Citizen complaint of the day: Symphony goers are as bad as Sox fans

Totally agree. The resident parking permit enforcement is severely lacking. And if it's a Sunday, forget it. The parking officers don't work on Sunday and the Boston Police are responsible for enforcement, and they will only ticket if someone calls and if the parked car is causing a safety hazard.

Governmental regulation is wrong! Instead, you should use a baseball bat to fuck up somebody else's property when they do wrong by you. Then, you should rely on either the police being too incompetent to track you down, or bank on the fact that you're a white guy, so you'll probably avoid prison time.

Never change, Will.

spaces in the South End, but I still believe in the rule of law. The penalties for vandalism aren't trivial here.

Would you really risk three years of hard time, plus a fine of three times the damage you'd wreaked, plus all the other ways such a conviction and internment would horribly change your life, for the momentary satisfaction of your vigilante justice?

Even if I could admire your apparent political philosophy here (I don't), the risk/reward assessment seems absolutely bonkers to me. There aren't many situations in which I could imagine myself resorting to violence, but a parking violation isn't even in the same time zone as those, let alone the ballpark.

The illegal enforcement of jungle parking law by self-entitled barbarians in City Point is what drove me to move from there back to the South End. I never was victimized in a space-saver dispute, but the ambient threat poisoned the neighborhood for me: the idea that the guy next door might become a violent criminal over a parking space.

The South End's ban on space savers is more than just a practical take on managing a scarce shared resource to me: it's a token of the kind of basic civility that is essential to sane living in dense urban spaces. Resident spaces are no different.

For what it's worth, I've seen plenty of enforcement of resident space violations in the areas of the South End I've lived over the past 15 years (which don't include the one over by Symphony), especially on busy weekend nights. I'd favor a plan that limits the number of parking permits per household -- one of my wealthy neighbors had resident permits for 11 vehicles a couple years ago -- and one that charges a sliding fee according to the size of your vehicle: as the neighborhood has gotten more prosperous, the number of gigantic SUVs has increased exponentially, which doesn't help.

A bike would be my preferred mode to get there. Would have been when I still had kids to literally tow around.

But the MBTA works mostly fine for off hours things, too. You can also park legally and walk - even with your kids! If you are mobility impaired, well, then your traffic and parking prospects are greatly enhanced by other people not driving.

Just sayin.

BSO memberships spend lots of money in the city with dinner, parking, concert,

I guess after spending that money they have none left for a Uber/cab, eh?

Generally older crowd with BSO memberships spend lots of money in the city with dinner, parking, concert

How much of that "lots of money" goes to compensate the residents whom they displace and inconvenience. Not one cent, chum. The "it brings money into the city" argument is so much bullshit; that money only ever lines a few pockets and goes right out again.

and if I want to go to an event at Symphony Hall or Jordan Hall, I ride my bike or the #1 bus or the Green Line. Which I believe is now accessible at Symphony station (though not at Hynes).