They had us in the first half, ngl.
Is sleeping in your car being illegal some sort of FREEDOM©®™ thing that I’m way too European to understand?
Sleeping in a car isn’t illegal necessarily, but there are increasing popup communities that settle in empty/low traffic lots and live out of their vehicles. Like most of America’s problems, our politicans are sending police forces to “clean up” the effect, instead of trying to solve the cause.
Here’s an article on Vehicle Residency https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-vehicle-residency-housing/
Sleeping in your car is actually illegal in a lot of places.
In Ohio I’d have to wake up every couple of hours to switch parking lots to avoid cops/loitering charges
NHLC found a 213 percent increase of laws restricting vehicle residency between 2006 and 2019
Yeah, check local ordinances this is not legal or universal advice lol
In some places, parking lots are monitored by security and you’ll be kicked out if you’re sleeping in your car in the parking lot.
Often times it’s loitering charges, loitering being a fancy term for “being out in public whenever it displeases a person of authority”. Sitting on a public bench, having a picnic, walking on a sidewalk, sleeping in your car, whatever, all of those can and will get you loitering charges depending on your exact location in the United States.
Then you have public intoxication charges which on paper are only supposed to apply if you’re causing a public disturbance (despite disorderly conduct already being a charge for that, public intoxication just makes it more severe), but in reality it’s mostly used to harass drunk people who couldn’t get a ride home, or uber home, and decided not to drive while drunk. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a higher likelihood of getting arrested for public intoxication while drunk walking/public transporting home than of getting arrested for DUI while drunk driving home. But public intoxication and even DUI can also be used if you’re sleeping off drunkenness in your car, while the car is turned off.
Don’t forget local “no camping” laws meant to keep homeless people from sleeping in their cars on public property/public parking.
Less actually illegal and more that the lots are privately owned and the owning companies can have you removed from the lots of they don’t like what you’re doing.
It’s illegal in the netherlands too
You have cars? I thought all cars are forcibly seized and replaced with bikes at the border.
It’s because those things happen if you allow people from general Benelux to have a car.
There should be secret laws you have to unlock by doing unfathomably inhumane things.
“You chased a homeless person in their own car off your completely unutilized property for no reason other than malice. You’ve been sentenced to 12 hours of fighting a flock of geese naked while locked in a middle school gym.”
First time I’m rooting for the geese, usually they’re the assholes.
There should also be some extra sauce on the sentencing for anyone who carries a badge or position of legal power and abuses that.
Solo Leveling Penalty Game huh? Damnit, I’m in! What do I get for being someone in HR denying someone a job for reasons of “I just wasn’t feeling it.”?
You? Nothing, you’re just being a good cog in a bad machine. Bossman? Rashes, but on the inside of their skin, but that’s likely compounded by numerous other crimes.
The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy
it’s ok, so are humans. Hopefully the geese win?
Which is different from normal bullshit selective laws how?
I prefer a cordial introduction to everyone’s favorite friend in red.
Why the geese have to be named?🤪
It should be illegal to force people to sleep in their cars because a depraved system has deprived them of decent housing…
Yeah, in an article talking about how news stories about crime often show pictures of tents, they pointed out that the photo is of a crime scene, but the crime was not committed by those living in the tents.
I hate Walmart, but they let people sleep in the parking lot there. Cars, RVs, whatever. So if you’re ever unfortunate enough that you’re stuck sleeping in your car, you can park at Walmart without getting harassed.
When I was in this position in my life I used parking lots of 24 hour gyms never once got hassled or disturbed.
No one should have to be forced to sleep in a car in the first place.
Unless it’s one of these
No one has to be forced to sleep in something that rad.
https://odditymall.com/adult-race-car-beds
They make them with LEDs
I had a monster truck bed but I broke my nose falling out of it one night.
That’s metal!
I think I just would have dented it if it was metal.
Especially if you get the CB radio so you can talk to other car beds
You were balls deep in your turtle, I didn’t wanna disturb you
Gas Station Dick Pill Official made me lol
We elected a bunch of lawyers to run our country. No surprise then that everything is based around liability and “safety”
How is it a wholesome comment?
