Monday, December 27, 2010

Achieving Crown Status when Illegally Parking

One of the more recently discovered Treviso parking champions.
Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to demonstrate how to achieve crown status when parking illegally. With practice, you too can learn to create the highest levels of inconvenience and danger with a single maneuver.

Like this individual, you must target both pedestrians and automobiles, while insulting the general public's sense of "neighborliness." In other words, your parking job must communicate "I don't care about you or anyone else!" as clearly as possible.

Note the following 3 points for which this person scores well.
  1. Park directly on a crosswalk so pedestrians need to leave the "safety zone" and go around the car. If they cross on the front side of the car, oncoming vehicles will not see them until they are about halfway into the street.
  2. Protrude well into the street rather than onto the sidewalk, a feature oncoming drivers love.
  3. Select a notorious blind spot, such as in the bend of this road. This assures that approaching traffic wont see the vehicle until last minute, thereby making it just a tad more dangerous.
I wonder how many of these sorts of violations I can capture in one year? Seems these days there is  no shortage of material to photograph. =)

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