This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn’t fit in many places around here it’s owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.

Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn’t help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn’t ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn’t matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    Wow, crazy. I’m not sure that would be allowed on the road here in the UK. How do you see where you’re going when you’re driving? How do you get in?

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      I was sitting outside a restaurant eating breakfast the other day, a man was there with a small but rotund elderly woman who seemed to be his mother. They got up to leave and lo and behold, they head for the lifted Denali parked in the nearby handicap spot. Dude opens the passenger door and pulls out a legit, three step ladder and helps his mother climb up with great difficulty for both parties involved. I would have expected some cursing and complaining from the lady, about what a stupid truck that was and how she cannot possibly be expected climb into this absurd vehicle. But she looked fine. Used to it.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      In most of Europe you’d need a truck license before even attempting to get it road legal.

    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      In the UK, at least a while back, the Mazda wasn’t actually that small a car but it’s made to look tiny in comparison.

      I wonder what an original mini would look like

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 days ago

        The original mini had a length of just over 3m, width just under 1.5m, and a height of 1.3m.

        The original Miata had a length of just under 4m, 1.6m width, and a height of like 1.6m (with the hard top, which adds like 16in)

        Edit: the original mini had a curb weight of just shy of 1300lbs and mad 76hp, while the Miata was like 2000lbs and made 116hp

        Edit: wrote “wheelbase”, but I meant “length”

          • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            Well, with the soft top the Miata was ever so slightly shorter. The Miata is ~123cm tall, while the mini was ~135mm tall

          • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Oh duh, you’re completely right. I looked up “length” and wrote “wheelbase” for both of them lol.

            Ive fixed them now, thanks!