Neighbors for Neighbors Jamaica Plain reports some rather unneighborly behavior involving people shoveling snow on other people's cars.
Separately, Kate Hutchinson came across this space saver in mellow, laid-back Jamaica Plain:
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I live on this street! I had
By Where's the E-line
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 7:38pm
I live on this street! I had a chuckle and then appreciated that I'm a T rider.
winter in New England isn't for everyone
By anon
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 10:32pm
It's a bitch shoveling heavy snow in freezing temps, but I kind of enjoy it. To each is own I guess.
That picture
By Michael
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:17pm
...makes me want to spend the night filling that spot with five feet of packed snow and stick their friendly sign right on top of the new pile. Move to the suburbs if you want a driveway!
That Picture
By joehp
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 8:38pm
Really? I think it's funny.
If I see that sign, I will
By anon
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 9:09pm
If I see that sign, I will chuck it in a snowbank. Where is it?
Not funny.
You Mad
By nightmoves
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:55am
[img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgfNeIHTO...
Darling, there are PLENTY of
By anon
Thu, 01/13/2011 - 10:34pm
Darling, there are PLENTY of neighborhoods in the city where people have driveways and you don't have to be a millionaire either... ever hear of West Roxbury, Roslindale, etc., etc.?
Right but those are basically
By anon
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 7:14am
Right but those are basically suburbs. Part of Boston technically, yes, but suburban in most other aspects
Jamaica Plain is just like Roslindale
By Pete Nice
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:04am
I would say.
No.
By eeka
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:53am
JP has the orange line, and it has a large percentage of homes that have no yard-type space at all (as in they exit right onto the sidewalk). Also bigger percentage of area that's easily walkable to a shopping strip. Much more urban than Rozzie.
It also has moss hill and a lot of houses with driveways
By Pete Nice
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:01am
I admit they are pretty different when it comes down to it but when it comes to parking spaces/parking on the street and shoveling, there aren't huge differences between the types of houses and their driveways overall.
Huh?
By Roslindalian
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:32am
So your comment of "move to the suburbs" if you want a driveway didn't make any sense then did it, because you can have a driveway in the city. In fact, many people in JP - where these signs were put up - have driveways. In fact, many people in the South End and the Back Bay have parking spaces, which are no different than driveways. I think you meant "if you want your own parking space, buy a house with a driveway." It has nothing to do with the city/suburb thing.
Not for the same price though
By eeka
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:56am
I think the idea is that for a regular working-class rent in the city, which doesn't generally include a parking space, one can rent in a craptastic McApartment complex in the suburbs with a garage or plowed parking lot. But a parking space in the city is out of most people's price range.
n a craptastic McApartment
By anon
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:19am
You need to do something about that hostility issue. Yoga, maybe?
Many people in the South End
By anon
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:37am
Many people in the South End and Back Bay do NOT have parking spaces. Very few people have parking spaces because very few parking spaces exist. That's why they're so expensive... supply and demand.
Move to the suburbs - perfect
By Jenn Martinelli
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:33am
Ha, I could not agree more. Move to the suburbs if you want a driveway - seriously. It is a city street. It is public property. Regardless of where you shovel, every person parking a car has as much a right to any open spot as you. Your reward for shoveling out your car is you get to drive your car away. Try living car-free. It will reduce your stress levels immensely.
public property is the weakest argument
By nightmoves
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:51am
Using your logic it is perfectly acceptable for me to park my 5 cars on the street strategically (like an a-hole) to take up all the spots in my neighborhood. I can do it because it's public property, I don't because I have a driveway and I'm not a dbag. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Theres no reason you
By J
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 4:34pm
Theres no reason you shouldnt.
If the city want to prevent that, they would charge a very large amount for each additional parking permit.
Agreed.
By central squared
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 4:52pm
I completely agree. If you own five cars and pay for the permits, that may make you a dillwad, but that's legal. You do not own the street, it is public property. Saying otherwise also makes you a dillwad.
Interesting Photo
By plt3012
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 5:06am
I thought that only happened in South Boston?! "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!"
