The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
Gluggy said:
Well spotted re the Focus(!), have never seen an electric car use them spaces in the last two years... For the sake of honesty at the time of taking said picture we also parked our non electric car in the charging space to the right - all the blue badge bays were taken despite half of them not displaying a badge and the charging bays were the next closest to the entrance... Admittedly two wrongs don't make a right but given there were still some charging bays free I figured no harm, no foul.
So probably the non blue badge people did the same as you and parked in the disabled spaces because there were several others free then the rest were later filled by blue badge holders and along came another blue badge holder and surprise surprise no spaces. The way I understand it is that disabled spaces are for the benefit of blue badge holders and EV spaces are for the benefit of EV users so I don't park there.herewego said:
So probably the non blue badge people did the same as you and parked in the disabled spaces because there were several others free then the rest were later filled by blue badge holders and along came another blue badge holder and surprise surprise no spaces. The way I understand it is that disabled spaces are for the benefit of blue badge holders and EV spaces are for the benefit of EV users so I don't park there.
What if you're disabled and drive an EV ? marshalla said:
herewego said:
So probably the non blue badge people did the same as you and parked in the disabled spaces because there were several others free then the rest were later filled by blue badge holders and along came another blue badge holder and surprise surprise no spaces. The way I understand it is that disabled spaces are for the benefit of blue badge holders and EV spaces are for the benefit of EV users so I don't park there.
What if you're disabled and drive an EV ? 
herewego said:
Gluggy said:
Well spotted re the Focus(!), have never seen an electric car use them spaces in the last two years... For the sake of honesty at the time of taking said picture we also parked our non electric car in the charging space to the right - all the blue badge bays were taken despite half of them not displaying a badge and the charging bays were the next closest to the entrance... Admittedly two wrongs don't make a right but given there were still some charging bays free I figured no harm, no foul.
So probably the non blue badge people did the same as you and parked in the disabled spaces because there were several others free then the rest were later filled by blue badge holders and along came another blue badge holder and surprise surprise no spaces. The way I understand it is that disabled spaces are for the benefit of blue badge holders and EV spaces are for the benefit of EV users so I don't park there.Gluggy said:
herewego said:
Gluggy said:
Well spotted re the Focus(!), have never seen an electric car use them spaces in the last two years... For the sake of honesty at the time of taking said picture we also parked our non electric car in the charging space to the right - all the blue badge bays were taken despite half of them not displaying a badge and the charging bays were the next closest to the entrance... Admittedly two wrongs don't make a right but given there were still some charging bays free I figured no harm, no foul.
So probably the non blue badge people did the same as you and parked in the disabled spaces because there were several others free then the rest were later filled by blue badge holders and along came another blue badge holder and surprise surprise no spaces. The way I understand it is that disabled spaces are for the benefit of blue badge holders and EV spaces are for the benefit of EV users so I don't park there.JuanGandini said:
Spotted outside my house this morning - parking using sense of touch. Both cars belong to neighbours, so one of them is s
tting on their own doorstep!
The mind boggles at what I'd do if one of them used the same technique to park against my car!
Which reminds me...tting on their own doorstep!The mind boggles at what I'd do if one of them used the same technique to park against my car!
Years ago we had a t
t in the road who'd dump a metro with collapsed suspension in the middle of two spaces between driveways. With the lack of parking there this idiot used to annoy a lot of people. Talking to the neighbour on one side it turned out they were going away for a bit & wouldn't need access to their drive. So I parked my lifted Discovery half over their drive & half over the metro. The height difference in the cars got my winch within 6" of the metro's windscreen without anything touching 
Then the other neighbour parked right up behind it.Roll forward a couple of days & one of the cars was moved. Oddly enough mr t
t learnt to park at that point.No pics sorry, it was too long ago to have a phone that did such things.
JuanGandini said:
Spotted outside my house this morning - parking using sense of touch. Both cars belong to neighbours, so one of them is stting on their own doorstep!
The mind boggles at what I'd do if one of them used the same technique to park against my car!
Hope you never go to Paris or countless other places in the world where they routinely use the bumpers to nudge each others cars along a bit while parking tting on their own doorstep!The mind boggles at what I'd do if one of them used the same technique to park against my car!
