Uh oh! Looks like the scammers are on this subreddit, and artificially down-voting this post! 😂

We’re in Brookland so we grocery shop in Hyattsville typically. I drive my car for about 30 minutes total every Sunday to do so. Not as impressive as you OP but I love that I’m only in it for 2ish hours a month now.

Everything else is metro (special shout-out H8 bus) all the way!

Not who you're replying to... and i know this is an unpopular viewpoint... but I never understood wearing the outfit of a team you don't personally play for. Like a t-shirt that says Nats is fine to me, but I've always, since elementary school, thought it was weird to just wear the actual jersey.

https://dcheavymetal.com/upcoming-concerts/

There’s supposed to be a green line train every 8 mins while the yellow is suspended

Metro is too much of a hassle. I live in DC and prefer to drive. Haven’t used the Metro in about 5 years.

> It's a scam. There are different variations, but typically when you call they give you a line like "So glad you called! Almost nobody has registered yet, there will be amazing deals!" or similar pitches to make your fear of missing out override your critical thinking skills. Then they collect all your personal and bank information so they can pre-clear you to bid at the auction. Then there is no auction, the hotel's never heard of them, but on Monday your bank calls you about suspicious charges, account withdrawals, etc.

From another comment on the same thread:

> I know someone who went to one. Slightly different and less “criminal.” But they showed up and you had to pay like $50 to get inside. Once inside, it’s basically like a flea market. There are auctions for the good shit (cars, Rolex, etc.) but they’re all fake auctions and whoever wins these are people on the inside. So you basically pay $50 plus whatever you buy inside for some cheap shit

And another:

> Huge scam - I went to the auction 6 months ago after similar signs advertised an estate sale with Ferraris, Picasso, etc. it was held In a hotel ballroom which is already a huge red flag because you can’t verify where the stuff is coming from. The goods they had were mostly lithographs, not originals, from various famous artists which are normally worth somewhere between a few hundred or a couple thousand dollars for rare editions but these “auctioneers” would talk up the items as if they were originals worth hundreds of thousands or millions and really sucker people into bidding high numbers. Sometimes when a bit was low, the auctioneer a call at a higher number even though I didn’t see anyone raise their hand which is an illegal practice to artificially inflate the bid. I left soon there after. Avoid this like the plague.

There hasn't been yellow line service in months. Until it returns, you'll continue to see 10+ minute headways.

See, that's how the scam works!

Public auctions happen, too bad this isn't one.

Is there any reason to think cops in places like Chicago or Baltimore are better than DC cops? Because the prosecution rates for local DA offices are about 2-3x better in literally any other jurisdiction than DC. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Stop defending criminal actors who are disproportionately causing harm to low-income disadvantaged communities.

It's a scam. Real products, fake bidders. Fake products, real bidders. or just plain old scammy lead gen/info harvesting. If you're lucky, all three.

> The process has been explained several times above. You're either not reading it or just don't care enough to listen to people who know what they are talking about.

No, none of you can distinguish between the scenarios that I'm talking about.

> Also, there's a difference between a fire alarm going off and a report of an actual fire.

A fire alarm going off can be a serious emergency though. I know that it's less likely to be an actual emergency, but it can be. They should act with urgency until they know that it's not an actual emergency.

I have no fucking clue why you and so many other people here seem to not understand the basic fact.

Until emergency services know that an emergency call isn't an actual emergency, they should act with urgency.

Edit: So apparently, nobody thinks that emergency responders should act with urgency when they receive emergency calls, so I'm not sure why anybody is mad at the story in the OP. They're doing exactly what you all want: not acting with urgency.

You cannot tell if someone is physically impaired just by looking at them. There are plenty of disabilities that impair you physically that aren't visible to the outside eye. I agree with getting scooters parked out of the way so that wheelchairs have access, but I don't think making sweeping judgements about other people's ability status is at all appropriate or even accurate in this case.

This is why I often don’t take it

https://twitter.com/MetroTransitPD/status/1641891166806331395

They’re at a baseball game bozo. What do you want him to wear? My god, what a lame comment.

Again, I know that not all calls to emergency services are actual emergencies, but when the call is claimed to be a real emergency, I expect urgency.

If someone called 911 and said that their dad was having a stroke, I would expect sirens and quickness and not casual walking up to the door.

Because of the definitions of the words that I used?

Nothing that DC govt has its hand it runs efficiently.

Triple so for organizations that have the whole DMV’s governments involved.

Someone got busted for a crime. Their possessions were seized and are now being auctioned off. It's not shady. It's common.

Edit: this sign may or may not be legit. Anyone who says they know for certain can kindly provide insight.

Assuming we mean metrorail, maybe 1/month. Buses, however...

So it used to be a quiet stop then …

Same. I thought about selling my car for a long time and debating just staying in DC but I’ll have to move back to car city LA in a few years. Plus I got a car during covid with a 0% interest rate. The extra costs of parking and insurance are tough and with inflation it’s hard to make the payments. But I got 3 more years and then it’s all mine and by then I’ll probably be back in California

You could rent a car for pretty cheap, get an Airbnb with the money you’d be saving on car insurance. I sound like a commercial. 🦎

Oh hell yeah, thank you!