Taking Back the Streets (er, parking stalls)

[Clarkey]

This is hilarious. How did you get it around the corner without having someone inside to turn the steering wheel?

I don't know if you are a big guy or not, but if you do things like this enough times you will come across the wrong guy and get beat down or get your property f'd up. Probably not worth it.

[nickerjones]

Originally Posted by ClubFlames

That made me chuckle. To me, you made it sound like some sort of a cult leader came to visit you.

I for one welcome our new Mexican leaders.

Whats funny is there is always a leader in a pack of mexicans.... At least in my experience running my dads construction company...... There is the head guy and you give all the paychecks to that guy ..... he then gives the paychecks to his underlings, for a fee of course.... A guy who has been with my dad make everyone of "his guys" give him a dollar an hour out of their check. that is their fee for him getting them a steady good paying job.... I swear he is making an extra grand a week in cash from this scheme .... The thing is is it rolls down hill ...... MexA gets mex B a job and has to give him 1 dollar an hour, but lets say mex b get his cousin a job. Well said cousin gives up 1.00 to mex b but also has to give a smaller fee to mex A usually .25 -.50 cents an hour

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Clarkey

This is hilarious. How did you get it around the corner without having someone inside to turn the steering wheel?

I don't know if you are a big guy or not, but if you do things like this enough times you will come across the wrong guy and get beat down or get your property f'd up. Probably not worth it.

I can't say I've ever done this before... I've always wanted to though. Guess I lucked out that they were docile, priest-like spanish dudes.

As for how I got it around the corner, first, my stall is a 45 degree angle. The cars that park on the other side of the lot were not there, so pulling it out of my stall was relatively easy. The tricky part was getting it out of the lot and on to the street without scraping it against the dumpster. To accomplish this I had to drive up on the sidewalk on the other side of the street and then take a hard left.
Dragging it down the street was a bit painful. I could smell my clutch. But I was already in for a penny and therefore in for a pound. Getting it around the last corner was easy. There's lots of gravel accumulated there.

Anyway, I do still have mixed feelings about it. I'm glad that a bunch of you had a laugh and I'm glad that the vehicle owner understood the situation and didn't help it escalate. In retrospect, it was probably pretty stupid thing to do, but like the saying goes, that was the straw that broke the camel's back.


As for pictures, I snapped a bunch of them with my phone last night but the only one that even comes close to showing the skid marks is this one:




And the blad eagle pics are just as pathetic so I wont bother.

[4X4]

Oh and I forgot to add that the reaason that the car wasn't damaged at all is because it has a hook under the bumper. Honda owners will be glad to know that that hook is pretty damn sturdy.

I have a new hero and his name is 4X4.

[schnee]

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[habernac]

Haven't lived in an apartment for a long time, but someone once parked in my stall. I had the prick towed, never happened again.

[4X4]

Sweet! We can say prick?

Towing would be the obvious solution, but the problem with that is that it takes them forever to come out and do it. By that time, the jerk errr prick is usually gone. Sometimes, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Ice

I've actually had people park in my driveway and block me in my garage. Its so tempting to take a sledge hammer to their car,

See this is when you need a beater car on the street so you can pull it up behind him blocking him in, then charge him 100$ to move your car so he can get out. Helps if you don't have plans for the weekend and don't mind not having access to the vehicle in your garage