Hide your kids, hide your 964s

"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 06/05/2020 at 18:33 • Filed to: None

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Someone left this Porsche out during the protest.

It seems like cops overwhelmed them, some arrests, lets see if there’s footage of any abuses by the cops.

For Sweden > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 18:51

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A shame the cops are too busy shooting rubber bullets at cyclists.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > For Sweden 06/05/2020 at 18:59

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And medical personnel, good thing the Geneva convention doesn’t apply!

ranwhenparked > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 19:13

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Good, maybe that Porsche owner  will think twice before he murders someone again. 

Urambo Tauro > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 19:21

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Widow’s revenge

For Sweden > ranwhenparked 06/05/2020 at 19:21

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Someone's going to make a revolutionary group that seeks to destroy all cars derived from Hitler's Volkswagen.

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 06/05/2020 at 19:26

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Here in particular I only saw powdered fire extinguishing chemicals and riot shields... It wasn't as aggressive as in the US I think

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 06/05/2020 at 20:06

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They did use fire extinguishers on the protestors..

Look at that, it looks like a medieval charge.

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fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 20:09

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Gotta be risky being dynastic wealth in that area right now.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/05/2020 at 20:29

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Not really, people that live on that street were looking at the protest from their newly-built condominium’s  balconies.

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 20:33

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Lucky nobody broke in.  I guess that’s what you get for parking on the street these days,.

In my city, there was looting just below many seven figure “luxury” condos - I am somewhat surprised they weren’t stormed.

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/05/2020 at 20:38

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I’m not sure how to feel about what I just witnessed. I’ve never seen the government so organized, it’s almost terifying. They kicked out around 70 protestors out of Polanco in a matter of minutes with around 200 police officers. Two crews of fire fighters and four ambulances were behind the cops, putting out fires and picking up injured people. After storming them out of Polanco, they sent in a cleaning crew personally overseen by the mayor, they’re cleaning all of the graffiti and broken signaling.

It’s like nothing happened. 

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 20:59

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When the cops outnumber the protesters, I suppose it is a bit easier to manage.    That does sound remarkably efficient for government work.

In my area on Sunday night, I think it was about a 10:1 ratio in favor of looters, so I think the local police just kind of let the vandals have at it. Some out of town gun humpers also came in to “defend” things, but were apparently scared away, too (one had their truck burned to a crisp, don’t play with fire ).   I feel for the small businesses harmed by the hordes, but lives aren’t worth it, and Nordies is insured.

Not so much organization here - volunteer groups were out cleaning up the mess the next day, but in my area anyway, there was no more looting. While out for a jog today, I saw a black F250 with a canopy, spotlight, and govern ment plates aimlessly driving around (including making an illegal u-turn), not very subtle.   

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/05/2020 at 21:00

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Wonder how many will stay after this. I mean, I’m not wealthy, and I only had looting about a mile, mile and a half away, and I’m considering options.  The main thing keeping me here is that I really hate packing and moving, and any new house would be having to start all over again with repairs and painting. I’m a lazy, lazy man

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/05/2020 at 21:04

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I think the protests here were astroturfed. Evidently we have many reasons to protest police brutality in this country, but the route and the fact it was mostly violent and the police mostly contained it without much issue just makes me believe the “real ones” will come in a couple of weeks and these were just made to put the government of Mexico City and Miguel Hidalgo (both governed by the same party of the president) under good light, as opposed to the protests in Guadalajara today which were very violent on both sides, and much, much larger . Jalisco and Guadalajara are governed by the President’s biggest rival party.       

A video of Mexico City cops kicking a woman in the head just emerged, so they didn’t do a completely clean job so to say, which is why it will become worse when the “real” protestors come out.

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/05/2020 at 21:05

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Where are you located?

I had looting maybe 5 blocks from me. But they only went after almost always larger corporate/ commercial stores with something actually worth taking, I had my scanner on and didn’t feel at risk at all.

I bet the people in those condos and in 5MM houses just a few blocks away might have been getting antsy though - this might be a symptom of a socio-economic gap too wide to be feasible.

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 21:11

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I live in a diverse overmonied suburb (mostly rich old white people from lucky demographics and their coddled devilspawn along with successful Asian/East Asian tech types and residency purchasers). The idea of protests here is kind of amusing, as these people aren’t really impacted by the sick flaws in the American justice system, and aren’t really losing anything under the current idiocracy in the US. In this neighborhood anyway, it is mostly those from other suburbs looking to get attention, as the city has a popular shopping area and people will look if anything happens there.

You raise a good kind of conspiracy idea - fake protests quickly cleaned up with no fuss, to make a government look competent, and make it appear that the populace isn’t outraged.

I don’t think this is over by a long shot, summer of 1968 all over again. There’s a greater than zero chance the scared so-called right will try to move towards martial law, while wanna-Nazis pretend to be antifa and rile people up.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 21:12

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at least the damage looks mostly limited to the glass. 

Spanfeller is a twat > fintail 06/05/2020 at 21:19

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Every time the government does something in a “competent manner” here, I fear its a conspiracy.

Polanco , is similar; mostly foreign , mostly white.... Richest city in the country bar one in Nuevo Leon.... People here don't suffer any of the inequities of the Mexican system. 

fintail > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 21:22

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I can’t recall when the federal government here did something with competency. It has been years.

Sounds like the Bellevue of Mexico.  When I call a place the “Bellevue of...”, I might not mean it as a total compliment.

