• radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    11 months ago

    If it’s a persistent problem, and a tow truck isn’t an option…

    Get a set of cheap car dollies, then you can move it out of the way. THEN you can place it perpendicular to the parking spots with the bumper at that support beam and he’ll be stuck until the blue car leaves.

  • Buffaloaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1377·
    11 months ago

    You guys need to chill a bit and stop suggesting illegal shit. This isn’t the poster’s car. This was posted on Reddit about 8 days ago and then shared by BuzzFeed 2 days ago.

    The guy in the car was able to get out and then talked to the building manager who then assigned the truck a new parking spot.

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldEnglish
        897·
        11 months ago

        I mean there should be consequences for being an asshole and the fact that assholes very rarely receive said consequences is why when they do it’s usually brutal.

        I’d definitely have scratched the paint on the passenger side and probably spit on the windshield.

        Don’t be an asshole and you won’t have to worry about the consequences of being an asshole 🤷

        • rosymind@leminal.spaceEnglish
          222·
          11 months ago

          Better to draw a giant dick on the windshield in lipstick or eyeliner. No permanent damage, the point gets across, and it’s a bitch to get off properly. Never did it myself but I watched an adult woman do it (as a child) and it struck me as such a clever way to get back at an asshole without being a bigger asshole. (Full disclosure, she wrote “bitch” in huge letters across the windshield, but I think drawing a dick is funnier)

            • smrtprts@lemmy.worldEnglish
              151·
              11 months ago

              It’s funny, pretty simple rule. Yet people defending assholes in here…How about just don’t be an asshole and maybe think of anything other than yourself. Hard concept to grasp for some ppl

                • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  08·
                  11 months ago

                  Leave a note, embarrass them on socials, call parking enforcement. Consequences aren’t for you or I to give, it literally only leads to bad shit happening. You don’t know if this is a single mom who borrowed a truck, an elderly person who shouldn’t be driving, or maybe something like a tweaker who did something like this because they’re fucking insane and want an excuse to attack somebody.

            • Drusas@kbin.social
              22·
              11 months ago

              That is so not true. Do you really never see someone being an asshole randomly?

            • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              110·
              11 months ago

              Go outside lol. That’s not how life works, you gotta be the bigger the person or it only leads to negative consequences.

              • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                7·
                11 months ago

                No, people like you enabling assholes by discouraging others from punishing them is what leads to negative consequences.

                You could literally just hide cameras and film the driver if they retaliate against you and have them jailed.

                People like you ruin life for the rest of us. Shut the fuck up and stop wasting our oxygen.

                • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  26·
                  11 months ago

                  And again, what gives you the absolute right to be the decider of consequences? Do you not see how that leads to problems? I have to drive for 6 hours straight in a small city, if I decided to give people consequences literally the only thing that would happen is I’d look like an asshole. And btw, if you live in the states, you’re a fucking idiot if you don’t think this could easily lead to the person “giving consequences” getting shot.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      165·
      11 months ago

      That truck driver needs to learn to back in. This situation is exactly why pickup trucks are often parked with the front facing out.

      • Forfaden@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I thought trucks were backed in for the hitch to not stick out. Why would backing the truck in help? Just so the driver could see wtf they were doing?

        Thanks for the explanation everyone! I have started to drive a truck at work and I didn’t know about this

        And thanks for not being jackasses while explaining too!

        • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          So I’ve driven fire trucks and similar sized vehicles. If I’m trying to get the truck in a driveway and have two lanes to work with I can go nose first. I go into the lane opposite of the target driveway to swing the front end into the driveway. It definitely takes both lanes if you don’t want to make a 100 point turn, Austin Powers style.

          If it’s a tiny road or only one lane then I have to back in. I approach by getting as close to the target drive as possible and then swing the nose away from that side of the road, lining up at a better angle when I start backing. This pic shows it well but you don’t need nearly as much space irl. Your just go slower and cut the wheel harder. The back tire could be just a bit above and to the left the #3.

          My point is you can get into a lot tighter spaces backing in. There’s a reason why forklifts steer from the back. The truck in the pic should have backed in or started over.

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          If you back up with your front wheels turned all the way to the side, the back corner of your car barely moves. Mostly of the movement is your front end swinging to the side.

          This can be useful when you need to make a sharp turn. It allows the back corner of your vehicle to make a very tight turn around the opening of the parking space.

          Basically going forward, to turn the vehicle 90 degrees might take say 30 feet of forward motion. Going backward, it might only take 3 feet of “forward” motion to turn the car 90 degrees.

