You guys need to chill a bit and stop suggesting illegal shit. This isn't the poster's car. This was posted on Reddit about 8 days ago and then shared by BuzzFeed 2 days ago.
The guy in the car was able to get out and then talked to the building manager who then assigned the truck a new parking spot.
I mean there should be consequences for being an asshole and the fact that assholes very rarely receive said consequences is why when they do it's usually brutal.
I'd definitely have scratched the paint on the passenger side and probably spit on the windshield.
Don't be an asshole and you won't have to worry about the consequences of being an asshole 🤷
Better to draw a giant dick on the windshield in lipstick or eyeliner. No permanent damage, the point gets across, and it's a bitch to get off properly. Never did it myself but I watched an adult woman do it (as a child) and it struck me as such a clever way to get back at an asshole without being a bigger asshole. (Full disclosure, she wrote "bitch" in huge letters across the windshield, but I think drawing a dick is funnier)
It's funny, pretty simple rule. Yet people defending assholes in here...How about just don't be an asshole and maybe think of anything other than yourself. Hard concept to grasp for some ppl
Leave a note, embarrass them on socials, call parking enforcement. Consequences aren't for you or I to give, it literally only leads to bad shit happening. You don't know if this is a single mom who borrowed a truck, an elderly person who shouldn't be driving, or maybe something like a tweaker who did something like this because they're fucking insane and want an excuse to attack somebody.
Randomly? You mean someone doing something with no consideration for anyone but themselves? That sounds exactly like the situation that calls for someone reminding that person that their actions impact others and that they're responsible for that impact.
And again, what gives you the absolute right to be the decider of consequences? Do you not see how that leads to problems? I have to drive for 6 hours straight in a small city, if I decided to give people consequences literally the only thing that would happen is I'd look like an asshole. And btw, if you live in the states, you're a fucking idiot if you don't think this could easily lead to the person "giving consequences" getting shot.
The assumption is that there is not much room in the lane. When you pull in forward, especially with a longer vehicle, you need more room to swing out and get the front end aligned with the spot before you enter the space since the rear just follows the front turning wheels. When backing, you just have to get one of the rear wheels into position and then the front end swings out while pulling into the spot rather than before pulling in. It's way easier to pull out of the spot when you do this, too, because you can turn the wheel immediately, whereas when you're front in, you have to back almost all the way out before you can start cutting the wheel. Of course it also depends on how far past the rear wheels the vehicle extends as to how much it will swing out.
You can't turn the wheel immediately on the way out or you'll drag the back end of the truck into the vehicle next to you.
If they didn't have the room to swing out to go in straight, they likely won't get backed into the spot on the first try as well. The number of cars getting run into while parked if everyone backed in would sky rocket. I have met at least 3 people who told me they couldn't parallel park, I'd rather those people just pull in forward so they can see where the other cars are.
As I said, it depends on how much of the vehicle extends beyond the rear wheels as to how far you have to swing out or pull out before turning. But it's still significantly less than with front-in parking.
And I'm not talking about skill, I'm talking about physics. I lived in a place there there was a rock wall opposite of the parking spaces and just enough room between the cars and the wall for the width of a car and maybe another foot of clearance. If the spots next to mine were occupied, it was physically impossible to pull in or out front facing without several rounds of adjustments. But backing in and out was perfectly fine. And it was only big enough for cars.
And there are plenty of spots in my city that are back in parking only (usually angled). It's way easier than parallel parking and parallel parking is much more common. And the reason is that the cars pulling into these spots don't have to swing into the incoming traffic lane like with front in. So they only block one lane of traffic while parking. Though most people don't get that and swing out anyway because they're used to front in parking.
I've actually been hit more times by front pulled in cars. Both because they are not at all cautious pulling out and because they mis judge how wide they should swing out before pulling in and end up side swiping the cars next to them. So it's not even that much of a skill issue. People who don't have skill parking will fuck It up no matter what way they have to do it.
Not so much simpler as more specific. Geometry is just a subset of physics. The common properties of objects in a three dimensional perspective of the universe. 😁
Both parallel parking and backing in are a part of the bloody exam for a license here in the UK. So the people who are unable to should not have a license in the first place. And that is before we start talking about the outsized trucks americans are so obsessed with.
I tend to think we should all redo the exam every 10 years or so just to make sure we are still fit...
In tight fits you are much more able to park straight than if you parked nose in.more space for the front end to angle and get the back end where needs to be as well as space to move the front end back and forth to straighten out.
Nose forward you are pretty limited in sideways movement and need to do like 18 tiny 3-point turns to try and get it lined up good.
More maneuverability, being able to pivot around the wheels that are first to enter the parking space, kinda like the difference in results when going nose first into a parallel parking spot vs backing in.
So I've driven fire trucks and similar sized vehicles. If I'm trying to get the truck in a driveway and have two lanes to work with I can go nose first. I go into the lane opposite of the target driveway to swing the front end into the driveway. It definitely takes both lanes if you don't want to make a 100 point turn, Austin Powers style.
If it's a tiny road or only one lane then I have to back in. I approach by getting as close to the target drive as possible and then swing the nose away from that side of the road, lining up at a better angle when I start backing. This pic shows it well but you don't need nearly as much space irl. Your just go slower and cut the wheel harder. The back tire could be just a bit above and to the left the #3.
My point is you can get into a lot tighter spaces backing in. There's a reason why forklifts steer from the back. The truck in the pic should have backed in or started over.
If you back up with your front wheels turned all the way to the side, the back corner of your car barely moves. Mostly of the movement is your front end swinging to the side.
This can be useful when you need to make a sharp turn. It allows the back corner of your vehicle to make a very tight turn around the opening of the parking space.
Basically going forward, to turn the vehicle 90 degrees might take say 30 feet of forward motion. Going backward, it might only take 3 feet of “forward” motion to turn the car 90 degrees.
Much tighter turning radius for the end of the car opposite the turning wheels.
This is why a forklift’s steering control works by turning the back wheels not the front wheels. Allows that forklift to rotate around the front, without the front moving at all.
