They had us in the first half, ngl.
Is sleeping in your car being illegal some sort of FREEDOM©®™ thing that I’m way too European to understand?
Sleeping in a car isn’t illegal necessarily, but there are increasing popup communities that settle in empty/low traffic lots and live out of their vehicles. Like most of America’s problems, our politicans are sending police forces to “clean up” the effect, instead of trying to solve the cause.
Here’s an article on Vehicle Residency https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-vehicle-residency-housing/
Sleeping in your car is actually illegal in a lot of places.
In Ohio I’d have to wake up every couple of hours to switch parking lots to avoid cops/loitering charges
NHLC found a 213 percent increase of laws restricting vehicle residency between 2006 and 2019
Yeah, check local ordinances this is not legal or universal advice lol
Sleeping in your car in public is not allowed in Germany either
Afaik it is allowed as long as its only to regain your driving capabilities and not for multiple nights I’m a row on the same place. The Straßenverkehrsordnung does not state otherwise.
Interesting, I’ve been told that it’s illegal to sleep in your car in Canada when drunk because being in a car with possession of the keys is enough to show intent to DUI and get arrested.
I imagine it’s something you could fight in court and win with a good lawyer, but it always seemed counter intuitive to me.
IIRC that’s how it works in the US, too. Apparently you’re supposed to leave your keys outside the car if you’re drunk and want to sleep in it (and even then it’s only a court defense, not something that would stop you from getting arrested in the first place).
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Wtf are you supposed do if it’s cold out? Just die? So stupid.
No. You are not allow to leave your body out in the cold. That is a public health hazard and littering.
Simple solution: sleep on the back seats if drunk.
Yeah it’s that way everywhere
It is absolutely allowed in Germany. Private parking lots can forbid it, but on public parking space it’s allowed
In some places, parking lots are monitored by security and you’ll be kicked out if you’re sleeping in your car in the parking lot.
Often times it’s loitering charges, loitering being a fancy term for “being out in public whenever it displeases a person of authority”. Sitting on a public bench, having a picnic, walking on a sidewalk, sleeping in your car, whatever, all of those can and will get you loitering charges depending on your exact location in the United States.
Then you have public intoxication charges which on paper are only supposed to apply if you’re causing a public disturbance (despite disorderly conduct already being a charge for that, public intoxication just makes it more severe), but in reality it’s mostly used to harass drunk people who couldn’t get a ride home, or uber home, and decided not to drive while drunk. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a higher likelihood of getting arrested for public intoxication while drunk walking/public transporting home than of getting arrested for DUI while drunk driving home. But public intoxication and even DUI can also be used if you’re sleeping off drunkenness in your car, while the car is turned off.
Don’t forget local “no camping” laws meant to keep homeless people from sleeping in their cars on public property/public parking.
Less actually illegal and more that the lots are privately owned and the owning companies can have you removed from the lots of they don’t like what you’re doing.
It’s illegal in the netherlands too
You have cars? I thought all cars are forcibly seized and replaced with bikes at the border.
It’s because those things happen if you allow people from general Benelux to have a car.
It should be illegal to force people to sleep in their cars because a depraved system has deprived them of decent housing…
Yeah, in an article talking about how news stories about crime often show pictures of tents, they pointed out that the photo is of a crime scene, but the crime was not committed by those living in the tents.
I hate Walmart, but they let people sleep in the parking lot there. Cars, RVs, whatever. So if you’re ever unfortunate enough that you’re stuck sleeping in your car, you can park at Walmart without getting harassed.
When I was in this position in my life I used parking lots of 24 hour gyms never once got hassled or disturbed.
No one should have to be forced to sleep in a car in the first place.
Unless it’s one of these
No one has to be forced to sleep in something that rad.
https://odditymall.com/adult-race-car-beds
They make them with LEDs
I had a monster truck bed but I broke my nose falling out of it one night.
That’s metal!
I think I just would have dented it if it was metal.
Especially if you get the CB radio so you can talk to other car beds
You were balls deep in your turtle, I didn’t wanna disturb you
Lazy people in houses doing drugs and drinking…
Whoa, all of us lazy people doing light drug use catching strays
Doing drugs and drinking instead of going out there and getting a job? That’s just lazy talk!
(A lot of homeless people are employed, and do not have drug/alcohol issues.)
A lot of people do both a job and drinking/drugs at the same time. It just saves time.
Such relentless pursuit of efficiency should be rewarded with a hefty bonus!
Gas Station Dick Pill Official made me lol
Imagine what some places would be like if you could sleep in your car.
We elected a bunch of lawyers to run our country. No surprise then that everything is based around liability and “safety”
How is it a wholesome comment?
