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Video: NJ Man Deals With Terrible Parking Job In Quintessential NJ Fashion
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 25, 2014
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Heated parking spot confrontations have led to boxing matches and finger-biting, but that doesn't stop people from standing up to parking bullies. One NJ man did just that when he spotted a white Corvette taking up two spaces at a Clifton restaurant. This is truly the universal sign for "GFY."
"I was stuck in traffic for 2 hours here in NJ and when I got to where I wanted to eat I saw this in a semi-busy parking lot," Kyle DeMattia wrote in a Reddit thread about the parking job. "I figured I'd do this because I wasn't taking up two spaces and fuck people like this. The reaction on his face when he got laughed at going in his car was priceless."
When asked whether he was worried about the other driver damaging his car either by mistake or in retaliation, he noted, "I don't care. It's a shitty jeep that is dented from trails...His ass would be in for criminal mischief and I'd get a free paint job."
For the record, this is relatively tame behavior for NJ drivers.
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