Forklifts have a more extreme version of this design since you can turn those wheels full sideways (and even a little backwards if you want), but the same principle operates in any vehicle with one set of turning wheels.
If it's a persistent problem, and a tow truck isn't an option...
Get a set of cheap car dollies, then you can move it out of the way. THEN you can place it perpendicular to the parking spots with the bumper at that support beam and he'll be stuck until the blue car leaves.
I think the better option is to start by moving it to the correct spot twice then the third time pull the evil. They're truly asking for it if they don't stop after the first or second time their truck isn't where they parked it
I had a neighbor who was terrible about staying in their lines. My dad taught me how to park real good though. So, anytime they made their depth perception my problem I’d take the extra five minutes just to make sure I was atomically close to their driver side door. One morning I was lucky enough to see them climb in through their passenger side and abuse their transmission to get out of our parking spot without hitting me. I was late to work that day but the satisfaction was worth the infraction.
Considering I don't see a lift kit, expanded exhaust, and giant low-profile tires; this just looks like a regular pickup truck to me. The luster on the paint is even a little faded, so it's getting old. Driver is just an asshole here. Probably a shitty driver, since the rear bumper is hanging at an angle.
dude, a pickup truck is terrible no matter how you qualify it, they're needlessly huge and have barely any cargo space, they're just objectively bad in every single way.
there is no use case where a pickup truck is better than something like a kei truck, they even come in actually usefully lifted versions that would traverse offroad environments better since they're lighter.
Yeah, that's an insane comment. I regularly tow an 8,500 lbs trailer with my pickup and regularly haul 2,000 lbs of pellets for our stove in it. Sometimes I tow the trailer with an additional 500 lbs of stuff in the bed of the pickup. I seriously doubt a kei truck - which aren't even available here in the US - could handle either of those tasks.
Unless you're talking about towing other cars and carrying entire trees yea a kai probably wouldn't make the cut but for furniture transportation fire wood mail delivery and mulch transportation are all things that take way less horsepower than you think hell even with car towing I've done with a dinky little 4 wheeler from the 80s if a atv can do all the things I mentioned a kai can absolutely accomplish them and you don't take up soo much space when you take your haul through the city the reason everyone hates full size pickups is because soo many people just use them to get groceries and nothing more
so what's so magical about the US that people need pickups there but not in the rest of the world? If you need to haul tools you have a van, which can carry a vastly larger volume without getting things wet.
there is no use case where a pickup truck is better than something like a kei truck
I like the mini-trucks like the Kei, they are practical and useful for light loads around town. What they don't do is heavy loads and / or long distances.
So here's a "use case" where my full sized American pickup truck is required. Several times in the last 6 months I've pulled a triple axle trailer weighing 12,000lbs (5,440 kilograms) a distance of 200 miles (320 kilometers) at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,828 meters) ). Assuming the weight didn't collapse the rear axle or buckle the frame on a Kei then trying to actually pull the weight would certainly destroy the transmission and / or engine.
If you want to discuss "cargo space" then ALL pickups, including the Kei, suck. Holding cargo internally is what van bodies are for, not pickup bodies. This why city based tradesman the world over drive chassis with van bodies.
So called "Off Road" is a whole different can of worms, nearly no one really does it (even if they think they do) and I'd submit that NO mass produced pickup is truly suited for it as real Off Roading is done with vehicles specialized for the terrain they are working in.
Mini-trucks are great at what they're meant for but they aren't meant for everything.
If you live in a village and don't have to haul much weight or drive far, sure, kei trucks make sense. I definitely saw them around Germany and France. In the US, everything is spread out. Also, kei trucks aren't widely available in the US, and certainly not as much as Pickup trucks. Pickup trucks are also designed with use as a daily driver, since most people buying one will have that as their only vehicle. For someone with a great need of one, it's both a highway vehicle and an off-road capable vehicle with high ground clearance. It's a truck that will let you tow a trailer full of equipment one day and make that 50-mile commute to work the next.
It does make sense to have the person who wants the tow to pay for it rather than the whole extortion racket it becomes when the owner of the car pays for it. Even when illegally parked, it should be a ticket from law enforcement rather than essentially grand theft auto unless you pay whatever amount they ask for or do a grand theft auto back to them.
Around here if it’s a parking lot, management has to call it in, simple as that. Management fines or gets their money from the renter. If it’s your vehicle, well you would have your insurance and parking spot title if you needed a service tow.
One of the problems with revenge (deflating the tires, keying, etc.) is that there’s nothing stopping the neighbor from doing it right back the next day.
Wiggin was a pawn tho. He had no idea he was killing anything, certainly not a species. If anyone deserves the named solution it's Graff. Rackham to a lesser extent.
This is borne out in speaker for the dead where ender devotes himself to finding a viable world for the new hive queen.
He also didn't know he was killing the kid at the beginning on the story either, but he definitely meant to make sure that he wouldn't be bullying anyone anymore.
I think it's more of a book reference to his fight with bonzo, who was bullying ender. Ender was a few years younger and knew he had to win the fight "permanently," so it's inferred that he knew what he was doing (not intending to kill him but that's obviously a possibility).
Iirc, the officials told ender that bonzo was sent home. In reality, he did actually kill bonzo and was lied to about it.
His goal was to demonstrate that he was a crazy animal. That was the thing he was hoping would keep the bullying away: demonstrating a lack of constraint.
It wasn’t so much about disabling the other boy as about establishing an image as an unpredictable enemy.
His goal was to point out that it wasn't worth it to mess with him, he's going to fight back hard and take you out. It was about deterring him from wanting to ever pick on him. Right, his goal wasn't to permanently disfigure him, but to establish a permanent idea that it isn't worth it to pick on him
That's fair, though he was trying to permanently end the bullying, which is what i think OP was referencing at least. Since, you know, that would end bullying permanently
The autocorrect fight is real. Many of my comments have something like it because I type the word I want and sometimes autocorrect changes it the moment I hit "space".
Barring getting the truck towed this is probably the best "illegal" response. It's proportional, inconveniences them in kind, and doesn't involve property damage.
