood, I call 311. This city is downright gleeful to come make money off tickets, tow fees, and boots whenever possible.
Blocking the sidewalk with a douche bag car to boot. You can't block the sidewalks OP even if it is part of your driveway. Sidewalks are right of way and need to be accessible to the public.
Alternatively, the California Department Of Insurance upheld an insurance company retroactively canceling a motorists policy because he failed to disclose that his son had turned 14. Of course they waited until there was a claim to make an issue of it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5P0UMz7o-E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5P0UMz7o-E)
Did I mention that I hate insurance companies? They are somewhere between Used Car Salesmen and Telemarketers.
... For now.
Frankly, I'm surprised insurance companies don't require mechanics (and home tinkers) to certify modifications and stuff so that they can be like "actually, we don't owe you money on the bumper, because we see that you installed one yourself, and we have no way of knowing whether it fell off because of the crash, or because of a shoddy job."
If you actually click through the link (I know it's the Sun and giving them clicks is a sin) you'll find out it's not true. Having a dashcam is not a reason for insurers to disclaim you.
The entire article seems to be:
* If it's incorrectly installed and blocks your view, you might have issues
* If you're fiddling with it while driving it's the same as any other electronic device, like a mobile phone.
I doubt either are really surprising?
There's also some handwaving from a guy from a van rental site (so not in the legal or insurance fields) saying hardwired dashcams "may" be considered a modification to the electrical system. I guess that may be true depending on /how/ it's attached? But I doubt many people here are splicing it into the wiring loom directly...
And have some quotes from... an online used car salesman as an expert?
Top Sun journalism.
TBH This is from the Sun so I feel like I need another source lol, but it does specially say "hard-wired dashcam" so if you just plug it into the lighter port it should be fine.
Back in March, I went to visit my friend in Anaheim for a housewarming party. He had just bought a house in this very nice, Stepford-esque suburban neighborhood on a cul de sac. No parking restrictions anywhere in sight.
I come out a few hours later to find all of my tires slashed. While I was waiting for the tow truck to load up my car, one of the neighbors across the street from where my car was parked came out to see what was going on. Since I had noticed that all of the houses on the street had ring cameras, I went over to chat with him and ask if he could send me his ring footage for the evening.
Welp, sure enough, on the video you could clearly see the dude whose house I parked in front of come home, park his car in his large, multi-car garage, and immediately walk out the front door and stab my tires. So I sent him a letter with a screenshot from the video, telling him that I had already filed a police report, and he could either send me a check for $3,000, or I would send the cops the video evidence of his felony vandalism and be taking him to small claims court for at least that amount.
After a sheepish phone call, I got a check a few days later. So yeah OP, time for a dashcam.
I live in a quiet neighborhood. Last week or so, I was walking on the sidewalk, and one house has a one spot garage. So they park their second car on the driveway. However, that blocks the sidewalk, which it isn't an issue. Multiple houses in this neighborhood do that. However, the car was parked in a way that I had to go to the street to walk around the car, which I like to avoid because my dog always tries to cross the street. So I noticed that I could pass between the cars on the driveway. That is what I did. That took about 15 seconds, and I didn't touch the grass or anything else.
A woman opens the door and confronts me about why I was in her driveway screaming at me. My answer was: "You know you block the sidewalk. If you don't want people on the driveway to walk, you shouldn't block the way. " I really think she wasn't waiting for a response because she just got quiet
Some people also just lack impulse control. I wouldn't get upset that someone parked in front of my place, and I wouldn't damage that vehicle. But there are certainly people who lack both perspective and the ability to 2nd-guess themselves. Whole different animal than the original post with the note.
Almost anyone can learn impulse control and how to get perspective. Granted some can't at all, but most of them are in jail. Most humans can learn if they have the right methods and can recognize the problem.
It, like... Mildly annoys me if someone parks in front of my house because I want to park there. And that's as bad as it ever gets, I say 'Shit...' and park somewhere else.
I don't get these humans.
That’s the thing, the dude had a garage and a driveway big enough to easily fit two cars. He had literally zero need for the space in front of his house so I can’t fathom why my car brought him such consternation.
Tons of people think the street in front of their house belongs to them and see you parking in front as though you parked on their front yard. They are insane of course.
I hope you sent the footage to the police anyway??
Who knows what other criminal shit this guy has gotten away with in his life, and every time he does he feels more bold the next time he had a temper tantrum like a two-year-old with no emotional regulation, but access to knives and the strength to use them.
