Zen and the Art of Protecting Your Parking Space In Winter

The following is a list of items I spotted being used to save parking spots in da wunnerful Bridgeport neighborhood this morning:

• Folding chairs
• lawn tables
• milkcrates
• stolen traffic cones
• sawhorses
• laundry hampers
• trash cans
• a shell from an air conditioner
• a hat rack
• a Weber grill
• cardboard boxes
• a dead ficus
• a wheelbarrow
  
• PVC pipe
• empty five-gallon paint cans
• An Apple computer
• a broken computer monitor
  
• an artist's easel
• a crib
• a bassinet
• one pair of galoshes
• velvet rope queues
• street signs and posts wrapped in police tape
  
• a Sport utility vehicle-sized baby stoller nearly the size of the economy-sized car whose spot it's filling
• beer kegs
• barstools
• vacuum cleaners
• a china cabniet
• various scrap wood
• a snow shovel
• used snow tires
• three car batteries
• fruit crates
• one bag of street salt
• a school desk
• various lamps
  

We don't have much faith in the Honor system here during winter.