man spends $187,000 fighting for right to park truck in his own driveway

[rum_runner69]

http://jalopnik.com/5600495/man-spends-187000-fighting-for-right-to-park-truck-in-his-own-driveway

[spastic_chicken]

I have to regularly go to court to be able to park my hearses in my driveway.

[msc0nduct]

Thats just fucked up. PERIOD!

[Guest]

yeah one of my friends had the same thing happen with his truck

[ukdoa]

I'm sorry..? you have to go to court..? To park in your own driveway.? I don't understand. Is it due to some strange US regulations.?
In the UK we have an M.O.T (Ministry of Transport Test) which the vehicle has to pass every year, then along with insurance, we get our Tax disc. (displayed in the window) then we can park where we want, when we want, as long as it's not blocking emergency exits, fire stations, double yellow lines etc. I have a Cadillac Hearse, which is pretty rare, and nobody has said "You can't Park that here..!" even though it does get some strange looks.

[Scary Guy]

I'm sorry..? you have to go to court..? To park in your own driveway.? I don't understand. Is it due to some strange US regulations.?
In the UK we have an M.O.T (Ministry of Transport Test) which the vehicle has to pass every year, then along with insurance, we get our Tax disc. (displayed in the window) then we can park where we want, when we want, as long as it's not blocking emergency exits, fire stations, double yellow lines etc. I have a Cadillac Hearse, which is pretty rare, and nobody has said "You can't Park that here..!" even though it does get some strange looks.

Lucky, you can get out of any traffic fine basically. I can't find the youtube video, but if everything about the space isn't to regulation (length of the double lines, spacing of the double lines from eachother, spacing in between the double lines, etc... for one example) you can fight it and win.

[Otto Baron]

Here in Temecula California, code enforcement took a dim view to my hearse collection. I was actually ordered to remove them from repair facilities, and had to take them outside the area to be repaired. I think the crowning moment had to be when one code enforcement officer demanded to know where a hearse was so they could find out if it ran or not. This stopped when I checked the city codes, and found you were allowed to store a non-operational vehicle at a licensed business. Now that I'm moving to the east coast, I have to love it when I mentioned to the historic properties group that is handling a local historic building that I'm considering buying that I had a 1959 and 1912 hearse. Not only didn't that put her off, but we discussed about whether the carriage barn would be large enough.

[Scary Guy]

I like pissing off people and changing the status quo. Although I'm happy things will be easier for you out there

[Otto Baron]

I've spent over 15 years in Temecula, watching our Council turning the City into one of the least interesting and poorly planned communities in the country. However, I plan on having some fun mocking our council at the public meetings for the reminder of my time here. I once had one of the Councilmen demand in private that I was only to speak up at a city council meeting when I had something good to say. This gasbag was a former Highway patrolman, and I guess he thought he could bring his demand for respect as a cop, to his elected office. I always remebered his advice. Just never followed it. If they think I was annoying in the past......

[msc0nduct]

It doesn't matter if your car runs or not here, as long as it is registered. You can park a registered vehicle anywhere you want, even in the street. If it is not registered it has to be parked on your property on some sort of pavement or asphalt. But all of ours are registered so it doesn't really matter. I guess I never realized how lucky we were until I read this thread.

[Scary Guy]

I guess I never realized how lucky we were until I read this thread.

Yeah... Land of the free my ass.

[Otto Baron]

It didn't matter if my cars were registered or not. If code enforcement suspected they couldn't be started, they demanded they be removed, and gave me citations. In one case, I had a code enforcement officer actually photograph me putting air in a tire of a registered car, to show that the car had not been fully operational. Another time he cited me for having expired plates, because he was unawhere that California had YOM, and you were allowed to use vintage plates on your car, and yes, they were up to date. It turned out later that the city was planning to build an 80 million dollar civic center one block away from where my store was, and they were trying to rid themself of our store which was ciontained in a building that was listed by the city as historic, did not fit in well with all the brand new "historic Buildings" they wanted to see built around their municipal ego trip.

[Morella]

Hey Andy

A Homeowner's Association is basically a group that people join to police themselves so that they can live very close to each other without offending each other. They have meetings to decide things like which color Christmas lights will be allowed to go in windows, and what plants can be grown. They follow rules of contract law, and not common law. A person who buys a house in a neighborhood that has a HOA is usually forced to sign a contract.

BTW, I did contract with Tency Music to produce that music soundtrack that we were talking about, and the work that they did for 500 euros was absolutely outstanding. It sounds like professional, live music, screaming guitar solos, jazzy sax, and all....not your typical karaoke job. I have the CDG ready and will burn off a copy and demo it when I get back to Tucson around the end of the month. I can send you a recording of the performance if you want.

-denise

OABTW, no way in hell would I ever join a homeowner's association. We're hoping to put in an airstrip on our land!

[Morella]

Yeah... Land of the free my ass.

Free my ass...
Free my ass...
Good God o' mercy
Gonna free my ass!

Quote from an episode of "Crank Yankers", in which a black woman calls a hardware store, claiming to be stuck to a toilet seat. I'm still laughing about it.

-d