my car was vandalized last night on Highland

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

So my car was vandalized last night on Highland - one of the rear windows smashed out with something like a hammer. It looked liked a bullet hole but there was no exit wound... I was parked one door down/same side of the street as the music store that was ripped off a few weeks ago. Hot corner? Bust stop (hmm... I meant bus stop but bust stop is kind of cute). Do vandals take the bus? The window was on the street/driver's side. No entry and nothing else damaged.

It's annoying, of course but I have insurance. I think what bothers me more is the big chill of that sort of stuff around here. Guess I crank up my street sense. Along with calling the traffic dept. to make more sweeps of my street (one over from Highland) to ticket the non-permit cars, the park n' riders and the long term storage cars. It's grown a lot worse lately - I see people come by in the morning, dump their cars and head for the T, often with luggage. One car was parked in front of my house for 5 days.

Let them park on Highland... ;-)

(oh - while I was discovering my busted window, there was a herd (gaggle?) of police in front of Magpie/the hair place next to it. Don't know what was going down but they were there for quite a while - long enough for me to walk to my insurance office, phone in a report and return).

Comments

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you live on a street where everyone knows each other, you would leave your neighbors car alone; but, if a strange car is parked on your street for days you could get a couple of people to call and complain and then they would investigate and ticket the car. It is not something they have the resources to actively look for everywhere. Also the law is a little flexible in that if your neighbors don’t mind you leaving your car when you go on vacation you will not get a ticket.
In your case, where non local people are using the no permit parking or parking to go on vacation, you should talk to your neighbors and have everyone complain and raise a big stink about it. If you get some neighbors involved, and push the right buttons enough, the city will follow up and do something about it. But you have to call and complain. Also, take the time to fill out reports at the city's new 311 web site, you can ask them directly through the web form about the law too. Just asking the Alderman won’t do much unless 50 people are asking consistently. You have a very valid concern and it is also being raised in other areas. There are some streets in town that don’t require permits and more and more frequently have out of town cars parked there for long periods.