The King of parking space savers

It's amazing how trashy the people who put the savers out in the street are. Usually in neighborhoods where the population drives Lincoln's, Grand Marquis, etc. cuz they think those are the "upscale" cars. Pathetic. St. Anthony must be proud.

I would run this over with my Hummer.

The true south boston residents now this is how it is and always will be . If you don't now the rules in southie then maybe you shoudn't live there.

If you spent three hours shoveling out a spot then you deserve to hold on to your spot for as long as you like.....

Why on Earth was the 48 hour rule reset. There wasn't a new inch of snow yesterday that wasn't washed away by the rain.

I used to live on E 7th st and people would save spots even after a dusting of snow. When the snow had melted I'd aim my Jeep down the side of the street and take out block after block of "space savers". And before any of you tough Southie boys post "I would have kicked your butt", just remember, you're not always the toughest boy on the block.

The best parking spot saver? A CAR.

I love all the people trying to bad talk our space savers, if you shovel it you own it. Until you live thru a couple winters you have no idea.

'The true south boston residents now this is how it is and always will be . If you don't now the rules in southie then maybe you shoudn't live there.'

spoken like a true southie resident

Three hours for one spot?

The street where you park is public property - I have to wonder how many of these people are the same ones who complain about the city not shoveling out their little stretch of sidewalk for them . . .

Until the city does something about it, it will go on forever.

loudtalker--

If you don't want to spend 3 hours shovelling out a space, then don't have a car in the city, or pay to park in a garage overnight and during storms. Simple as that. It's a public street, no space is deeded to you. Sorry, that's just reality. I get why you feel entitled to it, but you really aren't.

There is nothing wrong with space savers. The rules are simple -- you shovel out your spot, you get to keep the space until the snow is not an issue. If you don't shovel the spot, you have no right to the space. This is Boston -- deal with it or go somewhere else. Why should someone else be able to park in a space that you took the time to shovel out? Once again, I repeat, this is Boston -- deal with it (I'm taking to you, Yuppie with Out of State Plates) or go somewhere else. Actually, just please go somewhere else.

The King can hold that spot as long as he wishes!!! Come on, people, at least we can be creative with our markers, and have some fun with it, like this person did. Instead of the usual N-Star cone or faded beach chair, let's up our game! Think: tiki bar, palm trees, a full picnic table with watermelon, etc.!

There should be no new Southie vs. old Southie mentality. We all live together, so let's at least have a laugh together...

And if you don't live here, we really don't care to hear your comments, but please feel free to come for visit after a snow storm for the view, and frequent our businesses! I'll save a place for you.

Learn how to spell and maybe you'll be take more seriously.... public spaces are for the public - not the person who shovels to get out - which everyone has to do anyway. Get a garage if yo can't share.

The 48 hour rule should only apply to those who actually shovel out their space...

i can't stop laughing!

The true south boston residents now this is how it is and always will be . If you don't now the rules in southie then maybe you shoudn't live there.
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And GDNEWS, if you don't KNOW how to spell, perhaps you SHOULDN'T be posting a response.

That thing is sweet. I liked my neighbor who put an old cabinet style TV that must've weighed 250 lbs out last winter. The trash guys couldn't remove it b/c it's illegal to put the TV in the garbage truck. The real solution is to build garages...there's way too many cars than spaces!

I love the space saver idea. I shoveled out my spot in front of my own apartment and it took me 2 hours the day after the first storm, went to the grocery store and put a folding chair in there. No more than 30 min later, I come home and some A-hole put my chair on the sidewalk and parked there. I had to park almost 3 blocks away. They are just lucky im a nice guy. Maybe not so much next time.

If you city folks want your own private spot, buy a house with a driveway. I lived in Eastie from birth till 33 and never put anything out to save my spot. If you don't want to lose it, take the T.

It's amazing the number of people who believe they are ENTITLED to something that IS NOT THEIRS to begin with.

I'm personally chucking every "space saver" I see.

GDNEWS - if you don't now how to spell you should not post comments. That said, I tend to agree with you.

If you shovel out a spot and you are over 50 years old you should be able to keep it, but these people that just drive out of their spot and throw a cone down is ridiculous. there aren't enough spots in in the city for people to save them. that's why when you drive around all you see is cars and cones, you never see a non shoveled spot. snow is just a reason for these people to mark a spot in front of their place.

