Simple answer no, you could go past it and if it was damaged in the process that really wouldn't be your fault and they would have to go to civil court to try to deal with it. Walking over it is pretty likely to be taken as property damage and you at the very least get cited out if not taken before a magistrate.
Probably true but also incredibly unfair. Some people simply get away with ignoring rules and as the person trying to find a creative way to pay retribution you have to worry about legal consequences.
I'm happy there's an app to report such things where I live. Never know if anything happens but at least it feels like I have done something.
While you may be tempted to slash their tires as well, don’t. It’s a great way to get injured (pressurized tires tend to explode). Instead, use a small pocket knife to cut a little slice into their little air peg. That will cause a slow leak that they will not be able to easily identify, and is nearly impossible to fix without replacing the tire itself.
Colleague is a firefighter and they regularly have trainings for moving a car, in case it's blocking a driveway.
They'll have a person at each wheel and bounce the car in sync, making use of the suspension to keep the momentum going. And then when it's bouncing upwards, they'll lift it off the ground and push it over a few centimeters. Repeat until it's out of the way.
He said, it's fairly quick, you can easily move a car half a meter that way.
But yeah, if you need to move it further, you'll go ringing doorbells, or worst-case, wait for a tow truck...
Saw some students try to do that with a relatively small car badly parked on campus. They decided they could probably lift it with one on each corner. Unfortunately they each grabbed a wheel arch and came away with handfuls of corroded bodywork. The rest of the car stayed where it was and they ran.
We did something similar, but we just stuck the back end up on the curb because teenagers do dumb stuff and we didn’t like the driver. It was a Geo Metro; we probably didn’t need more than two guys.
Rotational relocation along the longitudinal axis is definitely easier and more warranted for the BMW.
When I lived in New York, I would have to regularly buy new keys because I would wear them out on how many cars I scratch the fuck up for doing this exact thing.
If you are not keying every car and slashing every tire, every time you see a motherfucker do this, you’re wasting your time. These assholes have to learn their lessons in a very expensive way, or they will continue to do this.
It's got EU plates, but that truck in the background has Indian plates, I think. So not only is the driver a twat and their car a twatmobile, they also dragged it a quarter of the way around the world to show it off. But if I'm not mistaken, that's a 320-series which is a nice car but definitely not a car worth dedicating that much effort to, so they're also a twat with an overstuffed sense of how cool their twatmobile is.
in my native country there is a saying that roughly translate to "thieves pass judgement based on their personal context" …meaning that if you are a thief, you assume others are thieves as well
just because you'd do nothing doesn't reall mean others wouldn't… heck people key cars for fun
sidewalk available on the correct side of the road
Sidewalks are meant to be used on both sides of the road. By people, not BMWs. I don't think parking on the other side would've made things any better for anyone.
70 Comments
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 60 pts · 4d
hmmm if pedestrians have the right of way, does that mean i can walk on top of this car?
I have to assume the owner expected such behavior parking on a sidewalk.
AviAdi@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 4d
I "accidentally" walk close to the car and maybe my jean button unfortunately may touch the car. Ooops😂
Madison420@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 4d
Simple answer no, you could go past it and if it was damaged in the process that really wouldn't be your fault and they would have to go to civil court to try to deal with it. Walking over it is pretty likely to be taken as property damage and you at the very least get cited out if not taken before a magistrate.
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 3d
Worth it.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 2 pts · 4d
thats a great point!
4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
Probably true but also incredibly unfair. Some people simply get away with ignoring rules and as the person trying to find a creative way to pay retribution you have to worry about legal consequences.
I'm happy there's an app to report such things where I live. Never know if anything happens but at least it feels like I have done something.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 4d
I would (and have) walk past it while my key scratches the car front to back as I walk past.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 3 pts · 3d
Oopsie-daisy!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 26 pts · 4d
just walk on top of it
eurodyne@piefed.world · 4 pts · 3d
Jumping on the windshield is encouraged
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 3d
Both of them.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
why limit yourself?
Jhex@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 4d
instant keying
eurodyne@piefed.world · 6 pts · 3d
While you may be tempted to slash their tires as well, don’t. It’s a great way to get injured (pressurized tires tend to explode). Instead, use a small pocket knife to cut a little slice into their little air peg. That will cause a slow leak that they will not be able to easily identify, and is nearly impossible to fix without replacing the tire itself.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
thanks for the warning on something I wouldn't even dream of thinking about…
eurodyne@piefed.world · 3 pts · 3d
So, you can’t even dream to think about this very common thing that’s been around for more than a century?
Jhex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
it was a joke… as in "I'd never do that wink wink"
Octavio@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
I got it. 😉
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 4d
Get some friends and relocate it lol
tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 4d
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 4d
Me and 2 other people moved a poorly parked Toyota Tercel when I was young, pivoting it on a front tire.
I'm kind of a big dude, but I'm not huge and only one of us was particularly strong.
It's easier than you might think especially if you just want to flip it over. 3-5 regular sized guys could definitely do it!
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 3d
Colleague is a firefighter and they regularly have trainings for moving a car, in case it's blocking a driveway.
They'll have a person at each wheel and bounce the car in sync, making use of the suspension to keep the momentum going. And then when it's bouncing upwards, they'll lift it off the ground and push it over a few centimeters. Repeat until it's out of the way.
