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Originally Posted by Tobytob
...his tail crushed a car that was sitting on the corner in front of the building I was delivering too.... Across the street on the corner, saw the whole thing. When she came over, all she could do was laugh. She said he knows he can't park there.
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This is not unusual. In NYC (NOT the rest of NY State, as I have learned the hard way), if a car is parked in a "No Parking" zone and you crush it, the cops don't care. In fact, they may go write a parking ticket to the illegally parked and crushed car. I have a few stories similar to the above, except I intentionally hit the cars. They were parked on a corner and I not only needed to, but had no choice but to make a turn at the same corner.
First time it happened, I called the cops and told them I needed the car towed because I couldn't make my turn. Their response was that unless I hit the car, they couldn't come out and tow it. When I asked for clarification, the response was, "You're not from around here, are you? Didn't you hear what I just said? If you don't hit it we can’t tow it?!?" and then I got hung up on. So I go run over a Porsche and then call the cops again to report that I hit the car. Eventually a cop shows up and wants to know why in the hell I’m impeding traffic. I try to explain what the deal is, and the cop starts writing a ticket and says, “This guy’s having one hell of a bad day. Not only is his car redecorated, but now he’s getting a parking ticket… you’re holding up traffic… get outta here.”
That was the last time I worried about illegally parked cars in NYC. I DO want to stress that this does NOT apply to the rest of NY, or “Upstate” as they call it.
Speaking of NYC, has anybody noticed that the bastards raised all the freaking bridge tolls? Just got outta there a few days ago… GW is now $40, Whitestone is $30, and the Verrazano is $60 freaking dollars. I don’t know what Goethals is up to. Spent $179 getting in and back out to PA. Gotta love NYC.
