Is it your community's custom to save shoveled parking spots?

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/parking-space-savers-must-be-removed

we got fined two weeks ago for putting out our garbage and recycling too early, so i should think the city of Bahstin would be equally diligent about dealing with the space savers...

Here in Chicago, people have been shot over shoveled-out parking spaces.

That is the legal rule - not the community rule.

We, in Calgary, have no such thing; however, that being said, people will leave notes on your car if you park in "their" spot, ie. in front of their house. And they're not always nice... Some are downright nasty!

That's odd because I was listening to this radio station discussing the Boston community "rules" and people were calling explaining them and their experiences. The radio host made it sound as if no other area in the country does this but Boston - at least that what he said.

I did laugh my a$$ of when one caller said - he was going to work in South Boston or Dorcester or some where and he moved a garbage can that was in the street so he could park. He said this 90 year old 4 foot woman came out and starting hitting him in the head with a broom. She said this parking space is in case one of my grandchildren come by to visit. He ended up calling the police as she actually cut his head. The police came and said why did you park there?

When I lived in Boston I used to shovel this old lady's (age 82) car out. One time she caught me shoveling. I thought I was going to get a basket of goodies or something but instead she verbally berated me! "I didn't ask you to shovel me out!" she cried. "Leave my damn car alone!"

I'm so glad I moved to a warm climate!

serves ya right, you whippah-snappah...

the Bears have a rule... don't live where they have all that freakin' snow...

At least she didn't hit you over the head with a broom or anything.

That's a good rule. Wished I lived by it.

Chicago has charm and this was always a small piece of it for me. The respect drivers had for kitchen chairs, usually, positioned in a shoveled-out parking space. Sure, some crossed the line and like wandeljw said, there were stories of a shooting or two but for the most part, at least the 38 years I lived there, respecting a parking spot"but only, ONLY, after a big snow" was the norm. Any other time? Please.

Someone once parked in my space in Eastie.
Bad things happened to his hubcaps.
I have no idea how.

if everyone shovels out one spot, than everyone should always have a spot... right?

R(easy for me to say, i have a driveway)P

Ah, you northerners and easterners, not to mention northeasterners -
Parking is the least of our problems out where I live.

we got about 1/10 inch snow yesterday but for here it's damn cold, 13 degrees this morning, expected down to 10 tonight. sun is shinning. I've never shoveled snow here. I'm soooo glad I no longer live in colorado, I wanted to move to Las Cruces but Lady Diane feared it would be too hot.

Nothing to shovel here in Georgia

in the 50s here. The last time I hitch hiked through Las Cruces, there was a gang driving around and beating up hitch hikers. I was lucky to get picked up by a car full of high school girls, who explained the situation to me and then took me to the outskirts of El Paso. I wish I could send them a Christmas card.

Same here in Boston - it is more after a storm - out of respect that a poor sap slaved over shoveling out a parking space.

Not in Boston....