Man Moves Chair to Park, Gets Window SMASHED

Ahh, it was only last week when I said that 1. not only is it stupid to reserve spots on public property with chairs merely because you shoveled out the snow, but 2. Even though it IS ILLEGAL to reserve a spot, you probably shouldn’t move that chair because someone will key your car.

Well, I’m super right, apparently.

A 21-year-old Bethlehem man, upset that someone parked a truck in a spot he tried to reserve with a wooden chair, allegedly damaged the truck, spit on the driver’s door, and wrote on the windshield, “Next time you see a chair, you’ll have respect.”

Luis Antonio Vera, of the 900 block of Itaska Street, broke the driver’s side mirror off of Jeff Hartman’s GMC Sierra at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, police said, after Hartman parked in what Vera believed was his personal spot because he had reserved it with a chair.
Vera allegedly used the chair to smash the mirror, spit all over the driver’s door and scrawled his message of respect on the windshield. Hartman told police he went outside to see what the commotion was about and saw a crowd of people cheering on Vera. Hartman went back in his home and retrieved a handgun.
Police said Hartman didn’t flash the weapon, and he has a license to carry it.
Placing objects in the street to reserve parking spots — even spots you broke your back shoveling the snow from — is illegal.
Police cited Vera for criminal mischief and released him. Source

You gotta love the South Side of Bethlehem, possibly the only place where you’ll have a crowd CHEERING on the smashing of someone’s personal property merely because they parked in someone’s space.

So, the moral of the story here is that 1. people are self-righteous pricks nearly 90 percent of the time and 2. even though it’s illegal for someone to reserve a parking spot with a chair, for the love of god, don’t move it…