The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]

[csd19]

Vipers said:

In a fairly busy car park, supermarket Saturday shoppers, the mini and Beema are parked. Woman in the Range Rover breezes up and deposits it half way across two bays.

She got out, walked around the Rover to admire her parking skills. Got in and moved forward, waste of time, see second photo.





As I was leaving, the mini and Beema had gone, making her look an even bigger tard.




Mind you maybe her eye sight isn't that good, on the sign in front of her it does say "Park within the marked bays", no exemptions for Rovers. The other one in the picture seems to have managed OK.

Hmm oil-trash white SUV in oil-trash city parking like a self-obsessed twunt... Nope sorry, you'll have to try harder than that to shock me

[ashleyman]

Vipers said:

Thanks for that, that's me told, at least you didn't block the corner. I wonder at times when the HC says you shouldn't park within 10 metres of a junction, then bother painting yellow lines on the road. Not that anyone takes any notice of it.

It's the same with parking opposite junctions. Not supposed to do it. Unfortunately. The local council seem to ignore the Highway Code and they even paint the bay's opposite junctions, less than 10m from a junction and don't always put double yellows down where needed.

It's so annoying trying to get out of my flats shared car park and people park right up to the entrance. Probably the same as the oblivious person who parked the car in my photo.

[WD39]

Vipers said:

ashleyman said:

Presumably all the spaces on both,sides of the road were full, guess that would explain it.

Or was it further from his front door

no, ashley. It's typical I.D.G.A.S parking.

[ghiblicup]

[Jezzerh]

ghiblicup said:

God that's a Q-Park as well by the looks of it. Their spaces are usually pretty generous. What a unit.

[WD39]

ghiblicup said:

A car park with lots of spaces! Where?

[Cliftonite]

Short term ('pick-up') parking space at the station when the London train is due in is in short supply.

Is it unreasonable of me to expect steering wheel operatives to realize that not driving to the end of the bay means some poor sod might not have room to be able to park at the other end of the row?

Is it unreasonable of me to expect that if they know this, they should also care enough to do something about it?

[Stakeknife]

No excuse.

[loafer123]

Cliftonite said:

Short term ('pick-up') parking space at the station when the London train is due in is in short supply.

Is it unreasonable of me to expect steering wheel operatives to realize that not driving to the end of the bay means some poor sod might not have room to be able to park at the other end of the row?

Is it unreasonable of me to expect that if they know this, they should also care enough to do something about it?

I always try and think charitably, and assume someone was in front of them when they arrived. Still should move up, though.

[LanceRS]

AJXX1 said:

LanceRS said:

This was my 17 year old at the weekend, he couldn't understand why we were laughing and refused to move it.


When we got back to it we found this!

30 quid HID "upgrade" kit off eBay by any chance?

All I can look at is the awful glare.

No, just half decent bulbs and a crappy phone picture. He is not a normal teenage driver, I can pretty much garantee that he will never ever spend any money on the car that is not related to MOT time (and then I had to pay half the bill).

[ghiblicup]

WD39 said:

ghiblicup said:

A car park with lots of spaces! Where?

London town! At nearly 50 squids a day it's no wonder.

[gringonuts]

I was very happy to park our FIAT 500 in this space next to the barrier - well over on the nearside so lots of space on the offside minimising the chance of any "door dings". When I left it, there was another 500 parked nose-in in the middle of its bay next door.

This is what I came back to.





It's scary to think that I share the road with people who do this.

[irocfan]

gringonuts said:

I was very happy to park our FIAT 500 in this space next to the barrier - well over on the nearside so lots of space on the offside minimising the chance of any "door dings". When I left it, there was another 500 parked nose-in in the middle of its bay next door.

This is what I came back to.





It's scary to think that I share the road with people who do this.

why bother obscuring the Nissan's plate? Parking that ste deserves recognition

[Trabi601]

bigbob77 said:

Thousands of posts and barely a mention of unrealistically small parking spaces or the assholes who let their children slam doors into your brand new car.

Took just over 24 hours and 50 miles for some idiot at a local country park to dent the door of my new 5 series. It's only small, but I can see it every time I walk out to the car now.

[herewego]

gringonuts said:

I was very happy to park our FIAT 500 in this space next to the barrier - well over on the nearside so lots of space on the offside minimising the chance of any "door dings". When I left it, there was another 500 parked nose-in in the middle of its bay next door.

This is what I came back to.



It's scary to think that I share the road with people who do this.

I doubt you'll be so considerate again. If the Nissan was parked any further over you'd have been stuck.

[E36Ross]

Maybe the Nissan owner realised what you were doing and wanted to keep his right side ding free while still leaving you room to get in? So kept it closer to yours.


Maaaaybe, Anyway that's how I park where possible. (Like that Fiat not Nissan)

[yellowjack]

VERY bad parking, if you're trying to escape the attentions of the local Police...



http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/car-w...

[Writhing]

Sainsburys at Bury St Edmunds, this very evening.

Two for the price of one.

[Trabi601]

Isn't that a great example of modern SUVs being too big for a standard parking space?

The Nissan Juke and Kia SUV are so wide they're forcing everyone else to shift further over the line.

[E36Ross]

Writhing said:

Sainsburys at Bury St Edmunds, this very evening.

Two for the price of one.

Toyota yes, Golf I see nothing wrong with.

That hatched area is dead space anyway so he might aswel use it, I'd do and have done exactly the same.