The BAD PARKING Thread [Vol 2]

[Liquid Knight]

skip_1 said:

Liquid Knight said:

It must be lunch time...





..the postie's here.

Ha, you actually issued fake fines

The next Council vehicle illegally parked will get a "You have two weeks to take £80 off my Council Tax bill. £40 if you can do it within fourteen days".

[ka90]

[Vipers]

How many bad examples we have posted on this thread of bad parking, and how many have resulted in a fine apart from almost certainly zero, then I came across this today, beggars belief.

Adolf is alive and well living in Port Isaac.

[Txspete]

Excuse the rubbish camera phone

[Pixelpeep]

Txspete said:

Excuse the rubbish camera phone

:@

that would make me wanna kill someone that kind of parking.

[irocfan]

Jos Notstoppen said:

Although this looks like bad parking it is not really as she was only going to be a few minutes dropping the kids off at school.....30 minutes ago.

that's disgraceful - I dpn't want to come over all 'brake' like but that's begging for an accident to happen

[irocfan]

Vipers said:

How many bad examples we have posted on this thread of bad parking, and how many have resulted in a fine apart from almost certainly zero, then I came across this today, beggars belief.

Adolf is alive and well living in Port Isaac.

I bet he'll be more careful how he parks in future!

Cliftonite said:

Yard or more from the kerb, double yellow lines and zig-zags!

Full house? .




From my Facebook

possibly part of a static car show given what's behind it (both awesome BTW)



as for the delivery man vid - it's the dogs that crack me up

[blueheron]

I do enjoy how people turn their front wheels as if to say "well they're fairly straight so that'll do"

[gus607]

Here's the ahole of the Day !

[yellowjack]

Vipers said:

How many bad examples we have posted on this thread of bad parking, and how many have resulted in a fine apart from almost certainly zero, then I came across this today, beggars belief.

Adolf is alive and well living in Port Isaac.

I'm seeing three sides to this...

1. As someone who's been unable to park despite there being nominally sufficient spaces for the number of cars present (multiple 'over the lines' drivers taking up two spaces) I'm with the car park operator. Just because the car park wasn't busy when he parked, and wasn't busy when he left, Mr Barr cannot be certain that the car park didn't/wouldn't get busy while he was in town, and by parking without proper regard to his position within the space, he potentially deprived the car park operator of revenue.

2. The poor sap who earns a pittance actually issuing the fines was simply doing his job. It's not unknown for the employers in some cases to deliberately park "other than in accordance with terms and conditions" as a test. Ticket a member of the public, and you are now 'Adolf', but get a pat on the back from management. Fail to ticket a 'test' car and receive a written warning. When your year-round job is on the line, and the only real alternative is seasonal/casual work, why risk the wrath of your employer?

3. The car park operating company has garnered only negative publicity for this story now. Complete PR fail. But, they probably won't be too bothered. Car parks in Cornwall are constantly full to capacity in the summer months, and there's little choice to 'go elsewhere' so these companies seldom care very much for their public image, although in this case, if it were you who was caught out, you'd hope that some common sense was displayed. It's pretty obvious that no loss of revenue has occurred due to this incident.

...but on the whole, I keep coming back to the first point, and don't really feel much sympathy for Mr Barr. The spaces are adequately marked, and I'd have moved my car if I'd gotten out of it and saw that it wasn't central in the bay. Reluctantly, as I don't much like private/contracted parking enforcement, I'm going to vote "pay up, and learn from the mistake".

[Vipers]

yellowjack said:

The spaces are adequately marked, and I'd have moved my car if I'd gotten out of it and saw that it wasn't central in the bay.

Have to agree with that, I do it all the time, especially to check the back of my car is not poking into the bay behind me.

Fine seems a tad excessive though.

[fatboy18]

Tescos would have a field day if they issued tickets for cars not being parked between the lines Then again business might suffer!

[skip_1]

gus607 said:

Here's the ahole of the Day !

Has he actually caused the cracking on the footway? If so, send the pics to your local highways department, why should your council tax pay for that?

[Negative Creep]

Vipers said:

yellowjack said:

The spaces are adequately marked, and I'd have moved my car if I'd gotten out of it and saw that it wasn't central in the bay.

Have to agree with that, I do it all the time, especially to check the back of my car is not poking into the bay behind me.

Fine seems a tad excessive though.

Considering the "only 4 cars in the place" photo he's taken doesn't actually include his ML I'm going to bet it was a tad busier than he's letting on

[Tje]

I used to work for a local authority, dealing with parking appeals. I have seen some horrific parking.

This one below is the best I saw, and the person it was issued to had no clue why it had been issued? they weren't on a double yellow line so whats the problem?

[gus607]

skip_1 said:

Has he actually caused the cracking on the footway? If so, send the pics to your local highways department, why should your council tax pay for that?

Excellent point !

[rambo19]

irocfan said:

Jos Notstoppen said:

Although this looks like bad parking it is not really as she was only going to be a few minutes dropping the kids off at school.....30 minutes ago.

that's disgraceful - I dpn't want to come over all 'brake' like but that's begging for an accident to happen

And sadly it would not be the white cars fault.

[Steff1965]

ka90 said:

Why did you only show the police car and not the other two?

[Mr SFJ]

The award for most selfish parking goes to....


Wr

closely followed by...



Surely it would be more difficult to balls it up than to get it right? Oh, and number 2 does this, and worse DAILY!

It boils my piss to see this level of selfishness.

[Vipers]

Mr SFJ said:

The award for most selfish parking goes to....


Wr

closely followed by...



Surely it would be more difficult to balls it up than to get it right? Oh, and number 2 does this, and worse DAILY!

It boils my piss to see this level of selfishness.

Employ some wardens from Port Isaac, that will sort the buggers out