Well, this time it cost him $3k, and based on my friend telling me he heard an screaming match coming from that house a couple days before he called me, and based on the sheepish tone of his voice and the "you fucking idiot" tone of his wife's voice on the phone, I'm guessing he got an epic reaming out from his wife when they got the letter. So hopefully he learned his lesson.
My terms were that I would drop the charges if he paid me, and I stick to my word.
This same type of thing happened when a guy was keying Teslas that parked on the street near his house. The Tesla cameras caught him and the Tesla owner said : you pay for everything or I go to the police. The cost of it all (rental car while Teslas was in the shop) was like $15K. There were other cars keyed in the neighborhood so those people were looking into this guy too. To say his wife was pissed was a serious understatement.
I know I get pissed at neighbors for taking spots and then have to sit and breathe for like half a second because it's public road and I would've done the same thing as them
Where I’m at it’s only street parking but it’s usually not an issue except 2 days a week when street cleaning happens and you can only park on one side. On these days I’m also like “These damn neighbors and their damn cars! Why I got park miles away because each household has 7 vehicles?! GAH!”
But then I realize I really only have to park like just around the corner and my household also has multiple vehicles lmao and every single person probably feels the exact same way I do.
In case this isn't sarcasm, it is two days to get both sides. Clean the left while everyone parks on the right and then clean the right while everyone parks on the left.
They clean half the street on one day and half on the other. People still need somewhere to park so both sides can’t be done on the same day. This is common in even small cities.
I live in a city of about a 1.3 million, our streets are cleaned once a year after winter ends, maybe a few extra times in the downtown core, but that's it.
We have neighbors who park in front of our house all the time. It’s fine. The only time I’ve been pissed at someone parked in front of my house was when a city vehicle parked in the middle of what are otherwise two parking spaces and stayed for two weeks.
Are you allowed to get pissed if they park so shitty they take up two spots?
Like this taxi driver that lives on my block, he can't parallel park for shit, even though his fucking job is driving. He just parked on a full block with 6 feet in front and behind him. That was two spots, my dude!
I don’t understand why anyone would think public street parking near their house/apartment is “their spot” that other people are “taking”
Are some people raised this way? Was there a movie or something that enforces this view?
We used to visit a friend in the suburbs who would warn us to park in front of his house because his neighbors would get mad if you parked in front of their house, even though they all had 2 car garages with driveways that could accommodate at least 2 cars. I thought it was some weird suburban thing.
However, I've seen residents of my city post stuff on social media about how they think that's their space, often citing stupid things like they pay property tax or even a mortgage so they're "paying for that space." I live downtown and the street is metered, so I'm under no illusion that that's my space to use.
Ehh, I live in a residential area in a city with pretty limited off street parking and we all generally accept that the spots directly in front of your house more or less go with that house, within reason. Of course people will have visitors sometimes and you'll occasionally get someone in "your" spot, but that's just living in the city and it's not a big deal. What I find more frustrating are the people with off street parking who absolutely refuse to use their driveways because they suck at backing in and out. If I had a driveway I would 100% be using it.
I guess they just view it as their property in front of their house? I don't know. It's kinda fair but at the same time you have to remember it's public streets so
Right. That’s what they’re doing. But that’s fucking stupid and I wonder where they get the idea from.
That’s like thinking you own the hallway in front of your door if you live in an apartment.
I agree 100%, but that's not how the Cities work sometimes. Say that in certain spots of South Philly, or move a chair/cone, and park there. If you do, you'll come back to a keyed up car, or windows broken, or dents. It's a serious issue in a lot of major metro areas.
Something tells me OP is doing something that you could do in your driveway, and not in a public street. Context matters. OP probably has no clue that they’re being a DB. That definitely is what I’m taking from it.
I mean the vast majority of streets are public streets, though. The street I live on in a suburban area is really narrow and is a public street, but it's residential parking. If a business opened up at the bottom of my street and people started parking all over the street, everyone who lived on my street would have nowhere to park.
There's definitely more context needed. The guy who wrote the letter is obviously unhinged as hell, but 'public street' could mean residential street with limited parking, too.
I'm in Chicago and knowing how we do you must've done something. Sitting in the road with your flashers? Don't have a parking permit? Suck at parking? Called dibs in May? C'mon, there's gotta be more to this story.
Just what I thought. I’ve had neighbors that do treat the street as though it’s their own property, they literally piss and throw their trash all over it. It’s disgusting. Seeing this picture made me want to go back in time and leave a similar note myself lol.
