Everyone remember where we parked.

[CheapyD]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040505/capt.ax10905051932.aerial_bmw_ax109.jpg
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap120.gif
An Atlanta firefighter leans from a parking deck with a BMW protruding over the street below in downtown Atlanta, Wednesday, May 5, 2004. A valet trying to park a sports utility vehicle accidentally hit the parked BMW, sending the unoccupied car halfway off a deck and dangling over the street and a parked SUV below. No injuries were reported. The SUV and the front end of the BMW were intertwined in the collision. (AP Photo/Angelo Antonio Duarte)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040505/480/ax10905051932&e=4

[Darke Katt]

Cripes, I bet that Valet was fired on the spot. o.O

[metroidkiller9]

where were you on that news story, darke katt?

[dcfox]

Where do you park your BMW CheapyD?

[jeffreyjrose]

They should try this in more parking garages, it would save space and allow for more cars to be 'in' the garage.

[Darke Katt]

where were you on that news story, darke katt?

I wasn't on the computer until now, for one thing. :P

[maxflight]

at last they found a new way to double expensive space in manhattan!

[PsyClerk]

It looks like that firefighter should be giving the devil sign. Then that picture would ROCK!

/anyone with photoshop skills?

[alongx]

That's a priceless photo.

[suprsaiyanMAX]

Well kinda makes me glad I've never gone anywhere fancy enough to have valet parking.

[KrazyKefka]

No tip for you!!

[vrs1650]

I use valet, but damn straight I check the change in the ashtray, .37 cents.

[danh920]

gotta love that parking brake

[xzafixz]

How fast was that driver going? jeez, it isn't like you can tap a car and send it halfway out the building.

[CheapyD]

Where do you park your BMW CheapyD?

Right next to the Ferrari and Porsche, of course.

Unfortunately, the only cars I have are in the video game world.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

A good anniversary CAG present would be a car for cheapyd.
A cheap one, mind you.
There are a few junky old ones selling on my street for 300$, come down if you wish.

[Gothic Walrus]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

Seeing as he lives in New York, I'm guessing public transportation...the subway and such.

You couldn't survive in Michigan without a car, but New York is another story... :D

[JimmieMac]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

A good anniversary CAG present would be a car for cheapyd.
A cheap one, mind you.
There are a few junky old ones selling on my street for 300$, come down if you wish.

He lives in NYC, cars are only a hindrance.

[JSweeney]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

Seeing as he lives in New York, I'm guessing public transportation...the subway and such.

You couldn't survive in Michigan without a car, but New York is another story... :D

Well, yeah. Detroit was designed for and around the automobile.
It's also one of the main factors that hinders it's revitalization...
foottraffic was rarely ever planned for in the city.

Not to mention that the initial structure just progressed outwards, and the most of the suburbs are nigh impossible to deal with without a car (save maybe small, densely packed cities like Ferndale, Royal Oak, etc...
get out around 59 (Hall Road, Rosso Fwy, 20 Mile Road, etc..) and you'd never get anywhere without a car.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

Ah, silly me. I was completely forgetting about subways and public transportations. my brain must have temporarily shut down. ](*,)

[maxflight]

Ah, silly me. I was completely forgetting about subways and public transportations. my brain must have temporarily shut down. ](*,)

school's almost over, it's completely understandable =)

[jmcc]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

Seeing as he lives in New York, I'm guessing public transportation...the subway and such.

You couldn't survive in Michigan without a car, but New York is another story... :D

Well, yeah. Detroit was designed for and around the automobile.
It's also one of the main factors that hinders it's revitalization...
foottraffic was rarely ever planned for in the city.

Not to mention that the initial structure just progressed outwards, and the most of the suburbs are nigh impossible to deal with without a car (save maybe small, densely packed cities like Ferndale, Royal Oak, etc...
get out around 59 (Hall Road, Rosso Fwy, 20 Mile Road, etc..) and you'd never get anywhere without a car.

Now, I know it's probably unfair of me to say, since I've never been there, but would anyone really WANT to be on foot in Detroit?

[Theenternal]

while reading about this car, I also saw this ...pretty interesting as the guy got shot 6 times in the face with a nail gun. Quake style?


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040506/ap_on_fe_st/nailed_skull_6

[PsyClerk]

Now, I know it's probably unfair of me to say, since I've never been there, but would anyone really WANT to be on foot in Detroit?

Depends on the size of the platoon you're in.

[JSweeney]

What? You're carless? How do you go about then?

Seeing as he lives in New York, I'm guessing public transportation...the subway and such.

You couldn't survive in Michigan without a car, but New York is another story... :D

Well, yeah. Detroit was designed for and around the automobile.
It's also one of the main factors that hinders it's revitalization...
foottraffic was rarely ever planned for in the city.

Not to mention that the initial structure just progressed outwards, and the most of the suburbs are nigh impossible to deal with without a car (save maybe small, densely packed cities like Ferndale, Royal Oak, etc...
get out around 59 (Hall Road, Rosso Fwy, 20 Mile Road, etc..) and you'd never get anywhere without a car.

Now, I know it's probably unfair of me to say, since I've never been there, but would anyone really WANT to be on foot in Detroit?

I've gone on foot in the city on multiple occasions.. walking from The Post to either Ford Field or Comerica Park, walking down Michigan back when Tiger Stadium used to be the home of the Tigers, all around the area between Joe Louis Arena, Cobo Arena, then Ren Cen, etc.

Don't forget the Cultural Center, and the Wayne State University campus... I was there every day, many days from 9-9 and sometimes until to 2-3 in the morning. I've taken may a stroll down woodward between classes, and hit a bunch of the little restaurants on Cass or Woodward at around lunch time.

Not all of Detroit is what people make it out to be.

[JSweeney]

Now, I know it's probably unfair of me to say, since I've never been there, but would anyone really WANT to be on foot in Detroit?

Depends on the size of the platoon you're in.

I guess I'm a one-man platoon then. I guess that would explain why I'm trying to single handedly take on Sneaky Penguin and his legions of Grammar Nazis.

[CheapyD]

Yeah, not much need for a car in NYC.
I'm lucky enough to be able to walk to work.

FYI, parking your car in a garage here costs about $400 a month.

EDIT: By the way, nobody picked up my dorky thead title reference...

[SneakyPenguin]

theres a blond joke in reference to car garages:

a blond walks into a bnk and asks for a 10,000 dollar loan, while processing the transaction, the clerk asks whats it for, to which the blond replies "im going on vacation for two weeks and need this money to pay for it". the clerk says the bank needs collateral for such a large loan, so the blond offeres her rolles royce. so she gets her money and leaves, and the clerk puts the car in the banks underground parking lot.

2 weeks later, she goes back to the bank, returns the 10,000, and the 10 dollars in interest. the clerk says to her "while you were gone, we found out that you are a millionare, why do you need to take out this meager loan?", to which the blondf replies:
"name one other place in the city you can park your car for 2 weeks for 10 buks".

[Doylerulez]

And the insurance alone is insane for just liability in NYC. So a car that costs you $5. will cost you easily $600 a month if you garage it.

[Wshakspear]

...I'm not a big advocate of walking through Detroit anywhere near dusk or when there isnt an event of some sort going on.

...its ugly too...

[JSweeney]

It's from one of the National Lampoon Vacation movies, right?
I think Chevy Chase says it?

[seebelow]

EDIT: By the way, nobody picked up my dorky thead title reference...

Kirk says it in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Guess that makes me a dork, too... :)