The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
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Mr lestat said:
PH User said:
Mr lestat said:
PH User said:
They are an easy target. Your average piston header has a real dislike of the school run mum.
Targeting cars first that are pretty much permanently blocking traffic would be a much better idea.
A dislike for a good reason as well, carnage near us twice a day Monday to Friday from 7.45 till 8.30 and anything from 2.30 onwards the mummy’s turn up in Audi Q7 blocking pavements and roads till around 4.30 depending on what after school club little Timmy is in. I’ve accidentally knocked many a mirror back while squeezing last on the pavement. Ooops sorry Targeting cars first that are pretty much permanently blocking traffic would be a much better idea.
Psycho Warren said:
I bet he/she/it is one of those school run parents who dumps an excessively big SUV across someones drive for half an hour saying "just be a minute" if challenged.
I'm currently renovating a house that has been empty for a while, so people took to parking across the end of the drive because there was no one using it. A few times when I've clearly been there working on it people have parked across the drive blocking it. Luckily there's only a skip on the drive at the moment but I can see fun and games starting once I'm moved in... 'But you aren't using it at the moment' is one response I got when I pointed out to someone they shouldn't be parking there. As is always the case I only thought of what I should have said after I'd walked away... 'Well you aren't using your car at the moment so give me the keys'.
Tommo87 said:
Psycho Warren said:
PH User said:
Why just pick on the school run though? I see plenty of bad parking outside people's homes that goes unchecked and those cars are there most of the time rather than for just a few minutes a day.
Its not that common for residential parking to completely block the road and cause total carnage - where it does, it should be targeted. School run parents often cause carnage with their parking with a complete no f
ks given attitude while the rest of the world has to wait for them to pick up their 'tard kid. Targeting them first would help free up traffic flow and issues at least for both rush hours. Plus they are a visible and easy to get target.
Also I see no obvious evidence of anyone picking on school runs, so that opinion has no legs. Not unlike your opinion that everyone was somehow out to get SUV owners, despite the fact that loads of other cars are featured.
Personally I see it that the kind of person who is ignoring them outside a school would also ignore them everywhere else. I see just about every one on dropping mine off. Parking on double yellows, blocking the entire pavement (some on double yellows), parking in the bus stop, parking on the traffic light no parking/overtaking zig zags. Plus the inconsiderate parking where someone parks in the middle of a section that *could* fit two cars between dropped curbs.
Here is a two for one example. One parked on the grass verge on double yellows and one parked in the bus stop.
WarrenB said:
I'm currently renovating a house that has been empty for a while, so people took to parking across the end of the drive because there was no one using it. A few times when I've clearly been there working on it people have parked across the drive blocking it. Luckily there's only a skip on the drive at the moment but I can see fun and games starting once I'm moved in...
'But you aren't using it at the moment' is one response I got when I pointed out to someone they shouldn't be parking there. As is always the case I only thought of what I should have said after I'd walked away... 'Well you aren't using your car at the moment so give me the keys'.
I didn't manage to say much at all when I was trapped inside our garage by a chap in a rather nice alloy shod white transit with blue stripes. Our garage is in a shared gravelled courtyard with 4 others. I was tinkering inside the garage and heard a car scrunching across the gravel but thought it was our neighbour stopping in front of his. Opened the up n over door 10 mins later and "bonk" onto the bumper of the van. Very narrow gap at the bottom so tinkered some more for 15 mins or so, no phone or way of calling for help and wasn't going to stand there shouting so cleared away some gravel underneath the door, laid down and squeezed out. I was dusting myself off as the driver walked in from the street clearly annoyed that the door was against his van. I explained that he had blocked me in to get - "how was I to know you were in there?" followed by "what were you doing in there anyway?" He jumped into the van and tore out over the gravel before I recovered enough to respond. Turned out he was nothing to do with anyone else in the courtyard either! 'But you aren't using it at the moment' is one response I got when I pointed out to someone they shouldn't be parking there. As is always the case I only thought of what I should have said after I'd walked away... 'Well you aren't using your car at the moment so give me the keys'.
PH User said:
They are an easy target. Your average piston header has a real dislike of the school run mum.
Targeting cars first that are pretty much permanently blocking traffic would be a much better idea.
If there is a place you know a lot of people are breaking the rules routinely it does make sense to have fairly regular crackdowns. It's no different to monitoring speeding on country A-roads on summer weekends. Targeting cars first that are pretty much permanently blocking traffic would be a much better idea.
Also, children are both harder to see and profoundly stupid when it comes to self preservation, meaning the dangers of awful parking outside schools, with hundreds of them about, is increased over a normal residential street.
Mr lestat said:
Psycho Warren said:
I bet he/she/it is one of those school run parents who dumps an excessively big SUV across someones drive for half an hour saying "just be a minute" if challenged.
If you mean me you’re wrong but you carry on if it makes you happy Pulled up alongside someone yesterday, they were parked all four wheels on a pavement entirely blocking it as it was quite narrow, and facing into the direction of traffic. I pulled alongside blocking her in, as the traffic lights were red. She wasn't even indicating otherwise i'd have let her off the pavement and out.
What she did next made my blood boil.
Given that the pavement was in front of a row of terraced houses which open directly onto the pavement she drove along the pavement (not exactly slow - maybe 15 mph) for 85 metres (measured on the maps) and exited at this point shown below.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4803395,-3.2008917...
When I pulled alongside her, she was parked on the pavement outside the print hub.
Dread to this what would have happened if someone came out of their house with a pram.
What she did next made my blood boil.
Given that the pavement was in front of a row of terraced houses which open directly onto the pavement she drove along the pavement (not exactly slow - maybe 15 mph) for 85 metres (measured on the maps) and exited at this point shown below.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4803395,-3.2008917...
When I pulled alongside her, she was parked on the pavement outside the print hub.
Dread to this what would have happened if someone came out of their house with a pram.
PH User said:
Mr lestat said:
Psycho Warren said:
I bet he/she/it is one of those school run parents who dumps an excessively big SUV across someones drive for half an hour saying "just be a minute" if challenged.
If you mean me you’re wrong but you carry on if it makes you happy It almost feels as if you are only here to start arguments and have a little moan about stuff.
Psycho Warren said:
PH User said:
Why just pick on the school run though? I see plenty of bad parking outside people's homes that goes unchecked and those cars are there most of the time rather than for just a few minutes a day.
Its not that common for residential parking to completely block the road and cause total carnage - where it does, it should be targeted. School run parents often cause carnage with their parking with a complete no fks given attitude while the rest of the world has to wait for them to pick up their 'tard kid. Targeting them first would help free up traffic flow and issues at least for both rush hours. Plus they are a visible and easy to get target.
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