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Re:No Vehicles in the Park by weli on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:26AM (#50350198)
My exact thought. Ambulances and police cars are vehicles. And they would violate the rules. But some rules sometimes can be violated under certain circumstances.

Same thing about the WW2 tank that's not working. A vehicle that doesn't work is still a vehicle.

Also all the questions about verticality at least under my jurisprudence land is only owned vertically up to a certain extent after that is considered state property to be administered by authorities.

Re:No Vehicles in the Park by gambiting on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:43AM (#50350315)
>>Same thing about the WW2 tank that's not working. A vehicle that doesn't work is still a vehicle.

Well no, it specifically says it's a memorial - at that point it's a statue, like an art installation, especially if the tank is non functional(bonus question - what if it was never an actual tank in the first place, it's just some metal bent to look like a tank?). If the memorial was of a Napoleonic soldier on a horse, you wouldn't say it violates a "no weapons allowed" rule just because the statue is holding a sword.

Re:No Vehicles in the Park by jstanley on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:12AM (#50350525)
If it's metal bent to look like a tank then it's not a vehicle.

If it's a real tank that just happens not to work any more then it's a vehicle even if it as a monument as well.

Re:No Vehicles in the Park by wink on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:50AM (#50353488)
I didn't get to the tank in question but also: Let's assume the city or whoever wrote the rule because it's their park, so they are usually allowed to break their own rules anyway. (Maybe I am missing the point of this example, but even in our parks with something of that rule the utilities have golf carts to grab the trash and no one objects to that rule...)
Re:No Vehicles in the Park by Levitating on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:45AM (#50350325)
> Same thing about the WW2 tank that's not working. A vehicle that doesn't work is still a vehicle.

That completely depends on your definition of a vehicle. According to your definition an object that once met the conditions to be a vehicle will always be a vehicle. You can apply Theseus's ship to the WW2 tank replacing it's parts and then at what point does it seize to be a vehicle?

If your definition on vehicle depends on transporting humans than a wagon seizes to be a vehicle. If your definition depends on transporting objects in a self-propelled way than humans become vehicles.