This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published November 13, 2010 and can be found here.
You know that creepy dude at your office who always parks his Dodge Neon diagonally across two parking spaces so it won't get dinged? Pisses you off doesn't it? Well now you can do something about it.
ABC News ran a story
today about a brilliantly simple web site
with printable notices you can leave under that jerk's windshield-wiper...
"Andy, a Rochester, N.Y.-area elementary school art teacher, created youparklikeanasshole.com
in 2006 as a project for his grad-school Web design class. He did not want his last name used, afraid one of the people who have sent him threats after finding notes on their cars may make good on their promises."
This is what the notices look like...
Local channel 10 NBC also picked up the story...
DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"14320",playVideoAds:"false",autoPlay:"true",slideShow:"false",playerInstanceID:"EBA8E50A-DA94-C778-F3FC-50EFE3F3076F",domain:"whec.dayport.com"});
And from Seattle (wait for the ad to finish)...
Andy said the idea for the project was born after countless nights looking for street parking when he was living in an apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Often, he said, one driver wouldn't pull his car up to where the curb met a driveway, leaving a six-foot space "that kind of screwed up the whole street from one person."
As it turns out I actually went to RIT
with Andy where we both lived in Art House
for a time. Best money I ever spent. Best people I ever met. Keep up the good work Andy!
