[Closed] Anyone know this car - Southampton University Hospital. Bad parking consequences

What an arse!

Drag it out of the way then hammer nails into the tyres.

Woman driver, 3rd time she has done it apparently

Permit number 17004 G

Email sent to University Press office

Neighbour taken away in the ambulance

Smash drivers window, handbrake off, roll it back up to the Fiesta, then drive the Note out of drive?

Owner comes back to find all 4 tyres mysteriously deflated. The French are quite brutal aboit this, the car would have been keyed extensively.

I would just stick that photo on the windscreen. Or tied to a brick on the front seat. Massively dick move.

Photo on the windscreen is already done!!

Email to Southampton Univercity Press officer :
[i]
I do not know who this permit holder is but apparently it is a female. The VW Polo AG58FVD has parked across these peoples drives three times previously. Those times it was inconvenient. This time it was more serious. One of the people she had blocked in felt unwell but was unable to get taken to the hospital due to her inconsiderate parking. After collapsing and three hours later an ambulance also had to work around her car.

I will wait until Monday morning before this goes out across the whole of social media and to any publicity device I have access to so hopefully you and her will have a chance to react.

I am not sure if, or how, this will end positively but if you and the whole of Southampton University use this as an opportunity to apologise and promote considerate parking I suspect something might be achieved.[/i]

Anything I can LEGALLY do that will cause even a fraction of the inconvenience she has caused?

The first thought was chock up the car and take the wheels off but all wheels have security bolts.

No handy timber to chock up the car.

Do NOT want to break glass, slash tyres etc.

SAFE, LEGAL but bloody inconvenient when she gets back to the car in the next hour or so

SAFE, LEGAL but bloody inconvenient when she gets back to the car in the next hour or so

Valve caps off, deflate.

No actual damage, relatively easy to fix, good message sent.

Neighbour's and your car an inch in front and behind.
Trap her in.

DrP

Neighbour's and your car an inch in front and behind.

Also good.

I was about to suggest a skip in place of your car!

I believe deflating the tyres is not considered illegal as you have not damaged anything....

Whether that's an internet myth or not, I am not sure.

I have always wanted to wrap a car in clingfilm around the doors and underneath....round and round and round....

Banana in tailpipe? Worked for Axel Foley...!

You must have a trolley jack. Jack it up and send it on its way down the hill.
remove valve cores
dog poo under door handles
garlic oil into fresh air intake below windscreen
expanding foam up the exhaust
Wrap it up in a roll of heat shrink plastic , then heat shrink it

Very simple get Southampton University to withdraw their parking permit to that car or that person.

Provided Southampton University is willing to co-operate.

No damage to the car necessary.

Now the person has to take a bus or a taxi or pay for expensive parking somewhere else for the inconvenience caused.

If Uni is not going to do anything then go through all the suggestions ...

+1 for doc P suggestion.
Block it in

Yup, too late to deflate typres. Block her in so she cannot move (then say car owner has gone out with their keys) and then have a many local residents as possible come out and speak to her about her inconsiderate parking. If she gets stressed and calls the police so be it, you can put your point to them too.

For future reference the Police will (or always used to) attend and move it if it is blocking access to the highway on a dropped kerb. They will also ticket.

In the circumstances you describe I'm sure they would have done something to assist.

By the way it's not Monday yet. 😉

If memory serves me correct you can pull the door handle out and you can flick out the the little bit that connects handle to lock. She won't be going anywhere unless she climbs through the boot.
Simple fix if you know what's wrong, a pain in the arse if you don't.
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For future reference the Police will (or always used to) attend and move it if it is blocking access to the highway on a dropped kerb. They will also ticket.

About three or four reasonably strong people could have moved it enough as well.

Or report it to the traffic Police.

No need to go down to driver's level.

Cfh that's fair comment although I believe that the (old?) approach of asp/truncheon through the side window followed by a fixed penalty sends a better "explanation" to the driver especially if it's raining that day.

It also removes the risk of residents getting in trouble for accidental damage to it.

The French are quite brutal aboit this, the car would have been keyed extensively.

Nope, house owners don't want their windows smashed or shit in their letter box. I do have a trolley jack though and a no parking sign on the gate.

I believe that the (old?) approach of asp/truncheon through the side window followed by a fixed penalty sends a better "explanation" to the driver especially if it's raining that day.

Yellow rain? 😉

How about a good old fashioned potato up the exhaust pipe?

Police notified. They tried to phone the owners number but no reply. Will try again on Monday.

