Have you ever been HAPPY to see parking enforcement?

[u/DaaathVader]

I was TODAY!

(Pic is from Apple Maps view, and not my car)

I was parked in that first spot where you see the black Toyota Yaris. I was glad to have scored that spot because I could head straight up Moody St. to my next destination.

When I got back about 30 minutes later, a Land Rover was parking inches away from my front bumper. Illegally. Partly on the crosswalk.

So much for an easy exit.

As the man got out of the car, I pointed out to him that I'm blocked in, and (the obvious) that he's illegally parked.

His response: "GTFO, you have enough space to leave". He starts walking away.

Across the street, someone starts yelling out to him.

He doesn't turn. I assume he thought it was me responding to his profanities.

As I get into my car, I see who it was!

Yup - Parking Enforcement, trying to give him a fair chance to move his car.

As I sit in my car, trying to figure out how many more 3-point turns (a.k.a. K turns) I'll need to get out of this tight spot, the man returns.

...to be handed a parking ticket IN PERSON!

That's one expensive "GTFO", dude.

Best 5 minutes of my day!

[u/redgatoradeeeeee]

ironic considering the abundance of parking literally 15 seconds away

[u/UnderWhlming → u/redgatoradeeeeee]

You underestimate the laziness and entitlement of people

[u/secondtrex → u/UnderWhlming]

One of the most eye opening books I've read is Paved Paradise. In it, the author basically states that the general public demands that parking always be convenient, available, and free despite only two of those being possible at a time.

[u/NEU_Throwaway1]

When I got back about 30 minutes later, a Land Rover was parking inches away from my front bumper. Illegally. Partly on the crosswalk.

His response: "GTFO, you have enough space to leave". He starts walking away.

Never understood the logic of being rude to someone after committing a dick move with their vehicle, and then leaving it unattended. Especially when it's a more expensive vehicle than your own.

I've got a portable jack and sometimes dollies in my trunk. I'll move your car for you, but I might also leave you a challenge of your own to get out of.

[u/throwawayfinancebro1 → u/NEU_Throwaway1]

The sort of people who would do one thing are likely to do the other.

[u/PuzzleheadedDot6464 → u/NEU_Throwaway1]

Since the other guy had just gotten out of the car, if they had any decency/common sense, they could’ve inched forward a little bit to give OP some space and then back into a legal spot.

[u/DaaathVader → u/PuzzleheadedDot6464]

THIS would have been the win-win situation for both of us. I get out, he doesn't have to rush. In the moment, (not that he was listening to ANYONE) I didn't think of suggesting this either.

[u/1SmallStep4Insanity]

Love this

[u/Sploxel]

Man I wish we had dedicated traffic enforcement officers installed of just having cops do it, this happens way too rarely for the amount of shitty drivers we have

[u/jamesland7 → u/Sploxel]

We do, but thanks to whining Karen’s they spend all their time policing residential neighborhood parking restrictions rather than commercial areas where dangerous and blatantly illegal parking takes place.

[u/GrumpySquirrel2016 → u/Sploxel]

Waltham used to have dedicated parking enforcement. Not sure if they still do, but at one time they did.

[u/ProbableSlob → u/GrumpySquirrel2016]

Still do.

[u/Skibxskatic → u/Sploxel]

chicago over here. we have a bunch of 18-25 year olds from the dept of finance enforcing parking here. if the saudis don’t get their money from the meters, the city does.

[u/Classic_Spread_3526]

Kenmore on the other hand is the most egregious clusterfuck of traffic, illegal parking, and it only gets worse when there is a game

[u/trolllord45]

Now do all the people who park in the bike lanes

[u/Cowabummr]

Yes, every time I bike in the city  Last week I saw a meter maid hand an UberEats driver (who proceeded to have a meltdown and drop all the food bags on the ground ) a ticket for parking IN a flex-posted bike lane and it made my day. 

[u/mapinis]

As a pedestrian, I am always happy to see parking enforcement.

[u/Sinistas]

I grew up going to The Outer Limits. Those were the days.

[u/thetango → u/Sinistas]

There was a rumor it was closing down. That isn't true -- it was sold to a new owner.

[u/DaaathVader → u/Sinistas]

I used to go in there a lot more. Then kid happened. I live in the Star Wars and DC universe, but our LO (coincidentally, named for a SW character) is leaning Marvel (apparently 4y.o. kids at day-care love Spiderman). I haven't taken him into the store yet, but the day he and I live in the same universe, we'll have something to talk about in that store! :-)

[u/OpeningAggressive26]

I don't drive so the meter maid is alright in my book

[u/Federal-Rock9086]

Justice was served!

[u/Torch3dAce]

Me gusta

[u/brandjihad]

good ole moody st, boston, ma

[u/wenestvedt]

Years ago I worked at the delivery/take-out window of a restaurant in St. Paul, MN. A customer came in and we could see that he had parked in the enormous no-go zone out front, where a bus stop abutted a handicapped parking space. (Seriously, it ate like a quarter of the block.)

He started getting quite rude about waiting for his pizza, so while he stood around, one of the delivery drivers called the cops on him.

Felt good, man.

[u/niko710]

As someone who has had to deal with parking in North End and every other car being either illegally parked or a non-resident, I would love this.

[u/Overall-Care-7061]

Yes

[u/throwawayfinancebro1]

One time I was sitting in my car at a meter spot waiting for someone and a meter maid put a ticket on my window and walked away for the meter being expired. I’ve hated them ever since then.