You'd be horrified
Europa1 said:
Yep, similar thing happened to me at Sainsburys Coldhams Lane Cambridge on Saturday - this total dildo passed the line of cars at the far left bank of pumps then parked at the front (on double yellows) to use the shop, thereby neatly blocking in everyone actually at the pumps.
This happened at my local Sainsburys petrol station - he even had the nerve to have a go at the cashier over the length of queue at the till. Edited by Alpaca on Thursday 2nd April 21:28
The total bell-end who swung in forwards, at a jaunty diagonal angle, to park in the disabled space closest to the door to the 'B4' staircase in the Festival Place car park in Basingstoke today.
That clowning was bad enough, but the fact that you very nearly ran over my foot to do so, as I was walking toward the stairs along the red-painted pedestrian route really took the cake. Hence why you got the knock on your bootlid, you wretched little halfwit. How come you didn't just wait for me to finish walking past the end of the space before pulling in? How come you didn't indicate, which might have led to me not walking across the end of the space you needed so urgently? How come you thought sarcasm was the best opener when you wound down your window?
FYI, yes. You can "help me". By fking off and crawling into a hole and ceasing to breathe, you verminous little piss-ant. You cannot even begin to imagine the effort it took to stop myself from reaching in through your window and looping your seatbelt around your scrawny little neck.
If it had just been me, then I might have left it. But he also very nearly hit my wife and son. Which stirred my 'protective instinct', and in turn sparked the knock on the boot, and a short, very much "one way" conversation. One in which I informed him quite forcefully of my intense displeasure, yet miraculously didn't swear or resort to violence (or even threats thereof). Seriously. I'm trying SO hard to be a nicer person, especially when my wife is around, but I swear that twunts like this deliberately set out to goad me into losing control.
Silver (older) Ford Mondeo, skinny runt in 'sportswear' and his hefty orange heffalump girlfriend in the passenger seat. Presumably he was only pulling in to pay for his parking, too, judging by the ticket clutched in his sweaty paw. Five seconds WON'T make a blind bit of difference to the course of your life, dhead, but I guarantee you, running your car into my family whilst trying to park most definitely WILL alter your perspective on life...
...the worst part of all of this? The gormless look on the idiot's face, and the mumbled denial that he'd done anything wrong. Yet another fkwit who thinks that the car is king, and simply because it's generally bigger than a pedestrian, and far less likely to be troubled by a collision, that it's fine to use it to bully people out of the way.
That clowning was bad enough, but the fact that you very nearly ran over my foot to do so, as I was walking toward the stairs along the red-painted pedestrian route really took the cake. Hence why you got the knock on your bootlid, you wretched little halfwit. How come you didn't just wait for me to finish walking past the end of the space before pulling in? How come you didn't indicate, which might have led to me not walking across the end of the space you needed so urgently? How come you thought sarcasm was the best opener when you wound down your window?
FYI, yes. You can "help me". By f
king off and crawling into a hole and ceasing to breathe, you verminous little piss-ant. You cannot even begin to imagine the effort it took to stop myself from reaching in through your window and looping your seatbelt around your scrawny little neck. If it had just been me, then I might have left it. But he also very nearly hit my wife and son. Which stirred my 'protective instinct', and in turn sparked the knock on the boot, and a short, very much "one way" conversation. One in which I informed him quite forcefully of my intense displeasure, yet miraculously didn't swear or resort to violence (or even threats thereof). Seriously. I'm trying SO hard to be a nicer person, especially when my wife is around, but I swear that twunts like this deliberately set out to goad me into losing control.
Silver (older) Ford Mondeo, skinny runt in 'sportswear' and his hefty orange heffalump girlfriend in the passenger seat. Presumably he was only pulling in to pay for his parking, too, judging by the ticket clutched in his sweaty paw. Five seconds WON'T make a blind bit of difference to the course of your life, d
head, but I guarantee you, running your car into my family whilst trying to park most definitely WILL alter your perspective on life......the worst part of all of this? The gormless look on the idiot's face, and the mumbled denial that he'd done anything wrong. Yet another f
kwit who thinks that the car is king, and simply because it's generally bigger than a pedestrian, and far less likely to be troubled by a collision, that it's fine to use it to bully people out of the way.
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