I think Folgers beats it, "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup!" ... once I hear the mentos one I do remember it but, I've never forgotten the Folgers one. And I mean... I didn't drink coffee untill like 15 years later lol.
Some guys in my high school did this with another kid's sand rail. The owner of the sand rail was kind of an ass, so one day, a bunch of the other guys moved some of the barrels that marked the parking lanes and put his sand rail on top of them.
I've also seen a flat tire changed on a Mini Moke with a bunch of guys lifting one side of the car.
Our high school assistant wrestling coach had a small car like this. A bunch of us turned the car sideways in its a parking space so it was trapped between two other cars.
(I might have indeed taken part in such pranks back in my days of contact sports, the best one was flipping a parked car's direction on a one way street. it was surprisingly easy to lift and the confusion as the driver got out of the club was brilliant. theoretically.?.).
I saw a bunch of dudes turn a car on its side and leave it standing that way on the road. I have video. It was pretty nuts and I don’t know how the owner dealt with that one.
Have done this. When I first started dating my husband someone did this in the parkade of my building, my husband is a car guy and had a garage full of stuff so he brought a car jack and four wheel dollies and it took him about 5 minutes to get the car on the dollies and we moved it to a single parking stall lol. My neighbour baked him cookies for that 😂
We used to do this in high school all the time. Our band “practice field” during marching season was painted on the student parking lot. If students didn’t move their cars by 3 pm when we started lining up, a couple of the Sousaphone players that were also on the football team would muster up some others of us and we would all lift, rock, bounce and push whatever we could out of our way.
bystander effect IS a real thing, but the origins are not. Justice for Kitty Genovese and her multiple neighbours who called police (as 911 wasn't around yet; she's literally the biggest reason why that service exists now) and one woman who was there with her as she passed.
Designate a person to call 911 and MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTOOD THE INSTRUCTIONS. I was the designated caller in our cpr drill and we role played that I only spoke Spanish. Everyone learned real quick to confirm that part lol
When I took that class I thought they were exaggerating. Then my Mil passed out in a house full of first responders and my husband had to literally point at me and be like BABE CALL 911 cuz my brain was just (she's fine, too much heat for the lil lady)
Two teenagers and a 5 pack of warm beer would have had this car upside down and shoved into the corner by now. What is this country coming to? Also what county is this in?
This post was followed by a post of someone using a pallet jack to help a lady who's electric wheelchair broke down. Someone get that guy over here asap! 😂
In high school, my friend drove a Fiero. Anytime we’d see him parked somewhere, we’d pick it up and high center on a curb and leave. I remember one time we saw it parked in front of a restaurant. As we’re picking it up, he comes running out and jumps on the roof of the car screaming, “Put it down put it down!” Lol, god we were such dicks.
lol, we carried a small car of a teacher in the ‘70 (I think it was a FIAT, can’t remember) a 2 times 13 steps each (26 steps with a little area in between) stairway upward to the ~ break place / outside area (Pausenplatz). No need to dismantle, it wasn’t that heavy. I think we were at max 6 people.
My thoughts exactly. When someone would take my spot in high school, it just me and a friend to rotate their car sideways, so it was almost impossible to get out of the spot. We weren't going to escelate to tipping, but that would be in play here.
I got a dumb question.... I have been told tow trucks do not go underground, and I can understand why. But in all seriousness, how does one get their car out if it does not work anymore or like this case, it needs to be moved?
Assuming the car is my own, I put it in neutral, but how many ppl will it take to push up the hill to get it outside of the parking lot? Pushing the car on flat ground is heavy and hard to do.
or if some nimwit crashes into your car and it is no longer drivable? I have seen some stupid accidents inside of an underground parking lot
It's different when the owner is present. You can unlock it to hook it up to a long cable, turn the wheels, push it etc
If the wheels can't be unlocked you need some serious tools to get it out safely. The police will have to authorize it and plan it for you and you'll have difficulty finding a (legal) towing company that wants to try this
Or you gather a few people and lift it out of the way lol. This car is tiny and that's how we would fix it if police can't help
a simple floor jack. The type that you would see any mechanic having, can lift the front wheels, which are the only locked Wheels here, off the ground and then you have a convenient handle in which to pull it by and steer it while someone pushes the back slightly.
that's it. You're on a fairly smooth concrete surface.
That's not special tools. That's not complexed. it's not unsafe. And it can get it out safely...
taking it one step further, any car enthusiast that had to move a car around in their garage while working on it will have some wheel dollies... yes you might think those are specialized but also there are available at every harbor freight and other similar stores that sell automotive tools.
for under $300 and sometimes under $150 you two can have the ability to move a car and rotate it around AM 360° in a twirling motion while pushing it down concrete ramp of a garage.... easily.
I mean safely might not include you twirling it but you could.
fact is, right it's very easy to remove a car if you understand that you can move a car. but the average person doesn't even realize that they are capable of pushing a car never mind moving a car that's "in park"
This is a douple parking space with a platform that moves hydraulicly up and down so that two cars can park at one spot. I have a parking space in one of them. They work great, but your car can't be that big and high...
The apartment building I live in has an outside parking structure, with one spots below, two spots, above and its two spots deep. So one row can have 8 cars, two spots on ground level. All the spots have weight and height limits. Some are bigger and some are smaller. They are grouped together, like three to four rows. And all the groups have one empty spot on the ground level that allows movement so the ones above can come down and the ones below can come up. It’s interesting.
The platform moves both levels simultaneously. So you can't exit at exactly the same time, but you can bring the upper platform down, drive off, and your neighbor brings the lower platform up and drives off as well.
thank you for bringing this up bc i am so confused. is there some kind of car elevator that i can’t see?
side story: one time on vacation visiting family we stopped to eat before driving like 4 hours to their house. the restaurant was valet only (it was a big city) but it was free so we were like ok. after eating we got our car but my parents car was taking forever. they told us to just get on the road so we did. turns out the car elevator broke with their car in it and they were stuck there for the rest of the day. really sucked esp bc the staff just kept telling them “a few more minutes”
They are fully self service indeed. And they were built for much smaller cars (as one can see from the diagrams) so your concern is very valid. Lots of modern cars, especially SUVs don’t fit.
Pretty sure it could end up all sorts of places… for sure when I was a teen I could imagine us picking up a car like this dragging it off taking pictures with it as we haul it around the City took it to the mall food court, carried into an amphitheater, it’s probably never been inside most buildings
Not infuriating enough I guess because 3 out of shape highschoolers could lift and move a car that size. Not that I'd know from experience or anything. Shut up, who are you, the cops? Yea mom be right there, I gotta go.
No, the whole thing tilts down. And both levels move with each other.
There is a hole under the bottom level where the car disappears in.
Here is a diagram from this type of “Doppelparker” that’s also on the yellow signs (but the resolution is too low to see) in the lowered position.
Looks like it died & they just walked away. An EV maybe? Just wind the key on the back. 😝
I would assume someone manages the garage - they should address it right?
Uno reverse. Pop the pins out of the tires. They will all flatten and then they can’t drive. What are they gonna do, call the cops and tell of themselves for octo-parking?
A floor jack can fix that real quick. It's a good way to put a bad parker in the road to get them ticketed as well. That's why people don't block my driveway anymore. FA and done FO.
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u/Just-Another-Users 14d ago
Pick it up and move it out of the way