The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

[techguyone]

This one again, it's always there which makes me wonder if its a Doctor or member of staff, god knows why though the carparks always got spaces.

[justleanitupabit]

nonsequitur said:

R E S T E C P said:

Does this qualify? It was a few months ago. I count 16 badly parked cars in this one image alone.



My car was the Passat - obviously, because I'm not a little girl and therefore don't park nose-first.

Looks like any car park would do, anywhere in the country.

Parking nose in at a Supermarket is more sensible - you can get to your boot easier with your shopping and don't have to run the risk running the trolley down the side of either car as you do if you've backed in. Very few car parks have an access area between two adjacent rows.

Bad parking denied in this instance.

[HTP99]

justleanitupabit said:

nonsequitur said:

R E S T E C P said:

Does this qualify? It was a few months ago. I count 16 badly parked cars in this one image alone.



My car was the Passat - obviously, because I'm not a little girl and therefore don't park nose-first.

Looks like any car park would do, anywhere in the country.

Parking nose in at a Supermarket is more sensible - you can get to your boot easier with your shopping and don't have to run the risk running the trolley down the side of either car as you do if you've backed in. Very few car parks have an access area between two adjacent rows.

Bad parking denied in this instance.

This has been done to death, however that argument goes straight out of the window when you see rows of cars parked like that nose in and guess what that have nosed on to; yep a walkway where you can walk safely down with your kids and load easily onto your boot, if you had reversed in!

I can guarantee that if I went to my local sainsburys, 90-100% of the disabled and mother and baby parkers will be parked nose in facing the walkway.

It is laziness pure and simple.

[R11ysf]

leigh1050 said:

Funnily enough I saw an Enzo parked exactly the same way near me. Copy of the Daily Mail on the dash.
Turned out it was Rod Stewart outside his missus place in Wapping and I'm guessing the underground car park was too difficult to enter. But literally one wheel was 6-8" above the rest!

[zedx19]

HTP99 said:

This has been done to death, however that argument goes straight out of the window when you see rows of cars parked like that nose in and guess what that have nosed on to; yep a walkway where you can walk safely down with your kids and load easily onto your boot, if you had reversed in!

I can guarantee that if I went to my local sainsburys, 90-100% of the disabled and mother and baby parkers will be parked nose in facing the walkway.

It is laziness pure and simple.

I can't wait for your next update including photos of disabled and parent parking spaces with cars parked nose in. You should try sending them to Daily Mail, you'll get £250 if you include a photo of yourself looking angry.

[Hoofy]

HTP99 said:

It is laziness pure and simple.

A worrying lack of ability more like.

[DoubleD]

Hoofy said:

HTP99 said:

It is laziness pure and simple.

A worrying lack of ability more like.

Its no harder or easier to reverse park. Ability has nothing to do with it.

[Vipers]

DoubleD said:

Hoofy said:

HTP99 said:

It is laziness pure and simple.

A worrying lack of ability more like.

Its no harder or easier to reverse park. Ability has nothing to do with it.

Thrashed to death.

[DoubleD]

And so is the argument that reverse parking is harder

[nonsequitur]

Vipers said:

DoubleD said:

Hoofy said:

HTP99 said:

It is laziness pure and simple.

A worrying lack of ability more like.

Its no harder or easier to reverse park. Ability has nothing to do with it.

Thrashed to death.

PH recruits new boys and girls all the time. To them any thread is new and they may bring new vision and ideas to any subject. It is a PH tradition to re-visit topics and long may it continue.

[problemchild1976]

reverse parking harder than driving in

reverse parking is easier to get into tighter angles

its the bad decision making thats annoying

JJ

Edited by problemchild1976 on Tuesday 21st February 20:45

[Vipers]

nonsequitur said:

Vipers said:

DoubleD said:

Hoofy said:

HTP99 said:

It is laziness pure and simple.

A worrying lack of ability more like.

Its no harder or easier to reverse park. Ability has nothing to do with it.

Thrashed to death.

PH recruits new boys and girls all the time. To them any thread is new and they may bring new vision and ideas to any subject. It is a PH tradition to re-visit topics and long may it continue.

New vision, didn't think about that

[S11Steve]

I'm usually pretty vocal about private parking tickets, their validity and enforceability, and have a very good record with POPLA and court claims.

However today was one of the very rare occasions when I think the ticket was entirely justified....




That said, UKPC are holding my fleet company liable as keeper, so I'll be challenging this on other grounds.

[skip_1]

S11Steve said:

I'm usually pretty vocal about private parking tickets, their validity and enforceability, and have a very good record with POPLA and court claims.

However today was one of the very rare occasions when I think the ticket was entirely justified....




That said, UKPC are holding my fleet company liable as keeper, so I'll be challenging this on other grounds.

Do you not just pass on the details of whoever has leased it?

[Cliftonite]

GU11 ZMZ

Edited by Cliftonite on Wednesday 22 February 03:08

[S11Steve]

skip_1 said:

Do you not just pass on the details of whoever has leased it?

Every time, but quite often the parking companies don't want the hassle of chasing another person, so pester us for payment. It's just another defence point for me though when they refuse to co-operate.

[Alan L]

S11Steve said:

Every time, but quite often the parking companies don't want the hassle of chasing another person, so pester us for payment. It's just another defence point for me though when they refuse to co-operate.

A friend of mine got a deduction from his wages a couple years ago for parking in a macdonalds and overstaying. He did laptop work for over the 2 hour limit. Car is leased, the parking company invoiced the lease people who duly paid up straight away and then charged his company, who then charged him. The first he heard was when he got his wage slip.

[S11Steve]

Alan L said:

A friend of mine got a deduction from his wages a couple years ago for parking in a macdonalds and overstaying. He did laptop work for over the 2 hour limit. Car is leased, the parking company invoiced the lease people who duly paid up straight away and then charged his company, who then charged him. The first he heard was when he got his wage slip.

This is one of the reasons we try to transfer liability, because we do not know the specific circumstances of each event. I have dozens of examples of employees, residents and even owners being ticketed in their own parking spaces, and people getting tickets from MET at McDonalds after booking birthday parties there. The parties last 2 hours, but the parking is limited to 90 minutes. Wickes employ a national contractor to do their electrical safety testing and maintenance - they regularly get tickets in our vehicles but G24 refuse to cancel them even though Wickes ask them to be cancelled...

Back to your mate though, I'll bet my left bk that the lease company only mentions that fines and endorsable offences are the liability of the hirer, but these private parking charges are nothing more than a contractual invoice at best, speculative invoice in reality.

But I rant about these in the SP&L forum.

[Cal670]

Coming up to 3 years ago now, but on the main straight outside my college site.

[Accelebrate]

Was there for 24 hours or so. Local Middle England residents were so incensed that an act of wiper lifting vandalism was administered.