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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.

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[–] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What the fuck is a Miata? That's an MX-5

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Well technically the Miata (and that's what I'll call it) was designed by Mazda's California branch which named it the Miata. But it was changed by Mazda Japan to the Eunos Roadster, which was just the Roadster or MX-5 in other markets.

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago

I wonder if vinegar in the bed would attract some flies

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.

[–] Hellsfire29@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

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.

wow that overlook neighborhood you're in is especially bad to have a brodozer like that in. I bet the asshole bought a foreclosure from a displaced Black family, what with how the area has been brutally gentrified

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I read a book once that I feel would be an interesting one for you. The title was something to do with ecodefense and monkeywrenching from what I recall.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

Cover that shitbox with bologna.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That truck gives off a lot of small peen energy.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I hope you report(ed) it.

[–] DCErik@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One of your neighbors is hung like a field mouse. Which it is is left as an exercise for the reader.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 days ago

I think perhaps you might be incorrect, and it might be a minimum of two.

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow, that’s quite the small dick energy.

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Talking about the GMC Denali of course…

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