Anonymous Jun 24, 2013 at 8:40 am

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1
You want anality? You misspelled "sno cone" and "privileged."
Jes' kiddin'. Your point is well taken.
2
Was this a mature tree or one of those newly planted trees with a "Friends of Trees" tag still attached? If the former, IAnon has a pretty good point. If the latter, locking a bike to a developing tree is just bad form and can lead to bark damage and is not all that smart to do with an expensive bike because it likely takes a few seconds with the right tool to cut through the wood.
3
Whiny: "...but there were thousands of bikes locked to every tree in the park."

Privileged: "My bike is expensive. I didn't want it to get stolen...buy my kid a snow cone."

"Portland has too many whiny babies like you..." Indeed.
4
Lock your bike to MY tree, it's MY BIKE!
5
You're correct, anon--parking strips ARE public. While it may be a mild annoyance to have someone lock up their bike (for longer than twenty minutes, even!), these perturbed homeowners don't own the tree that's on the curb by the street. Just like when people buy those "no parking signs" and put them on red cones and then place them on the street in front of their houses: they don't own the street, so they don't own the right to tell people they can't park in front of their house.

There's just one thing, anon: your bike being expensive basically means dick in this situation. Plenty of people with expensive bikes park them in crowded places all the time; I get you were going to be on your way out, but don't pull the 'worried about your bike being stolen' card because you aren't the only one who has a nice enough bike worth stealing.
6
It is illegal to tie/bind/attach/etc anything to public trees actually.
7
One of My Cousins will decimate your Bike if you put it on My property...
8
Where can I purchase or own a tree so it can be My Tree? No, really? It will really be Our tree because I will totally share and stuff
9
Next time chain your bike to the guy's car. Even Steven.
10
Where can I purchase or own a major over bite and some pathetically placed dimplessssssss?
11
Portland should have a fleet of public bikes just sitting around that all people can use and that never need.to be locked up because they belong to everybody. And they could all be painted hot pink for breast cancer awareness.
12
@ Tummyshpooon

Or chain it to Wm. Steven Humphrey! Steven better!

@ Cry Anonymous

You know who else likes misplaced bike chains and anal?

Your Mom.
13
Oh snap.
14
If someone left a passive aggressive note like that for me I would be so devastated that I would basically have to apologize in the only way that they would definitely see. I would carve my apology into their tree.
15
Gah, Portlanders can be so laaaaaaame.
16
What are these laaaaaaames? Some species of Patagonian silky furred mammal?

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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