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This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn't fit in many places around here it's owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.

Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn't help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn't ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn't matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

I bet those tires would make one hell of a whooshing sound...

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

MIYATAAAAAA

🥹😌🥹😌🥹😌

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Without the Child killer 9000 to not be able to see anyone under 7 feet tall who might be in their path, how is Bob gonna take his kids to school?

[–] Salamanderwizard92@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I have never met a Denali driver that isn't an outright cunt.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Parked illegally you say? Call the cops on him (anonymously). Every time. He can learm or he can pay.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But can you fit four 200kg people in the Miata?

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm working my way back from 125kg, it was miserable living that heavy. I can't imagine being 200kg.

[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now imagine both on a highway and the Miata rear-ending the truck. In EU underride guards are mandatory, but in the US... I'm not sure.

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Miata is always the answer.

In this case, the question would have been - which one of these cars would not survive an accident with the other?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

The fuck is wrong with people? This is why we need the big press machine that turns cars into a cube.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But it's OK because half of his family are cops.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro the biggest asshole in my neighborhood was a sheriff. Parking in the lawn, playing loud music, having a shooting range in their back yard.

Was very "Thanks for the concern." And did nothing all the time.

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[–] Quexotic 5 points 10 months ago

Lentils may well be helpful in this situation also.

[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I bet PPB doesn't mind, if they were called about it they'd be like high fiving the owner like "hell yeah brother that's how we do it in Battle Ground fuck these Portland libs!"

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