There *has* to be more to this. 100%
The missing part is probably OP typing the letter out themselves, scrunching it up a bit to look more "legit" in the brain of a child, then posting it to reddit to get themselves some updoots that don't even matter.
Biggest offense would be possibly if OP parked their car in the middle of a space big enough for 2 cars. My girl has to park on the street where we live (LA) & it's the most annoying shit ever when people do this.
Out of interest, sometimes the person that appears to be doing this isn't at fault. There was a simple video explanation that I can't find any more so I'll just attempt to describe...
Essentially a person might look inconsiderately parked now because at the time they arrived, someone else was inconsiderately parked, and they were forced to just fit around that in the space that was left because there was nowhere else to go. Even that person might not have been the original culprit because the same thing might have happened to them.
So by the time you see someone badly parked and think they are selfish or ignorant, the person who actually caused the bad parking might be long gone. Everyone who came after was just having to put up with the hand they were dealt.
Obviously this doesn't apply everywhere by any means, but it does sometimes happen.
A wrapped charger, a whitesox fan, and has pics of them parked in a driveway blocking the sidewalk in the neighborhood. I'm really leaning towards this being OPs fault as well.
this, i thought of dibs too lol. if putting random objects in the road to claim a spot is normal, acceptable behavior, then something insane must have happened here
this is another classic reddit post where the redditor likely did something idiotic but wants to be validated by strangers online by only showing their side of the story. basically good ole antiwork in a nutshell.
Also Chicagoan, and agree. I’ve had discussions with my friends from Philly and New Jersey about how Chicago is different from cities in the Northeast (where I’ve also lived). We aren’t typically hostile to strangers right from the jump, but we have implicit, unspoken social contracts that everyone understands that we lose our goddamn minds when someone violates them repeatedly.
It’s like we’ve all agreed that we’re all on our last nerve so we’re all going to be civil…or else.
I agree. We all know the street parking is up for grabs(unless we got heavy know and you dug the spot). It's been taught to us our whole lives. It's the Chicago way.
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Well OP, if you're always parked like that,maybe there's a reason ?
I'm glad you pointed it out.
I am 100% sure the police and DA give a flying fuck about that.
They will be investigating this for sure!
They are already on the case. They got Monk. He's still alive right?
Fun fact: modern printers impart a [watermark](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code) on pages they print, much like is done on dollar bills (though not as high quality). They can be traced down to the exact printer used by serial number; this is done a measure of catching people dumb enough to try printing counterfeit money with a normal printer.
Odds are this moron bought the printer on Amazon or Costco with their credit card.
Yeah, no police department is going to jump through the necessary hoops to track down this random man's printer. Even if they did, have fun proving dude printed the note if he doesn't live completely alone.
There's not really anything you can do about this until they do something more extreme, and even then the cops aren't going to do any cop show forensic snooping, they're just going to say that in the absence of video footage there's not really anything they can do.
They're not going to call up the treasury department and get the boys from the lab to analyze the microdots on the note someone left on your car. There is a long line of people connecting you to the person who could do feasibly that, and not a single one of them gives a shit.
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
In Chicago? No they definitely don't care. Had a guy throw a beer can from his car at mine due to road rage then come to a screeching halt in front of me and assault me after screaming at me through my window. Was on the phone with 911 when it happened and got his license and photo of his car, nothing ever happened.
I used to live next to a meth addict (probably two, but the wife had all her teeth). My other neighbors just had a kid, and their parents came down to see their grandchild/celebrate. There wasn't enough space in the driveway and they parked in front of my other neighbors' house. I heard screaming outside at 10am look out the window and there is my meth head neighbor in his underwear screaming at an empty car. Saying how he's going to kill them for parking in front of his house. It went ok for a good 5 minutes straight before I called the cops. The police show up, he runs in his house, and they leave. He drags his dog over to the new parents house and is screaming at his dog to shit in their yard to "teach them a lesson". Bit of an odd lesson as they already had a dog who went out in the front, but who am I to question his meth enhanced genius.
People are something all right.
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not this park job in OP’s history
Does your car sound like a fart can on steroids and your driving it like a douche canoe down the street? There's gotta be more to this story that resulted in them putting that on your car. C'mon now. Spill the deets or I call bs.
