The BAD PARKING thread

[Baron Von Alders]

shadowman450 said:

I love the way all the bits of broken headlamp etc. have been swept away just leaving the car impaled on the bollard!

[zetec]

Penfolds said:

So Essex County Council have finally sold their prized possesion.....and it's not the Veyron!

[Petrolhead_Rich]

shadowman450 said:

Certainly the worst for a few pages

[joe58]

shadowman450 said:

I's the fact that the wheels don't appear to be turned and her angle going in is all wrong. It's as if they forgot to turn the wheel, never mind about stopping.

[Lets Torque]

LukeSi said:

Awful parking from a fellow PHer

Isn't that Gulzar new LP640?

[LukeSi]

Lets Torque said:

Isn't that Gulzar new LP640?

Yup and his own guilt photo aswell

[B'stard Child]

LukeSi said:

Awful parking from a fellow PHer

Now I have for years snapped at PHEA Event start points and said "ooh that'll be one for the bad parking thread" but never really seriously considered doing it.....

Maybe I should

[lyonspride]

shadowman450 said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

[Petrolhead_Rich]

lyonspride said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

Airbag to the face??

[CambsBill]

lyonspride said:

shadowman450 said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

What, one who's neat enough to sweep up all the debris before doing the 'run' bit?

[joe58]

CambsBill said:

lyonspride said:

shadowman450 said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

What, one who's neat enough to sweep up all the debris before doing the 'run' bit?

They could have been swept up enough afterwards. Its the fact it's gone with a pretty solid bang into the bollard, so must have had to be a pretty hefty shunt, plus there are no skid marks as surly if shunted there should be some?

Edited by joe58 on Thursday 8th September 08:08

[robm3]

joe58 said:

CambsBill said:

lyonspride said:

shadowman450 said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

What, one who's neat enough to sweep up all the debris before doing the 'run' bit?

They could have been swept up enough afterwards. Its the fact it's gone with a pretty solid bang into the bollard, so must have had to be a pretty hefty shunt, plus there are no skid marks as surly if shunted there should be sum?

Thank goodness the bollards were there otherwise idiot/old driver could have caused some serious injury.
My money is on old person!

[Vipers]

robm3 said:

joe58 said:

CambsBill said:

lyonspride said:

shadowman450 said:

Actually, here's another theory.

The photo was bugging me and I finally figured out why.... Then it just hit me, why didn't the driver try to reverse away from the bollard after hitting it? It would be anyone's first reaction in that situation!

Was the car hit from behind by a hit and run driver?

What, one who's neat enough to sweep up all the debris before doing the 'run' bit?

They could have been swept up enough afterwards. Its the fact it's gone with a pretty solid bang into the bollard, so must have had to be a pretty hefty shunt, plus there are no skid marks as surly if shunted there should be sum?

Thank goodness the bollards were there otherwise idiot/old driver could have caused some serious injury.
My money is on old person!

Na....... some young goon with his mothers car. Us "Mature" drivers are better than that

[lyonspride]

robm3 said:

Thank goodness the bollards were there otherwise idiot/old driver could have caused some serious injury.
My money is on old person!

Yeah, annoiys the hell out of me how the older folks do stuff like THIS and it gets a minor mention in the news.... But if that had been a young driver it would have been up in everyone's face and caused an uproar amongst local residents.

And another one

Young driver would lose his licence for this (and the above), but the elderly driver will be back on the road as soon as she finds a new car.


Not a big fan of the USA, but at least they've openly recognised that the elderly are a liability on the roads.



Back to parking......... How angry would you be if THIS were your car?



I like the "freak accident" part of that report, replace "freak accident" with utter incompetence and your half way to getting it right.

Edited by lyonspride on Thursday 8th September 09:06

[Jakg]

One from yesterday... in an empty car park it was far too difficult to find a space so they just left it there instead...

[lost in espace]

Some people go to extremes to make sure that nobody parks next to them.

[Mr Senna]

Classic McDonalds shot, crappy Saxo in the disabled bay. Burgess Hill branch.

No disabled badges were in view.

Now I could understand it (a little) if the guy owned a 911 etc but!

[Thesaint01708]

Looks like this one has more than broken indicators...

[Scot 62]

shadowman450 said:

On the plus side.... the car is displaying a blue badge in the windscreen

[Frimley111R]

Mr Senna said:

I bet you'd see that 50 times a day at every McDonalds in the country.