The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

[Butter Face]

That's brilliant

[kurt535]

my sides are hurting reading and looking at the pictures!

[bobbo89]

That's it Mr Bargain Booze man, block the entire footway on an A-road and rather than be snappy about it, sit and eat your lunch with a paper after making your delivery!

[surveyor]

[Cliftonite]

[Cliftonite]

surveyor said:

Story?

[surveyor]

Cliftonite said:

surveyor said:

Story?

Brother parked top of driveway as needed to move bin. Brother thought car in P, when was in N. Car rolled down steep-driveway and greeted house. Brother had bought the car just before Christmas, and this was his first trip home in it.

Brother was not happy.

[Cliftonite]

surveyor said:

Brother parked top of driveway as needed to move bin. Brother thought car in P, when was in N. Car rolled down steep-driveway and greeted house. Brother had bought the car just before Christmas, and this was his first trip home in it.

Brother was not happy.

Does it not have a handbrake?

[Liquid Knight]

Cliftonite said:

surveyor said:

Brother parked top of driveway as needed to move bin. Brother thought car in P, when was in N. Car rolled down steep-driveway and greeted house. Brother had bought the car just before Christmas, and this was his first trip home in it.

Brother was not happy.

Does it not have a handbrake?

I have never; ever seen a new Jaguar use a handbrake at traffic lights, junctions, roundabouts, parked outside a school, dropping off point at a supermarket or anywhere one isn't moving but the owner is sat behind the wheel.

Those Red Dwarf (the star classification not the tv show) brake lights illuminating the world to their incompetence make driving the next few miles at night an adventure if you're unlucky enough to be stuck behind one and your sun visor doesn't go low enough.

If they have an e-brake and you park with hot discs they can fail once the brakes have cooled enough to shrink a little or they have a conventional handbrake chances are from the display on the roads nobody has told Jaguar owners how to use them.

The use of the word "owner" as opposed to "driver" because new Jaguars have so many drivers you can not drive them in any meaningful way.

[surveyor]

Cliftonite said:

Does it not have a handbrake?

I assume so. I assume one has to be not lazy and use it though...

[Stickyfinger]

Cliftonite said:

surveyor said:

Story?

Soon to be one by the look of it

[The Mad Monk]

surveyor said:

Cliftonite said:

Does it not have a handbrake?

I assume so.

Why would you assume it doesn't have a handbrake?

[Willy Nilly]

WD39 said:

fatboy18 said:

Jagmanv12 said:

Stickyfinger said:

Well he got one side OK

Edited by Stickyfinger on Tuesday 26th January 20:40

As is often posted correctly, car park spaces are just not big enough

Chelsea Tractors just keep getting Bigger!

Common sight at my local Tescos, usually with trailer attached, full of 'manure'.

There are a multitude of tyre, wheel and track width options for tractors, with a set of 20.8r tyres on the back and the track width wound in a bit (they are on rack and pinion on the rear and you change the rim and dish relationship on the front, it would easily fit in that parking space.

[Cliftonite]

Old news, but I missed it at the time:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-29615...

[Hoofy]

[Vipers]

This abandoned 4 x 4 is 144mm wider than my Volvo. Last week a car had reversed in on the left, and after letting my passenger out, I reversed in on the right, and had loads of room to get out.



Then again I am not an ignorant driver.



He needed the room, he was definitely a FB, but no excuse for just swinging in and leaving it.

[kowalski655]

The Crack Fox said:

maxdb said:

Someone keeps getting parking tickets by either parking in the taxi ranks or yellow lines outside their pier so have resorted to this

No names though..

Stay classy, Gulzar.

Is there not a fine for driving across a pavement,or does that spot have vehicle access?

[TheInsanity1234]

kowalski655 said:

The Crack Fox said:

maxdb said:

Someone keeps getting parking tickets by either parking in the taxi ranks or yellow lines outside their pier so have resorted to this

No names though..

Stay classy, Gulzar.

Is there not a fine for driving across a pavement,or does that spot have vehicle access?

I get the impression the fine only applies if a policeman caught you in the act of driving across the pavement. They can't do anything about a car parked somewhere in the middle of the pavement unless it's causing an obstruction.

[405dogvan]

TheInsanity1234 said:

They can't do anything about a car parked somewhere in the middle of the pavement unless it's causing an obstruction.

Oh they CAN - parking restrictions apply to the road, verge and pavement - basically everything 'upto a property' or 'upto private land' - and parking on pavements CAN be handled under the Road Traffic Act too (because that uses the Highway Code as it's guide IIRC?)

Reality is that the Police don't 'do parking' anymore and wardens (usually local auth. or private) are told exactly what to ticket based on getting max results with minimal chance of appeals - no 'chancer' tickets which might cost more to defend than earn.

[Slow]

405dogvan said:

TheInsanity1234 said:

They can't do anything about a car parked somewhere in the middle of the pavement unless it's causing an obstruction.

Oh they CAN - parking restrictions apply to the road, verge and pavement - basically everything 'upto a property' or 'upto private land' - and parking on pavements CAN be handled under the Road Traffic Act too (because that uses the Highway Code as it's guide IIRC?)

Reality is that the Police don't 'do parking' anymore and wardens (usually local auth. or private) are told exactly what to ticket based on getting max results with minimal chance of appeals - no 'chancer' tickets which might cost more to defend than earn.

He ownes the pier, other than driving over a pavement its his private property?