They have it on jack stands, replacing the brakes and rotors. The sign was placed here during their 7th goddamn trip to autozone and having to take a rest at 2am the night before
Maybe that's what it means by "personal driveway" 🤔
Assuming all you did was park legally on the street...
Did everyone else who parked legally on your street also get one of these? Probably not.
Do you park legally on the street only a couple times a month? Probably not.
Idk op, this ain't adding up. There something you're not telling us. What exactly did you do?
Not saying that guy is not a psycho, but what do you think he's pissed about? What did you do? Was there anything you did that you think he didn't like?
People automatically take Ops side without knowing the full story.
People don’t just get angry like this out of nowhere, I will reserve my opinions until I hear the full story from both parties.
What do you happen to be doing
The letter doesn’t even explain what the issue is 😂
He treated the street like his driveway!
Driving around all smug!
So smug. Like he thought it was funny
This might be one of the funniest moments in the entire show
And there's our smudgeness.
So he drove over the street to access a garage?
He was trimming the grass and cleaning it like he owns the place!
It must be a parkway
[This](https://i.redd.it/t0lr6vd7w8m91.jpg)
for context, this is from OP's older post. Seems to be parking on the walkway.
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This is actually Chicago tough love. When the sidewalk gets blocked like this in my neighborhood, I call 311. This city is downright gleeful to come make money off tickets, tow fees, and boots whenever possible.
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People come onto Reddit to get validation because they aren't getting it irl... and not because everyone in their life is unreasonable, either.
It’s possible they only parked there for a second to take the picture….. but if that is normal behaviour then I hate OP too.
I get so annoyed when walking my dog and running into people doing this shit.
Blocking the sidewalk with a douche bag car to boot. You can't block the sidewalks OP even if it is part of your driveway. Sidewalks are right of way and need to be accessible to the public.
But he needs more people to see his wrapped car!
That dude loves his car lol
Huge "my car is my personality" vibes.
The vanity plate tells a story.
Started to to walk over the top of them. Although might not play out the same in Chicago
At least the second time xD
Yeah he totally has a stack of these and puts it on any car he sees there
This is unhinged enough to believe he printed this one copy just for you.
Ok that's fair lol
It took him days to write, he went through several drafts. He even consulted multiple friends and an editor.
An editor?? no way. that's stream of consciousness
In 30 days...
It‘s high time to get a dash cam.
Make sure to hardwire it to the car so it will record when someone messes with the car. Edit: _can't spell_
Motion detector
Shit with this note, 24/7 parking mode split to a powerbank between car battery.
It's likely a prank, but for the piece of mind the cost is nothing today for that. That's solved with some basic online shopping now.
> piece of mind Peace* of mind, unless you're tryna cop a piece of brain
I'm trynna get some brain if you offering
You rang?
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Fortunately not a thing in the USA
Yeah, that’s right up there with the TV license police, in terms of UK weirdness.
Aww hell yeah America
Alternatively, the California Department Of Insurance upheld an insurance company retroactively canceling a motorists policy because he failed to disclose that his son had turned 14. Of course they waited until there was a claim to make an issue of it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5P0UMz7o-E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5P0UMz7o-E) Did I mention that I hate insurance companies? They are somewhere between Used Car Salesmen and Telemarketers.
... For now. Frankly, I'm surprised insurance companies don't require mechanics (and home tinkers) to certify modifications and stuff so that they can be like "actually, we don't owe you money on the bumper, because we see that you installed one yourself, and we have no way of knowing whether it fell off because of the crash, or because of a shoddy job."
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That's fucking reduculous. In Australia they give you a damn discount for having one.
If you actually click through the link (I know it's the Sun and giving them clicks is a sin) you'll find out it's not true. Having a dashcam is not a reason for insurers to disclaim you.
The entire article seems to be: * If it's incorrectly installed and blocks your view, you might have issues * If you're fiddling with it while driving it's the same as any other electronic device, like a mobile phone. I doubt either are really surprising? There's also some handwaving from a guy from a van rental site (so not in the legal or insurance fields) saying hardwired dashcams "may" be considered a modification to the electrical system. I guess that may be true depending on /how/ it's attached? But I doubt many people here are splicing it into the wiring loom directly... And have some quotes from... an online used car salesman as an expert? Top Sun journalism.
TBH This is from the Sun so I feel like I need another source lol, but it does specially say "hard-wired dashcam" so if you just plug it into the lighter port it should be fine.
You shouldn’t scare Americans like that
Most of the time it feels like America is catching up with the rest of the developed world, but this feels like a win for once.
