LAPD to Begin Enforcing LA's New Measures Against Sleeping Overnight in Cars - Polidicks

I always like to say that the LAPD is our largest street gang ;) they really set the bar low

[QUOTE=DOCTOR LIGHT;51789636] Don't get me started on the LA fucking PD. Even I, a white person from England, got consistently harrassed by LAPD just for looking funny. I can't even imagine how it must be to be a person of color in the less-affluent parts of Los Angeles when the cops roll around.[/QUOTE] My man idk what you were doing, but the LAPD is not just going to call you out on a random street corner for looking like a brit/tourist. [editline]7th February 2017[/editline] fixed the last part

[QUOTE=Zombinie;51789089]do you ever get scared of someone trying to rob stuff from you/your car because it is so isolated? Seems like a ripe secluded location for an opportunist[/QUOTE] I've only had one particular instance where I woke up to someone peeking through the window and got an "oh, sorry" response back when we locked eyes. Otherwise the thugs tend to leave you alone. Just don't leave any obvious valueables out or you'll be second guessed.

[QUOTE=pentium;51789071] It's kinda rude to just pull up in front of someone's house and call it a night.[/QUOTE] why? if I see someone sleeping in their car out the front of my house I'd assume they're not well off, I don't see how that affects me unless it's taking up the spot I use to park my car, in which case I would say something to them.

[QUOTE=Zombinie;51789089]do you ever get scared of someone trying to rob stuff from you/your car because it is so isolated? Seems like a ripe secluded location for an opportunist[/QUOTE] The residents living in neighborhoods may think the same thing when a random vehicle parks for the night near their place. Stranger danger and all that.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;51791817]That's just being overly-paranoid. Now if you lived in a rural area, sure, but LA?[/QUOTE] People don't like it when you judge how they perceive risk. Especially parents thinking about their kid. When I lived in California I was on a cul-de-sac and we had a very tight neighborhood. It was weird seeing different cars parked in front of the houses after 7. Most of the time it was a group of teenagers partying in one house but it always made the parents worried, they would call people inside early.

[QUOTE=BF;51788269]What!?? What does it mean by you can't park in residential streets? The wording in the article makes it sound like it's an issue separate from the restrictions for homeless people. If I go down my street right now, a residential street, there would be about 20 cars parked out on the side of the road. Is that not a thing in America? Like, if you don't have a garage or driveway, where do you park your car?[/QUOTE] No it's a thing here,iirc your value of your house even increases based on how much street you have too. Corner lots are worth more partially because they have more parking space. [editline]8th February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51791830]People don't like it when you judge how they perceive risk. Especially parents thinking about their kid. When I lived in California I was on a cul-de-sac and we had a very tight neighborhood. It was weird seeing different cars parked in front of the houses after 7. Most of the time it was a group of teenagers partying in one house but it always made the parents worried, they would call people inside early.[/QUOTE] Lol your neighbourhood helicopter moms are more paranoid than my father was growing up. And he once went outside drunk waving a gun around yelling how he knew our neighbours sold crack and shit. Our neighbours never sold crack, they live in a pretty good neighbourhood near an elementary school, the area is mostly families and old couples who were families. There's literally 3 houses in their area that are rentals, and they're rented out to families most of the time. I think maybe only once we had a group of young college age guys living across the street for a year or two and they were pretty tame, they mostly just went to work/school, played football in the street, their friends came over and shit, usual stuff really. It wasn't at all dangerous growing up there but he's a delusional wreck so. Actually come to think of it, those years playing football in the street with guys at least twice my age were some of the best years of my shithouse childhood. They were the few male adults who I had frequent contact with who didn't also routinely yell, break shit, beat my mom, or sometimes beat me. Never really thought about that before. ANYWAY, parking on the street isn't the automatic signal for fucking crime and danger lol. There should, at the very least, be an exception for residents on the area/their guests, especially because people own more than 1 car. Each parent probably has a vehicle, when kids grow up to drive they get vehicles. Where do those extra vehicles park? Not everyone has 2-3+ car garages, and driveways cause problems if someone has to leave before someone else. Does LA let people park in their yards? That sounds really trashy tbh.

[QUOTE=Stroheim;51790544]My man idk what you were doing, but the LAPD is not just going to call you out on a random street corner for looking like a brit/tourist. [editline]7th February 2017[/editline] fixed the last part[/QUOTE] I'm partly of Chinese descent so I figure they have some sort of "Non-White Detector" augment in their head that gets implanted as part of basic training. They gave me shit pretty much constantly. In the space of three days I had to show ID three times and twice I had to spend like 20 minutes while they ran checks on my tourist visa. Every single time they'd act like it was my fault for wasting their time for, you know, existing. And I'm not even saying this is anywhere near equivalent to how bad the LAPD are to people of color, or homeless people. As a perfectly legal visitor to the United States I still got dumped on.

[QUOTE=pentium;51789071] [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/IMG_5685.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] I need to know if you drove there in your own car for demonstrative purposes