Aye. Too many of the suggested responses either a.) are wildly out of what another person would consider reasonable, increasing your chances of losing if it goes to a court or being assaulted by said asshole, and b.) don't have any connection to the actual offense, and the asshole would never know why, without a doubt, that the action was taken.
Four nice sturdy nails placed strategically, pointy end up, immediately behind each tyre. Be content to know that justice will come when the time is right.
Strike-anywhere match heads are ~⅛" wider than the space between the pin and collar of said valves, and are far cheaper. The slow leak is nearly imperceptible — until all wheels are flat simultaneously. 🫠
I love reminding Dodge drivers that the Chinese CCP owns it and RAM name. Not because that is bad or anything it's just that most RAM drivers are also racists so that helps rile em up.
Stellantis is the company that came about from the merger of the Italian–American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group.
After the merger, the main owners were
Agnelli family (Exor): 14.40%
Peugeot family (Etablissements Peugeot Frères, EPF): 7.19%
Bpifrance: 6.18%
Dongfeng Motor Corporation: 4.5%
So, it would seem it's not correct to say that Dodge or RAM is owned by the CCP. It's more Italian and French than it is Chinese...
Better than the "Let's go Brandon" banners I see on most of the pickups around here.
I actually saw a lifted pickup this week, plastered with a half dozen "student driver" stickers, a let's go Brandon sticker covering his entire rear window, and a giant AR-15 sticker on the side.
Everybody here with slashing tires and me just thinking water in the tank sounds nice. But I just recommend putting water in the tank and maybe some salt and a dash of fresh piss. The truck will run but eventually it's gonna die and will smell like piss for a bit. If it doesn't die, the salt and water mixture will start to corrode the interior of the gas tank.
Better is to piss on the windshield, goes into the AC intake and the whole interior smells of piss until you strip the whole thing out and wash/replace it. Bonus points if you're super dehydrated.
Garages aren't always large enough to allow tow truck access.
There was that one issue where a Tesla broke down in a garage and the owner incurred thousands of dollars in fines but nobody could remove the car because the ceiling and ramps were too small.
So, legal question. In this situation, obviously you document it like this, but then would you be in the clear to push it out of the way somehow in a typical jurisdiction? Usually the law allows you certain extra rights when your stuff or person is trapped by someone else's usual legal rights. For example, if your property is surrounded by that of another person they can't stop you from passing through.
Ok hear me out, if this is an apartment parking garage, then spots assigned to the same address would be more likely to be next to each other, plus there's so much risk of someone fucking up your car if you pull this shit, my guess is they know each other and one person is fucking with the other.
Use an hydraulic jack (every car should have one in the trunk) to lift the rear axle of the truck as high as you can, then push it, now you can proceed to get out of the parking spot
I'm not saying they come with the car, I'm saying that every car should have one. If you have a car and you don't own an hydraulic jack (or a device to lift your car to change a tire) then go and buy one.
TBF, it's still going to cost less than the car did. I don't know, maybe it's cheaper to write the day off and get a someone else to do it for a fee in your specific situation, though.
2 floor jacks with wheels and you can put that truck wherever you want. Even better spend about $150 at Harbor Freight for 2 sets of wheel dollies and you can roll it right out to the street. That's extra fun if it's an above ground garage with a curved ramp.
Just call a tow truck. No need to resort to revenge. Them having to retrieve the truck and pay the fees should be enough of a deterrent without giving them reasons to call the police.
Looks like a parking garage of some sort. Property owners most likely already have a contract with a tow company for parking violations. Should be able to call the property manager to get it towed or call the towing company whose number is probably one of many signs there.
I had a similar issue with a truck and just called my apartment, they had them towed at the car owner's expense. That's usually the best option is contact whoever owns the garage or property management and they'll get the asshole towed on the asshole's dime usually.
Not if you slash two or more tires 😈 Tires are around $100-200 a piece to have mounted and balanced, and that's usually either a used tire or a bottom of the barrel one. If you slash one they can replace it with a spare (assuming they have one). If you slash half or more of them they have to get the vehicle towed and have the tires replaced, that takes a lot of time and money. That could easily be like $600, getting your vehicle released from the tow yard if you pick it up within 24 hours is usually only like $150.
They'd have to prove you did it in the first place. Sure, you may have the motive, but "innocent until proven guilty". But yeah, the other owner could be a vindictive asshole and it would just start a war.
That truck doesn't have tire pressure any higher than a car does. It's the large trucks like semi trucks and dump trucks that have the high-pressure tires.
Definitely not true. I have a relative with a truck similar to the pictured one, and the rear tires are around 85 psi. If the individual thinks they need tow-worthy tires, they can definitely get them.
You haven’t done any property damage….? Until they start driving 5 minutes later and the tire goes flat mid drive which causes it to explode. The vehicle then loses control and hits a completely innocent random bystander.
Congrats, you just committed manslaughter for petty revenge.
An under inflated/flat tire can absolutely spontaneously come apart, and at the RPMs it’s spinning it for all intents and proposes “explodes”. As large pieces of rubber will fly out at speeds that can decapitate someone.
But hey, let’s argue about the semantics instead of telling people to not kill people for petty revenge. If you can’t think for 2 seconds and come up with a way how an underinflated/flat tire could kills someone, you’re probably one of those idiots that drove with under inflated tires.
Is there any backstory? For all we know the car owner just did something horrible and the truck owner has blocked their escape until the authorities arrive.
my mechanic friend is telling me that if you want to fuck that truck to death right where it sits, like, absolutely total it and destroy its internals completely, all you have to do is shove a potato in its tailpipe. like, really deep in so you can't see it from the outside. it will burst all its valves and destroy the engine :D
of course you have to have a big enough potato that cramming it into the pipe will form a seal by shearing the sides flush to the interior of said pipe, and to create enough friction that the pressures produced by the engine will be unable to push it clear (or shoot it out like a pneumatic cannon).
