Dibs is just an excuse to privatize public parking through implied threats. We need to eradicate it. | greenfieldjohn
shows an SUV on a snow-free street with three folding chairs on the roof, covered with paper signs reading, “Here are your fucking chairs! Dibs is over asshole! Stop putting condoms on people’s cars!”
Some local media outlets speak charitably of dibs, suggesting that the totally normal labor of digging out your car after a snow event is some kind of noble deed that merits your own personal parking space. For example,recently described dibs as “the time-honored tradition of saving hard-earned parking spots.”
But as that SUV driver demonstrated, dibs is a fundamentally selfish and antisocial practice, using 15 or 30 minutes of shoveling as an excuse to live out your fantasy of free, private rockstar parking in front of your home. Worse, your claim is enforced through the implied threat of vandalism or violence against those who would move your crap.
Sorry, but if your response to someone parking in “your” space is to trash their vehicle or, God forbid, try to get them killed by disabling their brakes,Thankfully, alderpersons have taken action this winter. “LAST CHANCE TO REMOVE DIBS!”
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