{"id":2229,"date":"2010-11-13T00:58:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2010-11-14T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:02:09","slug":"you-park-like-an-asshole-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2010\/11\/you-park-like-an-asshole-com\/","title":{"rendered":"You Park Like An Asshole (.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"What an asshole.\" rel=\"lightbox-parkLikeAnAsshole\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-1.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"What an asshole.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou know that creepy dude at your office who always parks his Dodge Neon diagonally across two parking spaces so it won&#8217;t get dinged? Pisses you off doesn&#8217;t it? Well now you can do something about it. <\/p>\n<p>ABC News ran <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/park-ahole-website-watching\/story?id=12122207&#038;page=2\" target=\"_new\">a story<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" \/><\/a> today about a brilliantly simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/\" target=\"_new\">web site<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" \/><\/a> with printable notices you can leave under that jerk&#8217;s windshield-wiper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Andy, a Rochester, N.Y.-area elementary school art teacher, created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youparklikeanasshole.com\/\" target=\"_new\">youparklikeanasshole.com<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" \/><\/a> in 2006 as a project for his grad-school Web design class. He did not want his last name used, afraid one of the people who have sent him threats after finding notes on their cars may make good on their promises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is what the notices look like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"So you see somebody parking like an asshole eh? It\u2019s pretty simple, print out one of the PDF files and slip it under their windshield wiper.\" rel=\"lightbox-parkLikeAnAsshole\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-notice.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-notice.gif\" border=\"1\" alt=\"So you see somebody parking like an asshole eh? It\u2019s pretty simple, print out one of the PDF files and slip it under their windshield wiper.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local channel 10 NBC also picked up the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 0 50;\"><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/whec.img.entriq.net\/dayportcore\/dpm\/DayPortPlayers.js\"><\/script><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:\"14320\",playVideoAds:\"false\",autoPlay:\"true\",slideShow:\"false\",playerInstanceID:\"EBA8E50A-DA94-C778-F3FC-50EFE3F3076F\",domain:\"whec.dayport.com\"});<\/script><\/div>\n<p>And from Seattle (wait for the ad to finish)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"225\" width=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" value=\"http:\/\/content.secondspace.com\/news\/detailsplayer.swf?videoSrc=http:\/\/kidkbim.s3.amazonaws.com\/ParkJerk-1289460092.smi.mp4&#038;startPlaying=false\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/content.secondspace.com\/news\/detailsplayer.swf?videoSrc=http:\/\/kidkbim.s3.amazonaws.com\/ParkJerk-1289460092.smi.mp4&#038;startPlaying=false\" AllowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Andy said the idea for the project was born after countless nights looking for street parking when he was living in an apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Often, he said, one driver wouldn&#8217;t pull his car up to where the curb met a driveway, leaving a six-foot space &#8220;that kind of screwed up the whole street from one person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out I actually went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rit.edu\/\" target=\"_new\">RIT<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" \/><\/a> with Andy where we both lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rit.edu\/sg\/arthouse\/\" target=\"_new\">Art House<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" \/><\/a> for a time. Best money I ever spent. Best people I ever met. Keep up the good work Andy!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Asshole.\" rel=\"lightbox-parkLikeAnAsshole\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom:8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/you-park-like-an-asshole-2.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Asshole.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that creepy dude at your office who always parks his Dodge Neon diagonally across two parking spaces so it won&#8217;t get dinged? Pisses you off doesn&#8217;t it? Well now you can do something about it. ABC News ran a story today about a brilliantly simple web site with printable notices you can leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[935,12,11,936,934,53,920,151],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester_news","tag-abc","tag-automobile","tag-car","tag-nbc","tag-parking","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-institute-of-technology-rit","tag-rochester-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}