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

[ron_newman]

I see no reason for the 48-hour rule. Every side of every street is swept twice a month, so you'll get a ticket anyway if you leave it there more than 2 weeks. That should be sufficient to ensure occasional turnover of parking spaces.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

That is cheap compared to a garage, one ticket every 2 weeks.

Maybe some streets are too crowded and they have issues with lots of non residents parking there? The good thing about having the residential sticker is that you can park anywhere in town. When I go to work my street fills up with people from all over Somerville (and others) who work in the area. By the time I go home, these cars have all gone back to their own neighborhoods and our street fills up again with the my neighbors cars. If my street became a favorite place for people to park on their way to the airport we could certainly use the 48-hour rule.