          Much tighter turning radius for the end of the car opposite the turning wheels.

          This is why a forklift’s steering control works by turning the back wheels not the front wheels. Allows that forklift to rotate around the front, without the front moving at all.

          Forklifts have a more extreme version of this design since you can turn those wheels full sideways (and even a little backwards if you want), but the same principle operates in any vehicle with one set of turning wheels.

        • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          In tight fits you are much more able to park straight than if you parked nose in.more space for the front end to angle and get the back end where needs to be as well as space to move the front end back and forth to straighten out.

          Nose forward you are pretty limited in sideways movement and need to do like 18 tiny 3-point turns to try and get it lined up good.

    • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      He should completely disassemble the car, and then install each piece in a different car in the lot. Then he can build a new car in the original spot from the displaced pieces. A maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.

    • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.caEnglish
      43·
      11 months ago

      We want to use our pitch forks!!! Don’t you stop us getting triggered!!! /s

  • jopepa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    11 months ago

    I had a neighbor who was terrible about staying in their lines. My dad taught me how to park real good though. So, anytime they made their depth perception my problem I’d take the extra five minutes just to make sure I was atomically close to their driver side door. One morning I was lucky enough to see them climb in through their passenger side and abuse their transmission to get out of our parking spot without hitting me. I was late to work that day but the satisfaction was worth the infraction.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        It does make sense to have the person who wants the tow to pay for it rather than the whole extortion racket it becomes when the owner of the car pays for it. Even when illegally parked, it should be a ticket from law enforcement rather than essentially grand theft auto unless you pay whatever amount they ask for or do a grand theft auto back to them.

        • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Around here if it’s a parking lot, management has to call it in, simple as that. Management fines or gets their money from the renter. If it’s your vehicle, well you would have your insurance and parking spot title if you needed a service tow.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Barring getting the truck towed this is probably the best “illegal” response. It’s proportional, inconveniences them in kind, and doesn’t involve property damage.

      • SheDiceToday@eslemmy.esEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Aye. Too many of the suggested responses either a.) are wildly out of what another person would consider reasonable, increasing your chances of losing if it goes to a court or being assaulted by said asshole, and b.) don’t have any connection to the actual offense, and the asshole would never know why, without a doubt, that the action was taken.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        11 months ago

        The autocorrect fight is real. Many of my comments have something like it because I type the word I want and sometimes autocorrect changes it the moment I hit “space”.

        • poppy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          My auto correct refuses to accept that “carries” is a word and tries to change it to the possessive of the woman’s name.

          https://imgur.com/a/ogGv2vo

          I don’t know a woman by this name, do not have one in my contacts, etc. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • Dettweiler@lemmyonline.comEnglish
      161·
      11 months ago

      Considering I don’t see a lift kit, expanded exhaust, and giant low-profile tires; this just looks like a regular pickup truck to me. The luster on the paint is even a little faded, so it’s getting old. Driver is just an asshole here. Probably a shitty driver, since the rear bumper is hanging at an angle.

      • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        No you don’t understand everyone who drives a pickup is bad no matter what fuckcars told me so

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        510·
        11 months ago

        dude, a pickup truck is terrible no matter how you qualify it, they’re needlessly huge and have barely any cargo space, they’re just objectively bad in every single way.

        there is no use case where a pickup truck is better than something like a kei truck, they even come in actually usefully lifted versions that would traverse offroad environments better since they’re lighter.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
          42·
          11 months ago

          there is no use case where a pickup truck is better than something like a kei truck

          I like the mini-trucks like the Kei, they are practical and useful for light loads around town. What they don’t do is heavy loads and / or long distances.

          So here’s a “use case” where my full sized American pickup truck is required. Several times in the last 6 months I’ve pulled a triple axle trailer weighing 12,000lbs (5,440 kilograms) a distance of 200 miles (320 kilometers) at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,828 meters) ). Assuming the weight didn’t collapse the rear axle or buckle the frame on a Kei then trying to actually pull the weight would certainly destroy the transmission and / or engine.

          If you want to discuss “cargo space” then ALL pickups, including the Kei, suck. Holding cargo internally is what van bodies are for, not pickup bodies. This why city based tradesman the world over drive chassis with van bodies.

          So called “Off Road” is a whole different can of worms, nearly no one really does it (even if they think they do) and I’d submit that NO mass produced pickup is truly suited for it as real Off Roading is done with vehicles specialized for the terrain they are working in.

          Mini-trucks are great at what they’re meant for but they aren’t meant for everything.

