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Car Tipping

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Monday, 12th March 2007

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The urban equivalent of Cow Tipping, the inner-city phenomenon of Car Tipping has begun to spread like wildfire across Germany now that its been spotted on Google Earth

Also see our post on Extreme Parking for more.

Via Gearth Blog.

8 Responses to 'Car Tipping'

  1. cookie monster says:

    Serious question – do Germans have allotments?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  2. macservo says:

    Oh yes, we have allotments.
    We call them Schrebergärten.
    There are some real fanatics about this boring, ugly places.

  3. Imnama says:

    Notice also the flag poles (or light) on the red aan blue car. They seem to be growing out of the cars

  4. cookie monster says:

    Hey macservo! Brilliant work! Youve made an obsessively curious man very happy.
    I though allotments were a British phenomenon and it just goes to show how alike the Germans and British are alike (in some ways at least!)
    Two nations bonded by their love of root vegetables and the universal quest for husbands to escape from their wives.

  5. Monasterium says:

    “I though allotments were a British phenomenon” – and I was pretty sure that this phenomenon is as German as it can get. :) There even is a “Bundeskleingartengesetz” (federal-allotment-law? I’m pretty sure, thats a horrible translation, but you get the deal *g*)

  6. Birdseed says:

    We’ve got allotments in Sweden too, “Koloniträdgårdar”.

  7. dave says:

    why do all think allotments are a national phenomena. we swiss have them to, i think they are spread all over europe.

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