CHICAGO (WBBM) -- During wintertime in Chicago when the snow begins to pile up, we call dibs!
Dibs on what? Parking.
As if finding parking in the city isn't hard enough, try finding a spot when the streets are covered in inches of snow.
Imagine shoveling out a parking spot in front of you apartment, only to then move your car and find someone has already parked there.
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That's where "dibs" comes into play. In the past we have seen a wide array of objects used to reserve a parking spot from lawn chairs and coolers, to cardboard cutouts and other furniture; but this guy's item may have taken the cake -- at least for this winter.
Adam Selzer of West Ridge decided to freeze a pair of his pants, so they stand stiff and upright in the desired parking space.
“Polar vortex fun: pants with nobody inside them! Soak a pair, put outside. In about 20 minutes you can form them to shape, and in another 20 they’re solid,” he wrote on Twitter.
Pretty clever right? Almost like a scene from a horror movie! Or as some by know like the pants in the old Dr. Seuss book, “What Was I Scared Of?”
The crazy thing is, according to CBS 2, Selzer did not actually freeze the pants to use as "dibs," he just wanted to use them for cool photos -- and it worked, because his photos have gone viral.
Selzer is a Chicago tour guide – now conducting virtual “Mysterious Chicago” tours. He said he is just trying to come up with new ideas to keep things interesting.
What will he come up with next? Or someone else for that matter?
Brookfield Zoo jumped on the idea that they are deeming the #frozenpantschallenge and frozen an entire zoo uniform -- pants and shirt -- and displayed it in different areas in the zoo; including alongside a bison, a 14-year-old polar bear named Hudson, Bactrian camels, llamas, and Lucy the California sea lion, as well as the zoo’s south gate lion statues.
Brookfield Zoo is currently closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is expected to reopen in March.
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