I have a very hard time believing that an internal combustion engine would sustain significant damage prior to stalling. An engine could run, albeit very poorly, with extreme backpressure (say, an exhaust blockage but perhaps some leaks elsewhere in the exhaust system). If the exhaust was perfectly sealed, there would be so much backpressure that the mixture would be starved of air and there would simply not be any explosion in the cylinders. I have limited knowledge of diesel engines but would expect a similar result.
You guys need to chill a bit and stop suggesting illegal shit. This isn't the poster's car. This was posted on Reddit about 8 days ago and then shared by BuzzFeed 2 days ago.
The guy in the car was able to get out and then talked to the building manager who then assigned the truck a new parking spot.
This comment section is fucking brutal.
I mean there should be consequences for being an asshole and the fact that assholes very rarely receive said consequences is why when they do it's usually brutal.
I'd definitely have scratched the paint on the passenger side and probably spit on the windshield.
Don't be an asshole and you won't have to worry about the consequences of being an asshole 🤷
Better to draw a giant dick on the windshield in lipstick or eyeliner. No permanent damage, the point gets across, and it's a bitch to get off properly. Never did it myself but I watched an adult woman do it (as a child) and it struck me as such a clever way to get back at an asshole without being a bigger asshole. (Full disclosure, she wrote "bitch" in huge letters across the windshield, but I think drawing a dick is funnier)
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no, don't do this
You'd willingly give DNA evidence? Bold.
What in the fuck is wrong with you.
Don't be an asshole and you won't get treated like an asshole. This is a universal rule.
It's funny, pretty simple rule. Yet people defending assholes in here...How about just don't be an asshole and maybe think of anything other than yourself. Hard concept to grasp for some ppl
Do you think the pickup truck driver should be able to park like he did in the picture without any consequences?
Leave a note, embarrass them on socials, call parking enforcement. Consequences aren't for you or I to give, it literally only leads to bad shit happening. You don't know if this is a single mom who borrowed a truck, an elderly person who shouldn't be driving, or maybe something like a tweaker who did something like this because they're fucking insane and want an excuse to attack somebody.
That is so not true. Do you really never see someone being an asshole randomly?
Randomly? You mean someone doing something with no consideration for anyone but themselves? That sounds exactly like the situation that calls for someone reminding that person that their actions impact others and that they're responsible for that impact.
Go outside lol. That's not how life works, you gotta be the bigger the person or it only leads to negative consequences.
No, people like you enabling assholes by discouraging others from punishing them is what leads to negative consequences.
You could literally just hide cameras and film the driver if they retaliate against you and have them jailed.
People like you ruin life for the rest of us. Shut the fuck up and stop wasting our oxygen.
And again, what gives you the absolute right to be the decider of consequences? Do you not see how that leads to problems? I have to drive for 6 hours straight in a small city, if I decided to give people consequences literally the only thing that would happen is I'd look like an asshole. And btw, if you live in the states, you're a fucking idiot if you don't think this could easily lead to the person "giving consequences" getting shot.
You seem very tough, I bet you have rank road rage but also drive like shit.
The driver deserves to die, obviously.
As do we all
Fuckin kill him!
I agree!!!!
/s
I also /s
I hate I have to spell it out. Not necessarily to you but... come on, internet.
it's because too many live in a fantasy world and smell their own farts
This makes me happy, I approve
Wrong. Molotov cocktail.
No, too much collateral damage. We're not savages after all.
Small molotov cocktail
Personal molotov cocktail
One of those hotel's minibar bottles with some tissue.
Smolitov's! D'awww! The revolution will be cutified!
That truck driver needs to learn to back in. This situation is exactly why pickup trucks are often parked with the front facing out.
I'm not following...how is the direction of the car relevant to this photo?
The assumption is that there is not much room in the lane. When you pull in forward, especially with a longer vehicle, you need more room to swing out and get the front end aligned with the spot before you enter the space since the rear just follows the front turning wheels. When backing, you just have to get one of the rear wheels into position and then the front end swings out while pulling into the spot rather than before pulling in. It's way easier to pull out of the spot when you do this, too, because you can turn the wheel immediately, whereas when you're front in, you have to back almost all the way out before you can start cutting the wheel. Of course it also depends on how far past the rear wheels the vehicle extends as to how much it will swing out.
You can't turn the wheel immediately on the way out or you'll drag the back end of the truck into the vehicle next to you.
If they didn't have the room to swing out to go in straight, they likely won't get backed into the spot on the first try as well. The number of cars getting run into while parked if everyone backed in would sky rocket. I have met at least 3 people who told me they couldn't parallel park, I'd rather those people just pull in forward so they can see where the other cars are.
As I said, it depends on how much of the vehicle extends beyond the rear wheels as to how far you have to swing out or pull out before turning. But it's still significantly less than with front-in parking.
And I'm not talking about skill, I'm talking about physics. I lived in a place there there was a rock wall opposite of the parking spaces and just enough room between the cars and the wall for the width of a car and maybe another foot of clearance. If the spots next to mine were occupied, it was physically impossible to pull in or out front facing without several rounds of adjustments. But backing in and out was perfectly fine. And it was only big enough for cars.
And there are plenty of spots in my city that are back in parking only (usually angled). It's way easier than parallel parking and parallel parking is much more common. And the reason is that the cars pulling into these spots don't have to swing into the incoming traffic lane like with front in. So they only block one lane of traffic while parking. Though most people don't get that and swing out anyway because they're used to front in parking.
I've actually been hit more times by front pulled in cars. Both because they are not at all cautious pulling out and because they mis judge how wide they should swing out before pulling in and end up side swiping the cars next to them. So it's not even that much of a skill issue. People who don't have skill parking will fuck It up no matter what way they have to do it.
I’d say it’s even simpler than physics; it’s just a matter of geometry
Not so much simpler as more specific. Geometry is just a subset of physics. The common properties of objects in a three dimensional perspective of the universe. 😁
Both parallel parking and backing in are a part of the bloody exam for a license here in the UK. So the people who are unable to should not have a license in the first place. And that is before we start talking about the outsized trucks americans are so obsessed with. I tend to think we should all redo the exam every 10 years or so just to make sure we are still fit...
