The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

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Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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herewego said:
Speed 3 said:
Vipers said:
Doesn't apply to me......



No parking coz it's a turning area, doh. Obviously too technical to the VW and the Focus drivers. The blue car to the right was actually turning. Imagine a camper of likes trying to turn here. This is a very busy area and it's not till you get to the road you find out there are no spaces so you have to turn around.




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The one on the right is certainly a 'tard but I can understand why the other might have been confused. Why can't the council have painted a full yellow cross-hatch box FFS ?
I don’t know the place but I’d guess they have gone for minimal paint for aesthetics.
Seafront in Stonehaven, car spaces are separated by white lines. At the end of the last white line, it says TURNING AREA, clear enough I would have thought, then again double yellows or zig zags does t stop some parking does it?.




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iSore

4,011 posts

144 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Sticks.

8,748 posts

251 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Can't even park a trolley, some people.

Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Sticks. said:
Can't even park a trolley, some people.
Bet the trolly park is all of three metres from there, can't expect people to return them. Our locals in Sainsbury's can't e even return the papers to the paper rack in the restaurant.

The fact that the sign above the paper rack says "PLEASE RETURN PAPERS", it seems to me most can't read anyway.




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Doshy

825 posts

217 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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CoolHands said:
This is a very busy road in london although for once it doesn't look like it in the pic! Yeah don't worry we'll just walk in the road...into the path of buses etc & no they weren't broken down.




I would've had to say something.

GeordieInExile

683 posts

120 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Still managed to park at an angle and with a wheel outside the confines of all the bays!

Jim1556

1,771 posts

156 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Not disputing the horrific parking on here but it's high time spaces got bigger to reflect the average size of cars.

My Skud and M3 aren't huge cars but in the average car park, I have to be very careful - usually try to leave it bang in the middle of a space, more often than not, it's either a squeeze to get out or a squeeze to get back in when some mindless tt has parked 2ft closer than they need to!

We don't all drive superminis! irked

Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Jim1556 said:
Not disputing the horrific parking on here but it's high time spaces got bigger to reflect the average size of cars.

My Skud and M3 aren't huge cars but in the average car park, I have to be very careful - usually try to leave it bang in the middle of a space, more often than not, it's either a squeeze to get out or a squeeze to get back in when some mindless tt has parked 2ft closer than they need to!

We don't all drive superminis! irked
You of course are absolutely correct. When our ASDA (not that I shop there you understand), redone the car park, they made ALL the spaces a tad wider.

Some say maximise spaces, but I have never seen our local supermarket car parks ever filled, not to say that's the norm.

I have a classic example of car sizes, if I can find, will post after this.


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Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Then and now.



And you just know the littl'n isn't hat wide either.

Picture taken in Freshwarwe NSW this year when visiting our daughter.




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No Bend

591 posts

122 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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GeordieInExile said:


Still managed to park at an angle and with a wheel outside the confines of all the bays!
TImes like this makes me wish I had some old stter of a car, then i'd squeeze it in behind this twonk and watch him try to extract his car. What an A grade tool.

budgie smuggler

5,380 posts

159 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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No Bend said:
TImes like this makes me wish I had some old stter of a car, then i'd squeeze it in behind this twonk and watch him try to extract his car. What an A grade tool.
Likewise this twunt on the previous page would be ripe to have a stty old dihatsu hijet parked right up against the drivers door.

andyr30 said:


Stopped at Durham services Yesterday, was pretty busy and spaces are quite small, especially if you're in a van.

I think this was possibly the smallest car in the car park

Feirny

2,518 posts

147 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Seems if you own an Alfa Spider, you can park how you wish. Then they multiply.


zedx19

2,745 posts

140 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Empty car park and such a pretty car, all is forgiven.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Spotted in the street in Brighton.

Can only assume there's some back story. No cars either side of pic for a reasonable distance.

Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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So difficult parking these big cars frown

Trouble is, although someone can park in the bay behind them, another brain dead driver parking in the next but one bay and overlaps at the back, means one bay can't be used. This place is chocka at the weekend.

There were quite a few like this today.






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kowalski655

14,639 posts

143 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Vipers said:
Then and now.



And you just know the littl'n isn't hat wide either.

Picture taken in Freshwarwe NSW this year when visiting our daughter.




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Even the same car

The Countryman is 33% longer than the classic Mini!

thetapeworm

11,225 posts

239 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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In their defence it couldn't have been any further from the door and was in the quietest car park at the shopping centre.

Apologies for the overdone photo, I was bored and the original was very dull (HTC M9 camera software woes).

Edited by thetapeworm on Wednesday 5th August 15:47

Moonhawk

10,730 posts

219 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Saw a Porsche Cayenne owned by a 'triple ripple' skinhead using the "pickup point" as his own personal parking space at Sainsbury in Chester yesterday. Couldn't even be bothered to park it up properly and left the arse end hanging out into the access road (pic to follow).

Vipers

32,880 posts

228 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Moonhawk said:
Saw a Porsche Cayenne owned by a 'triple ripple' skinhead using the "pickup point" as his own personal parking space at Sainsbury in Chester yesterday. Couldn't even be bothered to park it up properly and left the arse end hanging out into the access road (pic to follow).
I double parked alongside a car in the pick up point with the driver in. (Misses waiting there with shopping trolly), I said "You do know this is the pick up point"

He said "Yes I know, I am picking someone up", he was still waiting when I left.




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Edited by Vipers on Wednesday 5th August 17:24

Strawman

6,463 posts

207 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Moonhawk said:
Saw a Porsche Cayenne owned by a 'triple ripple' skinhead
What is a triple ripple skinhead? I looked on google but the results weren't family friendly.
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