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[–] 112 points 8 months ago (7 children)

"Poke." says the knife.
"Pssshh!" answered the tire.

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago

    Yeah even for this person's selfish thought process i don't see how they feel comfortable doing this. The whole time it's there they should be constantly worried that their car will get keyed

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Subtler, safer, and more damaging to damage the air valve instead.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    You 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

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It'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."

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    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

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  • [–] [S] 81 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Cars aren't supposed to park here.

    I'm so tired of this shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    What stretch of Bryant has the bike lane? I biked downtown to the greenway 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.

    EDIT: like like about 35th to 50th South. Very cool, I'll try to check it out this week!

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  • [–] 74 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Call 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 😌

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  • [–] 55 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Sure would be expensive for them to replace that set of tires because the sidewalls blew out for some reason

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Take 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.

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago
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    Don't tell us, tell the tow company. Make sure you collect the spotters fee if they offer one.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago

    Always report to the authorities (police or whatever), even if they don't do anything. If the complains keep pilling up, it will fuck their stats and eventually someone will be forced to do something.

    After reporting, do whatever you want ;-)

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    Tow truck companies love the commission.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I mean you could handle this like an adult and let the air out of all his tires.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I know it sounds silly or archaic but "mischief" is a very serious charge with significant penalties. You'd rather get vandalism.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    It turns out that we're both stupid. At least where I live, all crimes people casually refer to as "vandalism" are in fact legally handled under the charge of "mischief". But also included are things like blocking someone’s driveway, interfering with computer data, preventing lawful use of property, and tampering with infrastructure. Which of course can be much more serious crimes than keying someone's car and can come with significant jail time, for mischief.

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    [–] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Also, spark plugs are cheap, windows aren't.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Fucker 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is the truck parked behind that main battle tank?

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    ‘bryant ave 🇺🇸🏠Concerned Residents 🏠🇺🇸 Facebook Page’

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    The 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.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6g2GP912ku4lPd-155-Vw

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago
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    Unprotected bike lane.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Start our own tow company for these guys. I hear there’s money in it anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    I'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.

    Then make an app + mobile Website for cyclists to report parking like this with a few taps / clicks ...

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    where I am at you can take a picture and send it to a city office that will have a parking ticket created and sent out.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Apply a screwdriver to the rubber it floats around on

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Looks like the vehicle of a big, strong, alpha who carries his gun to the grocery store in case there's a trans person in aisle 4 who would viciously attack. /s

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    This guy knows exactly what he is doing and thought to himself...try me big boy bicycler..

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Dodge ram owners are just rich Nissan Altima assholes.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    you still got some ground snow there oh damn my fart

    anyway the ram driver can eat the damned fart

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Call the cops.

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    just remember, when popping tires they’re under a lot of pressure and can drive your popping implement back into your own hand… (especially very large tires).
    you can cut the valve stem off and that’s an inexpensive repair….
    if you puncture the sidewall of the tire, that can’t be repaired and you have to replace it.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Who's the owner?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [+] -26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Might want to blur the plate.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)