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Citizen complaint of the day: Yankees suck

An outraged citizen reports from E. 4 St. in South Boston:

Spent 1.5 hours shoveling my elderly grandfather out in Southie. This New Yorker comes along and moves his statue and takes his spot! Give him a nice fat ticket courtesy of Menino! Yankees suck!

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so much for "southie" justice! Mr. Mayor.....

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(Unless he's in a resident spot without a resident sticker, but that's not clear...)

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Our forefathers fought a revolutionary war to drive the British out of South Boston. They then reserved the carriage spaces left behind with broken harpsichords and indentured servants who pissed them off.

This stuff is even in the Bible: "Though shalt not covet a parking spot thou didst shovel not, unlesseth thou is the pizza delivery guy or UPS because then thou is only gonna be there for a minute or two, tops, and everybody else needs to chilleth the fuck out already."

(I'm being facetious, but I've had conversations with space savers that have been only marginally more coherent)

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LET US NO FORGET WHOSE SIDE THE RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK WERE ON DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR!

WILL THE HEGEMONIC VILLAINY OF THE TORIES EVER END?

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if you have NY plates, I'm guessing it's pretty clear you're not a resident.

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for being an arrogant ahole,eeka?

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I don't think that's a ticketable offense in Boston, for some reason.

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Probably the oldest couple on the whole block. It pisses me off to no end when someone parks in front of their building. The wife is handicapped and needs much assistance to get into the building they live in. The husband isn't in much better shape. Usually I'll throw people's space savers onto the sidewalk, put them in the trash, or stack them up and move them out of the way. These people I don't mess with though.

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If they have handicapped ID on the car, seems to me they should be able to get the city to make one street spot in front of their house a handicapped spot. Not sure how it works in Boston but I'm pretty sure you can make this happen in Somerville and Medford.

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It can be a little tougher if there's already another handicapped-accessible spot within a block or two on the same street.

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This is not true, there are 3 handicap spots on my block, 2 on one side of the street and one on the other. The only restriction (on a legally handicap spot) is if you have a driveway/off street parking the City will not issue a handicap spot. Also the parking spot is not just for you, anyone with a placard can park there.

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One street over from me, there are two houses with handicapped spots on the public street in front of the houses. The houses have driveways too.

It is odd for a house with a driveway that goes right up to the side door of the house to have a handicapped spot on the public street in front of the house. It's just a few steps from the driveway to the side door while its many more steps from the street to the front door.

Usually handicapped parking means spots closest to the building, not farther.

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I'm not sure they even know how to go about filing such a request. We do have a handicapped spot one block, and one street over. I also don't know if a concerned citizen is able to do anything like this for someone else.

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to start the process here. Usually, you have to fill out a form and already have a handicapped parking permit. http://www.cityofboston.gov/Disability/parking.asp

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Meaning "I assume this person was born in NY even though they have been here since 1980".

Get grandpa a handicapped spot and nobody else can park there. Or, help grandpa move into a nice building with covered parking. Otherwise, go fish.

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DESTROY

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Friend born and raised in Charlestown told me a Southie story:

Guy pulls up and parks in somebody's marked spot. Gets out with a suitcase and gets in a cab that he called - most likely on his way to the airport. One guy witnesses this and whistles to everybody shoveling to come over, explains what he saw and they proceed to bury the guy's car in snow. It's forecast to be bitterly cold so they proceed to get out the garden hose and spray down the guy's car. Several days later he returns to find an iceburg where he left his car.

Now that's cold!

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Then nobody else could use the spot for several weeks.

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Then nobody else could use the spot for several weeks.

It's not about improving your own situation, it's about making sure the other guy is worse off.

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Ah, the difference between selfishness and spite.

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-It's entirely possible that they are new or just visiting friends and do not know the unwritten rules of snow parking. They might even agree that if you shovel it out, it's your spot once they learn about it. Believe it or not, but people outside of Boston don't actually operate this way when it comes to parking - possessive of property they don't actually own regardless of the weather - however, they aren't all total animals with a lack of respect for assimilating either.

-It's entirely possible that said NY person is not from NYC and doesn't give two craps about the Yankees. Not everyone from NY is/does. And frankly, what does baseball have to do with how one parks?

-As for the handicapped grandfather part, perhaps if a calm, nice note - i.e. devoid of exclamation marks, threats, or nasty insinuations - was left saying something to the effect of 'I'm sorry, you probably didn't know this but the man who lives here has trouble getting around, so the neighborhood tries to keep this spot open for him if possible. His name is George, come over and say hi sometime.' They might actually abide and reciprocate the respect and politeness.

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As for the handicapped grandfather part, perhaps if a calm, nice note - i.e. devoid of exclamation marks, threats, or nasty insinuations - was left saying something to the effect of 'I'm sorry, you probably didn't know this but the man who lives here has trouble getting around, so the neighborhood tries to keep this spot open for him if possible. His name is George, come over and say hi sometime.'

Yeah, but if he had the level of awareness, interpersonal skills, persuasive ability, and general effectiveness that such a note would imply, then he wouldn't fit in with the old neighborhood and probably wouldn't be living there.

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The complaint may be poorly written but I think what he means is that someone moved his father's space saver and parked a car with NY plates there. Space saving aside, if it has out of state plates then how can it have a legal parking sticker? "Snow parking rules" are irrelevant. A ticket would be deserved in this case, and that's all he's asking.

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It's also possible that the evil New Yorkers do know about the "rules of parking" and simply don't give a shit. It's really pretty simple: One doesn't shovel out a spot; he shovels out his car so that he can drive of in his car. If he doesn't want to lose the parking spot, then he shouldn't drive his car away.

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