of provocation or social campaign just to start to talk about illegal parking. that campaign comes in the form of a youtube video where mayor zuokas taps into humankind s most primal urges. if you see a car that will block exit, for example, from your house or office, what usually you think? usually you think i would like maybe to crash this car. with this in mind, they hit the streets of vilnius with a used mercedes they purchased for the video and an armored personnel carrier bore ode from the local military museum. it is a model 60. popular in the soviet union. even now they use this but a more modern version. they park the mercedes illegally in a bike lane, then have only one chance at getting the perfect shot. we have only one shot. but we were prepared very well. we succeeded easily, quite
during a very unstatesman-like rampage to punish a parking violator? or is this another work of viral fiction? well, let s ask the man himself. arturas zuokas, the mayor of vilnius, the capital of lithuania. you know, what is real in our life? writer dostoevsky, he wrote when you think about a crime is already a crime. okay. that might be a little deep. let s just say it s a little of both. the video s real. all right? there s nothing being faked. like the car being crushed is not being faked. it s not a cgi tank. the guy got into an armored vehicle and actually crushed a car on an actual street in vilnius. but everything about it i
suspect is just completely staged. that is correct. there s no trickery or special effects, but the smashing of the mercedeses is a setup. but why? in vilnius, lithuania, wealthy citizens flout the law and park their luxury automobiles wherever they want. i could see fancy cars parked in bike lane, for example. and i don t like that. if you are wealthy and you own big and expensive cars, this doesn t mean you have more rights in the city. she s scofflaws are find but it doesn t dissuade them from breaking the law. it s quite cheap in lithuania. the first fine will be $5. the second will be much bigger. and the third one just could be $200, $300. mayor zuokas decides to take matters into his own hands. he comes up with a plan he thinks will have a bigger impact than fines. my idea was to create a kind
that is correct. there s no trickery or special effects, but the smashing of the mercedeses is a setup. but why? in vilnius, lithuania, wealthy citizens flout the law and park their luxury automobiles wherever they want. i could see fancy cars parked in bike lane, for example. and i don t like that. if you are wealthy and you own big and expensive cars, this doesn t mean you have more rights in the city. she s scofflaws are find but it doesn t dissuade them from breaking the law. it s quite cheap in lithuania. the first fine will be $5. the second will be much bigger. and the third one just could be $200, $300. mayor zuokas decides to take matters into his own hands. he comes up with a plan he thinks will have a bigger impact than fines. my idea was to create a kind of provocation or social
videos of destruction have a tendency to really be fascinating to people. almost like destruction porn of watching a building collapse or a car be smashed. the video is a huge hit, but does it really deter parking scofflaws? it will reduce this problem for sure because the people now have the image of tank which maybe will come and crash their car. after watching mayor zuokas and his car crushing adventures, many wonder if a u.s. politician could pull off the same stunt? michael dukakis, presidential candidate in 1988 got in a dank and put on a helmet and looked silly. we live in a how can i put this much less soviet country. officials here look less oppressive. there they like to look more impressive. since becoming an internet sensation, the mayor continues to combat parking violators in new and unique ways.