Probably is a cop
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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Bleh, call the police non emergency line and get it towed. Insanity.
AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 days ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Police do not care. There a huge chance they don’t arrive in time. I called on a couple of tweakers that were fucking around for 4 hours below my apartment and the cops took 5 hours to arrive. Fuck the police. Useless.
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The difference here is that enforcement of parking violations generates revenue for the police force with minimal paperwork. Tangling with tweakers generates no revenue and a bunch of paperwork. Police forces have never been about protecting the public.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
YMMV but this being NY, speaking from experience they have an army of meter maids ready to ruin someone’s day lol
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Call the fire dept and say youre concerned it might be blocking those exiting the building, (especially the handicapped) from clearing the area of a potential fire in a safe and orderly fashion.
I did this once when my neighbors landscapers parked blocking in my front door, despite me catching them at stand asking them not to park on the yellow line, when I needed to get my mom to a post-op checkup (making that the only viable door as I had to carry hwr down the stairs, and the back is 2 flights compared to a half)
Not only was the fire dept there in like 5 mins, they had a bunch of guys flip the truck over to roll it out from between cars on either side, they broke the windows to throw a tow strap through the cab, dragged it upside down out into a place the wrecker could get it, and pulled it upside down onto the flatbed.
Then they helped me get my mom down the stairs as a bonus. Extra bonus was they landscapers tried to sue the homeowner for the loss of the truck over their refusal to provide offscreen parking (my street fills up despite the town’s requirement for adequate onstreet parking intended for workers like landscapers)
They ended up dropping the neighbors house, which due to the publicity got them on every landscaper in town’s blacklist. The inability to get landscapers ended up making the house no longer atractive enougb for short term rentals, first replaced by a long term rental, and eventually they sold, and now there’s a real, working class family there!