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kenjilina wrote:

my friend did exactly that a while ago. he let the air out with a knife on all four tyres! :applaud:
he said he was laughing behind the curtains when the guy finally returned to his car. :hehe:

LOL! That's the meanest thing I've heard all day.

@B-san: People actually leave their cars parked at the side of the road for that long?! We have cop cars that patrol, and if you exceed a certain amount of hours or something you get a ticket.

Wynter wrote:@B-san: People actually leave their cars parked at the side of the road for that long?! We have cop cars that patrol, and if you exceed a certain amount of hours or something you get a ticket.

I live in a corner house and one side of the street is marked for street cleaning, so people don't park for longer than a day, but the other street is not marked, so idiots leave their cars their for extended periods... And they get a flat tire for it.

BTW, I don't slash the tire: I just let the air out via the valve. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
I live in a corner house and one side of the street is marked for street cleaning, so people don't park for longer than a day, but the other street is not marked, so idiots leave their cars their for extended periods... And they get a flat tire for it.

BTW, I don't slash the tire: I just let the air out via the valve. :beaten:

Thank God I live in a gated community.

littlemissfab wrote:Thank God I live in a gated community.

I looked at those back then, but they're pricier and they're restrictive... :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
I looked at those back then, but they're pricier and they're restrictive... :bleh:

I also thought it would be restrictive... after 8 months... not really anymore. :)

littlemissfab wrote:I also thought it would be restrictive... after 8 months... not really anymore. :)

I've a friend who lives in a gated community and along with the association fees ( :bleh: ), he can only paint his home a certain color from a list and the color can't match an adjacent home... He also isn't allowed to leave his grabage cans out on the street any longer than need be, can't have cars parked on the curb overnight, yada yada yada.

Pretty fascist, if you ask me. :grumble:

bmwracer wrote:
I've a friend who lives in a gated community and along with the association fees ( :bleh: ), he can only paint his home a certain color from a list and the color can't match an adjacent home... He also isn't allowed to leave his grabage cans out on the street any longer than need be, can't have cars parked on the curb overnight, yada yada yada.

Pretty fascist, if you ask me. :grumble:

Yep. My uncle lives in a gated community and he had to have all these permits in order to remodel his house or else he'll get fined. I think he said something like how he paid more for those permits than the actual remodel. Sucks

MissMonika wrote:Yep. My uncle lives in a gated community and he had to have all these permits in order to remodel his house or else he'll get fined. I think he said something like how he paid more for those permits than the actual remodel. Sucks

That stinks... Not worth it, IMO.

Erm, what's a "gated" community?

Wynter wrote:Erm, what's a "gated" community?

A prison. :beaten: :hehe:

Basically, it's a buncha homes surrounded by a tall fence: you need a pass/remote to get past the front entry gate... There's usually association fees and the like... A little community as it were. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
A prison. :beaten: :hehe:

Basically, it's a buncha homes surrounded by a tall fence: you need a pass/remote to get past the front entry gate... There's usually association fees and the like... A little community as it were. :sweat:

OOOOOOOooooohhhhh, I've seen these in Miami.

Urm... what's their purpose? I mean, why choose this sorta location above the others? Better security?

Wynter wrote: Better security?

Supposedly.

Though it's pretty easy to hop those fences, I think.

Exclusivity is another reason.

bmwracer wrote:
Supposedly.

Though it's pretty easy to hop those fences, I think.

Exclusivity is another reason.

Ahhhhh okies. I'm guessing there's a high chance of them becoming monotonous communities, eh?

Wynter wrote:I'm guessing there's a high chance of them becoming monotonous communities, eh?

Undoubtedly. *yawns*

bmwracer wrote:
Undoubtedly. *yawns*

Hmmm... interesting... I think I'll bring this up as a Civics topic, since we already talk about how monotonous communities are formed around religious buildings/monuments. Thanks for the info!

Mind you, this won't help the American-bashing trend we have occurring in this class, but so it goes.

bmwracer wrote:Supposedly.

Though it's pretty easy to hop those fences, I think.

Exclusivity is another reason.

i'm actually from miami and yes, there are a lot of those communities there. altho i think nothing of them, access-wise you may not even hop the fence/gate. some of them you can just walk past the unguarded gate access.

niko2x wrote: some of them you can just walk past the unguarded gate access.

LOL.

Very secure. :hehe:

Hmmm, gated community? That's a new concept for Bulgaria, but soon I'll find out how is it to live in such thing. Me and my brother bought apartments in something like that - 2 blocks of flats surounded by fence and a barrier. So far the barrier stays lifted, the locks of main entrances are broken and some of the neighbours on last floor are 'upgrading' terraces with roof and windows without asking permission... lovely picture, so typically in the Bulgarian way :shakehead:.

A Monk asked Yuen-Shan "What must I think about in Zazen?"
Yuen-Shan said "thinking non-thinking"
"how can I think non-thinking"
Yuen-Shan said:"by non-thinking"

Hanzo21 wrote:A Monk asked Yuen-Shan "What must I think about in Zazen?"
Yuen-Shan said "thinking non-thinking"
"how can I think non-thinking"
Yuen-Shan said:"by non-thinking"

brilliant....... :doh: