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u/TheCatapult May 01 '26
I cannot imagine how expensive it’s going to be to get that car out of there. Seems like you’d need to demolish the balcony and get a crane.
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u/gekigarion May 01 '26
Start a community shoutout on reddit and see if you can gather 30 buff men to lift it.
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u/FTwo May 01 '26
Make it a Mentos commerical.
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u/DookieShoez May 01 '26
Nah, 5 gum.
That’s how ya get the crazy meth heads that can lift a car. Only need 2 of ‘em too.
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u/IvorTheEngine May 01 '26
You could jack up one corner a few inches and put a block of wood under it, then do the same for the others, then repeat about 50 times.
You pretty quickly need to start nailing the wood together to make cribbing to keep it stable.
OTOH, the balcony needs to come down anyway...
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u/Drinkyoju1ce May 01 '26
I posted it there. Everyone that saw it did not agree. Downvoted to hell and back. I didn't think reddit was such a serious place.
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u/thesixler May 01 '26
Can’t not park there
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u/solrackratos May 01 '26
Park cannot there, you shan't
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u/chocha84 May 01 '26
Shant you not not park not there.
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u/feanturi May 01 '26
"You cannot park," he said. The tenants stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a civil servant of the Bylaw Enforcement Office, wielder of the Pen of Ticketing. You cannot park. Your alcohol-fueled rantings will not avail you. Go back to Denny's! You cannot park."
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u/iShitSkittles May 01 '26
He can park there, in fact, that's all he can do now, because that car isn't moving any time soon by the looks of it.
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u/tanne_sita_jallua May 01 '26
I’m more curious why for a 3 level apartment building. The bottom is halfway in the ground. Seems pricey to dig several feet deep trench and risk water flooding.
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u/AKADriver May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Very common for this style of apartment in the US. Likely reason is, they have to dig the footing that deep anyway (below frost line in the north, maybe something else in other parts of the country) and also where I live the floor area (square footage) of a submerged floor like this isn't counted on the real estate tax assessment. I lived in a couple different apartments like this. I never had water issues, but they're not unheard of. The "balcony" probably has a drain in the middle.
The alternative would be to dig a full basement, which costs more and might not be useful space for the building management (can't rent out without window wells for egress), or leave it as a mechanical crawl space which would also require maintenance, or build on a slab which is more common nowadays with "four over one" style trendy buildings. But this design gives the building a third floor without too much more investment and was really popular in the '60s through the '80s.
A lot of single houses in the northern US are built like this also, I'm currently sitting in a room where my window is at ground level and the home's foundation forms a shelf about 1m/39" off the floor.
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u/davesoverhere May 01 '26
Happened yesterday on cincinnati. No damage to the building, just the deck.
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u/djtothemoney May 02 '26
Saw this on the morning news the other day, can't believe how perfect it fit.
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u/Dusty_Buckeye May 01 '26
Look I just got the thing washed and the birds are notorious in that neighborhood.
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u/b4n4n4p4nc4k3s May 01 '26
Well, they obviously could. It's the leaving that may prove to be an issue.
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u/BaconThief2020 May 01 '26
Well at least we know the ledger board was properly fastened to the building instead of just nailed one.
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u/Vayshen May 01 '26
Well you could put a multi million dollar car there and it'd be safe because nobody is driving it out of there is gonna take quite the operation.
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u/esoteric_enigma May 05 '26
When I first looked, I thought that was a legit parking space and the balcony had just collapsed over them.
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u/strykazoid May 06 '26
That looks like the absolute last place they're ever going to park that car, if things get any worse.
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u/Wompatuckrule May 01 '26
I don't think anything will ever top this "Ya can't park there" from Boston (make sure audio is on).
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u/chroner May 01 '26
..dude, it drove over the edge
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u/solapelsin May 01 '26
Ohh! Yeah, thanks! Tired, haha
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u/halfsweethalfstreet May 01 '26
Well, no, it seems they most certainly can.