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Readers Cameraphone: “Friendly” Debate About Saved Parking Spaces Rages On


We touched on the moral quandary surrounding being able to save your snowed-in-then-dug-out parking space with a chair last week, but as the snow seemingly refuses to melt (and indeed, more comes down), things are beginning to get ugly, as evidenced by the back-and-forth on the note above, sent in by a reader. Before things get out of hand, we’d like to remind you all of the rules: If you’re going to get shot over a parking space, please do your best to take it in the leg or the arm.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 12:45 pm.

  • not_pele

    This sort of thing makes me afraid to park *anywhere.* What if the spot I use had been staked out by a territorial lunatic, someone before me moved a lawn chair/ikea desk/mountain bike/milk crate out of it, and my car gets keyed cause they think I did it?

    Yay, people.

  • arcticsplasher

    It amazes me how many cars still haven’t been dug out. If you can go a week and a half without using a car, SELL it people!

  • inhaler97

    GOOD ! TAKE THE STREETS BACK!! ENOUGH WITH THE SAVING SPACES!!

    Listen, it sucks to dig out your car, but if everyone did their part and dug out their own car, everyone would have a parking spot.

  • williamp

    Your note on reserving parking spaces during snow is a disgrace and shows a disturbing lack of ability to see the overall implications of emotional rather than logical thinking. Sure, if you spent two hours shoveling you feel entitled, but math indicates that if a block doesn’t have enough spaces for every car without any snow, there is going to be no place to put the cars when every vacant space is reserved, which when everyone shovels would double the number of spaces needed if everyone reserved a spot. Plus disputes over these reserved spaces give those who flout the law with your support the maximum temptation to vent their worst racial, classist, sexist. and anti-gay sentiments. Where do you propose to put the extra cars when every chair, trash can and cone has its own space.