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This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn't fit in many places around here it's owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.

Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn't help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn't ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn't matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

I bet those tires would make one hell of a whooshing sound...

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i've got dozen++ neighbors with that kinda vehicle.

I guess some people are scared to drive in the USA without covering every inch of themselves in steel, fake carbon fiber, and Truck Nutz.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

MIYATAAAAAA

🥹😌🥹😌🥹😌

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[–] CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it’s any consolation I’m pretty sure the GMC Denali engines are straight up killing themselves for no reason, so the owner is probably due for some karma.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parked illegally you say? Call the cops on him (anonymously). Every time. He can learm or he can pay.

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[–] Salamanderwizard92@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I have never met a Denali driver that isn't an outright cunt.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Without the Child killer 9000 to not be able to see anyone under 7 feet tall who might be in their path, how is Bob gonna take his kids to school?

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Email your council people. Ive done it before and they've made them move it.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Miata is always the answer.

In this case, the question would have been - which one of these cars would not survive an accident with the other?

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[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now imagine both on a highway and the Miata rear-ending the truck. In EU underride guards are mandatory, but in the US... I'm not sure.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But can you fit four 200kg people in the Miata?

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'm working my way back from 125kg, it was miserable living that heavy. I can't imagine being 200kg.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But it's OK because half of his family are cops.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro the biggest asshole in my neighborhood was a sheriff. Parking in the lawn, playing loud music, having a shooting range in their back yard.

Was very "Thanks for the concern." And did nothing all the time.

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