And Now a Fight Over a Downtown Denver Parking Spot (Video)
I like Denver. I grew up here. I moved back here a few years ago to be closer to the mountains I remember and the type of people I love loved to be around.
But Denver, like Austin and Portland, Oregon, has boomed in the past five years, thanks to a variety of factors including marijuana the popularity of John Denver. If you could say one thing about most people in Denver, it’s how painfully nice they could be. Like a lot of cities in the Midwest, doors are held open, apologies exchanged for everything and “pardon me” flows like the salmon of Capistrano.
Now: Here is a woman going all Tiananmen Square on a Land Rover LR2 over a parking spot near Larimer Square (via Denver Post). They aren’t exactly that hard to find, I have to say.
There isn’t a lot of context to the video, other than a spandex-clad woman in a visor threatening to call the cops over a dispute for a parking spot. It’s unclear who got there first, what prompted the dispute or how it ended.
Of course, it’s impossible to know where these people are from (Colorado natives can be idiots too, I’m living proof), but this kind of thing didn’t usually happen in Denver until the Californians came, followed by the Midwesterners, and now the Texans. (I’m not bitter at all.)
These disputes are rare mostly because we have plenty of parking — including at least five multi-story garages within walking distance of this spot.
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Summation of TTAC on this topic: That woman is a horrid ugly terrible thing that should be shot, runover, or otherwise destroyed. Oh and did I mention how she's clearly overweight even though she actually is in a normal bandwidth for body weight but because this is how we ascribe physical embodiment to people we dislike this is true! They're all 'nouveau riche' because they drive a LR2 and somebody did something that people do literally EVERYDAY. They must feel entitled because nobody in the working class thinks to stand in a parking space and wait for their friend to come by. I mean, it isn't as if the nominally rich (like the people we're supposedly speaking about) would just park at a valet service and grab that uber ride over to their place. A few bucks isn't much to these people. Oh and lets not forget the idea that murdering EVERYTHING that opposes our particular feeling at the moment is wholly justified. Now that I handled that: I actually agree she should have left the space because that simply isn't a healthy way to save a space. But on the same token when she wasn't going to leave, just move on. Life is too short to get upset over that. I've seen people save spaces before like this and I just keep going, I grumble, but I don't get myself in a tizzy over it. Nor do I think she deserves to die for it. When this discussion steered into the obvious direction it went I couldn't help but take note of the hypocrisy screaming down from the heavens.
Maybe banning pistol duels was a bad idea.
Smart cars should use this in their advertising.
The pedestrian's name is Stephanie Brooks and she is employed by the University of Denver as their marketing and communications director. https://distractandconquer.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/enemy-of-the-internet-video-idiot-stephanie-brooks-of-univ-of-denver-blocks-parking-space-with-her-body/