Boston police are investigating vandalism in five neighborhoods to cars they said were parked in spaces someone had shoveled out after last weekend’s snowstorm.
Between Monday and Wednesday, officers responded to at least seven reports of vandalism in Dorchester, Brighton, East Boston, Charlestown, and Roxbury, police said. Though the type of damage incurred in each incident differed, police said they were all related to shoveled-out parking spaces.
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The fix here is to end this silliness of reserving a parking space. The objects used to reserve a space should be removed by the city immediately by any city employee that sees one. No one owns community property and no one has a right to reserve a parking space that they don't own.
Don't park in a spot you didn't shovel.
Better still, let a block's residents get together and clear off the entire block.
I'm looking for the shovel law but couldn't find it. Sorry you shoveled for nothing but you don't own public property. So keep your vandal hands off my car.
Why does the city give license to privatizing public streets??? These incidents can be attributed to Menino's nonsense blessing. Hello- it snowed last Friday/Saturday. Getting your car outdoes not mean you own the public street.
Be fair, like your screen name says you are. This remark wasn't fair at all.
Reserving parking spaces in South Boston has gone on for generations. Menino has reigned it in some, but when he tried to eliminate it completely he was faced with a storm of protests.
Unfortunately, the publicity generated by Menino's attempt to end the practice seems to have inspired anti-social elements elsewhere in the city.
Easy fix...the city should take all that snow off the street within 48 hours of the snow emergency being lifted. No one wants to spend 6 hours to dig out a spot and have someone else just pull in and park overnight. Now that person can spend the night shoveling another spot or find a parking lot? I blame the city...there is nowhere to put all this snow...they are making this happen by imagining that people have magic places to put their cars while they wait months for the snow to melt...
You state there is no place to put the snow yet you blame the city? What, for not having a magic place to put it? Do you think the city is your mommy? Ever heard of self-reliance?