This is an interesting strip, and interesting replies.

My thought is she did the right thing: She saw someone key someone's car, she left the info on the car, and she got a ticket. The ticket is separate from the first and second events, life is like that. If she had done nothing, she still would have gotten a ticket.

And while I don't like people who snag spots it's not that big of a deal. Like the guy who shot someone in a movie theater for talking, it's a bit excessive to basically destroy the paint on a car because you will now have to walk an extra block.

Back when I was a kid I had a bike. And on the bike I had mounted a truck air horn and a battery. However for pedestrians I also kept the little bell. Use the right tool for the job.

CZ

This cartoon was eerily reminiscent of a similar experience that happened to me a few months ago. I pulled up about two car lengths in front of a car that was going to pull out of spot (in order to politely give them enough room to maneuver out of the spot). But suddenly in zipped an SUV with two blondes (b***es) in it directly one car length behind me (even though I had my blinkers on and they knew I was waiting for the spot). They pulled into the spot and even though I really really wanted to key their humongous, gas-guzzling SUV, I contented myself with giving them the finger instead. Nice to know I'm not the only victim of such rich-b***ch cows, but at least I didn't key their car.

Or "iced" or "currently hanging with Elvis."

Would you prefer "little lead forget-me-nots" or "nine-millimeter notes from Miss Manners"? Listen, in the coming age of depression and desperation, we have to use more fanciful metaphors for gunfire, since there's going to be a lot more of it. Ms. Lay is lucky she wasn't an innocent bystander, and that she was at the one single streetcorner in her city where somebody nearby wasn't strapped and eager to kill.

You're whack.

I'm told that the nighttime crowds in downtown Orlando have one concealed handgun for every two people.

Now I wouldn't be so stupid to claim that "an armed society is a civilized society," which is the opposite of the truth: an armed society is a paranoid and fearful society. And it doesn't make anyplace safe; look at Tikret.

But it would have been nice for a gun battle to start when some punk female keyed that person's car. Women rarely pay for their transgressions, and they're much more vicious than men. Women deserve an equal quantity of lead reminders of politeness.

I guess maybe it was really a message from God, or something, that it's time to 'Vote against infernal combustion with your consumer dollar' - or, at least, having been T-boned by a Red Light Runner for the second time in Ten Years did that for me!

I've NEVER gotten a Parking Ticket on my BIKE!!!

I would never key someone's car because they stole my parking space.

Letting the air out of their tires is another matter.

That's a warcrime, and here in Raleigh NC was successfully used as a justification to beat an old lady to death in the parking lot.

Snaking a parking space is just asking for a keying. Maybe it's out of proportion to that single offense, but someone who does that has a lot of other snakes on their tally board.

Maybe next time the snake will think better of it.

I only wish I had the courage to do it. I have this unfortunate problem that my life, my teeth, keeping my clothes free of blood and my car's so-called paint finish intact is worth more than doing the right thing.

And there is a world of unthinking, egotistical jerks out there; not all of them write letters to Salon. Not all of them know how to write. Perhaps I should do what NFL players and rap artists do and start packing heat. They are role models, you know.

at least nobody keyed your car...