The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[Hol]

Alex@POD said:

HTP99 said:

Apart from being dropped in by a helicopter, I just can't work out how that is even possible.

I thought similar so I had a look, the bus pushed a car into the river and used it as a step.

Link to news article

Not what I was expecting.

I had first pictured a flood that carried the bus away, but looking again the grass is too green.

[DKS]

Two for one at Sainsbury's last Friday. It genuinely scares me I have to share the road with these people who are so utterly clueless and/ or careless about car placement.




Also worrying they're in 'my' end of the car park which is usually the home of the more discerning parker, leaving decent gaps and getting within the lines.

Then at the pub yesterday, enjoying sitting outside. Fairly empty car park, with the row nearest the building full except one space. Large Hyundai SUV had to seesaw it's way into the one remaining gap, rather than simply drive though the row behind.
And to finish, following someone on site today, past the row of at least 25 visitors spaces, he just has to pull in tight to the only car parked there, not use the empty 10 spaces either side and as the previous guy had reversed in, they were now driver's door to door. Brilliant.

It's also an almost constant amazement at how our fleet of 20-odd pool cars are abandoned, too, not to mention the state some of them with under 10k miles on. And don't get me started at them being left with under half a tank of fuel.... Grrrrr....
Sorry, have a great Monday everyone!

Edited by DKS on Monday 8th April 09:04

[Mutts]

[RichardHMorris]

Many moons ago when my ST200 was still alive, someone parked like this:



And yes, they did this on the way in:

[David-H]

Cameron Toll shopping centre in Edinburgh. Mid Monday afternoon so the car park was relatively quiet, but obviously no spaces close enough for this clown.

[mac96]

donkmeister said:

Vipers said:

Small town car park, last week, some driver shouting at me, "Its a one way system", to which I replied "I am only going one way", but honestly they resurfaced the car park about 4 years ago, and never repainted the arrows, so unless you used it then you wouldnt know, and assuming the other driver had, wonder why he never noticed there were no arrows not that you need it, a very small car park.

I had someone with popping out eyes shout "ONE WAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!" at me in a car park that I'm told has never, since it was built 30 years previously, been a one way. It's clearly a two way, just because you can do a lap doesn't change that. Everyone treats it as a two way and I've used it for nearly 20 years.

He was straddling both sides of the road and was upset that he had to take to his side to resolve the blockage he had created.

People who invent their own rules and then expect others to know and follow these rules are very strange people.

Even more ridiculous, I have had a pedestrian jumping up and down like a loony trying to enforce an imaginary car park one way system.

Mind you, in the same car park I recently saw another pedestrian screaming at a driver 'you can't park there' referring to a space that belongs to a shop, without thinking either 'it's none of my business' or 'perhaps it's her shop'. Which it was.

Idiots.

[C5_Steve]

RichardHMorris said:

Many moons ago when my ST200 was still alive, someone parked like this:



And yes, they did this on the way in:

Raging. I hope you got hold of them, although from the state of that Montego I doubt they saw anything wrong!

[DKS]

RichardHMorris said:

Many moons ago when my ST200 was still alive, someone parked like this:



And yes, they did this on the way in:

This why we can't have nice things. Every time I think about spending more than, say, £2k on a car this exact scenario springs into my mind.

[Chasing Potatoes]

This particular house has parking for at least 5 cars. It never has more than two parked there and this one is often like this.

[RichardHMorris]

C5_Steve said:

Raging. I hope you got hold of them, although from the state of that Montego I doubt they saw anything wrong!

Yes, they came back a minute or two after I'd arrived to find it like that and they offered to pay for the damage. It actually rubbed out OK.

[RayDonovan]

Chasing Potatoes said:

This particular house has parking for at least 5 cars. It never has more than two parked there and this one is often like this.

Deserves all he gets..

[angrymotor]

donkmeister said:

Bet that colour makes it hard to find in a car park

Seriously though, did you lose a bet or are you a screaming lunatic?



ETA as text doesn't really convey tone, I should add I'm very much in favour of interesting colours. With my current daily the factory choices for the UK were silver, solid navy blue, solid black or solid white. When silver is the "interesting" colour you really need to wonder who approved that list.

Edited by donkmeister on Sunday 7th April 20:39

Definitely erring on the side of screaming lunatic

Totally agree though, the colours available now are so dull! I'd been eying up 4 series for a while and saw this one so had to go for it. It was a BMW 'individual' colour someone specced that is apparently Porsche Speed Yellow

[silverfoxcc]

How about this gem? not once but thrice

Edited by silverfoxcc on Monday 8th April 23:05

[silverfoxcc]

[silverfoxcc]

[WarrenB]

silverfoxcc said:

That Ka slowly chewing up the grass verge is no better

[BenS94]

WarrenB said:

silverfoxcc said:

That Ka slowly chewing up the grass verge is no better

Don't worry, the grass is helping it rapidly turn to dust, so it won't be around much longer

[Hackney]

andrew said:

close the thread

Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea...

[21st Century Man]

What a great way of providing a river crossing at a bargain price, a secondhand bus and a few seconds work. Probably saved the council a few million quid.

[POIDH]

andrew said:

close the thread

Budget cuts on the film set of The Italian Job 3 are cutting deep.