The Mayhem Never Ends!!

I realize that this has been talked about countless times in reference to the ODU parking situation. But recently it's come to my attention that this issue can be broadcast to not only school parking garages but mall parking garages as well.

Just the other day, I was going to MacArthur mall, and I was actually having a hard time finding a decent spot on a lower level floor. Not to mention all the crazy one-ways and arrows and zig-zags throughout the place. I nearly had a collision with an idiot who couldn't read the signs in order to get out of the place.

Then after my rounds of shopping, I walked back to my car and what happens? A battle between 2 other vehicles for my spot! It never ends! And as always with MacArthur mall, that awesome $1 charge for the first three hours. I just got to thinking how much money they must make in ONE day for parking. That mall has been open for years upon years now. Surely they've paid off the cost of the garage at this point. Why is this still needed? Answer. Greed. We can never have enough money to build poorly constructed garages. -Sigh-...


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Local Teen Killed in Lynnhaven Shopping Center

Another day, another senseless murder.

On April 10, 2009, a local teenager was recently allegedly robbed and shot outside of the Jumpin' Monkey children's facility in the Lynnhaven Shopping Center in Virginia Beach.

This teen was doing nothing except sitting in his car waiting to pick up his friend from work when he was killed in his car. Someone was seen fleeing the scene shortly after people heard shots fired. When the police and medics arrived, the teen was already dead.

This is a massive loss to everyone. He was a cheerleader for the local All-Star cheerleading team "Fame All-Stars" and had been a part of the organization since it's inception. He was a part of a huge family and every person involved is feeling the weight of this tragedy.

Thoughts and prayers go out to his immediate family as well as friends and extended family who all knew and loved him. He will be tragically missed..


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Parking Garage Back-Up!

So I had an interesting experience today. I get ready to pull into my typical 45th street parking garage and then what do I see? Cones...LOTS of cones blocking the street. Of course I begin to panic thinking I couldn't park where I always do, but then I just went down 46th street which they idiotically did not block off (what's the point of blocking off one and not the other if they really want to stop people from parking in that garage?). I drive in and I see this INSANE back-up going up to the first level. A massive amount of cars are exiting the garage and I have no idea what exactly is going on. There's usually on average 10-15 cars exiting when I pull in, but today it was definitely more in the 20-30 range. This presented a problem of even trying to get into those empty spaces with cars constantly speeding by. Do blinkers mean nothing anymore?

Maybe they were just in a hurry to leave to get out due to the event going on in the Ted Constant center. Since of course, they like to block off a lot of unnecessary spaces for people who *might* show up to the event...