That street has room in the middle for only one car at a time.

Would everyone please let me know you're ok?
 

Thank god for Eastern Airlines!

That reminds me -- I forgot that the motherfucking street cleaning ticket writer had ordered a fucking TOW. To be fair, I can see issuing tickets even when the purpose of the sign won't be carried out that day, because it's not for the driver to determine when the street will actually be cleaned, but ordering a tow when the street is not going to be cleaned? That's just plain mean.

4 or 5 years ago the old Tiger Stadium is closed down. It opened in 1912. Around the stadium were lots of street level parking lots. No structures.

Anyway, the Tigers had blown for about 15 years before, so they didn't normally draw big crowds. But- last game was an event. It was completely packed. They brought back players from the 30s on up. Guys on walkers hobbled across the field. I was there with my dad and kids. in front of us were 4 generations, everyone reliving memories. It was the single best sporting event i've been to.

But, parking is the point here. That night, the lots have more customers than they've seen since 1984 (last WS). As I pull in, the guy directs me to a "spot" ON the sidewalk. There were others parked beteen the sidewalk and the road. It seemed wrong, but the guy who told me to park there seemed official.

After the game, no ticket, no incident.

A month later i get a letter from the City of Detroit parking violations bureau- They denied my appeal for the ticket I got that night. The lot had picked up the tickets, put them in an envelope and mailed in an appeal. That way no one bitched that night. The lot didn't care because it was the last night anyone would ever pay to park there.

It a great Tiger Stadium story, and sort of worth the $100.

Oh, well that's even worse. How the hell are you going to turn around?

Since we're doing this, I got a speeding ticket for going 6 over in a 65mph area. At 11:00 pm. 6 over!!! In Northern California. Who gets a ticket for 6 over? Around here no less. Most of the time I drive 10 or 20 over. But I could only be so mad because if he had paced me in Oakland only 10 minutes earlier, it would have been 25 over.

My sister, after a night of debauchery and other assorted goings on, once returned to the last known location of her vehicle to find not only her car, but also the street it had been parked on were gone. No sign, no bull dozers, nothing was there to indicate that her decision not to drive home that night was going to cost her $170 in towing fees.

Cry Me a Water Park
 

Granted I am a shitty driver with not that much experience behind the wheel but what IS wrong with this? I am positive that I have done this many times. (I get lost a lot).

Well, down here we give those tickets to Yankees. I'm not sure who they give them to in California.

Are you Mexican?

Speeding through Oakland is more than justifiable, no?

Cry Me a Water Park
 

Beats the fuck out of me. I do it all the time to avoid traffic lights on the feeder.

Cry Me a Water Park
 

And that would be what's wrong with it.

Fucking Chips
 

I guess that's why I didn't get pulled over. Flow of traffic and all. I was barely keeping up.

Wait - the STREET was gone? Bulldozed? What?

Parking Ticket
 

Was this by chance in Massachusetts?

My honey got one on my street a while ago. We happened to walk up as the ticket was being written. The parking police kindly offered tips for how to avoid paying the ticket but said once he'd set pen to carbon ticket book, there was no turning back.

I was just reminiscing with my best friend from college friend about a parking on the wrong side incident. Right after college, she and her then-SO came for a visit. Driving with them to my favorite shallow bar of the day, I pulled into a spot on the opposite side of the street. There was a single cop busting people for this act. He pulled me over. I got out of the car to go hand him my license and registration and he told me to go back to wait in the car. It seems he had so many people pulled over, there was a backlog. We waited for what seemed to be an eternity. Friend's then-SO said "Just leave [Sparklehorse]!!" I started up the car and drove off. Hell broke loose for the cop -- everyone else bolted. The cop chased off after us down the street but we turned down a side street and "lost" him.

Parking Ticket
 

Way to drive fast and live hard with no regrets.

In the early 2000s, Houston spectacularly pulled off a Beirut circa 1979 motiff on the city streets, including the humble path that leads to my own abode. Finding navigable streets downtown was something of a challenge.

Someone made an "Orange Barrel Capitol of the World" art car at the 2004 parade. I think it won the People's Choice award.

