The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

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Teddy Lop

8,290 posts

66 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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I know we're all quite used to by now the recent upswing in courier drivers whos van skills don't extend beyond a bit of paper with their name and a picture of them and a line of text that says they're legally entitled to sit behind the wheel, but this one is properly speshel, the space to the right was at least 50 feet, he wouldn't have even needed to treat us to his speshel reversing skills

PH User

22,154 posts

107 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Chances are he is looking for a particular address and drove past that space while looking. Lots of houses are very well marked so I imagine it must be a real pain for them.

WarrenB

2,374 posts

117 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Teddy Lop said:
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.
There seems to be a growing number of people who seem to think they own and are the only people allowed to park outside their house on the public highway. I had one a year or two back.

Pulled up outside the house and was just about to get out, grumpy chav comes storming out of the house to tell me I couldn't park there.
'Yeah I'm just here to...'
'I don't care, you can't park here'
'I'm here...'
'Don't care. I don't want to see your van from my window'
'I...'
'Move your van!'

Fair enough. I got in my van and left. 10 minutes later I get a phone call. 'Hi mate, you said you'd be here at 12 to sort my phone line out, are you still coming?'.
'I've already been, you told me quite clearly you didn't want me parking outside your house so I left'
'Oh sorry mate, I didn't know, can you come back?'

I just hung up and never heard from him again.

Also had this one a few years back...



I was working in the building across the street, which did have parking but only had two disabled bays free. As I wasn't disabled and there were no parking restrictions elsewhere I parked opposite which was unfortunately outside this house, not really paying much attention to the 'legally binding' sign they'd scrawled in the window.

Grumpy resident came out to shout at me before I'd even taken the keys out of the ignition, telling me I had 'no fking right to park there'. Explained that my perfectly legal, taxed and insured van had every right to be there but he was having none of it. He threatened to call the police, which must have been a scary enough threat to other people, but I just told him to go ahead and walked off. About five minutes later I was looking out from the office I was in across the road and noticed what could only be described as an obese Jabba the Hutt squeeze her self out of the front door and waddle up to a brand new Peugeot 3008 (ironically parked outside someone elses house) and move it so it was parked very similarly to the Golf in your pic behind my van. I assume in an attempt to block me in. They didn't seem to realise there was an entire car length space infront of me which I quite easily managed to drive out of.

Thick as pig st some people!

N7GTX

7,822 posts

142 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Peugeot 3008 (is there a worse car on the road?) probably a mobility con paid for by the taxpayer to allow Jabba to go for more calorie laden grub.

Vipers

32,796 posts

227 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Re Teddy Lop's post.



Some years ago my pal parked on a slight incline and left about three feet behind him and the start of the DYL's, we came back to find a car was about an inch behind his bumper so he could get his front wheel off the DYL's, in front of us another had parked about an inch in front of if us.

Fortunately the car behind us had left the door open, so he got in and let it roll back onto the DYL's so we could get out.

Two traffic wardens watched this and said "Are you going to push it back", my pal said "No", to which they said they would have to ticket it", think his response was something on the lines of "Tough st"

N7GTX

7,822 posts

142 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Vipers said:
Re Teddy Lop's post.



Some years ago my pal parked on a slight incline and left about three feet behind him and the start of the DYL's, we came back to find a car was about an inch behind his bumper so he could get his front wheel off the DYL's, in front of us another had parked about an inch in front of if us.

Fortunately the car behind us had left the door open, so he got in and let it roll back onto the DYL's so we could get out.

Two traffic wardens watched this and said "Are you going to push it back", my pal said "No", to which they said they would have to ticket it", think his response was something on the lines of "Tough st"
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MKnight702

3,095 posts

213 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Vipers said:
Re Teddy Lop's post.

Some years ago my pal parked on a slight incline and left about three feet behind him and the start of the DYL's, we came back to find a car was about an inch behind his bumper so he could get his front wheel off the DYL's, in front of us another had parked about an inch in front of if us.

Fortunately the car behind us had left the door open, so he got in and let it roll back onto the DYL's so we could get out.

Two traffic wardens watched this and said "Are you going to push it back", my pal said "No", to which they said they would have to ticket it", think his response was something on the lines of "Tough st"
Hmm, left about 3' behind him yet some car managed to squeeze in and just manage to get his front wheels off the double yellows?

Sound more like he parked his van in the middle of a huge gap taking up space for 2 cars and got the hump when someone else tried to park in the not quite large enough gap he had left.

Vipers

32,796 posts

227 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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MKnight702 said:
Vipers said:
Re Teddy Lop's post.

Some years ago my pal parked on a slight incline and left about three feet behind him and the start of the DYL's, we came back to find a car was about an inch behind his bumper so he could get his front wheel off the DYL's, in front of us another had parked about an inch in front of if us.

Fortunately the car behind us had left the door open, so he got in and let it roll back onto the DYL's so we could get out.

Two traffic wardens watched this and said "Are you going to push it back", my pal said "No", to which they said they would have to ticket it", think his response was something on the lines of "Tough st"
Hmm, left about 3' behind him yet some car managed to squeeze in and just manage to get his front wheels off the double yellows?

Sound more like he parked his van in the middle of a huge gap taking up space for 2 cars and got the hump when someone else tried to park in the not quite large enough gap he had left.
No, it was exactly as I said, bay was space for six or more cars, we parked behind another car, when we came back another car was in its place just about touching our front bumper, he parked at the space at one end, leaving about three feet behind his car, that's how the other gentleman was about to park directly behind him and just about get his front wheels in the bay.

The three ft was from the back of our car to the start of the DYL's no squeezing in required.



Edited by Vipers on Monday 8th March 15:36


Edited by Vipers on Monday 8th March 15:37

Google [bot]

6,682 posts

180 months

Wednesday 10th March 2021
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kdri155

643 posts

150 months

Thursday 11th March 2021
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A pair of local "do as you likeys" had a nearly empty car park to wait on but instead took up nearly three disabled spaces whilst they went to KFC.


Desiderata

2,326 posts

53 months

Thursday 11th March 2021
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Desiderata said:


This one is a regular overnight parking spot for this truck. Main A-road through a small local town. The registered business address and operator's licence is about 40 miles away so I can only assume that the driver lives nearby and brings his lorry home between jobs. I'm surprised that VOSA or traffic police haven't had a word as it's there 3 or 4 nights every week.
Back again tonight, I find it astonishing that he gets away with this. It's not just a one of, nipping in for a chippy or something, this is a regular, several times a week, overnight parking spot for a large lorry.

Facing oncoming traffic..tick
"Parked" on the outside of a bend...tick
Straddling a junction...tick
Unlit tail end sticking out into the "A" road...tick.

PH User

22,154 posts

107 months

Thursday 11th March 2021
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Have you reported him to his company?

Vipers

32,796 posts

227 months

Thursday 11th March 2021
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PH User said:
Have you reported him to his company?
Last time I did that I got an excellent response from the MD, do it.

N7GTX

7,822 posts

142 months

Thursday 11th March 2021
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Vipers said:
PH User said:
Have you reported him to his company?
Last time I did that I got an excellent response from the MD, do it.
Or if you have a 'Report It' section with online forms in your police area (like they have in West Yorks), you can report nuisance/obstructive parking online.

N7GTX

7,822 posts

142 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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The rest of the car park was almost full so this was poor parking taking up an extra space.

MKnight702

3,095 posts

213 months

Sunday 14th March 2021
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A BOGOF offer,


PH_77

1,310 posts

92 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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There was only about 50 free spaces in the car park.

Vipers

32,796 posts

227 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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PH_77 said:


There was only about 50 free spaces in the car park.
I just couldnt walk away from that. When I see this I wonder about their general driving abilities.

PH User

22,154 posts

107 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Vipers said:
PH_77 said:


There was only about 50 free spaces in the car park.
I just couldnt walk away from that. When I see this I wonder about their general driving abilities.
I imagine that he has parked like that on purpose rather than having poor driving abilities.

Lonely

1,099 posts

167 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Vipers said:
PH_77 said:


There was only about 50 free spaces in the car park.
I just couldnt walk away from that. When I see this I wonder about their general driving abilities.
I wonder more about their "couldn't give two sts about anyone else" attitude.

Doesn't look like your average Asda car park mind. Probably used by like minded people.