311 complaint of the day: Cybertruck? More like a parking Cyberbully

By adamg on Fri, 08/09/2024 - 1:25pm

A perturbed resident filed a 311 complaint this morning, not because this Tesla Cybertruck is an assault on the eyes but because of the way it's hoovered up parking spaces on India Street at Custom House Street downtown:

Not only is the tacky tesla taking 2 spots, it's also a comercial vehicle taking a parking meter spot despite comercial space being available. Nice for them to face no rules or consequences.

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I finally saw one in person,

By anon
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 1:29pm

I finally saw one in person, they are shockingly ugly up close.

Yes, but ...

By John Costello
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 1:37pm

If the idiotmobile was 18 inches closer to the hydrant Ms. Fussy would have complained about the vehicle being too close.

If this was a Ford Expedition or Dodge Ram parked here there would have not been a complaint.

The complainer 55 years ago would have complained about skirts being too high on those damn teenagers and those darn hippies.

Lot of assumptions John

By spin_o_rama
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 1:45pm

Don't worry, I saw a bike run a red today and shook my head.

Wow

By John Costello
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 2:42pm

You are worse than 92.9. You just keep cranking out the same shitty 8 hits from 30 years ago again and again.

Pot, kettle, etc

By spin_o_rama
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 2:58pm

Enjoy the ratio John!

EDIT: Also I really don't appreciate that dig at 90s music, even the bad stuff was good back then!

OT: You're right about 92.9

By Gary C
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 8:09pm

Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Child O' Mine
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Come As You Are
...and 4 others than rotate in.

I avoid iHeart Monopolies

By Frelmont
Sat, 08/10/2024 - 2:50pm

I avoid iHeart Monopolies (Clear Channel) like the plague, unfortunately Bloomburg is carried by them. I wonder if the AM version is also Clear Channel?

I'm confused

By Scratchie
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 2:59pm

So the only way they could have avoided taking up two spaces would be to block the hydrant? There's no other parking available anywhere?

Mr Fussy Misogynist.

By Lee
Sat, 08/10/2024 - 4:17am

Good name for you.
Naturally you assume the complainer was a woman. You only see stereotypes.

4:17 AM?

By John Costello
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 11:44am

Quiet overnight shift at the 7-11 I see.

Go over to the Slurpee machine and grasp at more straws.

Ever the fussy snob, aren’t you.

By Lee
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 7:56pm

I don’t work at 7-11. But if I did, I’d see no shame in it.

Besides, who would you run to, John Boy, when your midnight cravings for Dots, Doritos and Diet Dr Pepper got hold of you, if no one worked at 7-11?

The Cybertruck is

By MC Slim JB
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 2:33pm

the new Hummer.

I see Ruben Bolling, I upvote

By Scratchie
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 2:59pm

I see Ruben Bolling, I upvote.

We can't stop talking about it

By Plen-T-Pak
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 4:48pm

And I wish everyone would. It's the Trump of cars.

Is it me, or are there

By Frelmont
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 3:30pm

Is it me, or are there suddenly more Cybertrucks on the road? I’ve gone from seeing none ever to seeing them a once a week and at least two colors.
They don’t look as ugly in 3d as they do in 2d.

I saw a Navy Blue one a few

By Don't Panic
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 2:30am

I saw a Navy Blue one a few weeks ago. None since or before except for pictures online. They remind me of the vehicles from the ITV series UFO back in the seventies. SHADO agents would love this thing!

“Pig parker?” Not apologizing

By Frelmont
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 4:13pm

“Pig parker?” Not apologizing for the Cyberhummer, but unless one observed the initial conditions at the time of parking, one cannot know if we’re dealing with a pig parker, or an individual who had to make do with the space/s available. Also, isn’t parking in the lines derived from a mitzvot?

So no actual rules have been

By Rwgfy
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 4:53pm

So no actual rules have been broken?

for once I agree

By sartreswaiter
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 5:00pm

~~maybe if we got our rulers out they would be more than 12 inches from the curb, but seems all perfectly legal to me.~~

I'm realizing this is a bad 311 picture. The cybertruck is indeed parked with the parking meter in the "middle" of the truck, meaning it is essentially occupying half of two spots.

That said, combined with the spacing requirements around fire hydrants, there's basically no valid way to park it here.

Going to google maps, you actually see a pickup truck parked correctly at the meter, but parked wayyy to close to the hydrant.

Solution is don't buy a dumb pickup truck in the city. But here we are.

Interesting Side Story

By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 5:34pm

Unless there are two of these downtown, I trailed this guy last night on my bike heading out toward the greenway.

Extremely careful driver, aware of the size of the vehicle on very narrow colonial-era streets, yielding to any random hint of a pedestrian in the area doing anything. It was astounding.

As long as he paid for both

By Rwgfy
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 5:37pm

As long as he paid for both spots, what is a problem here?

Even if you manage to prove

By anon
Sat, 08/10/2024 - 6:17pm

Even if you manage to prove that someone is using a pickup for something that could be done with a compact car, what about vans for contractors and deliveries?

I think the solution is to post a No Parking sign 10 feet from the hydrant. And make sure the meter is 10 feet + a standard parking space away from the hydrant. A busy downtown street like this shouldn't leave the measurements up to subjective judgment.

Jackson Pollocks's splatter paintings

By Daan
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 7:35pm

When I learned that Pollock was addicted to alcohol his splatter paintings made sense to me. They were a representation of the chaos of his mind. This truck looks like it belongs in a real version of robocop land except that the robocops enforce the party control of a totalitarian society. Is this truck design a projection of Musk's goals?

I think he was inspired by

By Scratchie
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:06am

I think he was inspired by this:

[img]https://fbi.cults3d.com/uploaders/16257155/illustr...

it's hard to tell

By deselby
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 7:49pm

Meter is maybe too close to the hydrant

It is

By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 08/10/2024 - 9:47am

I had to clean out my office after the pandemic for renovations, and my husband parked in that spot. Even our moderately-sized Outback wagon was uncomfortably close to the hydrant, but it gave us some dedicated loading space.

Cybertruck

By Anon
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 9:29pm

1. Cyber truck is so ugly that I actually find beauty in it.

2. Technically speaking, it does not look 10 feet from the hydrant soooooo they should have actually pulled up more.

3. Get a life and do what I tell my kids “mind your own business “

They are ugly AF. They are what were BMW's were in the 80s.. sign of an asshole when you see one.

Can't wait for these to be rust buckets a year or two from the salt and sand.

This is what 'being con'd' looks like in picture form.

Confusing angle

By Kaz
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 9:17am

So, a cybertruck is ~224 inches long.

A 2017 Ford F-150 SuperCrew Sport 4x4 with a short bed is about 230 inches long.

Why is the latter relevant?

Because one was able to park in the space without blocking the hydrant in 2020 when Google Street View went by: https://maps.app.goo.gl/j6hWMT7DzrhgXy7bA

So, fuck this cybertruck owner.