Check with codes, I know that around here you can't actively work on a vehicle in the street.
Might be able to report them next time and get the cops to tell them to "move along"... On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A rant for Monday. > > My house is on the corner lot, front of the house faces the "long side" of > the lot. I've got 200 feet of unbroken curb and sidewalk to manage (my > driveway enters the lot from a mid-block alley). > > I rarely park on the street, but sometimes do to give the kids more room to > play on the driveway or in the carport. Parking is not a problem here - > nearly every house has a garage and most have driveways/carports. That said > since the garages/driveways are often to the rear and on a different level > (we're on a mountain) many people prefer to park on the street. > > For the past few weeks I've had a crappy boat sitting on the street directly > in front of my front door. It's the focal point of my view from my living > room picture window. It's about 12' feet long, sitting on a crappy trailer > and covered with a crappy green tarp. > > The guy that (I assume) owns it has taken to parking his (not as) crappy > pick-up truck in front of it. I think they're "fixing it up": the truck has > two bass chairs in the back and what seems like extra parts. > > Periodically he gets out there "working" on the thing. Him and another guy, > in the same brown shorts EVERYTIME, with no shirts and a six-pack. I've > never seen the cover off the boat, but they'll sit out there talking for > hours at a time. > > Yesterday his friend pulled his jeep up. They proceeded to work out there > for most of the day: the friend had the bulk of the Jeep's engine in pieces > on my lawn, the guy had stripped the boat's motor (again, the parts on my > lawn) and was trying to get it to run (no water... so good luck with that). > > So all day it was clank-clank! VROOOOOOOM! Chug-sputter, psstp! > > Now, to be fair, they stopped about 7pm (so no bed times were impacted) and > (aside from the oil stains on the street) they picked up their mess. > Still... I feel annoyingly put out. The noise, the fact that I couldn't mow > my lawn without a confrontation, etc. > > It's not like it's actually inconveniencing... but it's damn annoying. But > not "publically" annoying enough that I feel justified in asking him to move > it. You know those things that just grind but never so much that you feel > confident about your position on them? > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263826 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
