• @dohpaz42
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    131 month ago

    No! Bad DarkThoughts!

    You call a tow truck and have the vehicle towed at the owner’s expense.

    • DarkThoughts
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      1 month ago

      Oh my sweet summer child. Sidewalk parking is more or less legal in Germany since cars are generally placed above people. It’s literally happening everywhere. My entire street is full of people being 1/3 on the sidewalk.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        No it’s not. You can’t park your car on the sidewalk unless explicitly allowed by a sign. If you park on the sidewalk you have to pay a fine, if your car is blocking something you also get a Punkt in Flensburg.

        • DarkThoughts
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          31 month ago

          Dude, literally every damn city residential area is like this. No one cares, especially not the Ordnungsamt who should be responsible for it, or politicians. Worst case, they just add some white paint and whoop it is legal, because fuck pedestrians. I don’t even know why you try to argue otherwise when it’s literally my reality that I have to constantly squeeze myself through between cars and walls because the sidewalk is not even wide enough for two people anymore with all the cars parking on it. Like literally every single time, for decades. And the fatter the cars get each year, the worse it gets too. Even firefighters already complained about this because they often can’t even drive through some streets since even the car lane itself is too narrow thanks to the cars, even if they park right against the house walls. But hey, here’s Knuschberkeks telling me that I am apparently hallucinating.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Calm down. I didn’t say it’s not what’s happening. Yes it is happening, especially in bigger citys. Yes it is incredibly annoying. But that doesn’t mean it’s legal. Have you tried to do anything about it?

            • DarkThoughts
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              31 month ago

              I said it is “more or less legal”, meaning it is defacto legal because no one actually enforces it and rather makes it legal if they had to enforce it.

                • DarkThoughts
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                  41 month ago

                  I don’t report, because it’s not anonymous. And other people who kept reporting like crazy ended up getting charged for it by the police, so I’d rather not do that. Plus it is typically the case that reports aren’t getting followed up upon. Not that it would even make sense to literally report every single car all the way down the entire street anyway. I’ve seen Ordnungsamt people walk through it, so they very clearly know. Not that it is some secret anyway since again, it’s absolutely everywhere. It’s the norm. So if they wanted to enforce it, then they could just do it.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    21 month ago

                    I admit I don’t know a lot about this type of stuff, but there must be some (probably super involved) way to get this enforced. I mean it is written in law so there must be some way to fight it, but you’d probably have to sue the Ordnungsamt or the city some shit like that.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      In what world is a tow truck going to tow a car for parking on the side walk? They’re gonna tell you to call the cops or parking enforcement and the cops don’t even show up for gun shots