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Town designates easy parking spots for women
Erin Anderssen
The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 1:35 PM EDT
Sweetheart, have we got a parking spot for you – with lots of space and good lighting so you don’t run into anything.
In a cheeky foray into the perennial debate over which gender drives better, the German town of Triberg is now designating parking spots as male and female. The spots are marked with symbols denoting the two genders (similar to handicapped spots). The women get the easy ones. The men are steered toward the tighter, less convenient spots, with pillars and tight corners, because as Mayor Gallus Strobel says, they are more challenging. “As a rule,” he told a local German paper, translated by an article in Euronews, “men are a little better at such challenges.”...
[video=youtube;k7GhMF2VfM8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7GhMF2VfM8[/video]
Erin Anderssen
The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 1:35 PM EDT
Sweetheart, have we got a parking spot for you – with lots of space and good lighting so you don’t run into anything.
In a cheeky foray into the perennial debate over which gender drives better, the German town of Triberg is now designating parking spots as male and female. The spots are marked with symbols denoting the two genders (similar to handicapped spots). The women get the easy ones. The men are steered toward the tighter, less convenient spots, with pillars and tight corners, because as Mayor Gallus Strobel says, they are more challenging. “As a rule,” he told a local German paper, translated by an article in Euronews, “men are a little better at such challenges.”...
[video=youtube;k7GhMF2VfM8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7GhMF2VfM8[/video]