Parking Chairs

[Bill3000]

I don't see the problem with doing this. It would be nice if people weren't jerks and didn't take the spot someone else had just shoveled out, but if that's a problem, then I think marking your territory with a chair is justified.

Is it your property? No, it's public property. Therefore, it's not your territory.

 

[Narz]

Cause plastic chairs are cheap I figure.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Being from Minnesota, I would just be totally passive-aggressive and cover their car in snow.

I read about a woman who spent a couple of hours shoveling out in front of her house; she was nearly finished, and then some other woman zipped in, parked, and went in to a nearby business. The woman noticed that the car window had been left down (it was a warm day), so she finished her shoveling... and dumped the snow in through the open window onto the driver's seat.

 

[sophie]

Oh you barbarians and your snow...

 

[Skwink]

Must be an East thing. Never heard of such a weird practice.

 

[Defiant47]

I would also go around town and collect all the chairs. Not to sell them or anything, just to troll everyone.

 

[bhsup]

Around here if you set furniture out at the curb, it's legal for others to come by and take it before the trash folk come to collect it. I wonder if you could take all the chairs and be covered under some sort of similar statute in Chicago.

 

[Silurian]

Yeah, in the UK, the chair would simply be stolen by youth and burnt.

I had my chairs taken and they weren't even in the street

 

[Whomp]

Around here if you set furniture out at the curb, it's legal for others to come by and take it before the trash folk come to collect it. I wonder if you could take all the chairs and be covered under some sort of similar statute in Chicago.

In Chicago, unlike NYC, garbage is left in alleys not the street so the scavengers drive the alleys.

By the way, I did find a parking spot a block away from my gal's house yesterday. I had to crash through a hard snow wall a few times that was created by a snow plow but ultimately rocked back and forth into the space. Some people did have lawn chairs out but I also saw people place cardboard boxes and orange cones in parking spaces. Not quite as an attractive acquisition for the thieves on this board.

 

[Formaldehyde]

The orange cones are likely stolen unless they belong to a local autocross club.

 

[Xanikk999]

Yeah, in the UK, the chair would simply be stolen by youth and burnt.

What is with you Euros and burning things that don't belong to you? I heard about riots in France months ago where they torched random cars and now I hear you burn property in the U.K similarly?

Sadly I bet I am just imagining thing's the U.S has to have a higher arson rate.

 

[Defiant47]

Not quite as an attractive acquisition for the thieves on this board.

Still just as attractive for trolls on this board!

 

[amadeus]

On the plus side, I'd get to test my homemade spike strips.

 

[JollyRoger]

What happens if you dig out a space, don't leave chairs, return and find not a car, but some chairs in the spot you dug out?

 

[Cutlass]

Stick them out on your back porch.

 

[Ramius75]

and we have the same problem in Singapore without snow... some landowners will reserve the lots with garbage can and potted plant...

 

[Cutlass]

I just "acquired" some of those orange cones....

 

[SG-17]

When I was younger we would go out at like 2 am and take all of the chairs that were left out that we could find and stack them into pyramids in our school's parking lot.


Edit: @ amadeus and Raminus75:
Do you have some sort of special characters in your sig? Whatever they are appear as smiley faces and are stretching out the page for me.

 

[RobAnybody]

But why a CHAIR?

Because sometimes it's difficult to pee on command when it's 10 below zero & you just finished 2 hours of shoveling.

 

[Zelig]

It's the same in Chicago for main arteries. However, we don't have driveways but instead have alleys with garages. To be honest, the way you park in Toronto, in front of the house and on the lawn, is really pretty ugly. Not what I'd call curb appeal. Can people still do that?

You can't legally park on lawns in Toronto...