Straight Line of the Day: A German Parking Garage Has Dedicated Spaces For LGBTQ And Migrant Drivers. This Will Help Because…

German Parking Garage Unveils Dedicated Spaces For LGBTQ And Migrant Drivers
Nation & State | 10-7-2021

The three “diversity” parking spaces were put up in an underground car park in Hanau city centre, according to the Daily Mail.

The aim of the spots was to “help people who feel a special need for protection,” according to Thomas Morlock, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the lot.

Morlock told the Daily Mail the spaces were built to set a “conspicuously colourful symbol for diversity and tolerance”.

He said they “are not necessarily meant” to be used by a “separate group of people”.

And of course, as the Daily Mail puts it, the kicker:

“It is not immediately clear how the authorities intend to monitor whether people who park in the spaces are in fact part of the LGBTQ community or migrants…”

Straight Line of the Day: A German parking garage has dedicated spaces for LGBTQ and migrant drivers. This will help because…

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32 Comments

  1. Let’s see — Prius, Prius, Prius, Prius, Prius, stolen, stolen, stolen . . . Did we really need the labels to mark these spaces?

    Let’s see: no one using the nearby restrooms as they were intended . . . Did we really need the labels to mark these spaces?

  2. Off-topic: There are some parking garages that are a series of level floors, which you access via ramps. There are others that are composed entirely of ramps, on which people park on an incline. I wonder whether any studies have been done to determine which is better. And what metric would be used to define “better.”

    And only motorcycles fit comfortably into parking garage spaces.

  3. It seems to me that expats from, say, the US would count as migrants. Such a deal. Of course under the rules we all seem to now live under, you can’t question anyone parking in one of those spaces, particularly if they say they are “questioning.” Generally my question is, where am I going to park? Good enough!

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