Why would I turn around?

Parking Ticket
 

Years back I saw the Smiths play a show in Philly. Afterwards my drug addled friends wanted to cruise around and see if they score some more weed in areas of town where you can score weed on the street. Cops spot us driving around in BMW and notice the "thing that doesn't fit in" and hit the lights. Someone yells out, "hit it, let's ditch him", so the driver takes off. Hi-speed chase through the streets of Philly. Cut to the end: driver pulls a U-turn over a median, blows out tire, keeps going but speed is impaired, hangs a left turn, dead end alley. Oops. 3 cop cars cordon us off, spotlights on, guns drawn. We all have to get out and lay down on the ground. And apparently, if you are the driver and you have a Military I.D. in your wallet and you are an officer, you get off with a warning: "you have 30 minutes to fix the tire and get the fuck out of Philly. If we see you after that, your ass is ours".

We got out. The tire and wheel damage were somewhere north of $600. Could have been worse.

Parking Ticket
 

. . . Sorry, Penske.

Fucking Chips
 

You're one of those people, aren't you?

Parking Ticket
 

Beautiful. :)

Fucking Chips
 

I don't get it. Why would he turn around? It sounds like a two way street that narrows from time to time so only one car can pass at a time. My residential street is like that.

Apropos of this fascinating thread
 

I haven't driven a car in 2 years.

Fucking Chips
 

To park. He drove up the street, the only parking space was on the opposite side, so he parked facing the wrong way. If the street were really narrow, it would make it that much harder to turn around, making it that much more irritating that he got a ticket for parking the way he did.

Fucking Chips
 

WTF? It's a narrow street. There are cars parked on either side, and room enough in the middle for one lane of traffic, not two. Not uncommon in this area. If you park on the other side, you're just pulling from the middle over to the right side, as you would on a one-way street. If you're on this street and a car comes from the other direction, someone has to pull over to the side somewhere.

Parking Ticket
 

thanks.

It is a true story though. I wasn't driving (obviously-I am not the military type, more a lover than a fighter), but I was the one who yelled out "hit it, let's ditch him". How was to know that was going to be the one time someone would take my advice?

Fucking Chips
 

where's the tenderloin district?

What the fuck is
 

a meta assistant? Is that like a spittle tray cleaner?

ANd I understand my charitable contributions have been called into question. To this I say, Preservation Hall, PETA, Noashwish and the Red Cross would mainly agree that your mongoloid looking ass is mostly incorrect. And I will not be slave's sugar mama, so unless he steps down, I am not supporting him. Besides flaming me, I am not sure what his value add to the community here is anyway.

Iwould support RT though.

Parking Ticket
 

Is that you, Alex??

What the fuck is
 

On PB she just admitted that she sees the value in being able to ignore moderators, so you may be able to get somewhere now.

What the fuck is
 

No, she gave up on the board. And she's likely to give up on other boards if she's harrassed too much.

Fucking Chips
 

Did you say that originally, or did you lead people to believe that it was a street, like any other street?

Fucking Chips
 

It's beginning to look a lot like buses, everywhere you go.

Fucking Chips
 

The Castro has very narrow streets. I think Ty frequents a Y up there.

Fucking Chips
 

But if everyone is evacuated then who will drive the busses?

Fucking Chips
 

How do you resolve the situation when two cars, traveling in opposite directions, meet at a point where there is nowhere to pull over (e.g. parked cars on both sides of the road)? Who backs up? Is there gunplay?

Cry Me a Water Park
 

I never looked it up, and I'm not going to, but I imagine there is a law on California's books somewhere making it illegal to exit and enter a freeway to save 3 minutes by cruising the on and offramps to avoid the traffic jam on the freeway.

Fucking Chips
 

Gunplay would be bad for the karma around here. You see the other car coming a ways off and someone pulls over.

Must-see movie
 

Well if you had indicated that there was a threesome aspect to your cut-and-pasted article, I might have read it.

What the fuck is
 

Perhaps if everyone who is fed up with the Penske et al. inanity on the PB went over and just posted "Nuts to Penske and his Buses" they would cool it and make it a postable board again.

Until then...

Nuts!