Man's massive car collection upsets neighborhood - 50 cars parked everywhere. Pic

[Liberal_in_LA]

Resident's Car Collection Frustrates Covina Community
Residents say one neighbor owns nearly 50 cars that are parked everywhere.



COVINA ( KTLA) -- A collection of nearly 50 cars that is parked on the streets is revving-up the tempers of neighbors in an unincorporated community of Covina. According to several neighbors and DMV records, the cars belong to 51 year old Mark Shoff who lives in the 16000 block of Kingside Drive.

Shoff keeps five unregistered vehicles in the driveway of his home and at least 43 over vehicles are parked in the neighborhood's surrounding streets.

Residents say they are frustrated because the cars are an eye-sore in their neighborhood. A petition to have the cars removed was circulated and signed by many neighbors.

One neighbor says she even writes Shoff notes, asking him to please stop taking up parking spots.

"I've watched him go up to the car and take the notes off and rip them up and leave them there," Caroline Bermude told KTLA.

The county took action by assigning 'street sweeping days' to some of the surrounding streets. The Department of Public Works has sent parking enforcement officers to ticket cars that have been parked for more than 72 hours.
However, Shoff apparently moves the cars a few inches forward and erases the chalk marks on the tires.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-covina-car-collection,0,2951813.story

[uncommon]

1. Are those vehicles all registered and insured?

Around here you are only allowed 2 unregistered vehicles parked off the street.

[Skidmore]

5. Ah, you must live in an incorporated town.

Unincorported towns very rarely have such finely tune rules.

[Warpy]

14. Yeah, but they could do a class action civil suit

over a public nuisance, which is what this man's hobby amounts to. At that point, he could either settle by renting a lot somewhere (gawd knows there are enough empty lots out there that will now never be developed) or by getting rid of anything that doesn't fit on his property.

If he's got enough money to buy, register and insure all this automotive stock, he's got enough money to get it off the street.

[babylonsister]

2. I'd be upset also. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. me too! I don't want 50 pintos parked outside my house.

[amerikat]

4. Must cost of fortune in insurance and registration

and inspection.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. we don't have inspection requirements in CA, just once every 2 years smog check

[KansDem]

6. Hey, I might be interested in taking one of those off his hands!

Maybe something along the lines of a 1964 Chevy Malibu?

Hey, Mark! Got one?

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. naw, you get one of the Pintos or Pacers

[KansDem]

11. .

:(

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I know a guy in Greenwood

He has 50 or 60 cars and is selling them to pay for his daughter's wedding. PM me if you want me to hook you up.

[KansDem]

28. Thanks!

I had a '65 "Chevelle Deluxe300" for 23 years (that was the model you bought if you couldn't afford the "Malibu"). I was always hoping to restore it, but never had the time, money, or space to do it.

Sold it about two years ago--it was simply getting to much for me to keep...:(

[demosincebirth]

8. What a jerk! I bet he just lives to piss people off.

[thereismore]

10. If they are parked legally? Rand Paul would probably repeal all registration fees and smog testing

so that Americans could own as much crap as they want.

[leveymg]

12. No wonder they haven't been stolen.

Why doesn't this guy sell the 50 Pintos and Mustang IIs -- and what is that, a '62 Mercury Montego? -- and buy a real nice classic?

[rfranklin]

13. They could torch the Pintos and claim...

that they were rear ended.

[Bozita]

15. "A mile of cars!"

from "Used Cars"

[MilesColtrane]

17. A tiny pebble in the tire stem cap of every one of them should get his attention.

It would be hard to move your cars around on 200 flat tires.

[nykym]

Actually

you only need to loosen the valve a bit makes a nice slow leak! Some caps even have the right tool built into the top!

[MilesColtrane]

33. Good to know.

:thumbsup:

[slackmaster]

18. Nobody needs that many cars

:hide:

[Wickerman]

24. or guns, huh?

:hide:

[petronius]

25. Hey, take that reasoning back to the gungeon!

:)

[mainer]

19. The male equivalent of a "cat lady"?

Only his "cats" don't poop in his house.

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. ha ha. good one

[bainz]

20. I cant wait

I cant wait for the follow up interview. This story cracked me up. NIMBY, or should it be NIMFY? If he pays his taxes to the State and the Local Municipality, where is the argument?

[Codeine]

21. A quiet cruise through his neighborhood one night

with one of those little springloaded window-breaking devices would probably change his tune.

[RamboLiberal]

22. This guy is like the cat hoarders

Bet it is a similiar illness. Or the people that hoard everything in their house. Yeah if I was this clown's neighbor I'd be pissed. This is one reason why it's a good idea in a an area to have laws against parking unregistered uninspected vehicles on streets.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. That Jerry Seinfeld's just gotta learn to cut back on those cars.

[JVS]

27. Unless he's breaking parking laws, then I think it's ok.

[flvegan]

29. Some of those are simply dreadful, too.

I feel for his neighbors/community.

And before anyone says it, no, it wouldn't be okay if these were all nice musclecars and exotics. But then those would have been long since stolen by now.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. agreed. Makes the street look like a junk yard

[Mimosa]

31. Definitely a public nuisance

It seems the county can easily pass some legislation against this.

[kctim]

32. Sad

that people have been conditioned to believe they have no choice but to wait for somebody else to do things for them.

[Hugin]

34. Those cars don't look massive to me.

They look like regular sized cars in fact.

[uppityperson]

35. People have interesting hobbies.

[HughBeaumont]

36. Nice Pintos.

[jaksavage]

37. I'm surprised

they haven't been vandalized or keyed?
Or flat tired or superglued locks, or broken glass, or slashed tires.
Stuff happens all the time.

[TheCowsCameHome]

38. He should open a ShitBox Museum

He's got a good start.

[Tatiana]

39. This man is clearly a hoarder. n/t