"Poke." says the knife.
"Pssshh!" answered the tire.
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Cars aren't supposed to park here.

I'm so tired of this shit.
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!
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 😌
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.
Sure would be expensive for them to replace that set of tires because the sidewalls blew out for some reason
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.
Another option is a valve key. It's easy to unscrew those valves.
Don't tell us, tell the tow company. Make sure you collect the spotters fee if they offer one.
Have it towed then?
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.
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 ;-)
I mean you could handle this like an adult and let the air out of all his tires.
I know it sounds silly or archaic but "mischief" is a very serious charge with significant penalties. You'd rather get vandalism.
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.
Also, spark plugs are cheap, windows aren't.
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.
Is the truck parked behind that main battle tank?
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.
Start our own tow company for these guys. I hear there’s money in it anyway.
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.
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 ...
MN License YNE5564
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.
Set it on fire.
Apply a screwdriver to the rubber it floats around on
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.
The only problem is, you want them to know it's because they parked like a idiot.
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
This guy knows exactly what he is doing and thought to himself...try me big boy bicycler..
you still got some ground snow there oh damn my fart
anyway the ram driver can eat the damned fart
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.
Break the mirrors off.
Might want to blur the plate.

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