        • Dettweiler@lemmyonline.comEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          If you live in a village and don’t have to haul much weight or drive far, sure, kei trucks make sense. I definitely saw them around Germany and France. In the US, everything is spread out. Also, kei trucks aren’t widely available in the US, and certainly not as much as Pickup trucks. Pickup trucks are also designed with use as a daily driver, since most people buying one will have that as their only vehicle. For someone with a great need of one, it’s both a highway vehicle and an off-road capable vehicle with high ground clearance. It’s a truck that will let you tow a trailer full of equipment one day and make that 50-mile commute to work the next.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    34·
    11 months ago

    One of the problems with revenge (deflating the tires, keying, etc.) is that there’s nothing stopping the neighbor from doing it right back the next day.

        • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
          92·
          11 months ago

          Wiggin was a pawn tho. He had no idea he was killing anything, certainly not a species. If anyone deserves the named solution it’s Graff. Rackham to a lesser extent.

          This is borne out in speaker for the dead where ender devotes himself to finding a viable world for the new hive queen.

          • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
            17·
            11 months ago

            He also didn’t know he was killing the kid at the beginning on the story either, but he definitely meant to make sure that he wouldn’t be bullying anyone anymore.

          • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            I think it’s more of a book reference to his fight with bonzo, who was bullying ender. Ender was a few years younger and knew he had to win the fight “permanently,” so it’s inferred that he knew what he was doing (not intending to kill him but that’s obviously a possibility).

            Iirc, the officials told ender that bonzo was sent home. In reality, he did actually kill bonzo and was lied to about it.

            • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              11 months ago

              Fair but ender himself says he never meant to kill bonzo or the kid in his earth school.

              • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                11 months ago

                That’s fair, though he was trying to permanently end the bullying, which is what i think OP was referencing at least. Since, you know, that would end bullying permanently

            • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
              31·
              11 months ago

              His goal was to demonstrate that he was a crazy animal. That was the thing he was hoping would keep the bullying away: demonstrating a lack of constraint.

              It wasn’t so much about disabling the other boy as about establishing an image as an unpredictable enemy.

  • Scarronline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    11 months ago

    Flour at the bottom of the windshield where that AC air intake is. It’ll blow flour all through the car and they’ll never get it out.

  • TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.worldEnglish
    348·
    11 months ago

    I love reminding Dodge drivers that the Chinese CCP owns it and RAM name. Not because that is bad or anything it’s just that most RAM drivers are also racists so that helps rile em up.

    • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      Actually, things have changed a bit.

      Stellantis is the company that came about from the merger of the Italian–American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group.

      After the merger, the main owners were

      • Agnelli family (Exor): 14.40%
      • Peugeot family (Etablissements Peugeot Frères, EPF): 7.19%
      • Bpifrance: 6.18%
      • Dongfeng Motor Corporation: 4.5%

      So, it would seem it’s not correct to say that Dodge or RAM is owned by the CCP. It’s more Italian and French than it is Chinese…

      • Serdan@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been told many times that China controls Reddit and that’s a 5% stake, so …

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      I’m a RAM driver who’s considered attaching Federation of Planets flags to my flatbed in order to make fun of trucks with American flags on them.

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Better than the “Let’s go Brandon” banners I see on most of the pickups around here.

        I actually saw a lifted pickup this week, plastered with a half dozen “student driver” stickers, a let’s go Brandon sticker covering his entire rear window, and a giant AR-15 sticker on the side.

        Driver looked like he was 15 years old too!

        Brand new Raptor, no plates

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    11 months ago

    Everybody here with slashing tires and me just thinking water in the tank sounds nice. But I just recommend putting water in the tank and maybe some salt and a dash of fresh piss. The truck will run but eventually it’s gonna die and will smell like piss for a bit. If it doesn’t die, the salt and water mixture will start to corrode the interior of the gas tank.

  • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    11 months ago

    1 bottle fish sauce

    Pour over lower windshield.

    Repeat as necessary

  • kaibae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    Have them towed. The several hundred dollar fee to get their truck out of the impound might impart a lesson.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Garages aren’t always large enough to allow tow truck access.

      There was that one issue where a Tesla broke down in a garage and the owner incurred thousands of dollars in fines but nobody could remove the car because the ceiling and ramps were too small.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    So, legal question. In this situation, obviously you document it like this, but then would you be in the clear to push it out of the way somehow in a typical jurisdiction? Usually the law allows you certain extra rights when your stuff or person is trapped by someone else’s usual legal rights. For example, if your property is surrounded by that of another person they can’t stop you from passing through.