This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn’t fit in many places around here it’s owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn’t help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn’t ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn’t matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
Trucks should NOT be this tall, if you get into an accident with this asshole he’s gonna walk away and you’re going to the morgue.
Should’ve bought a bigger truck
You get the sense that petrol is too cheap in the US
It’s maddening the percentage of my taxes that go towards the gas prices that makes this dick compensator feasible to own.
i feel like people would insist on this shit regardless, even in the rest of the world people seem to not even consider the concept of forgoing a car for economic reasons, same with owning a house.
they’d rather eat less and stop heating their house than rent an apartment and stop driving everywhere.
We more than make up the discount with federal taxes that fund our military-industrial complex which then commits violence all over the world in our name to make that oil cheap at the pump :(
In comparison to other countries? Yeah.
Shame that every country that’s balls enough to raise gasoline prices gets Iraq War’d.
It sounds like the “vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living” is a self solving problem as long as the police actually enforces traffic regulations: if people chosing excessivelly large vehicle for the environment were they live keep on getting repeatedly fined because such vehicles in such environments “pressure their owners to continually break traffic law” they’ll chose differently.
This is probably part of the reason why such vehicles are very rare in European cities: in such places it’s even more likely that they have to break the law to park such a vehicle (smaller cities and parking space) and were the police is probably more likely to enforce such laws with a stern hand (in some countries fines even grow proportionally to one’s income), especially in some countries were it’s far more common for people to simply phone the police to denounce a vehicle parked in a way that outrageously breaks the rules.
I find that a lot of Europeans entertain the delusion that they arrived at safe, livable transit and streets by calling the cops a lot. I guess that’s an easy misconception to pick up if you grew up with those safe streets, where all that was left to maintain them was to pay taxes and occasionally call the cops, and when there’s a decent chance that those cops aren’t murderous racist fascists who don’t respond to the call.
But Europe, western and northern in particular, got their infrastructure by pitching a long and eventually successful political fight against automotive culture as a whole throughout the 60s - 80s. They redesigned their cities to accommodate walking and cycling, they staged mass protests, they passed automotive regulations to mostly ban the sorts of personal vehicles that are fundamentally incompatible with that sort of city. They didn’t oust motor culture from their city centers by calling the cops a lot. No, that’s just maintenance upkeep long after the win. The boomer-aged Europeans of today had to take up a long hard fight in an organized fashion to create that world for themselves and their kids.
It’s the exact same reason why Europe has better Labour Laws: decades ago the many fought to change the system so that they were not being constantly fucked up by the few.
The cops are just a mechanism for applying said good laws that people fought for in the past.
This is also why as many such laws have regressed in the last couple of decades, the utility of the cops for the general public regressed with them, and more and more what’s visible as the utility of the cops is the only kind of use of the powers of the state that has never wavered: the protection of the property and physical integrity of the wealthy and powerful.
None of this is transport specific, though it definitely gets reflected in transport (partly in terms of traffic laws, their application and the size of the penalties when they are broken, but even more so in general transportation policies such as public transportation and even the very design of streets putting more importance on non-car transportation and less on car transportation, which is why, for example, sidewalks are more common in Europe) because of its outsized impact in quality of life.
In fact I would say that the much broader availability of public transportation in Europe too is the product of the very same fights in the past to put the interest of the many above the interests of the few.
calling the cops about small things in the US can very easily destroy lives. Only do it when something is life or death.
I have never met a Denali driver that isn’t an outright cunt.
Without the Child killer 9000 to not be able to see anyone under 7 feet tall who might be in their path, how is Bob gonna take his kids to school?
Email your council people. Ive done it before and they’ve made them move it.
But it’s OK because half of his family are cops.
Bro the biggest asshole in my neighborhood was a sheriff. Parking in the lawn, playing loud music, having a shooting range in their back yard.
Was very “Thanks for the concern.” And did nothing all the time.
The coroners can arrest sheriffs. If you live in some place that has a coroner, you should complain to him.
The fuck is wrong with people? This is why we need the big press machine that turns cars into a cube.
You could ALMOST Christmas Vacation that Miata under the Denali.
Trucks parked like that are just begging for some good keying
I disagree. While my truck is not ridiculously high, it is as long. I can park it almost anywhere, legally. I have parallel parked it on busy streets with ease. That truck owner is just an entitled prick who needs to learn how to park.
I drive a 2019 Ram 1500 with a 1" lift.
I don’t park like that. That’s fucking stupid. Only time I go into the city is to watch the Chicago Blackhawks play, and I pay for parking.
That truck would have been ticketed in minutes in my town.
And no, I don’t have a bunch of stupid stickers on my back window or the truck nuts.
Just one 10th Mountain sticker and that’s it.
I literally insult the drivers of these every time i see them engaging in menacing behavior (most always) and challenge them to a fight once they’ve been shucked of their prosthesis. I’ve been threatened with a gun a couple times but never have gotten the fight they seem to be looking for. This is what cowards drive.
One of your neighbors is hung like a field mouse. Which it is is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think perhaps you might be incorrect, and it might be a minimum of two.
put a note on the windshield: “please take care to better manage your genders affirming vehicle.”
Funny enough the right front fender of the Miata has a bunch of trans rights stickers. I’d rather not make assumptions about the Denali owner but it would sure make for an even more stark contrast.
I think you’re allowed to make a bunch of assumptions about the Denali owner here. That’s kinda what they did all that for in the first place.
They’re clearly being a dick with nothing more than a parking job, so it’s far more likely they are actually dicks IRL and noticed the same thing on the miata and chose to be dicks about it.
Sometimes, the other person being an intolerable, selfish, bigoted asshole, is exactly the thing we can and should assume about people in certain situations. Situations like this one.
Funny enough the right front fender of the Miata has a bunch of trans rights stickers
Well yeah, it’s a “hairdresser’s car.” Obviously, all Miata owners are inferior girly men, so of course the trans rights sticker fits right in!
(I own a Miata myself, so I’m entitled to make that joke. BTW, other cars I’ve owned include a VW New Beetle and two minivans, so I’ll let folks draw their own conclusions about my confidence in my masculinity. But just to be clear, anybody else trying to make that joke without heavy, obvious sarcasm is gonna get banned for violating rule 2, though.)
Also, maybe there could be an ambiguity between “trans[gender] rights” and “[manual] trans[mission] rights,” LOL. “Save the manuals” is a big deal among Miata owners, after all.
That gives me an idea for a new bumper sticker, for a very specific kind of car owner. Not 100% sure where it lies on the line between funny and insensitive, though, so I’m gonna put the quick mockup I just made in a spoiler tag so folks don’t see it unless they specifically want to.
hopefully clever and not offensive
am transfem, can barely drive a stick, but you get a pass from me
Or maybe, someone who has the strength of character to choose a car on merit, without needing a tank to make them feel safe, is more likely to NOT be hostile to those who may be different from the norm, again because they’re not scaredy little fucks who are afraid of everything and have to appear intimidating all the time.
Sure! Sounds like that particular Miata owner was actively expressing support above and beyond not being hostile, though.
Emotional support vehicle
