Temper, temper!

[RJAMT]

Pompous Cop: "Move your bike or I'll ticket it!"

Me: "Make yourself happy" as I walk into the store.

IF it's illegal to park in that area and IF he has authority to write a ticket in a private parking lot it is only a $10 ticket here which I will gladly pay just to piss him off since he's being a ****** about something I see every day all over town.

A better use of his time, since he's there, would be ticketing all the cars without handicap plates/signs occupying most of the handicap spots.

 

[JustinNck1]

My question is, what is wrong with parking in a normal parking spot? My walmart just put in concrete "Motorcycle Only" parking spots though I haven't used any yet.

 

[RJAMT]

If the Walmart near me had motorcycle spots I would use them but they don't. At certain times the lot gets pretty crowded and I'm sure plenty of car pilots are happy I'm not occupying a spot.

Where I work they have motorcycle slots and I park there. When I go to other base facilities they usually don't and I park in the striped area, right next to all the Harleys....... if the weather is nice.

The idea that that area is blocked off for emergency vehicles cracks me up. Any fire truck or ambulance will park right in front of the store rather than over by my bike. How do I know? I've seen it many times. I'm not blocking any old ladies or ambulances or cripples or anyone else.

I realize the laws (and penalties) are different all over the place but for me it's well worth the potential ticket, if it's even illegal. YMMV.

 

[LKLD]

I think the real life lesson here is being missed.Stay out of Walmart parking lots.

This^
If my dead body is ever found at a Walmart, the murderer planted me there. That's the only way I'd be caught dead at a Walmart.

 

[its just rain]

Says my wife too!

 

[Knifemaker]

Never been really sure why some folks seem to hate Wal-Mart. Yeah, I've seen the videos of the weird ass shoppers...(mostly just the really poor and perhaps mentally , um...bent)

But I'm pretty weird and for the most part rarely see those folk when I go there. I'm not going to pay 20 bucks more for something just to get it at a nicer store. Living out here in the sticks, the nearest department store is the Walmart 13 miles from my house. There's nothing closer or cheaper. I'd still go there even if there was a Target, Kohls, JC Penny and a K-mart on the same street.

And I use the provided parking spaces...(I always thought it was funny that folks will drive around the lot to find a spot to park as close to an entrance as they can, as walking too far to get in is an issue... but then spend an hour walking around the inside of the vast store.)

 

[RJAMT]

My mom will drive in circles until a "close" spot opens but when I'm in the car I just take the first one available. On the bike I park at the front both to make it easy on myself and save the spots for the cars. I also figure there is less chance my bike will get messed with when a crowd of people are walking around. Somehow having it hidden behind a Suburban or an F350 where a vandal has some privacy doesn't sound appealing to me.

As for Walmart itself I couldn't care less. I won't drive past it to make a point or past somewhere else to find one.

 

[Bounce]

Never been really sure why some folks seem to hate Wal-Mart. Yeah, I've seen the videos of the weird ass shoppers...(mostly just the really poor and perhaps mentally , um...bent)

Mostly it has to do with how they sweep into smaller towns, undercut the generations-old local business until they break them. Then, once all the traditional business are shuttered, they start raising prices. It's also how they work their contract (feeder) businesses. They tease them with "lucrative" contracts then squeeze them until little if any profit is left but they can't back out or they get sued for breach.

 

[Bill Lumberg]

Hardly the cops fault. "Because someone else does it", or "because I've done it before without consequence" doesn't play in a lot of situations. Glad you and the bike are okay. Oil in parking spaces is always a risk we face. Again, glad you're okay. We've all been there at some point. If I didn't impart some corrective action upon the occasional homicidal driver here on the third coast, I wouldn't last long.

 

[Knifemaker]

Never been really sure why some folks seem to hate Wal-Mart. Yeah, I've seen the videos of the weird ass shoppers...(mostly just the really poor and perhaps mentally , um...bent)

Mostly it has to do with how they sweep into smaller towns, undercut the generations-old local business until they break them. Then, once all the traditional business are shuttered, they start raising prices. It's also how they work their contract (feeder) businesses. They tease them with "lucrative" contracts then squeeze them until little if any profit is left but they can't back out or they get sued for breach.

So, capitalism at its finest. Don't all "box" stores do this? It's evil, or brilliant, depending on how you look at it....

 

[Klubis]

Never been really sure why some folks seem to hate Wal-Mart. Yeah, I've seen the videos of the weird ass shoppers...(mostly just the really poor and perhaps mentally , um...bent)

Mostly it has to do with how they sweep into smaller towns, undercut the generations-old local business until they break them. Then, once all the traditional business are shuttered, they start raising prices. It's also how they work their contract (feeder) businesses. They tease them with "lucrative" contracts then squeeze them until little if any profit is left but they can't back out or they get sued for breach.

That sounds about right, Bounce. Sad but true.

 

[yanktar]

People don't respect parked bikes. Never have. The only way to keep a car from crowding a space your bike is in is to put 2 or 3 bikes in the space. DC used to have metered motorcycle spots, that cost far less than car spots. But one ******* in a cage could block 4 of them at once. Somehow, the cops and meter-maids never were around then, only when your meter expired when you were legitimately parked--bike or car.