The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[Escort3500]

jamei303 said:

I don't really mind the take-two-bays brigade as much the slightly-over-the-line lot. Mainly because if you're going to park other than comfortably in one bay, it's best to do it in an unmistakable manner so people don't feel the need to try and squeeze into an impinged-upon space.

And if everyone were as selfish, parking capacity would be reduced by 50%. Great idea.

Edited by Escort3500 on Thursday 5th December 08:37

[jamei303]

Sticks. said:

Are you sure this thread is for you?

Yes, I often see cars parked an inch over a bay marking and think of taking photo to post here, but then think others might not regard such parking as sufficiently "bad".

[nonsequitur]

jamei303 said:

Sticks. said:

Are you sure this thread is for you?

Yes, I often see cars parked an inch over a bay marking and think of taking photo to post here, but then think others might not regard such parking as sufficiently "bad".

Well, we all know how long an inch is.

[anonymous-user]

Have we had this one yet ? Looks like school run mum parked on the path and white van man couldn't get past.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7758789/W...

[pyruse]

Escort3500 said:

And if everyone were as selfish, parking capacity would be reduced by 50%. Great idea.

Edited by Escort3500 on Thursday 5th December 08:37

If everyone parked so the line is under the middle of their car, you'd only lose one space.

[Frank7]

Grahamdub said:

Have we had this one yet ? Looks like school run mum parked on the path and white van man couldn't get past.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7758789/W...

Of course he was wrong to do what he did, no doubt whatsoever, but if ever someone was begging to have the side of their car ripped open, she was.
I reiterate, he went too far, but if the woman hadn’t been standing there, being pushed down the road, I would have quietly applauded a refuse truck taking one side of her car completely off

[nonsequitur]

pyruse said:

Escort3500 said:

And if everyone were as selfish, parking capacity would be reduced by 50%. Great idea.

Edited by Escort3500 on Thursday 5th December 08:37

If everyone parked so the line is under the middle of their car, you'd only lose one space.

Is that Einsein's theory of parkativity?see me.

[MartG]

[DoubleD]

Grahamdub said:

Have we had this one yet ? Looks like school run mum parked on the path and white van man couldn't get past.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7758789/W...

When 2 idiots meet

[Greshamst]

I mean it’s not really their fault... but these two in the car park yesterday made me laugh.

[MartG]

Buses are currently having problems getting past this numpty who has ignored the No Parking cones

[JonChalk]

MartG said:

Buses are currently having problems getting past this numpty who has ignored the No Parking cones

Perhaps if they stopped trying so hard, and removed a wing mirror, or even a wing, they might get the message.

On second thoughts, someone that dull strikes me as a compo type & would immediately sue someone / anyone for putting them in a position where their own stupidity physically allowed them to park their car where it could get damaged.

[LetsTryAgain]

JonChalk said:

On second thoughts, someone that dull strikes me as a compo type & would immediately sue someone / anyone

We've Thatcher to thank for that.

[Allanv]

LetsTryAgain said:

JonChalk said:

On second thoughts, someone that dull strikes me as a compo type & would immediately sue someone / anyone

We've Thatcher to thank for that.

Nope it started in 1997 under blair and Labour.

Glad to help, have a good evening.

[Europa1]

LetsTryAgain said:

We've Thatcher to thank for that.

Do we?

Please elaborate, because it seems a bit of a leap to me.

[LetsTryAgain]

Allanv said:

Nope it started in 1997 under blair and Labour.

Glad to help, have a good evening.

Shame you didn't, though.

Very much started by Thatcher and continued by Major.
And I'm no friend of either of the main parties.

PS - because I'm so helpful -

'But Mrs Thatcher went gaily ahead with this Bloodsuckers’ Charter, more politely known as the 1990 Courts And Legal Services Act (Section 58).
This cleared the way for the change, but was fitted with a time-delay device – perhaps because the Government was ashamed of it and didn’t want to be linked with it when it eventually took effect.
It was finally activated in 1995 by the passage of the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations. In a last-ditch attempt to stop it, which failed by only six votes, the late Lord Ackner warned ‘there will be occasions when this country will exceed the worst excesses of the United States’.

I'll accept a full written apology by PM

Edited by LetsTryAgain on Friday 6th December 22:18

[Frank7]

Europa1 said:

LetsTryAgain said:

We've Thatcher to thank for that.

Do we?

Please elaborate, because it seems a bit of a leap to me.

A leap?
More like a bungee jump, sans bungee rope to me, and I
wasn’t Mrs Thatcher’s # one fan, although I didn’t hate her.

[LetsTryAgain]

Frank7 said:

A leap?
More like a bungee jump, sans bungee rope to me

How?

[DoubleD]

Letstryagain is badly parked in this thread and needs to move straight away.

[LetsTryAgain]

DoubleD said:

Letstryagain is badly parked in this thread and needs to move straight away.

Matters of fact no use on this thread?