Move your steroid truck, sucka!

Genesee Park's least-favorite neighbor -- the big-assed, hauling truck -- is parked alongside the off-leash park area. Notice to the truck driver and the business operator: You and your Mark McGwire-sized vehicle are nuisances to the park.

Who are you, and why have you chosen the perimeter of the off-leash area along South Genesee Street to park your truck? Clearly, you don't live in front the park, so convenience and proximity to a residence or business are not at issue. Instead, you house your 10-foot-high truck in front of the park... and thereby inconveniencing the us the off-leash area users who have to park down the street.

We can't help but notice the truck barely looks operable. Consider Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) 11.72.500 (junk vehicles):

A. No person shall park a junk motor vehicle on a street, alley, or way open to the public, or on municipal or other city property.

B. Violation of subsection A is a Class 1 civil infraction s contemplated by Chapter 4.80 RCW for which there shall be a penalty of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250), which penalty shall not be suspended or deferred.

Fred G. Sanford's monster truck may receive a parking ticket.

As Aunt Esther used to say in Sanford and Son, "Better watch it, sucka."

Parking woes

The adage that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" gets put to the test.

The proprietor of a hauling and removal business insists on parking his large, unwieldy truck in front of the dog park. This behemoth not only displaces park frequenters -- particularly during peak usage -- but presents a hazard to those parked directly behind the truck and who pull out into traffic.

Granted, street parking is first-come, first serve. And there's nothing in the municipal ordinances that gives parking priority to park users.

But consider this: By parking your hulking truck in front of the park, are you really making friends and creating a climate for future business?

PERSON NO. 1: Wow, we cut down our cottonwood, and have to take the branches to the dump. Who shall we call?

PERSON NO. 2: I see a phone number on the truck that's parked in front of the dog park...

PERSON NO. 1: Not the truck that's always parked in front of the park! I hate that! I'll call Fred G. Sanford first.

PERSON NO. 2: Do we have that card that Lamont gave us? Do you have Aunt Esther's number?

Roll credits.