The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
Discussion
surveyor said:
Brother parked top of driveway as needed to move bin. Brother thought car in P, when was in N. Car rolled down steep-driveway and greeted house. Brother had bought the car just before Christmas, and this was his first trip home in it.
Brother was not happy.
Does it not have a handbrake?Brother was not happy.
Cliftonite said:
surveyor said:
Brother parked top of driveway as needed to move bin. Brother thought car in P, when was in N. Car rolled down steep-driveway and greeted house. Brother had bought the car just before Christmas, and this was his first trip home in it.
Brother was not happy.
Does it not have a handbrake?Brother was not happy.
Those Red Dwarf (the star classification not the tv show) brake lights illuminating the world to their incompetence make driving the next few miles at night an adventure if you're unlucky enough to be stuck behind one and your sun visor doesn't go low enough.
If they have an e-brake and you park with hot discs they can fail once the brakes have cooled enough to shrink a little or they have a conventional handbrake chances are from the display on the roads nobody has told Jaguar owners how to use them.
The use of the word "owner" as opposed to "driver" because new Jaguars have so many drivers you can not drive them in any meaningful way.
WD39 said:
fatboy18 said:
Common sight at my local Tescos, usually with trailer attached, full of 'manure'.This abandoned 4 x 4 is 144mm wider than my Volvo. Last week a car had reversed in on the left, and after letting my passenger out, I reversed in on the right, and had loads of room to get out.
Then again I am not an ignorant driver.
He needed the room, he was definitely a FB, but no excuse for just swinging in and leaving it.
Then again I am not an ignorant driver.
He needed the room, he was definitely a FB, but no excuse for just swinging in and leaving it.
kowalski655 said:
The Crack Fox said:
Is there not a fine for driving across a pavement,or does that spot have vehicle access?TheInsanity1234 said:
They can't do anything about a car parked somewhere in the middle of the pavement unless it's causing an obstruction.
Oh they CAN - parking restrictions apply to the road, verge and pavement - basically everything 'upto a property' or 'upto private land' - and parking on pavements CAN be handled under the Road Traffic Act too (because that uses the Highway Code as it's guide IIRC?)Reality is that the Police don't 'do parking' anymore and wardens (usually local auth. or private) are told exactly what to ticket based on getting max results with minimal chance of appeals - no 'chancer' tickets which might cost more to defend than earn.
405dogvan said:
TheInsanity1234 said:
They can't do anything about a car parked somewhere in the middle of the pavement unless it's causing an obstruction.
Oh they CAN - parking restrictions apply to the road, verge and pavement - basically everything 'upto a property' or 'upto private land' - and parking on pavements CAN be handled under the Road Traffic Act too (because that uses the Highway Code as it's guide IIRC?)Reality is that the Police don't 'do parking' anymore and wardens (usually local auth. or private) are told exactly what to ticket based on getting max results with minimal chance of appeals - no 'chancer' tickets which might cost more to defend than earn.
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