Sovereignty of SeaWitch

Thano, are you really joking? You seem 'very knowledgable' on the subject of 'keying'. I have to say this doesn't surprise me, your wife is already a founder member of the 'lets blow the hell out of them with a shotgun cos they are beeping their horn' club so this information has given me food for thought.

I'd also like to say that attacking a car is never the answer to this kind of problem. Await the return of the owner and attack them, it gives far much more satisfaction and relief to your frustrations.

As for parking on the sidewalk and/or any other place that isn't considered correct. I'm keeping my mouth shut. The idea of me commenting just makes the words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black' spring to mind.

We solved our problem a while ago.

My brother is corpulent and of few words. He could be intimidating with his body language alone.

When I see an illegally parked vehicle in front of our entrance, one of my family members will put a clamp on one of the wheels, and a discreet note on the windshield " Please call at flat 5 to have your wheel unclamped".

Irate and fuming drivers repair to the upper floor, we make sure my brother opens the door. His physical presence is sufficient to drain every ounce of adrenalin the delinquent vehicle owner had.
So far we are happy, my brother will not unclamp the vehicle unless the offending driver pays his fine :E20.

The system works. Three weeks ago we pocketed E150. on a friday.

hahahahha Thanos! IF ONLY! IF ONLY! The crazy thing is that 2 blocks from where that picture was taken, is the police station...and all their bikes are parked on the sidewalk too and cars double parke between road medians. I suppose I could let the air out of the tires but with my luck and all the neighbourhood busybodies around, I'd be the one hauled off to the clink. Usually I just yell at them but they're so used to it, they don't care.

and Ellas...like I have time to wait for these people so I can yell at them? I'd never get anything done...so many sidewalks and so many cars? You ARE one of those selfish drivers aren't you? Den drepesai???LOL

Oops! I almost forgot to welcome you, schatzli, to my blog. I would never yell "sto pezodromio" to you...although I can't speak for ellas. LOL

Thissa! You're brilliant! You can comment on my blog anytime. LOL Question: Is your brother for rent? He can have all the money from the cars off the sidewalks in front of my house just as long as he gets rid of them for me. He'd be rolling in the 'lefta' if he visited my neighbourhood...especially the police station.

Oh come on, I'd never actuallyshoot someone with a shotgun. I dream about it, sure. But I'd never do it. I am actually one of those anti-gun radicals.

And Thanos, lol, is the LAST person who would do any mischief making. He won't even let me take Billy Ray, our pet plastic pink flamingo, for walks around the neighborhood. Poor Billy Ray.

Sidewalks in Athens are crap to start with. Put cars on them and they are impossible.

I can hear Seinfeld's response to what the guy told you SeaWitch.

"So it won't get scratched" in a dripping, sarcastic tone.

Not to mention what people with disabilities are going through. Not only can they not use a pavement because of the parked cars, they can't even park their cars on the special designated parking spaces because they're already taken all the time ("I can't find a anywhere else to park, let's park here. A disabled person will not want to park here NOW of all times!").

Are there actually disabled parking spaces in Greece?!? I think I've seen one in the city and of course some at megastores with big parking lots.

Being physically disabled on Athenian sidewalks is a nightmare to start with. But what does it matter, where is there to go if you are disabled? Steps to get to everything, usually an elevator inside, but how to get IN the building?

This is a problem around Europe, I've heard, so it isn't just Greece. That is maybe the ONE thing America has done right - amends for the physically disabled - as long as Bush doesn't find a way to undo it all.

In the UK they've done some pretty good job too, in Germany they have a good system in place. I don't know abou the rest of Europe. Frankly, when I first set foot in England I thought how is it that there were so many disabled people here and so few in Greece. Little did I know. In Greece you can't get out of your house if you're disabled.

Of course, we have ramps at the pavement and all the necessary signposts, it's simply that the ramps are blocked by cars and laws on this and many other matters are not upheld in general.