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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago

The thing about America is that it's full of loud, obnoxious assholes who do not take kindly to you if you point out the fact that they're assholes (even subtly and without using that verbiage).

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

So nailed it, they get so mad for being told a simple truth that anyone can plainly see. Is it possible that inside their heads they're the good guy? That simple reality enrages them?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Narcissists always see themselves as the hero or the victim. Either way, you're wrong for suggesting they change a god damned thing about themselves.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I think many of them know they suck deep down somewhere as well. If anyone points it out, it confirms their innermost doubts and pisses them off immeasurably.

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