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Flat Tires Preventing Trip Home To Maryland?


by on Dec 2nd, 2009
car illegally parked e 16 st chrysler nov 2009

Chrysler L300 on East 16 St.; three tickets & two flat tires, later: still shiny & clean

This post started as just another musing about something seen now and then: a car parked and unmoved for an extended period of time on a public street. It quickly morphed into a series of questions for which I have no real answers.

The car we’re speaking of is a black, luxury sedan, Chrysler L300, with Maryland plates. It has two rear flat tires and it’s on East 16 Street and Avenue Y, parked very close to a hydrant and a sign that says “No Parking Wednesday 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.” for, what seems like, more than a month.

  • Did this car get two rear flat tires because it has been unmoved for too long or has it been subject to tire slashing vandals?
  • How does a car sit on the street unmoved for weeks and still stay so clean?
  • How does a luxury car sit on a city street and not have it’s rims or wheels stolen?
  • How is it possible that a car can stay parked so close to a hydrant and not get ticketed for this?
  • Is it possible that the ticketing agent is, like most of us average people, not aware of the city’s very confusing parking rules?
  • How has it only racked up three NO PARKING – STREET CLEANING tickets, when it has been at the same spot for more than a month?
  • Will the owner of this vehicle be able to use the “my car was disabled” defense?
  • Have mechanics at the shop just over the fence offered their services to the captive customer?
  • Cars are registered and issued plates by the state, so why is it only possible to check a car’s tickets by city or county?
  • Is the owner of this car somewhere in Maryland wondering as to where his or her car has been whisked away?; or
  • Is someone concerned about the whereabouts of the owner?

Tune in next week for these and many other answers when we present another episode of [play male bass echoing voice]:
Sheepshead Bay’s Illegal Parking!

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  • http://whitetrashbbq.blogspot.com/ BrooklynQ

    I read the other day in the Daily News that cars can’t be left in the same spot for more than 6 or 7 days. After that they’re subject to ticket and tow.

  • http://whitetrashbbq.blogspot.com BrooklynQ

    I read the other day in the Daily News that cars can’t be left in the same spot for more than 6 or 7 days. After that they’re subject to ticket and tow.

  • Frank

    There’s a huge group of “used car people” that work out of that car wash that you see in the background. They used to have their cars with out of state plates or no plates parked all over the neighborhood until they got some static from the people in the area. You can see them patching and polishing their cars on that block constantly. A group of them lived on my block for a while. Moved into an apartment, never paid the rent and got evicted after 6 months. In that time there were plenty of irate buyers knocking on their door wnating their money back. So if you suddenly see a For Sale sign on that car, beware!

  • Frank

    There’s a huge group of “used car people” that work out of that car wash that you see in the background. They used to have their cars with out of state plates or no plates parked all over the neighborhood until they got some static from the people in the area. You can see them patching and polishing their cars on that block constantly. A group of them lived on my block for a while. Moved into an apartment, never paid the rent and got evicted after 6 months. In that time there were plenty of irate buyers knocking on their door wnating their money back. So if you suddenly see a For Sale sign on that car, beware!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001 Lisanne!

    This has been going on for years here. Used to be more blatant. I’m amazed that its still going on.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/ Lisanne!

    This has been going on for years here. Used to be more blatant. I’m amazed that its still going on.

  • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur Borko

    The car on that corner is either being held by Used Car Dealers or the Repair Shop that takes up the entire block. My car service and my dad both used to use that shop, in fact my mom’s car was held there after it was wrecked a few years ago.

  • http://www.njluxurymotors.com Arthur B

    The car on that corner is either being held by Used Car Dealers or the Repair Shop that takes up the entire block. My car service and my dad both used to use that shop, in fact my mom’s car was held there after it was wrecked a few years ago.

  • Anonymous

    What’s annoying is that if you walk down the street and around the block, you will still see countless more cars with no plates, or out of state plates. These cars linger for weeks untouched, and sometimes unticketed. Had one of these towed by the city since it sat for weeks, with no plates. Saw another a few weeks ago, that was torched.

  • Al Knowles

    What’s annoying is that if you walk down the street and around the block, you will still see countless more cars with no plates, or out of state plates. These cars linger for weeks untouched, and sometimes unticketed. Had one of these towed by the city since it sat for weeks, with no plates. Saw another a few weeks ago, that was torched.

  • Kismet

    They are owned by the gypsy’s in the neighborhood.

  • Kismet

    They are owned by the gypsy’s in the neighborhood.

  • Anonymous

    Car is gone! Perhaps moved elsewhere, but at least this car is no longer haunting here.

  • Al Knowles

    Car is gone! Perhaps moved elsewhere, but at least this car is no longer haunting here.