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Originally Posted by ramonesfreak
I used to park my brand new car on the street in front of my apartment. One day, on garbage day, I came out to find my new car's hood was scraped and dented in a right to left pattern. AHAH! the garbage men!!! instead of grabbing the bags and walking them around my car, they simply propped them onto my hood and dragged them across.
Another time shortly after this, I came out to find that someone had poured chicken soup on my windshield. It was winter time. The soup froze. I tried to scrape it off but the grease was stuck to the glass. Im late for work. I had to drive around lower manhattan with my head out of the window looking for a car wash NOT EASY TO FIND. This turned into an all day project.
The night of the black out back in 2003 or 04 that hit the east coast, I couldnt park my motorcycle in the garage I used because the elevator didnt work because there was no power. The one single time I parked it on the street in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country, someone tipped it over FOR FUN -I suppose
oh, the memories
These events basically sums up the environment we are talking about. Its about as close to lawlessness as the old wild west as you will find in this country... Absolutely no respect for anyone's property or well being. I guess it filled me with rage and I took it out on all those tourists staying in hotels in times square by making a racket on my motorcycle a few times.....I coulda done worse I spose  |
Those stories are awful but do not jibe w my experience in New York at all. I never had a problem w anyone damaging my car and this is what it looked like outside of the pad 2 weeks ago...same cars parked for days w no damage either then or in the past from the looks of it. Maybe in the bad old days on the LES? Everything has gotten gentrified as heck down there now.