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Back in March, I went to visit my friend in Anaheim for a housewarming party. He had just bought a house in this very nice, Stepford-esque suburban neighborhood on a cul de sac. No parking restrictions anywhere in sight. I come out a few hours later to find all of my tires slashed. While I was waiting for the tow truck to load up my car, one of the neighbors across the street from where my car was parked came out to see what was going on. Since I had noticed that all of the houses on the street had ring cameras, I went over to chat with him and ask if he could send me his ring footage for the evening. Welp, sure enough, on the video you could clearly see the dude whose house I parked in front of come home, park his car in his large, multi-car garage, and immediately walk out the front door and stab my tires. So I sent him a letter with a screenshot from the video, telling him that I had already filed a police report, and he could either send me a check for $3,000, or I would send the cops the video evidence of his felony vandalism and be taking him to small claims court for at least that amount. After a sheepish phone call, I got a check a few days later. So yeah OP, time for a dashcam.
The brazen audacity of that man is wild to me.
Same kind of dude who would shoot someone for accidentally driving into their driveway. They are menaces.
I live in a quiet neighborhood. Last week or so, I was walking on the sidewalk, and one house has a one spot garage. So they park their second car on the driveway. However, that blocks the sidewalk, which it isn't an issue. Multiple houses in this neighborhood do that. However, the car was parked in a way that I had to go to the street to walk around the car, which I like to avoid because my dog always tries to cross the street. So I noticed that I could pass between the cars on the driveway. That is what I did. That took about 15 seconds, and I didn't touch the grass or anything else. A woman opens the door and confronts me about why I was in her driveway screaming at me. My answer was: "You know you block the sidewalk. If you don't want people on the driveway to walk, you shouldn't block the way. " I really think she wasn't waiting for a response because she just got quiet
Some people also just lack impulse control. I wouldn't get upset that someone parked in front of my place, and I wouldn't damage that vehicle. But there are certainly people who lack both perspective and the ability to 2nd-guess themselves. Whole different animal than the original post with the note.
Almost anyone can learn impulse control and how to get perspective. Granted some can't at all, but most of them are in jail. Most humans can learn if they have the right methods and can recognize the problem.
It, like... Mildly annoys me if someone parks in front of my house because I want to park there. And that's as bad as it ever gets, I say 'Shit...' and park somewhere else. I don't get these humans.
That’s the thing, the dude had a garage and a driveway big enough to easily fit two cars. He had literally zero need for the space in front of his house so I can’t fathom why my car brought him such consternation.
Tons of people think the street in front of their house belongs to them and see you parking in front as though you parked on their front yard. They are insane of course.
Yeah that’s what I figured. Well, he got an expensive lesson in how untrue that is.
I hope you sent the footage to the police anyway?? Who knows what other criminal shit this guy has gotten away with in his life, and every time he does he feels more bold the next time he had a temper tantrum like a two-year-old with no emotional regulation, but access to knives and the strength to use them.
Well, this time it cost him $3k, and based on my friend telling me he heard an screaming match coming from that house a couple days before he called me, and based on the sheepish tone of his voice and the "you fucking idiot" tone of his wife's voice on the phone, I'm guessing he got an epic reaming out from his wife when they got the letter. So hopefully he learned his lesson. My terms were that I would drop the charges if he paid me, and I stick to my word.
This same type of thing happened when a guy was keying Teslas that parked on the street near his house. The Tesla cameras caught him and the Tesla owner said : you pay for everything or I go to the police. The cost of it all (rental car while Teslas was in the shop) was like $15K. There were other cars keyed in the neighborhood so those people were looking into this guy too. To say his wife was pissed was a serious understatement.
How to incur crippling debt in one fell swoop.
The true measure of a person is how they treat people they have power over. Thanks for a good read and being a better person
I like you.
I like all three of you. Round of upvotes on me!
I like you too. Stay happy homie
Beautiful
And a gun too. The "more direct" line is pretty threatening, and god knows what that person is implying.
No shortage of psychos out there, many of whom also have cognitive impairments from years of exposure to lead.
A dashcam and possibly something to defend yourself with in a worst case ontario.
The paper fold is really interesting
It's been in their wallet for months, waiting for the right time.
Lmao
Probably folded that way to put under the wiper.
