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Good question tvjunky. By registering your car - you allow your neighbors to contact you immediately regarding issues with your vehicle. So if you were to mistakenly block a neighbors' driveway - they could CurbTXT you to move your car rather than have you towed.

An "F-bomb laced note" wouldn't allow your neighbor to pull out of their driveway.

Registering for CurbTXT also allows your neighbors let you know if you're about to get ticketed for street cleaning, if you've left your lights on by mistake, if someone's smashed your window, etc.

Hope this clears things up, Andrew at CurbTXT (info@curbtxt.com)

Andrew,

    I think you have something here but it still seems a bit cart before the horse. The presumption is that we all want to be excellent to each other. In my experience when people are being rude it's more often a conscious choice rather than an inadvertent mistake. Granted, I don't live in an area where residents have to battle or shuffle around for parking and neighbors will be "neighborly" and register. However, during events with large numbers of people from outside the neighborhood, we often see rude behavior. In these cases there is no opportunity alert the offender of their "mistake". We either must be proactive to guard our parking or start a a tow truck parade to coincide with the event.

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