There's an important distinction
By JPSouth
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:24am
In JP, place-saving raises passive aggression to an art form. That spray painted board, for example, implies a societal compact that would preclude those reading it from, say, removing it and parking there or hucking it into the nearest yard. It's been my experience that violating that compact in JP results in nothing more than a passive-aggressive note under one's wiper the next morning -- a somewhat fruitless act considering the surrounding dampness reduces such missives to the equivalent of mascara-streaked kleenex.
In Southie, there are genuine repercussions that involve keyed paint, punctured tires and -- back in the early 90s -- broken rear windows and snow shoveled INTO one's car. The snow-buried JP cars seem almost neighborly by comparison. It's nice to see these folks try, though. A few less conversations about their monthly cleanse in the aisles at the Harvest and a few more hours shoveling with the neighbors would do everyone in this neck of the woods some good.
No, and yes
By Sarcastic Sam
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:50pm
This wasn't quite back in the 90s, but i've chucked chairs and barricades in Southie. I got so pissed I said the hell with this. Not as a resident but as a visitor to the commercial areas along Broadway. These businesses must suffer when people pull this crap, in my case over a week after the last snow fell.
Nothing happened to my car. What emboldened me? Having an old hatchback and an up-to-date insurance policy.
The above was the "no" part of my post.
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here's the "yes" :
" conversations about their monthly cleanse in the aisles at the Harvest "
Yes, I almost pissed myself laughing when I read that. That was right up there with a comment from Suldog the other day about his train ride in the Quiet Car.
You guys crack me up, thank you for the laugh.
It should be easy to figure out who did it.
By The Beer Guy
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 5:33am
Doesn't everyone in JP wear nametags?
The shoveling snow on another part
By LifeStar
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:33am
That was rather rude and uninventive. When I used to live in Allston, I did try space saving before, but I eventually learn a trick. Don't shovel that snow out to the road, just pack it up in front and back of your car(with around a less than 1 foot gap each way). Pack that snow in and let freeze overnight.
Things that happen.
1. You can still get your car out just fine.
2. You don't tick Boston officials off for shoveling snow onto the roads.
3. AS LONG as you can parallel park, then you're good to go in getting your spot back.
4. Most other people will not bother to parallel park, especially if the spot was made for a compact car(mine was).
5. Less likely to get ding or scuff or crunched by other cars b/c you now have a snow buffer in the front and back.
Space saving, I know, ticks off a lot of people. Thing to remember though is that it's a result of not enough parking in general for people, even during the off winter seasons. The cities don't do a good enough job(I'm looking at you Cambridge!) in clearing the roads.
It's ironic that since homeowners have to shovel their sidewalks now, it seems that the cities are doing less shoveling and plowing on their own now. It just seems that way in Cambridge right now, esp. on Western Ave.
When I lived in JP for the
By JPeter
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 4:54pm
When I lived in JP for the many winters I was there I used to get so pissed at obnoxious space savers that whenever I walked to my car..or the store..or the T or went out walking in general...I would go around and grab the space savers, toss them over fences...move them to other streets...hide them..put them in the trash, etc. I used to get a chuckle out of doing that. I also moved plenty of space savers after 48 hrs so I could park my car.
I used to leave a big note in my window that said..
"Your 48 hours is up! FYI...I know who you are, where you live and what your car looks like. If my car gets touched ...BEWARE! strong> I never had any issues! hahahahaha
A new level of holery?
By Eighthman
Sat, 01/15/2011 - 3:14pm
So how about someone who shovels out a space, puts a chair in it, and then parks elsewhere? Just noticed this on my street. I see his car on the next block (yes, I'm positive), but his chair is in the empty space. So he's saving it in case he HAS to park there? (I have a driveway, so it doesn't affect me personally, but it's certainly a pain for the rest of my neighbors, because plenty of people don't have driveways and the other side of the street is off limits because of snow banks.)
Snow moving
By anon
Sat, 02/05/2011 - 5:31pm
Neighborly: Digging out your car and creating an exceptionally large space surrounding it because you dug out adjacent wheels of the neighboring cars.
Un-neighborly: Removing the space saver from said spot and parking your very large white van with Illinois plates inside such a handsome spot, within 90 minutes.
Neighborly: Taking snow from around the wheels of several neighbors cars to bury said white van. Fair to assume that if somebody was committed to moving snow out of the spot, they may also be committed to moving snow back into it.
Featured sign found across street from incident.....fair warning and an act of neighborhood solidarity.