http://bostonist.com/2007/12/27/parking_spot_ho.php All comments for Parking Spot Hogs in South Boston? en-us 2009 rickbang Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:29:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rick@bostonist.com rick@bostonist.com 60 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/27/parking_spot_ho.php#comment-1259589 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/27/parking_spot_ho.php#comment-1259589 Comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:09:45 -0500 <p>I live in the suburbs. I moved out of Boston for the ability to get a bigger lot and off-street parking. Do the ignorant slobs who steal the use of public property feel guilty when they have half the drive to work that I do? I think not. Are they guilty when they pay a third less in property taxes because of the commercial tax base that creates much of the congestion? Of course not. Everybody wants to go to heaven, nobody wants to die. The price of a civil society is taxes and laws for those lacking common sense. Make it a felony for blocking access to public property and revoke the registrations of those who do it. Then, they won't need that space any more, will they? If they don't like the package deal that constitutes living in the city, move out. No one is forcing you to live in Boston.</p> http://bostonist.com/2007/12/27/parking_spot_ho.php#comment-1259526 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/27/parking_spot_ho.php#comment-1259526 Comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:36:41 -0500 <p>I was amazed that as that first snowstorm started, someone along my walk home in Somerville had put a chair on the street to hog a spot before there was anything to shovel. There was less than an inch of snow at that point.</p>