Carwalking

Carwalking is the unlawful act of walking above cars, normally illegally parked on pedestrian zones. Carwalking is understood by all criminal codes as damage of private property. Carwalkers normally do it, as a radical protest against the intensive motorization rates in cities, one of the main consequences of which is illegal parking on sidewalks and areas exclusively allocated to pedestrians.

The most famous carwalker was Michael Hartmann who performed the act in Munich, Germany, in the eighties. The peak of automobile friendly policies was around the seventies and the eighties in the western world, and such high number of motor vehicles in urban areas had as consequence a large number of cars illegally parked on side-walks and other pedestrian-reserved areas. Hartmann, in his book which describes his actions, states that once in 1988 he was walking with his girlfriend and due to many cars parked on the side-walk, they had to continuously zigzag between the cars so he decided to walk straightforward above the cars.

Another reported case happened in Lyon, France, in 2011 when Peter Wagner, a German engineer, decided to walk above a car that was illegally parked on the side-walk and,according to him, he did not have even a minimum space to pass through such car. At that precise time, the owner arrived and later sued him for private property damage, claiming 800 Euros for dents repairing. Nevertheless the carwalker was condemned to pay 300 Euros, but later appealed.

In Mexico City a pedestrian activist called Peatónito, a mix of the Spanish words for pedestrian(peatón) and astonished(atónito), is famous for walking over cars. He wears a Mexican wrestler mask, a cape and proclaims himself to be a superhero for pedestrians.

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