This morning, an article appeared in a daily newspaper, with a woman complaining that she got booted while parked in the private lot of a company while she persued business in another area. She got booted by a new company in town, and has complained.
So fucking what. I’m glad you got booted, you twat. You parked in an area you weren’t supposed to, and ignored all signs warning you of what could happen if you did what you did. Is it really that hard to park in the correct area, or wait until a space becomes free? Or do you think you’re above the law?
I love a show on a cable network which follows booters. It’s quite funny. People go apeshit crazy when they get booted because they’ve neglected to pay their parking tickets or are parked illegally. Maybe those in Halifax who get tickets will take extra care in parking their cars knowing that the scary booter-man is watching your every move. When it says ‘no stopping’, it means just that. It doesn’t give you a three minute grace period to run into the dry cleaner, or into the bank. Throwing your 4-ways on while you run into grab a sandwich also doesn’t stop the boot being put on. If you stop in a no stopping zone because you’re in labour and can’t drive and you get booted, then you have a case. Otherwise, STFU and GTFO of your cars in the correct places.
I believe that the winter parking ban is a pain in the ass – but it’s law. I don’t like breaking laws, I’d rather not owe ticket money to the government/private companies. Maybe those who don’t believe what I do will learn their lesson when the bright yellow metal is saying hello to them.
— I Know How To Park
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2009.
Again…power tool company, there tools have ‘yellow’ colored bodies, they make a cordless mini grinder,so with a 4 & 1/2 inch metal zip blade you can cut through 1/2 inch plate steel, even if its hardened in a matter of minutes. With two batteries you will be able to leave pieces of the lovely also yellow boot device strewn over the private property you obviously don’t respect at all.
I’ve got mine 🙂
Totally agreed. I got really cheesed listing to this 60 something year old poop ranting about assaulting the boot person. Perhaps my being a male, as you pointed out, gives me the right to blacken both your eyes for fucking with my obeying the law? Cranky old fuck, promoting violence. *tisk *tisk.
Allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment. Suppose you parked in the Subway lot on Quinpool, crossed Kline St to go the bank machine at CIBC, ran across Quinpool to purchase tickets for a movie at the Oxford Theater, then went next door to drop off a pair of shoes at Quinpool Shoe Repair, and then went back to the Subway for lunch. Suppose when you came out of the Subway, you discovered your car had been booted. Are you supposed to park in the bank’s lot, do your banking, then get back in your car, start it, drive it across the street to park in front of the theater, start it again, drive around the block to park in front of the shoe repair shop, then drive it across the street again to finally park in the restaurant lot while you go in and eat your lunch? Not very environmentally sound. I agree that many people have a sense of entitlement about parking, and this lady sounds like one of them. But I don’t think this booting idea is good business, not in an area like Quinpool where there are many small businesses in close proximity to each other.
If you have a lot of business to do in one area, find a meter. As long as you’re paying for your space, you can shop as much as you want, in as many places as you want. Would you be happy if all the spaces for Subway were taken when you needed one because the people who wanted subway also had an hour worth of errands to run?
What’s booting?
People are Stupid, I would agree with you completely, except there are no meters on Quinpool. Every parking lot in the area is a private lot. So one’s only options are to park in one lot for an hour, or to drive from lot to lot in a two or three block radius. Alternatively, one could leave one’s car at home, or at least a few blocks away, since the Quinpool business district is one of the few pedestrian friendly areas in the city. But that’s getting away from the topic.
Mole – big metal shoe clamp that goes on your car’s tire and you can’t drive it anymore.
Thanks
You could park behind the superstore in that parking lot, then no one would really know which store you were parking for.
Park some where, even if it’s half a mile away. Get the fuck out of your car and walk. If you were not so dependent on your vehicles, you would be more able to walk short distances. I’ve seen plenty of old ladies walking around in the craziest weather.
The manager of Subway summed it up by pointing out that they can be in there looking out at a full parking lot and not have a customer in the store.
No, there are no meters on Quinpool but guess what? There is FREE parking the length of Quinpool. Do people want meters? is that what you want? Then the tickets will be flying for sure.
Right now, you are limited to one hour free parking on Quinpool. If people didn’t abuse this free hour of parking there would be cars leaving all of the time allowing others to get into a spot.
The booting will have a negative affect on the reputation of Quinpool as a shopping destination so it probably isn’t the right way to go, but I bet people will think twice about abusing parking in the future.
You can get away with parking at the Superstore parking to get most of your errands done, and it is a central location. Take advantage of it but don’t abuse it.
I bet most of you don’t even remember when you had to pay to park at the big superstore/cdn tire parking lot, eh?
I’m no lawyer, but isn’t the booter dude setting himself up for a vandalism or property damage suit? I park where it’s legal even if I have to walk a few blocks to get where I need to be, but I think I’d have issues with a private person tampering with my vehicle. Subway should start issuing tickets rather than booting.