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"a user who found out his campus only had 12 wheel boots to go around and bought and illegally parked 12 scrapyard cars that could be “sacrificed” so everyone e
by awillen 7y ago
"a user who found out his campus only had 12 wheel boots to go around and bought and illegally parked 12 scrapyard cars that could be “sacrificed” so everyone else could park however they wanted."
Not all heroes wear capes.
- dilippkumar 7y agoYou beat me to it by a minute. +1
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- faitswulff 7y agoMaybe this one does.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhy is everyone in this thread celebrating people who park selfishly?! Taking up spaces with abandoned cars is a particularly miserable thing to do that makes the original underlying problem worse!
- teej 7y agoBecause using scrap cars to exhaust the barnacle supply is a hilarious way to hack the system for the benefit of other students.
- g82918 7y agoI think the argument is that this isn't to the benefit of other students, only to the benefit of other students that park improperly. Improperly parked cars decreases parking supply and puts more stress on students who park properly since they are unlikely to double park or park in a non marked location, whereas bad actors would be willing to deal with the low supply by parking even more improperly.
- sumoboy 7y agoPlacing them on faculty cars, especially the dean's would have been the ultimate prank.
- acdha 7y agoHow does this “benefit” other students? They're the ones who are being inconvenienced by scofflaws and if it's like most other places quite likely endangered: the same people who park illegally tend to be cavalier about blocking bike lanes and curb cuts, speeding, rolling through crosswalks, etc.
- flatiron 7y agoAs someone who commuted to college parking illegally is just something you have to do. I had parking fines I had to pay before receiving my diploma even though I made the grades and such. Parking and universities is a mess.
- saagarjha 7y agoStudents usually take very poorly to additional fees coming from their university.
- legohead 7y agoThey wouldn't have to resort to any shenanigans if parking on campus was free for students.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhy are these people driving to college in the first place? Take public transport.
- jjeaff 7y agoIt's Oklahoma. The city is likely very spread out and even if there are public transport options, you will need a vehicle to get to and from the bus stop.
- jcims 7y agoTo a person, everyone that i know that commutes to school lives outside the metro area served by public transport.
- anon463637 7y agoIt's not UC Davis or Europe. Btw, if living near the main centroid of Davis, it's faster to bike than it is to drive or take a bus because parking + walking takes time. I even had the gate code to park right next to classrooms (it's good to know the parking folks, especially on rainy days) but that still took more time and costed more money than biking. Davis is also one of the most walkable cities, especially living around downtown. PS: I took the ten year professional student plan between working at Stanford for a couple years and consulting. I had half of my courses canceled in 2000 when they couldn't find lecturers because most were out making $250-500k in industry.
- acdha 7y agoWhy should the campus subsidize the car-owning students? If those students want exclusive use of a public space why not let them pay market rates for it?
- legohead 7y ago
- geofft 7y agoWe're not celebrating people who park selfishly, we're celebrating people who use a clever hack to defeat a harmful solution to the problem of people parking selfishly. The point of DeCSS and qrpff, for instance, was not that piracy is a good thing but that DRM is a bad thing.
- cpfohl 7y agoHow is this a harmful solution? Releasing it legally is simple and easy and non destructive
- geofft 7y agoAnd buying a licensed DVD player is simple and easy and non-destructive.
- anoncake 7y agoGiving money to a company supporting DRM is destructive.
- geofft 7y agoPaying parking fees, taxes, and/or fines to a police department that uses "The Barnacle" is destructive.
- anoncake 7y agoDon't park selfishly and you don't suffer the consequences. It's that simple. The only issue here is that selfish parkers get their car back at all, they clearly aren't responsible enough to own one.
- chrisseaton 7y agoDriving an individual vehicle and parking it at a college is the first-order bad thing here. The parking spaces occupy useful land and the cars pollute the campus air. Everything else is about people trying to avoid being asked to take responsibility for the impact of doing that.
- prostheticvamp 7y agoBecause schools pretend to charge cash in order to separate casual drivers from those that absolutely need it. However, given the costs of car ownership and tuition, the cost of parking permits are generally (a) not a deterrant to “casual drivers” (people willing to bear the cost without urgent need), (b) disproportionately impactful on those that Do need to drive, (c) basically just milking students. Of course people cheer fucking with that
- chrisseaton 7y agoWho do you think should pay for the impact of your parking? The land use, pollution, congestion. Someone else, I guess?
- prostheticvamp 7y agoAnd the campus is paying for those externalities with that parking fee? Or they’re pocketing it as profit?
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- johnchristopher 7y agoAckchyually, only few heroes wear capes.
- Thriptic 7y agoJunkyard denial of service, amazing
- jeroenhd 7y agoYes, this way the people who ignore parking fines can keep filling spaces, of which there are now 12 less. Sure, it's a fun example how simple tricks can beat complicated devices, but this only benefits the people who willfully take up valuable parking space that others might want. It's only a matter of time before the university will switch back to the boot, risking more damage to everybody's cars, or to good old towing, dragging up the price of getting your car back. Everybody loses because of a few childish students showing off how they're so much smarter than the system.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoIts a college. This is what college students do. "Those dang kids! Stay off my lawn!"
- bdcravens 7y agoBut in this case, isn't "my lawn" the parking lot used by other college students?