"“I am the idiot who double-parked on Garfield Place (between Seventh and Sixth avenue) this past Thursday around 6:10-6:30 pm and ended up blocking an ambulance trying to get through,” the post began, going on to explain how “I'll just be a second,” turned into 20 minutes despite the honking ambulance. “I cannot begin to express how deeply ashamed I am of my negligence. I keep thinking of how long that poor ambulance and the person inside must have been waiting. I know regardless of how long the ambulance had to wait, that I caused real harm to somebody's health and possibly worse.”"
"The Mercedes owner - yes, he ID'd the luxury car later in the post - was desperate to find out the results of his selfish act, though it was not initially clear if he was apologizing. Some posters called him out, but the level of vitriol rose so quickly that, eventually, people were taking the side of the OP (Reddit-speak for “original poster”). “You made a mistake and you owned up to it. That's all you can do,” one person pointed out. “You'll know better next time. Don't let the chuds in this thread get you down.”"
"I'm not as sympathetic. Double-parking is, as its name suggests, doubly awful. It's bad enough that drivers commandeer both sides of the residential streets in historic Park Slope to store their ugly (and very ahistoric) vehicles for free - aka “parking” - but to double that catastrophe by blocking the entire roadway is beyond the pale."
A Mercedes driver admitted double-parking on Garfield Place between Seventh and Sixth avenues and blocking an ambulance trying to pass. The driver said “I’ll just be a second” turned into about 20 minutes despite honking. The driver expressed deep shame and concern that the delay could have harmed the person inside the ambulance. The driver later identified the luxury car and sought information about the outcome of the incident, though it was unclear at first whether the post was a true apology. Some commenters criticized the driver, while others defended the admission and urged learning from the mistake. The incident was framed as especially serious because double-parking already commandeers residential street space, and blocking the full roadway escalates the harm.
Read at Streetsblog New York City
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