OT? Getting out of a parking lot when you're trapped in. (2025 Update)

That reminds me of the opposite possibility, when trying to get out, standing on each segment of spikes and shoving a wedge, maybe a branch that breaks at an angle, into each segment to hold it down. I see this working just fine for the first set of wheels, but likely to pop up in time to flatten the rear tires.

I wonder what MacGiver would do.

Wow, so not only did this thread find someone who sold and installed these things, but it found you who had just the problem I was thinking about.

A great plan. I think this is why so many of the bars are wood, to be cheap to replace.

You gotta do what you gotta do.

Not everywhere or every time will someone notice, let alone call the police.

Yeah, if you know in advance you'll have to leave at 3am, but that's not likely.

And if you live in NJ, you must be aware of many parts of NYC where there is no place to park, and no lots or garages either. Did you know that in Inwood, at the north end of Manhattan, 204th to 220th St., people used to, maybe still do, double park all night**. A whole row of double parkers, and the ones who leave early have to make sure they are double parking, so they aren't curb-parking and blocked in by double parkers.

This wasn't NYC and it's certainly not as bad as Inwood (and the streets are too narrow to permmit double parking anyhow), but it has a similar parking problem. And if there is one garage in walking distance, that's the one he'll use.

(Even in my own part of Brooklyn, people used to double park for 3 hours during street cleaning on the other side of the street, between 11 and

1. One time I got busy upstairs and forgot my car was double parked, (on the east side of Clinton, a little south of our apartments). I got downstairs at 3:30 and the cars in front of and behind me were gone, as well as the ones at the curb in front of, next to, and behind me. All gone. I was parked in the middle of the street it seemed. But I didn't get hit, didn't get a ticket.)

They taught arithmetic is school, never how to determine the price of steak. That would take a tiny bit of common sense.

I would have had to say something.

As far as cold and snow they either come with or can be ordered with heaters 30 years working on gate - card access and so on now retired for 6 years IBEW

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too, I could have just looked closely at the two numbers and done the math in my head. But usually when you get involved in something like that it just makes one or more of the people madder.

So, for an example of that, how about this. I was at a pharmacy inside a Target store and was having an issue with the person behind the register about their online posted prices for a drug not being accurate. And instead of her just saying, OK, I understand, I'll forward that to management, she was giving me one lame excuse after another. Which is another issue, how dumb some clerks are, that they can't just do that, acknowledge your point and move on. So, some customer that arrived at the register in the middle of this, starts in on me, telling me it's not the clerk's fault, etc. Mind you, you're at a pharmacy and discussions are supposed to be confidential, you're supposed to stay ten feet back for privacy, etc. Not only was she listening in, now she's joining the argument. I told her several times to butt out. I finished with the clerk and went about my shopping. Ten minutes later, as I'm leaving, this woman comes up to me and starts in on me again! That's right, it was all over, but she who's just another customer, decided to now come start lecturing me. So, I let her have it. I told her I can't believe you're following me, back again and that this isn't her business and to just get the f*ck away from me. By now of course, I'm yelling at her. On the way out of the store, this AH was in the parking lot, taking a picture of me. LOL. She probably called the cops. And then people wonder why things escalate to violence. A lot of times it's people like her that can't let something go and instead escalate it. A key factor in deciding who the real trouble maker was is who chose to walk away and who pursued someone and got into their grill.

The wedge type of barriers have heaters to melt some snow but you do need to clear heavy snow when you plow, they vary in thickness and the smaller ones that we used at places like car rentals are made with one inch thick plate steel so they can flatten some snow :) Used larger ones at places like prisons - Gov. buildings etc. Most of our work was parking lots ( never saw one were you could not get out ) Also if you do not like the look of the wedges you could do bollards. ( We used much bigger ones then these 7 feet deep not 9 inches )