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[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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."

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No one should have to be forced to sleep in a car in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No one has to be forced to sleep in something that rad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I had a monster truck bed but I broke my nose falling out of it one night.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Lazy people in houses doing drugs and drinking...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Whoa, all of us lazy people doing light drug use catching strays

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It should be illegal to force people to sleep in their cars because a depraved system has deprived them of decent housing..

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 139 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Is sleeping in your car being illegal some sort of FREEDOM©®™ thing that I'm way too European to understand?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I see a lot of areas with "No Overnight Parking" signs or something similar, so they don't make sleeping in your car illegal technically, but you can't stay there over night.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sleeping in your car in public is not allowed in Germany either

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Afaik it is allowed as long as its only to regain your driving capabilities and not for multiple nights I'm a row on the same place. The Straßenverkehrsordnung does not state otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Interesting, I've been told that it's illegal to sleep in your car in Canada when drunk because being in a car with possession of the keys is enough to show intent to DUI and get arrested.

I imagine it's something you could fight in court and win with a good lawyer, but it always seemed counter intuitive to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

IIRC that's how it works in the US, too. Apparently you're supposed to leave your keys outside the car if you're drunk and want to sleep in it (and even then it's only a court defense, not something that would stop you from getting arrested in the first place).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's that way everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not Ohio, but I did sleep on my car on the West Coast on and off for about a year and only got into trouble once. And I didn’t even get a citation, just an oral warning that this wasn’t permitted in that particular town despite there being no signs anywhere (it was written in the city code).

I will say, for all the shit that private property owners get on this site, Walmart is actually one of the places where this is the easiest and least problematic to do. I always tried to avoid private property in favor of more inconspicuous places but I frequently saw quite a few motorhomes parked on their lots after dark and they were still there in the morning, and I’ve heard from others that they’ll generally let you be unless you are causing some sort of ruckus there. Same goes for just sleeping in the car.

In general, if you’re not making a nuisance of yourself or parking right in front of a sign that prohibits overnight parking, you’ll most likely be okay.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, check local ordinances this is not legal or universal advice lol

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 6 months ago

They had us in the first half, ngl.

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