July 22, 2008
Please Please Please Don’t Give Me a Ticket
Photo by Jim Herd
This ravaged Nazi-mobile was parked this morning on a street-sweeping block "just a stone’s throw away from Janis Joplin’s old place up Lyon Street." Five of its windows have been busted out. Ouch.
Please please please don't give me a ticket
I can't move my car
with all the glass
[unreadable due to windshield wiper interference]
i have to wait for the insurance company
i have filed with the police -- case ....
[unreadable due to fold]
And while no ticket has been issued, the DPT will tow if it's not moved within 72 hours. Aw.
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Brock... care to enlighten the rest of us on your inside "Nazi-mobile" joke? We aren't mind readers.
I assume it's a volkswagon?
it's a mercedes-benz.
The car in the photo is a Mercedes Benz and Brock is making the oh-so hilarious and timely observation that since MBs are German cars they must be somehow associated with the Nazi party which, thanks to the sacrifice of millions of Americans, Brits, Canadians, Russians, Poles and countless others, was defeated over 60 years ago. Good one Brock! Way to keep the humor fresh! So are we to assume that the only manufacturers were complicit in genocide? Or does that extend to the owners as well? What about Chrystler employees? I used to own a Dodge, does that make me a Nazi as well?
most definitely.
Careful with Godwin's commodities guys, those of you among the stylish set might be distressed to learn that Hugo Boss designed Nazi uniforms. Plus, I thought VWs were the real Nazimobiles.
In one of our other posts today, someone (possibly me) was claiming that car ownership can make life easier.
Argh.
I have piles of data that prove conclusively that anyone driving a Mercedes is, in fact, a Nazi.
Brock,
If you're going to be tastelessly witty at least have the half-wits to choose the right car.
Mercedes-Benz maybe German, but it's the hippie the Volkswagen Beetle that should be your target.
Volkswagen Beetle was based on a design by Ferdinand Porsche who worked with Hitler to create the "People's Car" (Hence the socialist name "Volkswagen": Folks-Wagon).
And let's not forget that Hugo Boss made those spiffy SS uniforms. Why do you think those SS soldiers look so good?
Leave the historical tasteless allusions to us, pros Brock.
Toodles!
MisterDarcy
I found the nazi/mercedes-benz joke tasteful and witty.
i am shocked and amazed that the dpt showed anything remotely resembling mercy.
i have always found nazi art/propaganda to be aesthetically impeccable, if morally heinous.
so the hugo boss factoid does not surprise, not one whit. the best suit i ever laid eyes on was of hugo boss design. insanely expensive & worth every cent. the kind of suit that makes a corpse in a casket look good.
I prefer Hitler Car because I once heard it shouted with all sincerity by a drunky in Bend, OR. But Mercedes does deserve the nazi-based derision due to the fact that the SS brass used to waft around the Fatherland in those big Mercedes roadsters and staff cars. Plus the Hasidic Jews won't touch them, so it must be true.
And in another free chapter from my book on motoring for logic-defyers, if this happens to you, don't worry about the tickets or tow. You should always report the car stolen, even if it's exactly where you left it. That way your insurance will cover the costs.
Shit, why did they stop at the sunroof and windshield?
Somebody must have seriously angered somebody else.
Funny, there is a startup called DriverSide that might've been willing to pay off her parking ticket. Or anyone's, for that matter.
Too bad about the windows. "Stone's throw," indeed.
avoid this problem entirely by riding a bike.
DPT Metermaids eat their young.
Fucking crackheads.
THREE windows busted out? Methinks someone let their car alarm screech for too long. One window is a break in. THREE? That's someone who's pissed-off.
Avoid having your bike stolen by owning a car.
It appears FIVE windows have been busted. What does that mean?!
And I know many Jews who won't touch a Mercedes.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5DC1139F930A1575BC0A966958260
Hugo Boss didn't design the SS uniform, but his manufacturing firm made some of the early ones.
'Volkswagen' is a post-war name VW came up with for the international sales market, The original Nazi-era name for the beetle was KdF-Wagen, 'Strength Through Joy car'.
Just sayin'