The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

[WD39]

Vipers said:

Dear customer services,

Can you move those silly posts so I can park my car closer to the door.






It was there when I went in, and still there when I came out.

ASDA, Always Some dhead About.

[WD39]

AMG Merc said:

DoubleD said:

Yep no issue with that parking.

Nor me. I always park over the hatching on the end if i get the chance.

Thus obscuring the intended view when taking the tight corners present in most carparks. Same problem in supermarket car parks, on the hatched area at the end of each row.

What do you think the lines are there for?. The same as any other hatched area. ( But yes, you can cross a hatched area on a road if it is unavoidable.)

KEEP OFF, you naughty, naughty PH drivers.

[WD39]

Timbergiant said:

I think parking on the pavement and on a zig zag is allowed if you're having a smoke isn't it?

Yes, but only if it's wacky baccy.

[WD39]

Bricol said:

thetapeworm said:

I shouldn't post this because they had their hazards on and everyone knows that cancels out any parking issues.

We've got roadworks in our little town with a narrow main street. No Parking cones have been placed in the parking bays on the narrowest part to maintain a clear path through when the road works traffic lights cycle.

Wandered down to the chippy yesterday, and literally parked on the cones was a van from CAP Glazing of Ripon, while his mate was in the chippy. I asked the driver if he hadn't seen the cones . .

"I've got the flashing lights on on the back" was his reply . . .

Maybe the lights make the van narrower? Or invisible to traffic? I'm tempted to email the company and ask if I can buy some of them to make my car narrower too ;-)

Officer: You were exceeding the speed limit!

Driver: Yes, but I had my hazard lights on!

[JeS10]

Glasgow Univetsity's finest minds

[JeS10]

Glasgow Univetsity's finest minds

[littlelewis6]

Downward said:

littlelewis6 said:

This happened just before work tonight, in Mansfield, came out of McDonald's and the owner was walking ahead of me back to the car and when I went "lines are there for a reason mate" he got super confrontational, threatening me, calling me out with his arms raised etc, after I'd gotten into my car he then tried to wheel spin through the car park behind me, followed me through Mansfield heading towards Nottingham when he decides to overtake me, he went through a set of traffic lights on the opposite side of the central reservation before cutting in front of the range rover that was in front of me making us both slam on, and finally pulled into a bus stop to let me pass him before pulling right back out behind me.

Took your advice well then ?

Think he was trying to be a "big man" in front of his girlfriend, only way he knew how was to threaten a skinny guy in a car park that called him up on his parking, I'm sure she rewarded him well....

[31mph]

What a nobber,

And to think I was regretting selling my Zetec s

[Steff1965]

DickyC said:

Clacket Lane Services on Friday. As elsewhere, if there are insufficient bays for trailers and caravans you go into the HGV park.

Car park looks empty enough for them to park there to me

[DickyC]

Steff1965 said:

DickyC said:

Clacket Lane Services on Friday. As elsewhere, if there are insufficient bays for trailers and caravans you go into the HGV park.

Car park looks empty enough for them to park there to me

Newfound tolerance of bad parking endangers amusing bad parking thread.

[Ikemi]

What do I win? There are houses all along this road ...

[Vipers]

Ikemi said:

What do I win? There are houses all along this road ...

Now I would send that to the local council, that possibly damaged the footpatch, and the tax payer will pick up the bill, what an absolute ahole.

[Big Rod]

funkyrobot said:

Can you get an 'invoice' for doing that though?

I would have thought that one of the conditions of parking is parking within the allocated spaces.

I received a ticket for using the hatches on an otherwise useless bit of tarmac in a car park in Leighton Buzzard a number of years ago.

I contested it and the 'judge' ruled in my favour but cited that I'd parked that way due to inadequate signage rather than common sense.

Edited by Big Rod on Monday 22 August 12:03

[Digi75]

Any winners here?

All from one single estate













And this one blocks the pavement regularly...



This one was just popping to the shops...

[gtidriver]

The last pic of the merc on the yellow lines is legally parked as its not a continuous yellow line I believe.im probably wrong though..

[Hoofy]

Hasn't the Fiat driver learnt by now?

[sim72]

I had to go to that estate to pick up a parcel from Yodel that they'd lied about trying to deliver to me. There were no spaces in their car park or anywhere else so I have to admit I parked like a number of those above. I was so p***ed off at the time that I couldn't have cared less.

[SickAsAParrot]

We were packing up our stuff after a day trip to Durham when this knuckledragger just dumps his clown car right in front of us and shambles off towards the footbridge, presumably looking for the tree his parents live in.

Thing is, there were lots of spaces right next to the bridge, he could have saved himself some time and not looked like a complete douchenozzle.

[AMG Merc]

DickyC said:

Steff1965 said:

DickyC said:

Clacket Lane Services on Friday. As elsewhere, if there are insufficient bays for trailers and caravans you go into the HGV park.

Car park looks empty enough for them to park there to me

Newfound tolerance of bad parking endangers amusing bad parking thread.

Agreed - there's some twisted logic there

[AMG Merc]

cluckcluck said:

St. Albans near the main town

I bet they parked to give someone a ticket for parking on... a double yellow! Well, they did leave an 18 inch gap so one could see the lines