I thought trucks were backed in for the hitch to not stick out. Why would backing the truck in help? Just so the driver could see wtf they were doing?
Thanks for the explanation everyone! I have started to drive a truck at work and I didn't know about this
And thanks for not being jackasses while explaining too!
In tight fits you are much more able to park straight than if you parked nose in.more space for the front end to angle and get the back end where needs to be as well as space to move the front end back and forth to straighten out.
Nose forward you are pretty limited in sideways movement and need to do like 18 tiny 3-point turns to try and get it lined up good.
The same reason parallel parking is done backing in.
More maneuverability, being able to pivot around the wheels that are first to enter the parking space, kinda like the difference in results when going nose first into a parallel parking spot vs backing in.
So I've driven fire trucks and similar sized vehicles. If I'm trying to get the truck in a driveway and have two lanes to work with I can go nose first. I go into the lane opposite of the target driveway to swing the front end into the driveway. It definitely takes both lanes if you don't want to make a 100 point turn, Austin Powers style.
If it's a tiny road or only one lane then I have to back in. I approach by getting as close to the target drive as possible and then swing the nose away from that side of the road, lining up at a better angle when I start backing. This pic shows it well but you don't need nearly as much space irl. Your just go slower and cut the wheel harder. The back tire could be just a bit above and to the left the #3.
My point is you can get into a lot tighter spaces backing in. There's a reason why forklifts steer from the back. The truck in the pic should have backed in or started over.
If you back up with your front wheels turned all the way to the side, the back corner of your car barely moves. Mostly of the movement is your front end swinging to the side.
This can be useful when you need to make a sharp turn. It allows the back corner of your vehicle to make a very tight turn around the opening of the parking space.
Basically going forward, to turn the vehicle 90 degrees might take say 30 feet of forward motion. Going backward, it might only take 3 feet of “forward” motion to turn the car 90 degrees.
Much tighter turning radius for the end of the car opposite the turning wheels.
This is why a forklift’s steering control works by turning the back wheels not the front wheels. Allows that forklift to rotate around the front, without the front moving at all.
Forklifts have a more extreme version of this design since you can turn those wheels full sideways (and even a little backwards if you want), but the same principle operates in any vehicle with one set of turning wheels.
I disagree. All of it is justified.
I'da just got him towed like a bitch, back left tire is in my spot, that's a
paddlin'towin'!We want to use our pitch forks!!! Don't you stop us getting triggered!!! /s
If it's a persistent problem, and a tow truck isn't an option...
Get a set of cheap car dollies, then you can move it out of the way. THEN you can place it perpendicular to the parking spots with the bumper at that support beam and he'll be stuck until the blue car leaves.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes!
This is deliciously evil, I love it
I'd put the truck between the pillar and the wall if short enough, so they couldn't get out without tow truck.
Or car dollies
I think the better option is to start by moving it to the correct spot twice then the third time pull the evil. They're truly asking for it if they don't stop after the first or second time their truck isn't where they parked it
I don't get it. What beam?
pillar
OOOHHHHH, okay. Thanks!
I had a neighbor who was terrible about staying in their lines. My dad taught me how to park real good though. So, anytime they made their depth perception my problem I’d take the extra five minutes just to make sure I was atomically close to their driver side door. One morning I was lucky enough to see them climb in through their passenger side and abuse their transmission to get out of our parking spot without hitting me. I was late to work that day but the satisfaction was worth the infraction.
Epic.
I mean... The numbers don't lie.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/38238/ram-2500-drivers-have-the-most-duis-more-than-twice-the-national-average-report
no shit the offender drives a pavement princess pickup truck
Considering I don't see a lift kit, expanded exhaust, and giant low-profile tires; this just looks like a regular pickup truck to me. The luster on the paint is even a little faded, so it's getting old. Driver is just an asshole here. Probably a shitty driver, since the rear bumper is hanging at an angle.
No you don't understand everyone who drives a pickup is bad no matter what fuckcars told me so
dude, a pickup truck is terrible no matter how you qualify it, they're needlessly huge and have barely any cargo space, they're just objectively bad in every single way.
there is no use case where a pickup truck is better than something like a kei truck, they even come in actually usefully lifted versions that would traverse offroad environments better since they're lighter.
Yeah, that's an insane comment. I regularly tow an 8,500 lbs trailer with my pickup and regularly haul 2,000 lbs of pellets for our stove in it. Sometimes I tow the trailer with an additional 500 lbs of stuff in the bed of the pickup. I seriously doubt a kei truck - which aren't even available here in the US - could handle either of those tasks.
And let's face it, there are quite a few pickups around that have never hauled anything. But to claim they can't haul anything is just bizarre.
Unless you're talking about towing other cars and carrying entire trees yea a kai probably wouldn't make the cut but for furniture transportation fire wood mail delivery and mulch transportation are all things that take way less horsepower than you think hell even with car towing I've done with a dinky little 4 wheeler from the 80s if a atv can do all the things I mentioned a kai can absolutely accomplish them and you don't take up soo much space when you take your haul through the city the reason everyone hates full size pickups is because soo many people just use them to get groceries and nothing more
so what's so magical about the US that people need pickups there but not in the rest of the world? If you need to haul tools you have a van, which can carry a vastly larger volume without getting things wet.
I like the mini-trucks like the Kei, they are practical and useful for light loads around town. What they don't do is heavy loads and / or long distances.
So here's a "use case" where my full sized American pickup truck is required. Several times in the last 6 months I've pulled a triple axle trailer weighing 12,000lbs (5,440 kilograms) a distance of 200 miles (320 kilometers) at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,828 meters) ). Assuming the weight didn't collapse the rear axle or buckle the frame on a Kei then trying to actually pull the weight would certainly destroy the transmission and / or engine.
If you want to discuss "cargo space" then ALL pickups, including the Kei, suck. Holding cargo internally is what van bodies are for, not pickup bodies. This why city based tradesman the world over drive chassis with van bodies.