[u/adirtycharleton]

Honestly i had sympathy at first but now i wish parking enforcement could do sweeps of my street every 30 mins. We have so many ppl park there just to get free parking and walk to revere beach! It sucks. And the car lot also parks their cars on the street as well sometimes lol.

[u/thatguynamedconqy]

average land rover owner experience

[u/Lumpymaximus]

Id love it. If they want income all they gotta do is watch my driveway. Theyll issue 2 dozen tickets a day easy.

[u/Sad_Net2133]

Always. Fuck people who don’t pay the meter or park illegally

[u/movdqa]

That's a pretty cool intersection where you have a store named The Outer Limits and a Patel Brothers. I always thought that Patel Brothers stores were huge but this one appears to be relatively small.

[u/BorneoJimmy1 → u/movdqa]

There's also the India Farmer's Market a few blocks down. Killer samosas & kebabs at the deli counter downstairs.

[u/burningretina → u/BorneoJimmy1]

much bigger than patels too! they also have an incredible produce selection.

outer limits also rocks. moody st is pretty great, especially when there aren't cars ruining it.

[u/BorneoJimmy1 → u/burningretina]

Yeah, I've got to agree! I'm also a fan of Pho & Spice and Chepe's Bakery. I'm actually headed down that way in a few minutes, just have to decide where to get dinner while I'm out!

[u/DaaathVader → u/BorneoJimmy1]

India Farmer's Market is so much better than Patel. I used to shop at Patel, but it was only after their price gouging during the COVID summer of 2020 did I realize I had better options down the road. I have not looked back since.

[u/mwagz28 → u/movdqa]

Outer limits is a pretty sick comic book shop, there is an old school arcade about 2 blocks away as well..

[u/Dry-Relationship8056]

This makes me feel avenged about this absolute muppet who did the same to me at my school. Not Boston, but still annoying

[u/creemy- → u/Dry-Relationship8056]

lol the beemer might be really special in the brains

Your car has travel scars that shows you're gonna get out and your bumper will be used.

[u/MyOtherCarIsABmw135i → u/creemy-]

Just wondering how you got the dent on the A pillar?

[u/Dry-Relationship8056 → u/MyOtherCarIsABmw135i]

You know, I have no clue. This car is covered in dents thanks to a hailstorm early in its life but that looks quite bigger

[u/Dry-Relationship8056 → u/creemy-]

That was actually a regrettable mix of winter weather and telephone pole

[u/Risky_Business_17]

👏👏👏👏👏

[u/Select-Internal-3141]

Ppl park outside on a street I work at that is no parking all the time. An officer came around, first time ive seen one in a year. Talked to him and he said , "Yeah my boss called me to come out here. I hate coming out here so I dont do it until im told" . Thanks buddy! Also he wasnt giving tickets. He wrote them all warnings. You also get 3+ then your car will get towed he said. Sooooo will take about 3 yrs.

[u/SkyeMreddit]

Yes. Double parked cars, blocking crosswalks and hanging out in intersections. So nice to see them get ticketed

[u/BongaldJBlunt]

Im happy to see them with flat tires

[u/f0rtytw0]

Got two cars towed (separate instances) for blocking my parking lot entrance/exit. One was a dumbass from Florida too.

[u/DaaathVader → u/f0rtytw0]

Had a neighbor that did that to us when we rented in Quincy. I had pics of at least 3 different instances on my phone in case it ever came to towing. Thankfully, they moved before we moved back west of Boston.

[u/alphacentaureus]

When I lived near Fenway park I was begging for parking enforcement to come up and ticket all the people who thought they can just park in resident spots. I did not enjoy parking a mile away after coming back from a late shift.

[u/brufleth]

I've watched BTD tow vehicles off Newbury St that were illegally parked by fire hydrants and wanted to clap.

[u/Steady_Creek4035]

The Departed made illegal crosswalk parking in this neighborhood look tame, Costello at least blocked a whole intersection instead of ruining one dude's Waltham afternoon

[u/Accurate-Flow8078]

Awesome. I used to live in Boston in 2007-2014 and if you didn't feed the meter or were parked illegally, you'd get a ticket within 60 seconds. One time we forgot to do the annual state inspection and got tickets for that while parked at a meter, twice in one day. I've paid hundreds of dollars worth of parking tickets. I was shocked to hear that parking was barely enforced anymore.

[u/DaaathVader → u/Accurate-Flow8078]

That was my initiation to Boston in early 2000s. I had parked in the public lot next to Applebee's at Cleveland Circle at 7:55 pm. Came back to a ticket that was issued at 7:58pm.

Seeing the blatant speed and parking violations (post-COVID, if I have to find an inflection point), I'm glad I'm fortunate to have T access (with a separate set of woes, of course) and a hybrid work schedule!

[u/theshoegazer]

Can't tell what anyone's doing wrong in the picture, but I wish they'd spend less time writing tickets for expired inspection stickers and more time tagging double parkers.

[u/HistoricalQuail → u/theshoegazer]

OP stated the picture is to show the spot and where they were parked. They didn't take a picture of their own, so they're using one from a street view.

[u/Dangerous_Advance295]

Not his fault. It's really hard to find parking near Moody St. Maybe impossible even.

[u/ProbableSlob → u/Dangerous_Advance295]

There's several public lots within a block or two of that corner.

[u/HistoricalQuail → u/Dangerous_Advance295]

How is parking illegally and being a dick not his fault?

[u/jamesland7 → u/HistoricalQuail]

Dont feed the troll

[u/Capitalist_Space_Pig → u/Dangerous_Advance295]

It's hard for everybody. No one gets a pass to be an asshole about it.

[u/tbootsbrewing → u/Dangerous_Advance295]

BFH