When someone takes my parking spot, I break into the car and break off toothpicks in their ignition. :-)

Do we really have to argue this every time a picture of a spot saver is put up?? This one was by far the best! Parking is what it is people, not for nothing deal with it and have a laugh!

Yes, you may own it for a couple of days, but in NO WAY do you own it for A WEEK!!! And yes, I have lived through many winters here AND am a life long South Boston resident, thank you!

These parking space saver people are the same ones that believe that they don't have to let a third person sit in the three-seater seats on the Commuter Rail--they ran ahead of everyone else to get the seat, they exhausted breath getting there, they earned the right to take up two seats and let everyone else stand. No wonder southie has such a bad reputation. By the way, where do you park your cars when they are not in the space you shoveled? Are they in spots that were cleared by means other than your own?

Some people will put things out to hold spaces even when it's just a dusting of snow. I fully agree that if you shovel out a spot it should be yours for 48 hrs or so. But you have to SHOVEL the snow AFTER it has fallen not just because it's going to snow!

Don't move my cone in Beacon Hill, or I'll pelt your car with this latte and my baby stroller

I don't understand how it takes several hours to shovel out a spot. I have two deeded spots behind my brownstone, and I can shovel BOTH of them in 20 minutes or less - even after the plow graciously boxes them in with a snowbank.

AGREED ex-urbanite and loving it.
That is why I plan to move to a place with a driveway.

I have shoveled out THOUSANDS of spaces to only lose them running an errand or going to work. It comes with the territory of living in the city -- buck up and rent a space for $150 like the rest of us. You don't OWN ANYTHING but the Christmas Tree Shoppe crap that you use as a space saver.

Does that 48 hour rule apply to the entire city of Boston or just Southie?
I live and park in the Back Bay and I never see "space savers"

Were I not allowed to save my space, I absolutely would not shovel out. I would do just enough to get my car on the road. Why shovel out for hours (and it can take hours--plows cover your car up to the windows and you often have to walk to the nearest corner to find a place to dump the snow), and arrive back home to find it gone?

I'm sure no one else would bother to do a good job removing the snow around their cars and within a couple of weeks, the streets would be a mess - lumps of snow everywhere, not a patch of asphalt to be seen, and cars double parked next to impossible spaces.

We will take your 48-hours, Mr. Mayor, and shovel your streets for you!

(And 48 hours is plenty, people - move those cones after your two days... )

If someone comes home after work and parks their car on the street, chances are they also dug themselves out that morning. You can be pretty sure the snow didn't just fall on your car people. It fell on everyones'. It's New England. When did shoveling make anyone special?

Does that 48 hour rule apply to the entire city of Boston or just Southie?
I live and park in the Back Bay and I never see "space savers"

if you shobvel that space you deserve to keep it. If someone parks in a space you shovel , bury it in snow and let them dig themself out but before you leave, . Add water to it so it turns to ice, then double park (over night) so they can't get out...i guarantee they won't do it again.
Don't key it or slash tires, you can be punished by law for this. If mumbles doesn't like it let him come out and shovel

southie sucks

Now, know? What's the big difference.

I don't know which is worse!?! Someone who has cleaned out a parking space and is holding it, or someone who has left their car in a space for a week with snow covering it and surrounding it. I ask: if you don't need your car for a week or more and leave it to take up valuable parking space, then why do you have a car? Dig it out and use it ! or move it and let someone else willing to shovel the spot out to use it!

If everyone shoveled out the spot their car was in when it snowed, then everyone would have a parking space when they returned from where ever. Why isn't the official rule "Shovel Out Your Car When it Snows." Where I live if your car is parked on the street during a snow emergency it gets towed. Maybe that's the best solution.

I’m surprised Elvis isn’t wearing a black, backwards Red Sox cap, wife-beater and addidas sandals……but wait, it’s not summertime yet.

Used to live in S. Boston- armegeddon with parking spots
Now live in Back Bay- never seen one space saver all winter and you can actually get a spot 90% of the time. Love the civility.

Hey loudtalker - if you have spent three hours shoveling out your car in ANY of the storms we've had so far then you're clearly doing something wrong. I'm 42 and I have not spent more than 20 MINS. in any of the storms we've had this year. How is it you're taking three hours?

I think it's very disrespectful to use Elvis for this purpose. Use a freakin chair before you use a legend!