So called "Off Road" is a whole different can of worms, nearly no one really does it (even if they think they do) and I'd submit that NO mass produced pickup is truly suited for it as real Off Roading is done with vehicles specialized for the terrain they are working in.
Mini-trucks are great at what they're meant for but they aren't meant for everything.
If you live in a village and don't have to haul much weight or drive far, sure, kei trucks make sense. I definitely saw them around Germany and France. In the US, everything is spread out. Also, kei trucks aren't widely available in the US, and certainly not as much as Pickup trucks. Pickup trucks are also designed with use as a daily driver, since most people buying one will have that as their only vehicle. For someone with a great need of one, it's both a highway vehicle and an off-road capable vehicle with high ground clearance. It's a truck that will let you tow a trailer full of equipment one day and make that 50-mile commute to work the next.
sounds like a towin '
Where I live, they make you pay for the tow up front which sucks.
It does make sense to have the person who wants the tow to pay for it rather than the whole extortion racket it becomes when the owner of the car pays for it. Even when illegally parked, it should be a ticket from law enforcement rather than essentially grand theft auto unless you pay whatever amount they ask for or do a grand theft auto back to them.
Around here if it’s a parking lot, management has to call it in, simple as that. Management fines or gets their money from the renter. If it’s your vehicle, well you would have your insurance and parking spot title if you needed a service tow.
call a tow company they'll eat that up
No I'm pretty sure they'd just tow it away
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One of the problems with revenge (deflating the tires, keying, etc.) is that there’s nothing stopping the neighbor from doing it right back the next day.
Yeah, if you want them to stop you've got to kill them
Ah, the Ender Wiggin solution.
Wiggin was a pawn tho. He had no idea he was killing anything, certainly not a species. If anyone deserves the named solution it's Graff. Rackham to a lesser extent.
This is borne out in speaker for the dead where ender devotes himself to finding a viable world for the new hive queen.
He also didn't know he was killing the kid at the beginning on the story either, but he definitely meant to make sure that he wouldn't be bullying anyone anymore.
I think it's more of a book reference to his fight with bonzo, who was bullying ender. Ender was a few years younger and knew he had to win the fight "permanently," so it's inferred that he knew what he was doing (not intending to kill him but that's obviously a possibility).
Iirc, the officials told ender that bonzo was sent home. In reality, he did actually kill bonzo and was lied to about it.
His goal was to demonstrate that he was a crazy animal. That was the thing he was hoping would keep the bullying away: demonstrating a lack of constraint.
It wasn’t so much about disabling the other boy as about establishing an image as an unpredictable enemy.
His goal was to point out that it wasn't worth it to mess with him, he's going to fight back hard and take you out. It was about deterring him from wanting to ever pick on him. Right, his goal wasn't to permanently disfigure him, but to establish a permanent idea that it isn't worth it to pick on him
Fair but ender himself says he never meant to kill bonzo or the kid in his earth school.
That's fair, though he was trying to permanently end the bullying, which is what i think OP was referencing at least. Since, you know, that would end bullying permanently
It’s the only way.
This does work 100% btw. Can have minor side effects tho.
"An eye for an eye" leaves the whole world with a body shop repair bill.
You just do it like 3 weeks later. They'll have no idea.
Never park there again
Leave the country
Makes me wish that OP had an absolutely beat to shit 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Then you can just play bumper cars with idiots like that.
This four pack of car Dolly's and a rapid floor jack.
Both of those links are crazy in very different ways.
Dollies, right?
The autocorrect fight is real. Many of my comments have something like it because I type the word I want and sometimes autocorrect changes it the moment I hit "space".
My auto correct refuses to accept that “carries” is a word and tries to change it to the possessive of the woman’s name.
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I don’t know a woman by this name, do not have one in my contacts, etc. 🤷🏻♀️
Even better if it doesn't change it till you hit send
Barring getting the truck towed this is probably the best "illegal" response. It's proportional, inconveniences them in kind, and doesn't involve property damage.
Aye. Too many of the suggested responses either a.) are wildly out of what another person would consider reasonable, increasing your chances of losing if it goes to a court or being assaulted by said asshole, and b.) don't have any connection to the actual offense, and the asshole would never know why, without a doubt, that the action was taken.
What if you jacked it up by the tow hitch and then gave it a good shove?
Flour at the bottom of the windshield where that AC air intake is. It'll blow flour all through the car and they'll never get it out.
Would glitter work?
Calm down, Satan.
Satan was also justified.
I hate glitter with a passion, but no, this time? This time, they earned it.
Why compromise? 50-50 glitter and flour.
Infuriated upvote
Did you also torture little animals as a child?
Except that the truck probably has a cabin air filter
Well, at least you’ll clog it
I wonder if they could use some kind of substance that just smells really bad instead then
Someone else suggested fish sauce. That would work quite well, I believe.
Crack a few eggs in there.
Rancid fish oil, you said?
What air filter lets flour through?
If it's summer, use raw eggs. It'll stink like hell for a very long time...
Can of spray cooking oil. Light spray on the windscreen, they hit the wipers and it turns into a cloudy oily mess.
Edit: Its dangerous and stupid, dont do it. I have however had it done to me, its every bit as annoying as it sounds.
Messing with visibility could endanger other people around the car. Best stick with flour in the cabin air intake.
Little comfort to the kid they run over. We've already established they aren't too bright. They absolutely will try to drive it.
That’s what this is
Why are you talking in 3rd person?
Probably a repost so technically not op
A tire valve stem removal tool is a few dollars.
A knife is way better and u probably already have one
Knife is not way better, it's actually a pretty dangerous way to deflate a tire.
Four nice sturdy nails placed strategically, pointy end up, immediately behind each tyre. Be content to know that justice will come when the time is right.
Make sure to put them on the corner of the tire, then it won't be repairable and they it will need a new tire.
Strike-anywhere match heads are ~⅛" wider than the space between the pin and collar of said valves, and are far cheaper. The slow leak is nearly imperceptible — until all wheels are flat simultaneously. 🫠
1 bottle fish sauce
Pour over lower windshield.
