Not necessarily looking to sell the design, just kicking around making some and 'tagging' offending cars with it. Original design had "Moron parked in bike lane" but I thought the chance that those were removed was pretty high, while this version might be worn with a dumb sense of pride and could be used to 'mark' repeat offenders to make it clear to cops when reported.
I definitely have learned through a couple of negative interactions (one that resulted in a call to the cops) to never touch "their babies" (i.e. their property) or you will unleash the ultimate rage monsters.
This is probably stretching the line between touching and not touching but could be thrown on while cycling past.
Definitely don't engage with shouting drivers and reroute or change direction if the driver persists. Maybe this is just giving car brains another reason to car brain on me.
by cfrshaggy
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tread carefully.
I’ve been yelled at almost run down for touching the hood of a car who pulled into the crosswalk. People are so fragile about their vehicles.
It’s tempting but there’s way too many unhinged lunatics out there to risk it. If you don’t mind being shot or run down for the cause so be it.
I’m not opposed to using a magnet with this slogan, but this is poorly designed. Make one with good graphics – and easy to read, understand – and yes, I’d like it.
There’s a vehicle covered with fascist and gun nonsense stickers along a popular bike route I use. Every so often someone slaps a fun silly sticker on there but the next time I see it it’s been removed, and the nonsense stickers remain. I don’t think these people give a single crap about what anyone else thinks about how they present themselves.
I’d prefer to tag the windscreen with a brick.
If I saw this on a car my brain would interpret “parks” like … grassy fields with playgrounds.
I think probably “I park in bike lanes” or something like “I endanger Bikers and Pedestrians” and not curved/circular text would be far more clear for what you’re trying to do.
Surely make you lose your mind.
you could actually get arrested and charged with “criminal mischief” like the cyclist in NYC who only removed a illegal piece of plastic obscuring a driver’s license plate.
[https://www.jalopnik.com/nypd-arrests-cyclist-lets-driver-go-ghost-car-1849785539/](https://www.jalopnik.com/nypd-arrests-cyclist-lets-driver-go-ghost-car-1849785539/)
I thought this was a sticker to promote … making parks in a bike lane. Or putting bike lanes in parks.
And if someone like me, who will do everything legal to detain a driver until police arrive if they are parked in a bike lane, does not immediately get the intended message, you need to work on the design.
Beats the hell out of the “I park in bike lanes and I’m probably racist” ones I saw posted a little while ago.
I try not to engage though. It’s too much of a risk
Where a shirt that says entitled cyclist
super sticky sticker with a crappy paper face – put it on the windshield – very cumbersome to remove….
In Italy we have “Bel parcheggio” stickers, meaning “good parking”. Also an ominous Instagram page on this theme, It’s so beautiful to watch it
Yes, but I want it as a sticker, not a magnet. And I’d prefer it to say “I’m an asshole that parks in bike lanes”
Or you could just keep your hands off of other people’s stuff and stop making bicyclists look like weenies.
I’d rather it were adhesive
I prefer Bike Lanes in Parks.
“Don’t be like me! I park my car in bike lanes!”
Some truck owners would see those as a badge of honor.
Maybe if it was a sticker
I made similar stickers here: [https://shop.dashcam.bike/products/sticker-notice-you-illegally-parked-in-the-bike-lane](https://shop.dashcam.bike/products/sticker-notice-you-illegally-parked-in-the-bike-lane)
And yeah, got “written up” by a hospital cop because of it: [https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1jj6jij/comment/mjuujhg/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1jj6jij/comment/mjuujhg/?context=3)
It’s not a magnet, but it’s a sticker that uses electrostatic to attach, not glue, so it leaves no residue. It has a link to a website with more info about why it’s wrong to park in bike lanes.
I’ll take 20
i’d prefer a REALLY difficult to remove sticker to a magnet, but do dig the idea
Stickers for windshields are better.
like some mentioned, work on the graphics.
russians use a “StopXam” sticker, check its design out for inspiration.
Non-adhesive window stickers are cheaper to produce
Magnets are removeable, dry erase markers on windows can also be easily wiped off. Be happy we’re not spray painting your tires or taking a mallet to the hood.
**We’re all very hopeful that in the future we’ll be able to exact bounties on illegally parked vehicles with a time & date, location picture uploaded to a Parking Enforcement unit for review and a ticket gets mailed in. They already do this in some places. We hope the practice spreads to more municipalities world wide.**
Then all the vandalism type shenanigans can stop. Knowing drivers will be getting fines and their wallets will be empty leaving them with less cash for fuel for their behemoth metal boxes on wheels.
needs a negative tho. maybe add a thumbs-down emoji?
You’ll be buying a new paint job.
I would make it: “DANGER!! Parks in Bike Lanes”
stop being fragile …
Go a step further. Make a giant sticker of this and do it to the windshield. Like that russian youtube channel used to do