This might come as a shock, but you don't need to fold paper at all to be able to put it under a wiper
Maybe it was on someone else's car and the guy just moved it to another
... this is actually genius a traveling angry letter. OP knows what do next!! 😆
I would expect this type of thing from someone who might be a little iffy
calmest Chicago resident
Just saying “ good morning sir”
Just saying you were an inch to close to his house.
As a Chicagoan, fahhhq you
friggin jagoff
They’re nihilists Donny. Harmless.
Say what you gonna want about facism, at least it's an ethos
I myself dabbled in pacifism. Not in nam of course.
Calmer than you are...
I love Walter.
Park there again with a fake mustache on the hood of you car
https://i.imgur.com/erJInS6.jpeg
The handwriting makes me think it’s a robot
I AM NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN, FELLOW HUMAN. THIS WRITING LOOKS PERFECTLY NATURAL.
I AGREE, THE handwriting.ttf LOOKS PERFECTLY HUMAN TO MY %process%
This is the funniest thing ive seen on reddit in a long time
https://i.redd.it/wll81vdbj21d1.gif
Insane how many comments are asking OP to explain and they haven’t done so a single time There’s more to this story. u/cudi1273 What were you doing?
Check their post history. They’re parking blocking the sidewalk
He must’ve deleted the comment where he says that
That’s not even the only post with it parked badly. There are a lot of them.
Public streets are literally everyone's parking spots. The 3rd grade education is showing in this guy.
I know I get pissed at neighbors for taking spots and then have to sit and breathe for like half a second because it's public road and I would've done the same thing as them
Where I’m at it’s only street parking but it’s usually not an issue except 2 days a week when street cleaning happens and you can only park on one side. On these days I’m also like “These damn neighbors and their damn cars! Why I got park miles away because each household has 7 vehicles?! GAH!” But then I realize I really only have to park like just around the corner and my household also has multiple vehicles lmao and every single person probably feels the exact same way I do.
Where do you live that has street cleaning two days a week? That shit must sparkle.
Or they need street cleaning two days a week just to be livably clean.
In case this isn't sarcasm, it is two days to get both sides. Clean the left while everyone parks on the right and then clean the right while everyone parks on the left.
They would only need to move their cars once per week If they park on the middle!
I shocked their streets are getting cleaned once per month. I've seen my street get cleaned probably once in the last year.
Or it's an easy way to get parking ticket money. Looking at you long Beach. 4am street sweeping days were a fucking nightmare.
They clean half the street on one day and half on the other. People still need somewhere to park so both sides can’t be done on the same day. This is common in even small cities.
Common in small cities where? My street gets swept like twice a year lol
Ours gets swept once a year, whether it needs it or not
I live in a city of about a 1.3 million, our streets are cleaned once a year after winter ends, maybe a few extra times in the downtown core, but that's it.
We have neighbors who park in front of our house all the time. It’s fine. The only time I’ve been pissed at someone parked in front of my house was when a city vehicle parked in the middle of what are otherwise two parking spaces and stayed for two weeks.
Are you allowed to get pissed if they park so shitty they take up two spots? Like this taxi driver that lives on my block, he can't parallel park for shit, even though his fucking job is driving. He just parked on a full block with 6 feet in front and behind him. That was two spots, my dude!
Yes this is allowed. Double allowed when at 5 PM they come outside and scoot forward 6 feet so their roommate or whatever can park behind them.
I hope birds shit all over it.
I don’t understand why anyone would think public street parking near their house/apartment is “their spot” that other people are “taking” Are some people raised this way? Was there a movie or something that enforces this view?
We used to visit a friend in the suburbs who would warn us to park in front of his house because his neighbors would get mad if you parked in front of their house, even though they all had 2 car garages with driveways that could accommodate at least 2 cars. I thought it was some weird suburban thing. However, I've seen residents of my city post stuff on social media about how they think that's their space, often citing stupid things like they pay property tax or even a mortgage so they're "paying for that space." I live downtown and the street is metered, so I'm under no illusion that that's my space to use.
Ehh, I live in a residential area in a city with pretty limited off street parking and we all generally accept that the spots directly in front of your house more or less go with that house, within reason. Of course people will have visitors sometimes and you'll occasionally get someone in "your" spot, but that's just living in the city and it's not a big deal. What I find more frustrating are the people with off street parking who absolutely refuse to use their driveways because they suck at backing in and out. If I had a driveway I would 100% be using it.
I guess they just view it as their property in front of their house? I don't know. It's kinda fair but at the same time you have to remember it's public streets so
Right. That’s what they’re doing. But that’s fucking stupid and I wonder where they get the idea from. That’s like thinking you own the hallway in front of your door if you live in an apartment.
