I mostly walk, sometimes I take public transportation and more rarely use my families car. I get really mad when people park their cars across the sidewalk. It's an annoyance for me, but when I see a disabled, elderly or young person leaveing the sidewalk to navigate around someone who has decided to make that portion of their driveway which is a sidewalk their parking spot I get enraged. There is a giant halfway house one block away from my home for people who are either disabled or recovering from phisical or emotional trauma. I have watched them navigate these hazards many times.

I have protested this kind of parking in a variety of ways, ponder it and you will probably think of a few of them. The problem with these types of protests was that it wasn't changing anyone's behavior.

I was dissatisfied, I wanted people to pay enough of a price that they might either learn a lesson or have to pay a price that made blocking sidewalks undesirable. Someone close to me has access to a high quality printing press that was occasionally used for art, hijinks, or whatever fun project we could think of. I asked her to make me these stickers.

I put them on the front windshield, driver-side. It is rare to see the same car blocking the same drive more then once. I have given a few stickers to other walkers some of whom have come back for more. I think it was a good, non destructive solution to this sort of antisocial behavior, I think it's a solution that suggest's I might have learned from my education in economics (incentives/disincentives) and my gradual maturation from a person who readily engaged in dangerous confrontations to someone who can seek out lower risk higher reward solutions.

buildingonfire:

You should not sticker people's cars. It would be much better to put it under their windshield wiper like an advertising flyer. This will give them the opportunity to consider how their behavior impacts others. If you're trying to educate someone, your first step should not be doing something that enrages them.

Furthermore, you don't suddenly gain the right to vandalize people's property because they are acting insensitive to the needs of others or in violation of the law.


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