Repeat as necessary
What's that do? Won't it just get washed away with wiper blades, or rain?
Most air intake for the heat and air comes into the cabin from the vents below the windshield.
Put slices of bologna all over the car so when he peels them off, it takes big circles out of the paint. That still works, right? 🤔
I think that’s baloney
You brilliant bastard.
Only if its sitting in the sun iirc
Better yet. Build a contraption that sprays fish sauce into the windshield of the car next to yours.
Then, through no fault of your own, their vehicle was sprayed by your defective vehicle's fluids.
I love reminding Dodge drivers that the Chinese CCP owns it and RAM name. Not because that is bad or anything it's just that most RAM drivers are also racists so that helps rile em up.
Actually, things have changed a bit.
Stellantis is the company that came about from the merger of the Italian–American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group.
After the merger, the main owners were
So, it would seem it's not correct to say that Dodge or RAM is owned by the CCP. It's more Italian and French than it is Chinese...
I've been told many times that China controls Reddit and that's a 5% stake, so ...
I'm a RAM driver who's considered attaching Federation of Planets flags to my flatbed in order to make fun of trucks with American flags on them.
Better than the "Let's go Brandon" banners I see on most of the pickups around here.
I actually saw a lifted pickup this week, plastered with a half dozen "student driver" stickers, a let's go Brandon sticker covering his entire rear window, and a giant AR-15 sticker on the side.
Driver looked like he was 15 years old too!
Brand new Raptor, no plates
Throw nails in the parking spot. Then tell neighbor about someone putting nails. Gain neighbors trust and ask politely to move the truck.
OR, and hear me out, throw nails in neighbor's face. Offer to drive neighbor to the ED, then say, "Aw, I can't. I'm blocked in." Edit: Forgot /s.
Best solution i've seen here by far.
You just do nails in my face!
No I didn't that was someone else, I'm a different person
How do we know it isn't OP deliberately blocking neighbor?
Sounds like you need a referral for a towing company
Many won't tow out of garages like this because there isn't enough vertical height.
Just request a wheel lift and not a rollback.
Everybody here with slashing tires and me just thinking water in the tank sounds nice. But I just recommend putting water in the tank and maybe some salt and a dash of fresh piss. The truck will run but eventually it's gonna die and will smell like piss for a bit. If it doesn't die, the salt and water mixture will start to corrode the interior of the gas tank.
Better is to piss on the windshield, goes into the AC intake and the whole interior smells of piss until you strip the whole thing out and wash/replace it. Bonus points if you're super dehydrated.
You forgot eating asparagus a couple hours before.
No I didn't, I wrongfully assumed that was standard procedure. There's a difference.
Take a B-complex supplement if you want the neon yellow piss.
But I don't need to piss right now, can't I just put this expired shellfish in the blender and pour it in the vents?
10000000¹⁰⁰⁰⁰% yes.
I wonder how long fart spray will last?
Tanks have been plastic for a while.
Are you stupid? "My day was inconvenienced, better destroy a vehicle in a place there's almost certainly security cams"
Garages aren't always large enough to allow tow truck access.
There was that one issue where a Tesla broke down in a garage and the owner incurred thousands of dollars in fines but nobody could remove the car because the ceiling and ramps were too small.
So, legal question. In this situation, obviously you document it like this, but then would you be in the clear to push it out of the way somehow in a typical jurisdiction? Usually the law allows you certain extra rights when your stuff or person is trapped by someone else's usual legal rights. For example, if your property is surrounded by that of another person they can't stop you from passing through.
I reckon in an emergency you could make a case, otherwise call property mgt and get it towed.
My guess based on nothing is that these guys know each other, might be roommates
Omg they were roommates?
Yep, all of the evidence they don't know about points to it
Good enough for me!
Case closed boys, let's wrap it up!
Bake'em away toys!
#sapphoandherparkingjob
Ok hear me out, if this is an apartment parking garage, then spots assigned to the same address would be more likely to be next to each other, plus there's so much risk of someone fucking up your car if you pull this shit, my guess is they know each other and one person is fucking with the other.
That's my theory.
You could be right, the truck driver could also be an asshole lol.
I was assuming it's an actual neighbor, who has some kind of beef with OP.
Cool way to get me to break every window on your shitty truck.
Maybe that is the trick. Set up a camera and record. Now they have footage of you commiting several crimes.
All it takes is a big hat and sunglasses and maybe a covid mask and they can't prove it was you.
Alright
Reminds me of this glorious way of dealing with a similar problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qc0aaY-3qY
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Where do I get one of those saws to keep in my trunk?
It's an angle grinder with a cutoff wheel. You can get one from any hardware store.
This will work great, especially if you hit the gas tank or lines.
Use an hydraulic jack (every car should have one in the trunk) to lift the rear axle of the truck as high as you can, then push it, now you can proceed to get out of the parking spot
What kind of cars do you buy that every one comes with a hydraulic jack?
I'm not saying they come with the car, I'm saying that every car should have one. If you have a car and you don't own an hydraulic jack (or a device to lift your car to change a tire) then go and buy one.
Which developing countries specifically does this recommendation apply to?
TBF, it's still going to cost less than the car did. I don't know, maybe it's cheaper to write the day off and get a someone else to do it for a fee in your specific situation, though.
TBF = To Be Frank or To Be Fair???? BIG GRUMPY!
Why the hell should we care to impersonate Frank?
👏 this guy's asking the real questions here.
Because otherwise it might seem weird to offer people an egg for trying times
Fair is what I meant. Good to know there's ambiguity for the future.
Could you be more specific?
Whomst art thou, frank?!?!?!?!?!!
To be fair, you seem to be grumpy.
To be GRUMPY, you seem fair.
I have yet to own a car that didn't come with a tire jack. Pretty sure they are built with every car.
They're not not hydrolic though, usually they use a sort of screw mechanism
All right, a car jack, every car should have a device to lift it.
I'm old school, I make my wife lift my car when she has to change the tire.
