this shows why it's impossible for "HN" readers and like-minded people to agree on anything. the entire rest of mankind isn't bothered by such nonsense: - the

this shows why it's impossible for "HN" readers and like-minded people to agree on anything. the entire rest of mankind isn't bothered by such nonsense: - the bureaucrat that comes up with the sign does not carefully consider the wording of the sign nor the ordinance, it's frequently more than a little vague, but it doesn't matter. his point is to assert control over something, no matter how trivial. a long complicated, precisely worded sign is unhelpful to him, simple words and having a good amount of ambiguity are both to his benefit. - the guy that does whatever the sign says not to on purpose parks his lifted truck on a boulder in the middle park after ripping up the grass a little. if the police were around he wouldn't do this, but they aren't, so he is definitely not a coward or a conformist at all. his girlfriend regrets her choices. - the police are who enforces the rule, so it's irrelevant whether they are breaking the rule or not. the other emergency services operate, in the police's opinion, under their protection/direction, so they're usually ok too. - the pedant pulls out the oxford dictionary and argues about whether a stroller or the aircraft or tank on display technically violates the rule. nobody notices unless another pedant shows up and starts quoting HN statistics or arguing the virtues of webster's vs. oxford. it's irrelevant anyhow because neither of them know how to drive, which is honestly the ethical thing. an argument breaks out about whether the reason it's ethical is because of pedestrian fatalities or global warming. - nobody cares whether the tank is a violating the rules because it weighs 50 tons (ok damnit you pedant 42 tons), the owner is the city who isn't going to fine itself, and nobody is going to tow that thing. - karen shows up and tries to tell a much more socially adept mom that her stroller is a vehicle and against the rules. when the karen is first ignored and then told exactly where to stick it, thanks to tik-tok the community has an ad-hoc emergency real-time vote about the issue and the consensus is that karen is burned at the stake, metaphorically (usually). - everybody else notices (or doesn't) the sign, doesn't read it that carefully, and just mostly does what everyone else does anyhow. - the park department eventually puts up bollards that effectively define "vehicle" as things that do not get stuck on and fit through the bollards. Excepting the things that got lifted in there by a crane or have the key to the gate. in actual fact, everybody does sort of agree in real life. even the assholes that don't follow the rules usually know it (i mean, that's the whole point). a few folks are truly oblivious, but they usually just do what everyone else does anyhow.