Somerville Signs Call For Drivers Not To Slash Tires, Break Car Windows
SOMERVILLE (CBS) – Slashed tires and broken car windows now serve as punishment for stealing a parking space in Somerville. One woman says she's fed up with living in fear of retaliation for parking on her street, so she's posting signs asking people to act more "neighborly."
"It's just not normal and people need to be reeled back into sanity," Rachel MacCabe said.
She decided to post these signs after her friend's tires were slashed and another neighbor's windshield wipers were bent back.
"It creates this anxiety that's completely unnecessary," MacCabe said.
The signs contain a series of questions.
"Who has the winter been tough for? Everyone. Who is out to get you? No one," reads the sign.
MacCabe says she wanted to create a snowball effect in a positive way, asking people to think twice when they get angry.
She said a lot of the time space savers are moved by the city, so the drivers may not be aware the space had been claimed.
"I understand you're angry but it's not worth all this chaos," MacCabe said.
Her overall message is simple: The winter is getting to all of us, but that doesn't mean we have to be cold to each other.
"Let's just all get through the winter spring will be here soon and hopefully we can all be a little more neighborly," MacCabe said.
The last note on the sign reads, "In the end do we all want the same thing? Yes. Which is? Summer."