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In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot
trbdavies (979982) writes 'Only in San Francisco' used to refer to issues like whether public nudity should be restricted to certain hours of the day. Now I hear it most often in connection with the interplay between the city and tech companies. SF Weekly reports on one such development: 'Anyone who's visited San Francisco for 35 minutes knows that easy parking is a rare find. Enter Paolo Dobrowolny, an Italian tech bro who decided San Francisco was the perfect spot to test out his new experiment. Here's how it works: You find a parking spot, revel a little, let Monkey Parking know where you're located, and watch the bidding begin. Finally, give your spot to the wealthiest victim willing to pay the highest price for your spot. Drive away that much richer.'" Update: 05/08 15:52 GMT by T : I suspect that Dobrowolny's a tech pro, rather than bro, or at least that's what I suspect the Weekly meant to say.
"Tech bro"?
Go home, Slashdot, you're drunk.
Dog is my co-pilot.
I love this idea!
It helps to connect the rich cunt demographic with the thieving cunt demographic.
Leaving less cuntiness in the world for non-cunts.
I for one wholly endorse this newfound libertarian dystopia and have devised a competitive service called turd auction. Heres how it works: i leave a bathroom stall at a public stadium or park, and users logged into my site then meet up and fight eachother to the death in mortal combat to determine who can then prostitute their children to raise enough money for the half roll of shit tickets left in the stall.
Good people go to bed earlier.
High-speed parkers provide liquidity, you insensitive clod!
Really? Usually when you shoot at corporations, you rarely hit an innocent party.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I would call you a luddite for not bidding with the app, but since you used the app to legally circumvent the bid process, you're hip and cool.
In SF it's more likely to attract a bunch of full-time protestors with nothing better to fight against that day.
Public transportation is Communism, pure and simple. Oh, it all starts innocently enough -- one day, you're just riding the bus to work. But before you know it, the zombified corpse of Josef Stalin is running amok across the country, nationalizing our industries and forcing our children to learn about evolution and heliocentrism.
No thanks. I'll stick with my armored three-ton Humvee for my ten-mile commute to work.
How many will die thanks to this new app?
Thus freeing up valuable parking spaces!