“Poke.” says the knife.
“Pssshh!” answered the tire.Yeah even for this person’s selfish thought process i don’t see how they feel comfortable doing this. The whole time it’s there they should be constantly worried that their car will get keyed
Subtler, safer, and more damaging to damage the air valve instead.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. The air valve is separate from the tire. It attaches to the rim. There’s no inner tube.
A new tire is 50-200 bucks. 50 probably being a used POS.
That valve? Many tire shops will replace for free, or very cheap (a few dollars max.)
Side wall damage? You’re gonna need a new (or used, not recommended) tire.
Also. Go for a small, sharp smooth blade. There’s a good chance it’ll just slow leak and they’ll make it to McDonald’s or whatever and then run flat. XD
The tires for my minivan run $130 to $220 each. The tires on that truck are not standard and are extra wide. Id bet closer to $300-$400 each.
It’s not the cost, it’s the inconvenience.
Even if he has a spare tire for that monster, I wanna see him try replacing it, it’ll be hilarious.
Or he’ll have to call a tow and wait for it.
Either way, awesome. Push comes to shove, “your honor, I offer to settle this dispute by paying the cost of the valve I supposedly damaged.”
That’s an interesting perspective.
But usually the spare or donut comes with it’s own rim and valve… So shouldn’t need a tow.
But that’s also why you always slash more than one tire. Nobody is carrying multiple donuts.
Cars aren’t supposed to park here.
I’m so tired of this shit.
Beautiful weather and sunset we had tonight though.
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!
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.
Report it on the Minneapolis 311 app, usually bike lane parkers are gone by the time someone finally shows up to investigate, but they use the reports to direct infrastructure improvements to try to keep this from happening again.
I had some asshole parked in the protected bike lane on my ride home elsewhere in Minneapolis tonight and I really should have reported them but I didn’t.
It would be a shame if they had to take longer because they needed to inflate a mysteriously flat tire…
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.
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.
a common tool carried on a bike.
Don’t tell us, tell the tow company. Make sure you collect the spotters fee if they offer one.
Always report to the authorities (police or whatever), even if they don’t do anything. If the complains keep pilling up, it will fuck their stats and eventually someone will be forced to do something.
After reporting, do whatever you want ;-)
Have it towed then?
I was going to say, just call a few tow companies. They are the worst scum of the earth class traitors ever. They’re looking to take anything they can to hold for ransom.
You just have to be vaugue enough about the vehicle that they send one of their guys getting $15/hr who doesn’t give a shit to show up before the tow companies owners realize that’s their family/friends truck.
Tow company has to have a contract with the city, they can’t just randomly go abduct cars without it. So you have to know which companies have that contract.
Tow truck companies love the commission.
I mean you could handle this like an adult and let the air out of all his tires.
It’s incredibly easy to do with some aluminum foil. You can keep a folded up piece of it in your wallet, and then tear off tiny pieces to make balls, and shove those into the valve. Also, $0 in property damage so if you get arrested for it… it’s something dumb like “Criminal Mischief” rather than vandalism.
I know it sounds silly or archaic but “mischief” is a very serious charge with significant penalties. You’d rather get vandalism.
It’s not. I was arrested and charged with it a while ago. It’s a low level misdemeanor.
It turns out that we’re both stupid. At least where I live, all crimes people casually refer to as “vandalism” are in fact legally handled under the charge of “mischief”. But also included are things like blocking someone’s driveway, interfering with computer data, preventing lawful use of property, and tampering with infrastructure. Which of course can be much more serious crimes than keying someone’s car and can come with significant jail time, for mischief.
Speak for yourself. There’s multiple degrees of criminal mischief, and those that have $0 in damages (putting foil in an air valve) are of the lowest level. My penalty was 25 hours of community service and a $0 fine.
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.
Good call!
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.
Is the truck parked behind that main battle tank?
No, the car is inside the tank
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.
Also helpful if you forget to D.O. before work.