He said, it's fairly quick, you can easily move a car half a meter that way.
But yeah, if you need to move it further, you'll go ringing doorbells, or worst-case, wait for a tow truck...
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 3d
"There's nothing in the rule book that says you can't dribble a car..."
-Firefighters apparently
Colloidal@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3d
It often fucks up the body work too, which is a nice plus.
dave@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3d
Saw some students try to do that with a relatively small car badly parked on campus. They decided they could probably lift it with one on each corner. Unfortunately they each grabbed a wheel arch and came away with handfuls of corroded bodywork. The rest of the car stayed where it was and they ran.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 3d
Yeah, gotta grab it by the tires and frame, anything else will probably break even if the vehicle is in good shape.
tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
We did something similar, but we just stuck the back end up on the curb because teenagers do dumb stuff and we didn’t like the driver. It was a Geo Metro; we probably didn’t need more than two guys.
Rotational relocation along the longitudinal axis is definitely easier and more warranted for the BMW.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 2 pts · 3d
Yes, but how does delicious man meat help fight sidewalk terrorism?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3d
If I recall, Hal leads them to a car so they can manually relocate it.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 11 pts · 3d
When I lived in New York, I would have to regularly buy new keys because I would wear them out on how many cars I scratch the fuck up for doing this exact thing.
If you are not keying every car and slashing every tire, every time you see a motherfucker do this, you’re wasting your time. These assholes have to learn their lessons in a very expensive way, or they will continue to do this.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d
The cars parked on the side of the road scratched the fuck out of my dog stroller
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
A car with a broken window can still move out of the way. Slashed tires park it in the way for longer.
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 11 pts · 3d
I really needed to get through that narrow opening with my bike. Might have touched thr paintjob a bit. Sue me.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
They will have to find you first. Make sure they don’t.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
_____________🔑
altphoto@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 3d
He means the car looking sidewalk.
daddycool@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d
I don't know if I can fit there. Hmm, maybe if I take my keys out of my pocket and hold them in my hand while squeezing through.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2d
i'm getting a bit pudgy so who knows what my belt buckle might do when i'm forced to shimmy past the car
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
I don't know, but generally if you find something on the side walk you may be able to keep it?
4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 3d
I like this one. I'll steal it with pride
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 4d
Bike lock through the windshield
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3d
Followed by something flammable!
eurodyne@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
Those U locks are useless for everything but this
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3d
Footprints or if you're adventurous, cycle tyre tracks over the pavement section of the car can work wonders
eurodyne@piefed.world · 1 pts · 3d
Come on… You can do better than that
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3d
Where I live there would be paint scratches and flat tires on that car. Probably twisted/broken windshield wipers as well.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 3d
Brave to park like that when so many carry pocket knives and loose stones are so prevalent.
eurodyne@piefed.world · 4 pts · 3d
“How unfortunate you parked here on a day when it was raining bricks…”
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 2d
And to drive such an unreliable car that the front would just fall off like that.
Chance in a million.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 3d
How I comment:
1st offence: bag of dogshit on the car
2nd offence: no more bag, just shit
Maybe there are apps that can help you report this to the community for handing out tickets.
Taldan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Be the bigger person and just ignore it... by walking right on top of and over the car
SourDragon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Dudes gonna come back with a trail of various shoe prints along the hood, roof, and back.
StillAlive@piefed.world · 3 pts · 3d
India. It sucks to live here. 😪
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3d
Imported European car or do you have blue strips on the license plates there too?
StillAlive@piefed.world · 3 pts · 3d
As long as the number plate colours are correct (black on white for private, black on yellow for transport) you can have any style of number plate.
You can even mention which caste/community you belong to.
No one gives a fuck.
destructdisc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
You can get plates with Euro-style blue stripes
fira@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d
I keep some old keys around for occasions like this
rmuk@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3d
It's got EU plates, but that truck in the background has Indian plates, I think. So not only is the driver a twat and their car a twatmobile, they also dragged it a quarter of the way around the world to show it off. But if I'm not mistaken, that's a 320-series which is a nice car but definitely not a car worth dedicating that much effort to, so they're also a twat with an overstuffed sense of how cool their twatmobile is.
destructdisc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
It has Indian plates (newer Indian plates can look like EU plates sometimes). This was taken in Bangalore
skvlp@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3d
1-800-TOWTRUCK
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 3d
bmw/mercedes drivers are the douchiest people owning these cars.
savvie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3d
Beemer Immunity knows no bounds (yet)!
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · -4 pts · 4d
I love you all, but lets be honest, none of you would do shit.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 4d
in my native country there is a saying that roughly translate to "thieves pass judgement based on their personal context" …meaning that if you are a thief, you assume others are thieves as well
just because you'd do nothing doesn't reall mean others wouldn't… heck people key cars for fun
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 4d
I've taken out whole sideview mirrors in my time. Coward.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Sick.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 4d
Those stem valves just loosened themselves. Crazy!
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3d
I really need to add one of those tools to my edc
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 4d
I mean. While you could use the sidewalk available on the correct side of the road, being eurotrash is more fashionable. Well played!
destructdisc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
Sidewalks are meant to be used on both sides of the road. By people, not BMWs. I don't think parking on the other side would've made things any better for anyone.