The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
Discussion
carlove said:
Another enormous car pulled up next to me, a car this big must be difficult to park. She even looked back at it as she walked away. The back wheel is over the line, so that space next to me was unusable.
It's the "I'll be back in a sec" mentality. Which worked great 100 years ago when there weren't that many people and almost no cars.
Proper blast from the past that - Morette's, GT Tuning air filter vent, aftermarket bumper & skirts look like one of the French (Esquiss?) brands that Prima Racing supplied back in the '90's.LetsTryAgain said:
Osinjak said:
Is that genuine then? I thought it was just some barryed-up monstrosity.
It is both. It is a R5 turbo and the thing you called it.
jamei303 said:
giantdefy said:
Not a motor vehicle so it's fine.
While not disputing your assertion in the slightest, some 35 years or more ago, I drove a low loader such as this one, delivering yachts overland from U.K. to the French Riviera, Italian Lakes etc.
One Friday night, after picking up a yacht at Reading Marina, I dropped the trailer at Heston Services on the M4, and went home in the tractor unit.
I left the trailer a long way from the car parking zone, inconveniencing no one, but had I left it across the car parking spaces, (which I’d never do), would you have said, “Not a motor vehicle, so fine.”?
Frank7 said:
While not disputing your assertion in the slightest, some 35 years or more ago, I drove a low loader such as this one, delivering yachts overland from U.K. to the French Riviera, Italian Lakes etc.
One Friday night, after picking up a yacht at Reading Marina, I dropped the trailer at Heston Services on the M4, and went home in the tractor unit.
I left the trailer a long way from the car parking zone, inconveniencing no one, but had I left it across the car parking spaces, (which I’d never do), would you have said, “Not a motor vehicle, so fine.”?
If I set up a marquee in a car park, or unload 30 tonnes of sand there, or place a railway locomotive there, I'm not committing a parking offences, and can't be considered to be guilty of "bad parking".
jamei303 said:
The trailer was presumably required to display the registration mark of the registered towing vehicle, meaning there was a registered keeper on whom parking-related notices could be served. You could therefore potentially have been a candidate for this thread.
If I set up a marquee in a car park, or unload 30 tonnes of sand there, or place a railway locomotive there, I'm not committing a parking offences, and can't be considered to be guilty of "bad parking".
No argument jamei, but as for the number plate, for some unknown reason, they’d often disappear from car parks, so when I dropped the trailer off overnight, I’d remove the plate.If I set up a marquee in a car park, or unload 30 tonnes of sand there, or place a railway locomotive there, I'm not committing a parking offences, and can't be considered to be guilty of "bad parking".
kowalski655 said:
Back in those days they could have clamped you(IF they had a big enough clamp!)
While I don’t doubt that clamping was a weapon in the authority’s armoury, it never happened to me, but I’d drop my trailer in a lorry park if possible, and pay for the privilege.There were many occasions though, when I’d drop it in a service road, parallel with the main road, or the service roads of a trading estate, when needs be, the devil drives.
Mandalore said:
ghiblicup said:
It does.But I’m sure he kids himself, that any criticism is just down to envy - which is wrong, as he could be driving a shed and still be the same selfish t
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