The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

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gazza285

9,812 posts

208 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Posted on the local Facebook page, and someone has outed the owner.


Vipers

32,887 posts

228 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Bonefish Blues said:
dmsims said:
untakenname said:
Bonefish Blues said:
Smart parking, inconveniencing nobody
Until someone parks their car in the empty space trapping the Landrover.
Quite, checkmate
A car won't fit in that space though
One day he may abandon it slightly to the right and the car park being busy someone will park there on a designated parking space blocking them in.

Bonefish Blues

26,754 posts

223 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Vipers said:
Bonefish Blues said:
dmsims said:
untakenname said:
Bonefish Blues said:
Smart parking, inconveniencing nobody
Until someone parks their car in the empty space trapping the Landrover.
Quite, checkmate
A car won't fit in that space though
One day he may abandon it slightly to the right and the car park being busy someone will park there on a designated parking space blocking them in.
One day it might be bad parking, yes.

Vipers

32,887 posts

228 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Bonefish Blues said:
One day it might be bad parking, yes.
Bearing in mind it isn’t in a designated bay it isn’t good though, certainly not up to my exacting standards, not to worry.

Bonefish Blues

26,754 posts

223 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Vipers said:
Bonefish Blues said:
One day it might be bad parking, yes.
Bearing in mind it isn’t in a designated bay it isn’t good though, certainly not up to my exacting standards, not to worry.
In all seriousness, it would be better for all if those corner spaces were designated and marked on the diagonal. Everyone would win, but it would offend the symmetrically-inclined biggrin

Red9zero

6,858 posts

57 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Bonefish Blues said:
In all seriousness, it would be better for all if those corner spaces were designated and marked on the diagonal. Everyone would win, but it would offend the symmetrically-inclined biggrin
Not necessarily. There are a few in an NCP I used to use. The spaces either side are rather close though, so if they park up to the white lines the diagonally parked car can't get out of the gap.

Bonefish Blues

26,754 posts

223 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Red9zero said:
Bonefish Blues said:
In all seriousness, it would be better for all if those corner spaces were designated and marked on the diagonal. Everyone would win, but it would offend the symmetrically-inclined biggrin
Not necessarily. There are a few in an NCP I used to use. The spaces either side are rather close though, so if they park up to the white lines the diagonally parked car can't get out of the gap.
Then those would not be designated like that, or am I missing something?

Red9zero

6,858 posts

57 months

Saturday 18th December 2021
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Bonefish Blues said:
Red9zero said:
Bonefish Blues said:
In all seriousness, it would be better for all if those corner spaces were designated and marked on the diagonal. Everyone would win, but it would offend the symmetrically-inclined biggrin
Not necessarily. There are a few in an NCP I used to use. The spaces either side are rather close though, so if they park up to the white lines the diagonally parked car can't get out of the gap.
Then those would not be designated like that, or am I missing something?
They were at the time. Typical NCP squeezing in another space wherever they can. There used to be another NCP in Bristol that had some really small places marked "Mini's only", in the days when Mini's were mini.

stepej

425 posts

240 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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Manchester. Sunday


Dermot O'Logical

2,581 posts

129 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19795213.calshot-...

Irony and "Cahnciwl" attitude are strong with this one.

CheesecakeRunner

3,805 posts

91 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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stepej said:
Manchester. Sunday

Dunno what’s worse, the parking or the paint job.

Alex_225

6,263 posts

201 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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Walked round to my local shops where the local council rather than restrict parking or make proper bays just painted white lines on the kerb. Quality job.

Doesn't help when this nob parks so far onto the pavement that you wouldn't get a pushchair through that gap let along a wheelchair. frown


Hol

8,417 posts

200 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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Dermot O'Logical said:
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19795213.calshot-...

Irony and "Cahnciwl" attitude are strong with this one.
The subject was later heard to bleat “where else can I park my car and trailer for free close by, if not directly in front of a clearly marked lifeboat shed”.
“What are you, the police”.

kowalski655

14,643 posts

143 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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And the guy needed the lifeboat to help him get back to his car as he was in trouble! They should have left him!

Spleen

5,453 posts

121 months

Monday 20th December 2021
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Alex_225 said:
Walked round to my local shops where the local council rather than restrict parking or make proper bays just painted white lines on the kerb. Quality job.

Doesn't help when this nob parks so far onto the pavement that you wouldn't get a pushchair through that gap let along a wheelchair. frown

Must be a massive pushchair.

The_Doc

4,886 posts

220 months

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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I can only imagine there was some kind of medical emergency, requiring very fast access to Marks&Spencer.

Interestingly, this was parked about 20m away.
Weird car, BMW design is so wrong right now...

WarrenB

2,409 posts

118 months

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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The_Doc][url][thumb said:
Interestingly, this was parked about 20m away.
Weird car, BMW design is so wrong right now...
That looks bloody awful!

BMWs current design language was discussed on the last Smith and Sniff Podcast. They've got all these instantly recognisable design features that any other manufacturer would kill for, the kidney grilles, Hofmeister kink, etc. Yet they seem to be focusing on stupidly massive grilles that take all the attention away from the rest of the shockingly bad design.

Really don't understand how anyone could look at it and think 'yep, that's a nice car. I want one of those'

dmsims

6,524 posts

267 months

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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MartG

20,680 posts

204 months

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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Funk

26,278 posts

209 months

Tuesday 21st December 2021
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Saw this special effort a few nights ago: