The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

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LochTay

808 posts

65 months

Monday 1st March 2021
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^ just needs a bike lane for full house.

Rathcon

54 posts

51 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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[quote=thetapeworm]A couple of recent ones.



Is that Morley? Daughter lives right across the road, not her car though!

thetapeworm

11,227 posts

239 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Rathcon said:
A couple of recent ones.



Is that Morley? Daughter lives right across the road, not her car though!
It is indeed smile

Every day a journey

1,580 posts

38 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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This was taken a few years back but popped up on my facebook.

Yes. That is a pedstrian island at a busy traffic light controlled junction (I think it was Newbury)


carlove

7,563 posts

167 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Teebs said:


Double yellow lines
Mini-roundabout
Half on, half off kerb
Busy bus route

Exceptional
Is that Haxby? There's often some special parking round there (I blame the elderly) but that takes the biscuit.

jamei303

3,002 posts

156 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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Every day a journey said:
This was taken a few years back but popped up on my facebook.

Yes. That is a pedstrian island at a busy traffic light controlled junction (I think it was Newbury)

Could be doing a traffic survey, often conducted by retired people sitting in their own cars.

Anyway it's not a pavement or any kind of pedestrian route, just surround on three sides by railings.

Every day a journey

1,580 posts

38 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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jamei303 said:
Could be doing a traffic survey, often conducted by retired people sitting in their own cars.

Anyway it's not a pavement or any kind of pedestrian route, just surround on three sides by railings.
No, there was nobody in it. It was there when I arrived and when I left later that day. And it does form part of the crossing

Rathcon

54 posts

51 months

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
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thetapeworm said:
It is indeed smile
Probably someone on important Town Hall business....or maybe just nipping into Greggs!!

JONSCZ

1,178 posts

237 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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This popped up on my F/B feed from Ladbible
Apparently, it was in Melbourne and the article said not only was there no blue badge, but it was obviously taking up 2 disabled spaces.... This is properly 'special'...

Sensibleboy

1,143 posts

125 months

Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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Council are partly to blame for removing all the parking spaces but anybody with a driving licence should know not to park like this.


Sticks.

8,753 posts

251 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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JONSCZ said:
This popped up on my F/B feed from Ladbible
Apparently, it was in Melbourne and the article said not only was there no blue badge, but it was obviously taking up 2 disabled spaces.... This is properly 'special'...
I think you could still squeeze a car in either side. Might be tight but worth a go. biggrin

Leftfootwonder

1,116 posts

58 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Sensibleboy said:
Council are partly to blame for removing all the parking spaces but anybody with a driving licence should know not to park like this.

Are you fo' real, Bruv? It's a BMW innit, i's can parks where i's likes, yo.

CheesecakeRunner

3,799 posts

91 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Nicked from Facebook...


Teebs

4,370 posts

215 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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carlove said:
Is that Haxby? There's often some special parking round there (I blame the elderly) but that takes the biscuit.
Correct! The Sainsburys & COOP car-park are to be avoided. Shocking..

Wheel_Turned_Out

574 posts

38 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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CheesecakeRunner said:
Nicked from Facebook...

Wonder what they're charging up in there...


N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Wonder what those squinty white lines mean. rolleyes

Every day a journey

1,580 posts

38 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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N7GTX said:


Wonder what those squinty white lines mean. rolleyes
It means two things.

Temporary parking while you 'just nip to the shop'

and

Temporary parking when you're just a lazy ****

N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Every day a journey said:
N7GTX said:


Wonder what those squinty white lines mean. rolleyes
It means two things.

Temporary parking while you 'just nip to the shop'

and

Temporary parking when you're just a lazy ****
Just needed hazards to make it 'legal'. smile

N7GTX

7,866 posts

143 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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That was good of the council to drop the kerbs at junctions. Makes parking on the pavement so much easier.

Teddy Lop

8,294 posts

67 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Got a whole accompanying story!



parked van. There's a half-space behind me before double yellow lines, and a couple of feet in front before I'm impinging on someone's driveway access. Come out after 10 minutes to find some halfwit parked right behind me stopping access, move van forward 2 feet, as I'm getting something out the side the gibbon runs out, jumps in his car and moves it back to within 12".

Me: "Er 'scuze me mate but I need to access that door to get things out"
Indignant tvvat: "Well I'm parked on double yellow lines"
"Er you could park in a different space?"
"This is my house. You park in a different space"
"Okay whatever"
I then proceed to open back door as far as I can [bonk] on his car and fish something out
Him: "Are we gonna have a problem here?"
"No problem at all mate"
"You just bashed my car"
"This is what I've been trying to explain to you, if you're going to repeatedly move your car under the back doors of a van that I need to access."

Then I walked back over the road into the job leaving him looking gormless, then after that he moves his heap right right up against the van as shown. Ten minutes later I'm getting something out the side and I'm accosted by a woman now.

"You need to sort something out with my son in law, his wife is heavily pregnant and may require being taken to hospital at any moment"
"should have used a condom/taken it up the Gary well ma'am, if his tone had been excuse me and sorry to trouble you, I have someone who needs assisting into this car instead of acting like a petulant child and withering on about his 'oomin right to park here, we might have had a different conversation.
"Huurmph" storms off.