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SF city attorney demands shutdown of parking-space-auctioning app
Monkeyparking, the app that lets assholes auction off their parking spots, has been sent a cease-and-desist letter by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who says the practice of selling your...
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Video: amazing record-breaking parallel parking
No back and forth bullshit when Han Yue made the Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel park, 8 cm (3.15") in a MINI 3-door Hatch, during the China Drift Championship.
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Woman fined for posting photo of police car illegally parked in handicap spot
A woman in Petrer, Spain posted a photo on Facebook of a police car illegally parked in a handicap spot. She was subsequently fined almost €800 (~US$886) under the Citizens Security Law, aka the...
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A parking spot in Boston for sale: $650,000
If you have $650,000 you can buy a nice one-car spot at Boston's Brimmer Street Garage. The garage is heated and has valet service. When the garage opened in 1979, spots sold for $7,900. Last month, a...
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Mom uses her kid to steal guy's parking spot
This mom in Port Moody, BC is taking a chance by having her son block a car with his bike so she can swipe a parking spot. A road ragey driver would have bumped the kid out of the way. Has this ever...
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Video of an automated parking garage in West Hollywood, CA
The City of West Hollywood is using automated parking to fit more vehicles into a garage. It's neat, but I wish Los Angeles would use its resources for better public transportation. The garage...
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Presence of bodybuilders convinces illegally-parked motorists to comply...
The fine folks at Stop a Douchebag typically catch a lot of heat from the Muscovite scofflaws they bust driving on paths and sidewalks, but when behemoths from BodyMania go out on the street,...
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Ferrari driver ignores "no parking" signs and finds his car in inconvenient spot
A Ferrari driver in southeast England ignored warnings not to leave cars overnight on the ninth floor of the Brighton Marina parking garage. The fellow returned on Sunday morning to find his fancy...
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Watch this extremely skillful truck driver back into tight spot
I bet he's a master at parallel parking his daily driver too. (via Laughing Squid)
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Well-dressed fellow rips boot off car so as not to miss his flight
Bravo, sir. (via DIGG)
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How a civic hacker used open data to halve tickets at Chicago's most...
Matt Chapman used the Freedom of Information Act to get the City of Chicago's very mess parking ticket data; after enormous and heroic data normalization, Chapman was able to pinpoint one of the...
View ArticleVideo: the mathematics of where to park your car
Are you the driver in the lot who parks in the first spot you see? Or do you circle around and around looking for a spot by the door? Physicists Paul Krapivsky of Boston University and Sidney Redner...
View ArticleTruck blocked in parking lot manages to squeeze out
A pickup truck was blocked in by a wall and three cars. Amazingly, the driver was able to maneuver the truck out of the tight spot. Caption this .... from r/ThatsInsane [via r/ThatsInsane] Read the rest
View ArticleReview: SpotHero should be called SpotZero
SpotHero is an app that lets you reserve parking in advance. It seemed like a cool idea, so I installed it and gave it a try when I had a business lunch on Tuesday. I entered the name of the restaurant...
View ArticlePittsburgh's tradition of claiming a public parking space by putting a chair...
In Pittsburgh, it's understood that if there is a chair in a parking spot on the street, that spot has been claimed and is not yours to park in. The citizens have "chair respect." As William Gibson...
View ArticleHow to parallel park perfectly "every time"
I consider myself to be a skilled parallel parker, mostly because I spent my younger years driving my mom's 1975 Oldsmobile Delta 88 land yacht. I'm not sure if I follow the steps laid out in this...
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This weird old car had a retractable fifth wheel to help with parallel parking
A friend of mine recently shared an Instagram post about old cars that had a fifth wheel which descended from the trunk to assist with parallel parking. As a Bostonian, I take my parallel parking...
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San Francisco man gets parking ticket after curb was repainted red while his...
San Francisco's parking enforcement gang is notorious for issuing parking tickets. If you look closely at their uniforms, you'll see a badge that says "Cite 'em all and let God sort 'em out." It's...
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Entitled partygoer learns a hard lesson in parking etiquette
Have you ever had a stranger park in your driveway? One Reddit user, known as TheToiletDestroyer (let's call him TD), decided to take matters into his own hands and block a trespassing driveway...
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Master the art of parking with these TikTok videos
I'm not great at parking. I often have to make multiple attempts to parallel park before I'm successful. I also have trouble pulling into a park spot. Either my car isn't centered in the middle of the...
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NYPD debuts windshield boot to trap parking offenders
Traditional wheel-locking boots being easy to remove in the age of 40v cordless angle grinders and the like, New York Police Department is switching to windshield-covering boots instead. "Good luck...
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Scammers are putting fake QR codes on parking meters in California
According to ABC LA News, scammers have affixed counterfeit QR codes to parking meters, making them appear as legitimate links to pay for parking. Vance Ingmanson, a victim of the scam, recounted how...
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LA hacks: free parking, secret shortcuts & more
Adam Tschorn of The Los Angeles Times asked readers to send him their favorite tips and coping strategies for navigating the sprawling, centerless megalopolis. Some of them are obvious, at least to...
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NYC discovers amazing new rat-fighting technology called "garbage cans with...
Good news, New York! Your endless war on rats has achieved its first tiny victory, and all it took was discovering what the rest of civilization figured out circa 1922: putting garbage in containers...
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This driver is the par-KING! (video)
Hasan Uzun (aka @reis10line) brings his masterful driving to the parking garage in the video below. Uzun is sometimes referred to as the "Drift King" but he's clearly also the par-king! Drifting is...
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