Life is so much easier in the rest of the city (Ie anywhere but Southie, Dot, Eastie, Beacon Hill) We all just come and go without leaving trash in the street. Here's my idea...buy a 4-wheel drive and save the shoveling for the other shmucks. I do wonder why the city can't clear the roads on the next street cleaning day (Mass Ave) but can still tow cars away every Wednesday and Friday?!?!?

Southie was great this morning, there was less snow on the ground today after the storm than there was before the storm, due to the deluge of rain last night.

And yes, the morons put out there space savers again. It is always the lifers, not the GD yuppies that do it to. One of my neighbors has a driveway and he maneuvers all his cars into spots on the street so it is easier to clear the driveway, then he puts space savers in the street to safe his spots.

You don't see this space saving nonsense in Somerville.

1. I live in South Boston
2. When I shovel a parking space, I do a very thorough job.
3. I have never once spent 3 hours shoveling. Maybe an hour, but even then, I don't consider it a burden. We live in New England. I expect to have to shovel. And its good exercise.
4. I also help shovel out other people around me. Its neighborly and the right thing to do.

One problem in South Boston is that there are some people that are lazy that don't shovel. Or maybe they shovel, but they do what they consider "just good enough". Right now, the "rule" is that you can save a space for 48 hours after a snow emergency. The rule should be that you must shovel the space that you parked in. If every person shoveled, then we wouldn't need space savers because every parking space would look exactly like it does when there is no snow on the ground.

Another problem is that there is another group of people who don't follow the 48 hour "rule". Instead these people just make up their own rules. Just because we happen to be in the months of January, February, or March and it snowed 3 weeks ago, that doesn't mean you can save a space every time you use your car. If you are putting a space saver out there and you haven't lifted a finger to shovel the spot, then you are a jerk. So that means that when there is a dusting or maybe you heard on the news that it might snow - you can't mark a space.

Remember, the "rule" is that you can save a space 48 hours after a snow emergency. After that, if you need a parking space and you don't like the way that the last guy shoveled the spot, get your shovel out and go get some free exercise.

Why is boston.com so obsessed with the whole Southie parking savers thing?Give it a rest... the novelty of it has worn off, find something else to report.

Whats next... putting pictures of some poor guy slipping on ice on the front page of the site? Oh wait....

How sad that house owners can't park outside their own houses, wherever they live, if they don't have garage/car port.

It says something about the planning of Boston - and maybe other cities.

I only found this article because I'm an Elvis fan. I disagree that busts of Elvis are necessarily trashy.

I'm lucky to live in a city - Canberra, Australia - where there's not usually a problem about parking near your own home.

Aallowing people to USE the spot they dug out during the course of snow --- is about respect for your neighbors and just plain friendly

I do not live in Southie - but I grew up in New England - and it is just a nice way to treat each other. I would not try it in Cambridge where I live - to many "entitled" people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder for them to tolerate respect.

In suburbs it happens all the time --- actually you would never DREAM of putting your car where you neighbor dug out a space for themself to park.

RJ

I live in Medford, and space saving is becoming out of control. We can only park on one side of the street, and I share a driveway side-by-side with my neighbor, so my husband and I can only fit one of our cars in our driveway.

My husband shoveled his car out during the last storm, and when he moved his car this Monday morning (2/2) WELL after the storm, someone else put a cone in his spot. We're not a fan of the space savers in general, but the fact that someone saved a spot that wasn't "theirs" and it hadn't snowed in days is just disrespectful. Both of us are professionals and work late, so we have little chance of finding a spot even remotely close to our house when we return around 6:30/7:00.

I'm happy to oblige the savers who want to save within 48 hours of the snow emergency, but after that it just shows me how lazy and rude our so-called "neighbors" are.

Saving a parking space on a public street when you leave is childish, selfish, petty, and harmful to your neighbors. Your bad conduct breeds the same in others, only perpetuating this fiasco. The jackass who lives across the street from me left a cone in "his'" parking space and then went away for the weekend. I don't know what burns me more --- those that cone a space which is unshoveled, or those that cone a space that they found empty and shoveled by someone else. Isn't the supposed justification "I shoveled it so I own it"?

Sounds like there's a lot of pissed-off drivers here. Rightly so. There's nothing that burns me more (exaggeration) than an oblivious and obnoxious idiot who just can't seem to follow proper parking etiquette.
Parking savers take this to a whole new level!
www.UParkLikeAJerk.com

I have a big truck!
I don't shovel!
I live in the 'burbs!
I drive to Southie to hit morons like you with my big truck!