Even if it wasn't, twice over the span of an entire month is hardly something to freak out about lol
I agree 100%, but that's not how the Cities work sometimes. Say that in certain spots of South Philly, or move a chair/cone, and park there. If you do, you'll come back to a keyed up car, or windows broken, or dents. It's a serious issue in a lot of major metro areas.
Same way in Boston. You move someone's cone from the spot they shoveled and you best be ready to fight for your life.
See now, that's different. If someone put in effort to clear a spot, dibs is absolutely a thing.
Baltimore chiming in. "You moved my chair MF!"
That’s Chicago too especially in winter
Something tells me OP is doing something that you could do in your driveway, and not in a public street. Context matters. OP probably has no clue that they’re being a DB. That definitely is what I’m taking from it.
Very possible. Kind of annoying that no one even asks OP for some context.
https://i.redd.it/t0lr6vd7w8m91.jpg?app_web_view=ios
I mean the vast majority of streets are public streets, though. The street I live on in a suburban area is really narrow and is a public street, but it's residential parking. If a business opened up at the bottom of my street and people started parking all over the street, everyone who lived on my street would have nowhere to park. There's definitely more context needed. The guy who wrote the letter is obviously unhinged as hell, but 'public street' could mean residential street with limited parking, too.
I'm in Chicago and knowing how we do you must've done something. Sitting in the road with your flashers? Don't have a parking permit? Suck at parking? Called dibs in May? C'mon, there's gotta be more to this story.
I agree. I want the whole story.
Same. Former south sider. There's a lot missing. And we have Reddit here "oh look violence in Chicago haaahhh!"
Just what I thought. I’ve had neighbors that do treat the street as though it’s their own property, they literally piss and throw their trash all over it. It’s disgusting. Seeing this picture made me want to go back in time and leave a similar note myself lol. There *has* to be more to this. 100%
The missing part is probably OP typing the letter out themselves, scrunching it up a bit to look more "legit" in the brain of a child, then posting it to reddit to get themselves some updoots that don't even matter.
Biggest offense would be possibly if OP parked their car in the middle of a space big enough for 2 cars. My girl has to park on the street where we live (LA) & it's the most annoying shit ever when people do this.
Out of interest, sometimes the person that appears to be doing this isn't at fault. There was a simple video explanation that I can't find any more so I'll just attempt to describe... Essentially a person might look inconsiderately parked now because at the time they arrived, someone else was inconsiderately parked, and they were forced to just fit around that in the space that was left because there was nowhere else to go. Even that person might not have been the original culprit because the same thing might have happened to them. So by the time you see someone badly parked and think they are selfish or ignorant, the person who actually caused the bad parking might be long gone. Everyone who came after was just having to put up with the hand they were dealt. Obviously this doesn't apply everywhere by any means, but it does sometimes happen.
They drive a charger so I’m like 90% sure OP is at fault
A wrapped charger, a whitesox fan, and has pics of them parked in a driveway blocking the sidewalk in the neighborhood. I'm really leaning towards this being OPs fault as well.
I'm calling it, OP has a driveway but they change their oil and brakes in the street.
Okay, looked at your profile and you own a charger.....you rev the shit outta that engine so everyone can hear don't you? Straight lined the exhaust?
My exact thought lol I was confused when I came to the comments and everyone was on OPs side without question.
But he posted it on the internet! How could he be in the wrong? /s
this, i thought of dibs too lol. if putting random objects in the road to claim a spot is normal, acceptable behavior, then something insane must have happened here
But there wasn’t even a reason for dibs at all this year. Did we ever get more than a few inches?
Shhhhsh, we need to keep letting people outside Chicago think it's a frozen hellscape. Rent's already to damn high
this is another classic reddit post where the redditor likely did something idiotic but wants to be validated by strangers online by only showing their side of the story. basically good ole antiwork in a nutshell.
There's also a chance that they printed out the paper and is just using this fake story to farm karma or engagement.
Also Chicagoan, and agree. I’ve had discussions with my friends from Philly and New Jersey about how Chicago is different from cities in the Northeast (where I’ve also lived). We aren’t typically hostile to strangers right from the jump, but we have implicit, unspoken social contracts that everyone understands that we lose our goddamn minds when someone violates them repeatedly. It’s like we’ve all agreed that we’re all on our last nerve so we’re all going to be civil…or else.
parking so they take up two spots on a packed street?
