Call a tow
The group Tire Extinguishers suggest unscrewing the valve vap, a grain of rice, and screw the cap back on. The tire goes flat slowly.
I like the UK system where you can report them online with video evidence.
Start our own tow company for these guys. I hear there’s money in it anyway.
No no no. You’ve got the spirit, but the wrong idea.
You start the tow company, and also get one of those car compactor things. The kind that takes full size cars, and compacts them to itty bitty squares that will fit in your other car’s backseat.
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure you could set up a registered non-profit (“Cycle Lane Awareness and Promotion”), and have that charity set up & own a towing company (“Cycle Lane Towing Co.”). Then have the articles of incorporation of Cycle Lane Towing Co. specify that all profits go to Cycle Lane Awareness, which in turn spends them on … cycle lane awareness and promotion.
Then make an app + mobile Website for cyclists to report parking like this with a few taps / clicks …
Fucker is parked left of center too. Other than an obviously “not a parking space” you’re supposed to park in the same direction as traffic faces. Always a pickup.
looks like a one-way road.
Dodge ram owners are just rich Nissan Altima assholes.
Also, spark plugs are cheap, windows aren’t.
Maybe they have one of those fancy laminated side window that immune to ninja rock. Body paint vs key? That’s a different thing.
Call the cops.
European brains cannot comprehend that this is a “car” and not a semi-truck.
Also, isn’t it dangerous to do the stabby stabby with tires? Because they might burst? Asking for a friend.
Also can’t comprehend the “protected” bike lane.
It just looks like more roadDon’t you see the thin strip of « same concrete as the road but paler »?! Totally protected now!
Also, if it was a higher wall, a car could get slightly damaged if it veered of course. Totally unacceptable. Human bodies don’t scratch the paint off as much.
If it’s a car, you can stab 30PSI and not die. If it’s an actual, real truck, it’s well past 100PSI and will blow your hand off.
Ok good to know that I will not die when it’s 30PSI. But will I be deaf? Will it blow loudly so everyone notices?
If you poke it slowly, it will make a slow leak. However it will be easily repairable.
Personally I started to cut brake lines instead.
The tread is easily repairable but you cant repair sidewall damage legally, at least where I am. 😉
The car I was hitting was “owned” by someone who did nothing legally. I eventually figured out the reason he drove cars like they were stolen was because they were actually stolen.
Lentil under the cap, slowly releasing the pressure.
Do you regularly carry lentils for this purpose?
Rocks are both free and everywhere. I see some in this picture
Can you eat rocks when hunger attacks, NO!
This is why I always carry my pocket lentils!!
So they don’t notice and then they drive with flat tires and crash into and kill decent pedestrians and cyclists?
They’ll notice.
yes, just let the air out.
THEN STABY-STABY
Unprotected bike lane.
Cars aren’t supposed to park here.
I’m so tired of this shit.
What stretch of Bryant has the bike lane? I biked downtown to the greenway last summer and it was just shared car lanes on a two-way (though I think I only encountered one non-parked car), this looks nice.
EDIT: like like about 35th to 50th South. Very cool, I’ll try to check it out this week!
Beautiful weather and sunset we had tonight though.
Call it in. I got a truck just like this towed within an hour and a half for illegally parking, partially blocking an alley street.
Expensive and very inconvenient for the owner, which is just what we want 😌
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Also, tow companies love making money. Most won’t hesitate to tow an illegally parked vehicle.
Tow truck companies love the commission.
Looks like the vehicle of a big, strong, alpha who carries his gun to the grocery store in case there’s a trans person in aisle 4 who would viciously attack. /s
Sure would be expensive for them to replace that set of tires because the sidewalls blew out for some reason
Take off the valve stem cap, place a small pebble in the cap, screw it on so that it slowly deflates.
If you’re very enterprising you could bring you own caps with a BB superglued to the inside.
Another option is a valve key. It’s easy to unscrew those valves.
a common tool carried on a bike.
And cheap to boot. Super duper simple. Honestly you could make your own with a set of mini pliers and a stiff paper clip.
It’s just two points to hold either side of the stem while you rotate it out.
I have a few at any given time since I work on bicycles in my spare time, and have passed out a few at protests.
Set it on fire.
Apply a screwdriver to the rubber it floats around on
Amateur hour.
Stick a BB in the valve stem caps. It will leak slowly, but surely, from all four tires, and it will take a while before they discover it.
The only problem is, you want them to know it’s because they parked like a idiot.
For that, keep a gel deodorant stick in your bag. Apply gel to the door handles.