I store a 5 meter long lever bar and an assistant with steady hands in my trunk.
My girlfriend just stores me wearing handcuffs in the trunk alone. Regular Thursday.
2 floor jacks with wheels and you can put that truck wherever you want. Even better spend about $150 at Harbor Freight for 2 sets of wheel dollies and you can roll it right out to the street. That's extra fun if it's an above ground garage with a curved ramp.
Move it in front of the accessible parking space and contact parking enforcement. Then watch him get a $500 ticket
While you're at it, might as well swivel his truck's rear end behind the column so he can't get out.
one with wheels on it, right? Maybe important to note
No I think the idea is to lift it up real high and then just knock it over. It'll move the car damage it too sure but who gives a shit
Yeah, pretty much this.
The car is over the line. Contact your condo board with a picture. If this is a one time thing, he may have been drunk on too many beers.
Oh well it's alright then as long as he was drunk driving. I would hate to think that he was sober when he did it that would be terrible.
Of courses, because it demonstrates intent. I didn't say it was alright.
What’d you do? Gonna need updates on this one
Reddit repost. Not gonna get your answer on this one
Fuck OP. Not gonna keep that upvote on this one
"Time to do some sketchy shit, do da, do da, hope I get away with it, all the do da day"
Looks like someone's tires need to get slashed
Just call a tow truck. No need to resort to revenge. Them having to retrieve the truck and pay the fees should be enough of a deterrent without giving them reasons to call the police.
Even better. I didn't think towing was more than a couple hundred dollars.
I think they meant the person who calls for the tow has to pay upfront.
Looks like a parking garage of some sort. Property owners most likely already have a contract with a tow company for parking violations. Should be able to call the property manager to get it towed or call the towing company whose number is probably one of many signs there.
Huh? Just have the people responsible for the parking garage call the tow truck.
If it's illegally parked and you're not the property owner you definitely don't have to pay to get it towed
Not everyone can afford a couple hundred dollars to get at an annoying neighbour
I had a similar issue with a truck and just called my apartment, they had them towed at the car owner's expense. That's usually the best option is contact whoever owns the garage or property management and they'll get the asshole towed on the asshole's dime usually.
It shouldn't cause the victim anything for this. Just get the parking garage people to call the towing company.
Not if you slash two or more tires 😈 Tires are around $100-200 a piece to have mounted and balanced, and that's usually either a used tire or a bottom of the barrel one. If you slash one they can replace it with a spare (assuming they have one). If you slash half or more of them they have to get the vehicle towed and have the tires replaced, that takes a lot of time and money. That could easily be like $600, getting your vehicle released from the tow yard if you pick it up within 24 hours is usually only like $150.
They'd have to prove you did it in the first place. Sure, you may have the motive, but "innocent until proven guilty". But yeah, the other owner could be a vindictive asshole and it would just start a war.
Tire inflation valve cores are surprisingly easy to remove.
Yeah but then you’re even more stuck because now the truck is stuck as well…
That truck doesn't have tire pressure any higher than a car does. It's the large trucks like semi trucks and dump trucks that have the high-pressure tires.
Definitely not true. I have a relative with a truck similar to the pictured one, and the rear tires are around 85 psi. If the individual thinks they need tow-worthy tires, they can definitely get them.
I've deflated thousands of those tires by pulling the valve cores. It's fine.
You haven’t done any property damage….? Until they start driving 5 minutes later and the tire goes flat mid drive which causes it to explode. The vehicle then loses control and hits a completely innocent random bystander.
Congrats, you just committed manslaughter for petty revenge.
Deflated tires don't explode, that's overfilled
If you have a flat and try driving on it: that's on you for destroying your rims and tire
An under inflated/flat tire can absolutely spontaneously come apart, and at the RPMs it’s spinning it for all intents and proposes “explodes”. As large pieces of rubber will fly out at speeds that can decapitate someone.
But hey, let’s argue about the semantics instead of telling people to not kill people for petty revenge. If you can’t think for 2 seconds and come up with a way how an underinflated/flat tire could kills someone, you’re probably one of those idiots that drove with under inflated tires.
Is there any backstory? For all we know the car owner just did something horrible and the truck owner has blocked their escape until the authorities arrive.
Yes. This was originally posted on Reddit and has since been resolved a while ago.
Let the air out of their tires.
Painfully ghet out from the side and park horizontally behind him ...
hehehe face on this truck. Car looks annoyed, and maybe horny.
Time to get a couple friends and some jack dolleys. Jack the truck up, and move it somewhere else, preferably in an equally awkward position.
Isn't that just your average nose-first-parking-enjoyer?
OP is too. No wonder they cannot get out.
Have a nice and obsruction-free way out of your parking spot fellow back-first-parking-chad
my mechanic friend is telling me that if you want to fuck that truck to death right where it sits, like, absolutely total it and destroy its internals completely, all you have to do is shove a potato in its tailpipe. like, really deep in so you can't see it from the outside. it will burst all its valves and destroy the engine :D
of course you have to have a big enough potato that cramming it into the pipe will form a seal by shearing the sides flush to the interior of said pipe, and to create enough friction that the pressures produced by the engine will be unable to push it clear (or shoot it out like a pneumatic cannon).
Your friend is a poor mechanic and I'd be wary of any advice they give you.
I have a very hard time believing that an internal combustion engine would sustain significant damage prior to stalling. An engine could run, albeit very poorly, with extreme backpressure (say, an exhaust blockage but perhaps some leaks elsewhere in the exhaust system). If the exhaust was perfectly sealed, there would be so much backpressure that the mixture would be starved of air and there would simply not be any explosion in the cylinders. I have limited knowledge of diesel engines but would expect a similar result.
Here's a video where an exhaust pipe is plugged. You can see how quickly the car stalls (at 10:00): https://piped.video/watch?v=jnoW0skAChA
Is there some beef between you?
Key the vehicle and slash all the tires.
Just... talk it out maybe?
I all of you immediately suggesting keying and shit makes me.
Understand I this well very
Makes you what?
I think you accidentally a word…or six