funny pic thread

[Trev... P.E.]

Another view... I think they were attaching some chains to avoid crushing both cars under the Mercedes

 

[Trev... P.E.]

Do those towers sink into the ground to allow the people parked on the upper tiers to leave before those on the lower tiers? If not, that's a shitty way to park. If so, that's a pretty deep hole. Either way, I don't think I'd like to put my car in such a contraption.

Nothing so elaborate. The trays move up and down, there are smaller two level ones on hydraulics, these taller ones are on cables. The attendants do the work for you, you just have to tip em nicely should you come back earlier than you said! Most of these places are only semi-permanent, the owners sit on the land until they can get a permit for a 20 storey building.. In the meantime they are printing money from the fees these places charge... Unless they crush a car or two of course...

I never saw one until now. Are these commuter lots where the patrons arrive and leave in a typical order wioth only occassional disruption to the schedule?

What happens when the city get a sizeable snow storm?

Pretty much, they do have a few locals using it for longer term parking, to use on weekends, but most are working in the area, driving in and out from Long Island/Jersey, mostly predictable. Last storm the lots were pretty much shut, with only a few cars left behind.

 

[Dleg]

Do those towers sink into the ground to allow the people parked on the upper tiers to leave before those on the lower tiers? If not, that's a shitty way to park. If so, that's a pretty deep hole. Either way, I don't think I'd like to put my car in such a contraption.

Nothing so elaborate. The trays move up and down, there are smaller two level ones on hydraulics, these taller ones are on cables. The attendants do the work for you, you just have to tip em nicely should you come back earlier than you said! Most of these places are only semi-permanent, the owners sit on the land until they can get a permit for a 20 storey building.. In the meantime they are printing money from the fees these places charge... Unless they crush a car or two of course...

So if you're on the 4th tier, the attendants have to remove the 3 cars below yours, 1 at a time, to get to yours? That sounds like a colossal pain in the ass.

Yes it does, but what's the difference? You're either paying some schmuck minimum wage to sit there all day and collect money, or to collect money and play musical chairs with the cars. Same cost to the owner of the lot, assuming it's an attended lot, and if it was unattended, this would seem to provide a lot more revenue anyway, and probably more than make up for the cost of maintaining the schmuck.

 

[humner]

Funny thing about this type of parking area, it was displayed in the columns of Mad magazine back in the 70's

 

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[RIP - VTEnviro]

ExEngineer - please refrain from posting nudity on the boards from here on in, ok?

PG-13 is ok, full blown genital shots are not.

 

[jmbeck]

pic

Really? You really felt the need to post that?

 

[Master slacker]

Didn't mean to be sacrilegious or anything. Just one of those things thought struck me as interesting.

 

[roadwreck]

I thought it was funny.

 

[jmbeck]

Just seems like one of those things best left alone. It had the potential to highly offend people, with regard to something that is really important to them.

I'm glad you took it down. Thanks for that.

 

[Master slacker]

Yeah, I was questioning whether to put it up or not, hoping that only the coincidence and all would be seen and not the potential sacrilege. If people see Jesus in toast, any view can be stretched (no pun intended).

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

I'm not the moral police, but Invision doesn't approve of T&A being posted.

 

[Master slacker]

I approve. Does that smooth things over?

 

[Exengineer]

An honest man we could all emulate.

 

[DVINNY]

Since I missed it, can someone send me a link to it on the web in a PM?

 

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[ElCid03]

^Moral of story: Know what her TV looks like before moving forward. If she had to get up in the AM then you probably weren't going to be rewarded for your time anyway.