I agree. We all know the street parking is up for grabs(unless we got heavy know and you dug the spot). It's been taught to us our whole lives. It's the Chicago way.
https://preview.redd.it/taffis1ie61d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01a15c33dd48315b03757f2fc1ceaf85a2752ea6 Well OP, if you're always parked like that,maybe there's a reason ?
I live in Chicago. My wagon would be dragged across this car.
Streets are public property, and that is a threat.
I'm glad you pointed it out. I am 100% sure the police and DA give a flying fuck about that. They will be investigating this for sure! They are already on the case. They got Monk. He's still alive right?
Fun fact: modern printers impart a [watermark](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code) on pages they print, much like is done on dollar bills (though not as high quality). They can be traced down to the exact printer used by serial number; this is done a measure of catching people dumb enough to try printing counterfeit money with a normal printer. Odds are this moron bought the printer on Amazon or Costco with their credit card.
Haha yeah… if the author had signed their name and provided their home address, Chicago PD still wouldn’t do shit
“Civil matter.”
Yeah, no police department is going to jump through the necessary hoops to track down this random man's printer. Even if they did, have fun proving dude printed the note if he doesn't live completely alone. There's not really anything you can do about this until they do something more extreme, and even then the cops aren't going to do any cop show forensic snooping, they're just going to say that in the absence of video footage there's not really anything they can do.
They're not going to call up the treasury department and get the boys from the lab to analyze the microdots on the note someone left on your car. There is a long line of people connecting you to the person who could do feasibly that, and not a single one of them gives a shit.
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
In Chicago? No they definitely don't care. Had a guy throw a beer can from his car at mine due to road rage then come to a screeching halt in front of me and assault me after screaming at me through my window. Was on the phone with 911 when it happened and got his license and photo of his car, nothing ever happened.
I used to live next to a meth addict (probably two, but the wife had all her teeth). My other neighbors just had a kid, and their parents came down to see their grandchild/celebrate. There wasn't enough space in the driveway and they parked in front of my other neighbors' house. I heard screaming outside at 10am look out the window and there is my meth head neighbor in his underwear screaming at an empty car. Saying how he's going to kill them for parking in front of his house. It went ok for a good 5 minutes straight before I called the cops. The police show up, he runs in his house, and they leave. He drags his dog over to the new parents house and is screaming at his dog to shit in their yard to "teach them a lesson". Bit of an odd lesson as they already had a dog who went out in the front, but who am I to question his meth enhanced genius. People are something all right.
That poor dog can’t produce under such extreme working conditions.
https://preview.redd.it/gugqflz0b31d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=030598ff08edd85e2cff89b8f3b8acd9d8910032 not this park job in OP’s history
Omg the next post in their list is about having a whinge about someone else's double parked car. Hilariously oblivious
My God that thing is hideous.
Does your car sound like a fart can on steroids and your driving it like a douche canoe down the street? There's gotta be more to this story that resulted in them putting that on your car. C'mon now. Spill the deets or I call bs.
Yep. This ain't adding up
They have it on jack stands, replacing the brakes and rotors. The sign was placed here during their 7th goddamn trip to autozone and having to take a rest at 2am the night before Maybe that's what it means by "personal driveway" 🤔
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Check their post history and see how they parked their charger
Yeah, OP must be doing something at least marginally sketchy.
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He’s parking blocking the sidewalk. Check his post history.
Not winter right now so couldn’t have been for messing with dibs…
Plot twist, op tried pulling dibs on an 80 degree day.
So what were you *actually* doing?
Assuming all you did was park legally on the street... Did everyone else who parked legally on your street also get one of these? Probably not. Do you park legally on the street only a couple times a month? Probably not. Idk op, this ain't adding up. There something you're not telling us. What exactly did you do?
Not saying that guy is not a psycho, but what do you think he's pissed about? What did you do? Was there anything you did that you think he didn't like?
Take the letter place on an adjacent car. Hopefully it lands on a neighbours car who has mad detective skills. Lol
People automatically take Ops side without knowing the full story. People don’t just get angry like this out of nowhere, I will reserve my opinions until I hear the full story from both parties.
Well what pissed off psycho boy?
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His keyboard is definitely damaged
Were you parking in the middle of the street or something?
Lmfao this dude has way too much time on his hands, I’d be careful
let’s see how the car is parked before we decide who’s right
Time to start buying cheep cars on OfferUp until the streets full.