Comments on: Ditched off Washington Ave.: Nighttime Off-Roading Adventures

By: Htowngirl

Htowngirl — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:10:32 +0000

Winch, wench, whatever.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:58:08 +0000

A wench or a winch? Was the wench watching while the winch worked?

In advance of Ike a neighbor’s boyfriend wrongly decided that her car would be safer from flooding on the next-door neighbor’s front yard than protected in the driveway between the two houses. With the patient neighbor’s blessing he drove it up there and parked. Of course after all that rain the yard turned to mud and the car got stuck when boyfriend went to move it back down into the driveway. Neighbor on the other side has a big truck with a winch and saved boyfriend’s butt by pulling his girlfriend’s car out of the grave of mud he had spun the wheels into in his pathetic attempts to move it off the grass. See “plastic cups of whatever” above.

By: Htowngirl

Htowngirl — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:37:59 +0000

Wow, my pics made swamplot!

@Brad - I hear the warehouse across from Ei8ht (in the parking lot) is going to be a country bar - haven’t had it confirmed though.

@margo - LOL.

@Ross - actually the tow truck drivers that showed up at 4AM wanted to use their flat bed tow trucks to try to get it it out, and they ended up getting mad and leaving when they wouldn’t let them. The next day a guy with a wench showed up to get it out. I wasn’t there to see the actually removal, but it did mess up our grass some… luckily it was the week BEFORE we had our ditch re-landscaped.

By: EMME

EMME — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:53:19 +0000

I vote comment 16 as a comment of the day.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:53 +0000

Used to live @ Asbury & Washington, the “ditchers” were a weekly occurence near Cova, we used to get entertainment value out of it, watching some group of guys think they could get thier car out without a tow, quite comical, at least the girls were smart enough to immediately call a wrecker. The neighbor put in a pipe and filled the ditch and took all the night time fun away!

By: josh

josh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:54:37 +0000

I would have tried to tip that car all the way over. I think it’s pivoted at just the right angle.

By: Hector Garcia

Hector Garcia — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:31:33 +0000

Yeah, the parking situation, or lack thereof, is crazy for all the new washington hipster clubs and restaurants. Tow trucks now park regularly in the area, just waiting for someone to slip up and park where they’re not supposed to.

Good question about the pay per lots too. I’ve actually been talking with an investor about a similar idea closer to Yale and Washington, but the lifespan of all the new “stuff” going up on Washington is questionable.

Definitely a boom going on right now on that strip, with a parking nightmare to go along with it.

By: houstonbuffalo

houstonbuffalo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:13:00 +0000

Montrose, it’s not the parking. 2 neighbors nearly shot 2 seperate drunks trying to enter their homes on 2 consecutive nights. It’s not funny when a blackout drunk 20 something miles from his home is trying to get in through the window where your 3 year old sleeps. The nightclubs that have access to parking will succeed, the others are in trouble, the permits are coming. My area loved Garden in the Heights and their events. They put HPD officers into the neighborhood when their events let out to expedite everyone leaving relatively quietly.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:16:36 +0000

This happens relatively often on our little street (Gross, off W. Dallas just east of Shepherd). It’s one of those cut-through streets that for some reason attracts SUVs in a hurry, and it has a nasty ditch right at that corner. When we nab one, neighbors all gather around it with plastic cups of whatever and chat merrily. Sort of an impromptu celebration.

By: Jessica1

Jessica1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:54:16 +0000

We also have open ditches in front of our house, and have on several occasions watched our neighbor fire up his tractor in the middle of the night to pull a car out of the ditch. I’m sure Rice Mil/Wash Heights residents see a lot of crazy stuff, but I bet they don’t see a lot neighborly tractor extractions.

By: CK

CK — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:26:03 +0000

I’ve done the same with my formerly ugly ditches, but have landscaped the area between the sidewalk and one side of the ditch’s retaining wall. Long ago, I put large rocks in place to keep people from parking there. Occasionally, some moron will drive over one of the rocks and I’ll have to dig it back out of the crushed granite and reset it.

By: John

John — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:10:15 +0000

I just assumed that photo was the result of a Houstonian attempting parallel parking, no alcohol required.