NomNomDodge Ram truck is illegally parked on Bryant Ave S protected bikelane, Minneapolis.
Beautiful weather and sunset we had tonight though.
What stretch of Bryant has the bike lane? I biked downtown to uptown 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.
Aaron In Minnesota@NomNom as a biker, if I see somebody vandalize a vehicle parked like this, no I didn't.
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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.
Sure would be expensive for them to replace that set of tires because the sidewalls blew out for some reason
Boomer Humor DoomergodTake 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.
lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)Another option is a valve key. It’s easy to unscrew those valves.
Miles O'BrienAnd 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.
𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢“Poke.” says the knife.
“Pssshh!” answered the tire.
“Pssshh!” answered the tire.
Subtler, safer, and more damaging to damage the air valve instead.
fallaciousBasisYou 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.
ByteJunkIt’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.
A while back there was a local kerfuffle because some vandal was slashing the tires of cars which came to visit a local park at the top of a bluff. The vandal would only slash 3/4 tires and it apparently made getting insurance to cover it hell because insurance would cover 4 damaged tires but not only 3. Also 3 tires is more likely to be less than/about the insurance deductible thereby making it more costly to the owner. So the vandal was really causing maximum possible chaos by slashing only 3 tires
you still got some ground snow there oh damn my fart
anyway the ram driver can eat the damned fart
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.
HanrahanThe 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.
CyclingMikey
Life on the road from a helmet camera. Sometimes interesting, sometimes scary, but almost always fun. I'm a driver too, I love cars, but I don't like dangerous driving and people taking risks with vulnerable road users. Someone has to stand up against the endemic road crime on our public highways and try to change it for the better. Thankfully I'm not alone - there are tens of thousands of us reporting road crime with video.
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.
duncan_bayneI’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.
𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒Fucker 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.
Good call!
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.
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. 😉
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
So they don’t notice and then they drive with flat tires and crash into and kill decent pedestrians and cyclists?
Not that slow. Most cars stay in place over the course of a day around 23h (maybe not at a time), but still: if the driver doesn’t hop in immediately, the tire will be mostly or totally deflated at when they arrive.
They’ll notice.
yes, just let the air out.
THEN STABY-STABY
THEN STABY-STABY
Lettuce eat lettuceCall 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 😌
Set it on fire.
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.