The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[BenS94]

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

If this was 30 years ealier and it wasn't a bloated bd, you could've bounced it out the way.

[carlove]

Didn't think a new thread was justified so I thought I'd ask the experts. Would i be allowed to park behind the Mercedes? I've parked just before the first solid line starts(where I know I can't park). But when that ends and the new solid line for the speed bump starts I'm ashamed to admit as a driving god that I've no idea if I'm allowed to park there.

[markymarkthree]

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

I would invest in a new "fk off" sign on that gate.

[jamei303]

carlove said:

Didn't think a new thread was justified so I thought I'd ask the experts. Would i be allowed to park behind the Mercedes? I've parked just before the first solid line starts(where I know I can't park). But when that ends and the new solid line for the speed bump starts I'm ashamed to admit as a driving god that I've no idea if I'm allowed to park there.

That's merely a diagram 1012.1 line which is used to emphasise the edge of the carriageway and does not create a parking restriction.

[carlove]

jamei303 said:

That's merely a diagram 1012.1 line which is used to emphasise the edge of the carriageway and does not create a parking restriction.

Thank you. I've not been confused by parking for a long time!

[donkmeister]

markymarkthree said:

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

I would invest in a new "fk off" sign on that gate.

Yes, plus a set of car moving dollies.

If it happens again, move the car inside the gate, preferably to where a 57 point turn is required to extract it, then lock the gate.

There's 12 garages, maybe one of those 12 left the gate open and the numpty didn't spot they were parking on private land?

Having once had my car locked in on a cold, wet dark night (due to a misunderstanding about which car park was "on the left" - my mate had taken an odd route so his left was my right) and returned to it at midnight, it was a real PITA and quite expensive.

[Sigmamark7]

BenS94 said:

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

If this was 30 years ealier and it wasn't a bloated bd, you could've bounced it out the way.

It would be a terrible shame if someone accidentally left the gate unlatched and the wind kept blowing it into the parked car!

[Tommo87]

Sigmamark7 said:

BenS94 said:

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

If this was 30 years ealier and it wasn't a bloated bd, you could've bounced it out the way.

It would be a terrible shame if someone accidentally left the gate unlatched and the wind kept blowing it into the parked car!

I was thinking the same thing. I image their outlook about parking like a moron would change the next time.

I was also wondering if some earlier moron had ripped off the sign to excuse himself for parking there.

Here’s what is going to happen.
Lots of people who also park like morons are going to descend and suggest that your need for access wasn’t clear (despite the fact that the gate is obvious) , so the smart move would be to buy some rolls of gaffer tape to mask out a hatched area and a couple cans of this stuff.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-line-markin...


And it can all be bought in the one snapping trip.

[WarrenB]

Sigmamark7 said:

BenS94 said:

jeremyc said:

That 5 bar gate is the entrance to twelve garages (at the end of a private drive), and yes, it opens outwards in an arc right where the car is parked.

Driver was nowhere to be found despite much horn blowing and knocking on doors. Selfishness and stupidity knows no bounds ...

If this was 30 years ealier and it wasn't a bloated bd, you could've bounced it out the way.

It would be a terrible shame if someone accidentally left the gate unlatched and the wind kept blowing it into the parked car!

Or cable tied to the door handle

[Blib]

[ambuletz]

Blib said:

bit of an old one that, from 2019.

[CheesecakeRunner]

And the Police wonder why people struggle to like them.

How hard would it have been to respond “No, it’s not illegal but we accept we really shouldn’t do it and will not do so in the future unless operationally necessary”?

[Vipers]

CheesecakeRunner said:

And the Police wonder why people struggle to like them.

How hard would it have been to respond “No, it’s not illegal but we accept we really shouldn’t do it and will not do so in the future unless operationally necessary”?

They are but human like us, and like us some have absolutely no idea how/where to park, or maybe on an emergency call out park first place yoy find.

[CheesecakeRunner]

A) bks. They’re Police officers. It’s quite literally their job to know what people can and can’t do.
B) Did you read the bit I wrote that said “operationally necessary“?

[Vipers]

CheesecakeRunner said:

A) bks. They’re Police officers. It’s quite literally their job to know what people can and can’t do.
B) Did you read the bit I wrote that said “operationally necessary“?

Yes.

[CoolHands]

I think their response to the dweeb was acceptable

[Tommo87]

That’s an odd one as you don’t see many Policemen window shopping because they are bored with no work to do.

I assume nobody knows if they were responding to a crime and were expecting to arrest someone, to put in the back of the car?

[droopsnoot]

Tommo87 said:

That’s an odd one as you don’t see many Policemen window shopping because they are bored with no work to do.

I assume nobody knows if they were responding to a crime and were expecting to arrest someone, to put in the back of the car?

Or, indeed, whether they were bringing a lost child to reunite it with a parent at the supermarket, and therefore actually had a child with them. Not the first time a police car has parked in a daft place. I lose track of how many times they pull someone over on "Traffic Cops" and stop them in a daft place with all the traffic struggling to get past, and I don't mean the tactical contact stops, just normal ones. Picture is useless without context, really, though the police response was poor, unless it's just been creatively snipped out of the screenshot.

[Hackney]

James6112 said:

AndrewNR said:

Hackney said:

In conversation with a moron just now while walking to school.

- why’d you park on the pavement?
- so I don’t block the road
- but it’s ok to block the pavement?
- it’s a big wide pavement
- it’s a big wide road

Edited by Hackney on Tuesday 19th March 20:56

Don't really see anything wrong with this one. Both road/pavement large enough to accomodate a 50/50 approach.

Unless a weird lens, Hackney is a bit of a busybody moron

More in response to Andrew's point, there are lots of young families around here (older people with young kids if you include me and Mrs Hackney) and therefore lots of kids on bikes and scooters around here too. Parking on the pavement means those cars could easily be damaged. I'd imagine the owners don't want their cars scratched, and I don't want some scrote going after my kid (or any kid) or knocking on my door for money to repair damage.
If they park on the - plenty wide enough - road, that's less likely to happen,

[Old_Skool_Fool]

Hi all

Never posted on thread before (and didn't get any pics), but encountered something today that left me feeling the need to post. Seen some god awful parking alot, I live next to junction with double yellows everywhere and a blind corner but regularly get people pulling over and stopping on the double yellows right on the T junction, so getting quite used to people taking the piss...

Well until today, when taking mum (90 years old, dementia, breast cancer and a very wobbly left knee) to local Waitrose. She has a blue badge and there was one space left, so was chuffed. As I puled in there was a white Audi A/S5 next to us, with lady (use that term loosely) in passenger seat and kid jumping from front to back with another one standing at the front of the Audi taking a piss (yes, having a slash/waz/wee whatever you want to call it).

Went round to passenger side to help mum (she's a bit wobbly until we can get her a trolley to hold onto), have a quick look at the dash of the Audi (kid still pissing, fair play to him, he made the most of it), no blue badges to be seen. So made the "mistake" of looking at the woman and holding my hands out in a "Wotdafuqudoing" gesture, at which point she opened the door and started the verbal abuse.

The toilets were actually pretty close, considering they blagged a disabled spot, that meant tthey were close to the entrance, the one where the toilets were, probably about 30/40 yards away, whereas if they went to the normal car parking spot they could end up 3/4 times the distance from the loos.

Part of ther verbal abuse was that her kids were disabled, it didn't help when I pointed out to her that her son was so disabled he didn't know how to use a public toilet.

Oh well... I'm not perfect, far from it, but this got my back up a little bit so needed to vent....