Comments on: So, you want to park in downtown Bucharest? http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/ Writings and whereabouts Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bogdan http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-1116 Bogdan Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:54:17 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-1116 I gotta tell you that Bucuresti is not the only place that happens. If you try to park in the Bronx around the blocks around Yankee Stadium during a game, you will encounter the same dilemma. Of course you can try the same three option routine as back home, but something tells me that in the Bronx, getting your car scratched would be the best case scenario :) I gotta tell you that Bucuresti is not the only place that happens. If you try to park in the Bronx around the blocks around Yankee Stadium during a game, you will encounter the same dilemma. Of course you can try the same three option routine as back home, but something tells me that in the Bronx, getting your car scratched would be the best case scenario :)

]]> By: Ionut http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-954 Ionut Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:11:04 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-954 I live in Bucharest and I've watched this phenomenon since it's infancy. Now, in it's maturity stage, it really bugs the s**t out of me. I don't now what bugs me the most: the fact that the police doesn't do anything about it, the fact that people are accepting it and pay without as much as a "why?", or the fact that these useless individuals have come to believe that this is actually their God-given right to ask for money. I'm not joking, they are convinced that it has somehow become their right, that they own the parking lots. I have seen a 6-year old girl who was chasing a man who had just parked and didn't pay the "fee", saying "hey, what the f**k do you think you're doin'? You just park and walk away? You need to pay!!". So you see, these days, the mean-looking man don't even need to be "at work", they just use representatives and collect. Further more, whereas in the beginning they were taking over the parking lots just in weekends, when the legal parking workers were away, now they co-exist with them all week long, and probably request money from them, too. I'm not of a violent nature, but I think I could find some joy in getting medieval on their asses. I live in Bucharest and I’ve watched this phenomenon since it’s infancy. Now, in it’s maturity stage, it really bugs the s**t out of me. I don’t now what bugs me the most: the fact that the police doesn’t do anything about it, the fact that people are accepting it and pay without as much as a “why?”, or the fact that these useless individuals have come to believe that this is actually their God-given right to ask for money. I’m not joking, they are convinced that it has somehow become their right, that they own the parking lots.

I have seen a 6-year old girl who was chasing a man who had just parked and didn’t pay the “fee”, saying “hey, what the f**k do you think you’re doin’? You just park and walk away? You need to pay!!”.

So you see, these days, the mean-looking man don’t even need to be “at work”, they just use representatives and collect.

Further more, whereas in the beginning they were taking over the parking lots just in weekends, when the legal parking workers were away, now they co-exist with them all week long, and probably request money from them, too.

I’m not of a violent nature, but I think I could find some joy in getting medieval on their asses.

]]> By: Raluca http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-928 Raluca Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:07:06 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/08/15/so-you-want-to-park-in-downtown-bucharest/#comment-928 I got angry (read rrrealy angrrrry) just by reading this. I imagine how you must have felt. I got angry (read rrrealy angrrrry) just by reading this. I imagine how you must have felt.

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