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/05/2020 at 21:48

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Dover, Delaware. A lot of this city has been kind of marginal - like, either on the cusp of getting fairly nice, or on the cusp of turning into another Trenton or Harrisburg, always seemed like it just needed a shove one way or the other. There’s only like 2 or 3 neighborhoods that are chronically high crime, and the police all know full well its really a few dozen people at most in each of those neighborhoods causing almost all the trouble, but nothing can really be done about it. The downtown is a ghost town, being a small state, all the state government workers and legislators just commute in and leave at the end of the business day, so even having all those offices here doesn’t help. Malls opened in the ‘60s and ‘80s on the outskirts, lured all the businesses away, and decades later, not much has replaced them. The city is growing and has a pretty vibrant business sector, but its all on the outskirts, the core, aside from the quarter where the government buildings are, is pretty well dead. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 22:08

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Well it’s a 911 but not a 964/911, or am I not catching something?

Spanfeller is a twat > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 06/05/2020 at 22:16

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It’s not a 993 either...

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 22:27

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That is a 964, please do more research . I come from a Porsche family, I don’t really want one myself.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 22:28

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Third from the left is a 964, then the 993.

Spanfeller is a twat > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 06/05/2020 at 22:30

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Whoops. Well, I don’t know what it is

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/05/2020 at 22:36

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Sounds a bit rougher than here for sure, but probably, no reason to panic just yet. However, I have a suspicion this kind of unrest isn’t over, unless some amazing miracle economic boom starts up in the next several weeks.  However, unless you live in a Neiman Marcus or something, you’ll probably be untouched.

My area is similar - more people work in the neighborhood than live here, and it can be a ghost town on weekends, aside from the main shopping street.    A zoo on weekdays, but after 8pm or so, and most of the weekend, nothing going on, not a lot of real culture.  With everything still closed here, including the large mall, the place was ripe for picking, a magnet for looters.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 22:39

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Well Porsche is doing a good job of confusing everyone, I listened to many a conversation my dad had with Porsche club people. A fter the 993 I just don’t care about them, my dad won’t go newer than the 78 SC he has.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Spanfeller is a twat 06/05/2020 at 22:52

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84-88 3.2L Square mirrors and side indicator

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/05/2020 at 22:56

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On the other hand, I can get a pretty good sized piece of land in the country, even closer to my sales territory, for a lot less than what I paid for this place. The house on it wouldn’t be much, likely a double wide on a foundation, but as long as its comfortable, it might be nice to have some more space. Somewhere where I could collect a bunch of junk cars, without any neighbors to call zoning enforcement  on me.

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/05/2020 at 23:58

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Oh, if you’re unhappy there, it might be worth the move. Moving sucks - what keeps me from it is cost, I live in the epicenter of unaffordable housing, and I am in a cheap for the location place now. No garage space save for the common garage in the building though, fintail requires its own rental.

A while back I had the chance to buy an acre lot (with some wetlands issues, maybe half usable).  I had the idea to put up a shop/garage and a park model/tiny home.   I might have been in for 250-300K, cheap here, but it would have been an easy 45-60 minute commute, and with an employer going through a merger, I chickened out.  It’d be nice to have a building for storage, and maybe parts cars too.

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/06/2020 at 00:34

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The one thing I can really say this place has going for it is affordability. That, and geographic convenience. An hour to Philadelphia, hour and a half to Baltimore, 40 minutes to the beach. The house isn’t anything impressive, but I did get a 3 bed 1.5 bath with a garage on 1/5 an acre for $142k, I can get something on over an acre for even less than that if I’d be willing to tolerate manufactured housing. Which, I honestly  would, as long as its in good shape and livable, the lot and the location are more important than the house to me. If you stay put, you can always build a new house on the site eventually, anyway. 

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/06/2020 at 12:53

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Is it close to work, or do you WFH? That’s the key consideration for me. Anything that size on that plot within what I consider reasonable driving distance to work (30 minutes) would be 500K here, or more, so that’s a bargain in my eyes. It sounds like it isn’t a bad place, just be sure to have a meh house in a good area rather than a palace in a demilitarized zone.

I have nothing against manufactured housing either, some of it looks pretty decent, much quicker and easier to build, cheaper, and it won’t go to pot before I am done with it anyway.

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/06/2020 at 13:12

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Im in field sales, should be on the road every day, required to live within 30 miles of the closest point in my territory. Currently, I’m at 32.5, but the company approved that.

Working from home right now though, obviously. The stay home order ended, but the company decided to keep everyone home for at least 2 more weeks, due to the unrest. 

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/06/2020 at 13:49

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So you are used to driving anyway then. I am sure it is more expensive closer to the office.

Around here, many are WFH through the end of the year, and probably indefinitely.  This should be interesting in terms of demand for housing in more outlying (read: cheaper) areas, and less demand for office space in core areas.  That might be the one positive of the crisis, less being shackled to a specific desk.

ranwhenparked > fintail 06/06/2020 at 14:42

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Honestly, its been a long time coming. There are certain jobs that can only be done properly/effectively at a physical place, and certain jobs where it really doesn’t matter where the hell you are, and it has taken a very long time for companies to recognize the latter.

I remember the nonprofit I worked at for 4 years after college (not mentioning the name, but it is youth serving, has had some scandals, and is currently under bankruptcy protection). My job was recruiting and training youth and adult volunteers, starting new units, working out partnerships with other groups and government agencies, organizing special events,   and raising money. Basically, 80+% of it was done out in the field, but my boss didn’t trust that anyone was working if he didn’t see bodies in desks all the time, so we’d all waste 8 hours a day playing around on the Internet, and then try and fit our actual work into the evenings and weekends, when he wasn’t around. 

fintail > ranwhenparked 06/07/2020 at 00:36

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Yep a lot of office work can be done remotely, or at most, go to the office once or twice a week. The traffic burden will be reduced considerably in some areas, which is awesome. It will also save money. I just hope some of the regressive micromanager types can loosen the reigns a bit and let it happen - seems like a win/win for a lot of people.   Let productivity speak for itself - if work is still getting done, there we go.