Mother, daughter go on trial for allegedly stabbing neighbor in dispute over Mission Hill parking space

By adamg - 4/25/12 - 4:51 pm

Trial began today for Carmen Andino, 40, and her daughter Shey Carrasquillo, 19, on charges they stabbed a neighbor on McGreevey Way on Jan. 11, 2010 in a dispute over, among other things, the table they allegedly used to save a parking space after a snowstorm, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Innocent, etc.

Comments

You don't mess with somebody's parking space saver

By HenryAlan - 4/25/12 - 6:29 pm
#1

after a snow storm. That's like wearing a hoodie in a Florida gated community.

too soon...

By misterbrick - 4/26/12 - 9:12 am
#2

too soon...

Definitely too soon

By anon (not verified) - 4/26/12 - 11:56 am
#3

But i cant say i didn't laugh

Stuff like this

By Matthew - 4/25/12 - 9:05 pm
#4

...makes Tokyo's policy of not having street parking, and requiring "proof of off-street parking" for every car registered, seem extremely wise.

Allowing parking-entitletards to claim public land for private, heavily subsidized usage just leads to perverse scenarios like this stabbing.

I lost count of how many times I've heard NIMBYs come out and complain about new development because "they're going to fill up the street parking." As if those assholes had private property rights to the spaces. This kind of attitude leads to some extremely anti-urban policies, such as parking minimums, which tear the city apart and force people to drive even more.

Logical inconsistency?

By HenryAlan - 4/25/12 - 10:20 pm
#5

I'm not that you mean it in this way, but wouldn't a ban on street parking lead to higher parking minimums?

No, not in Tokyo, anyway

By Matthew - 4/26/12 - 12:51 am
#6

http://www.reinventingparking.org/2010/08/japan-style-proof-of-parking.html

Perhaps most importantly, the policy created a demand for leased parking near homes, which the market has generally managed to meet, at a market price.

The proof-of-parking regulation eliminated the need to adopt American style parking requirements for residential buildings in which every building would be required to have parking. It made it easier to adopt a pragmatic approach, in which small buildings are exempted.

The regulation removes residential parking from streets which also removes the need to have residential parking permits.

It has also probably had the indirect effect of avoiding the pressure to increase street width standards for residential areas to accommodate parking...

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