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The second one shows the Fiesta parked up to the dropped kerb and her directly across it.

We are waiting for her return. The other blocked in neighbour has to go to London at 7am so the car will be gone in the morning.

All SAFE and LEGAL

Watch this space

I'd go for blocking it in. Suppose you let the tyres down and she doesn't notice - perfectly possible given how mindless she evidently is - and ends up crashing and hurting someone.

It could have been stolen and abandoned.

Nope

You don't live in Paris. Maybe I should have been more specific for non reformed Trolls.

Block it in is the best option and then explain how dreadful that is for her but explain the neighbours story with phots
Wish her luck finding the owners of said cars in the nest three or four days

Leave

Police won't move it. I've had cars blocking access for cranes delivering material for flood relief, all the police will do is door knock, not their area of interest. Fire and rescue will bounce a car willingly, it's difficult to stop them.

You've got a Ranger haven't you WCA? Stick it in low range and drag it to another road.

Neighbour at my old house used to always block me in. A mate informed me if you drive very carefully up to the bumper you can push the car out of the way very slowly, it worked. I also put a for sale sign in it and his mobile number (the window was slightly open) he didn't do it again.

4x4 and skull drag it up the street.

Then a hoof in the slats.

Not clear whether you think its uni or hospital staff WCA but make sure you tahget the right organisation. If it's hospital staff as title suggests I can't see why she's not parked on-site, given the permit (and a half empty hospital as we're all skiving off at home ( /JHunt))

<puts on wig and does make up ready for end of shift>

😳

The 'truck nudge' option might be there at 7:00am but gently to cause leat damage

Lot of organisations will issue more permits than they have spaces. I imagine it is hospital staff, given the hour.

Contacting HR or the chief exec's office at the trust may be more fruitful, copying in the details to the local rag.

I thought that the police would have it moved if it blocked a drive.

No, you should avoid making sweeping statements that are simply untrue, Jamba. Cars get kicked and keyed in the same circumstances as in the UK. As retribution for anti-social behavior when there's no chance of revenge.

I got blocked in my parking place in the ski resort by a dorifor (far more anti-social than any inhabitants of the capital) who left a message in his windscreen with my reg number on it threatening revenge if anything happened to his car. I didn't need my car so didn't get it towed away but edit 😉

MOT history shows it only does around 3k a year. Don't know why that is of interest im just a nosey sod.

In cities Police are prioritising which actual live crimes they respond to, bad parking is not near that list. The police service of this Government is a long way away from the police service of people's imagination.

am I being daft? why should Southampton Uni apologise?

Tractor pull it with the Isuzu Eva

Or is the isuzu unable 😉

first thing I would be doing is accidentally spilling some bird seed all over it.

Don't touch the tyres as it could be seen as a dangerous act or lead to damage if the owner doesnt spot them and drives off. That damage could then be fatal if a side wall splits (to the driver, a passenger or someone they hit).

Apology from her

Reminder to staff to park nicely from the university

Sorry that wasn't clear. iPads are crap for punctuation when mixed with beer

I am liking that approach WCA.

I presume you also have suitable passive/aggressive note on window explaining why, and that whole street is looking on...?

It has to be someone localish - they only do 2k a year mileage, according to the MOT history!

Unbelievably inconsiderate and no excuse for it. But......
Is it worth contacting the council to ask for proper Road markings to be painted to avoid this happening again ?
From the photo it looks like the White dashed line signifies that where the car is parked is a parking bay (it doesn't look like a dashed road centre line). Obviously the driver shouldn't have blocked dropped kerbs but having road markings that suggest they are parked in a bay could make it confusing for simple people.

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Yes there is some fading parking area that appear to cover the front of both driveways but the car in one, the gate in the other and the dropped curb in both sort of suggest people might want to get out

A street view image from a near by road showing the ridiculous way that parking bays are marked. (I don't know if this is the road in question, but is a random place on a random residential street near the hospital)

The bays should be marked to end where there are dropped kerbs.
The council has spent public money to paint the bays and put up permit signage, you should pressure them to do it properly.

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Note even in this random example there is a silver astra blocking a dropped kerb.

but it might be that persons dropped kerb or they might be visiting that house.

By not putting double yellows it lets people with a single driveway park 2 cars but it also opens up the chance of inconsiderate a-holes blocking your drive.

The dashed parking areas go across all dropped curbs along the road but the entire area is parking permit holders only.

Permit parking means it should be controlled.

Her permit isn't valid but the meter maids only work 9-5 and possibly 2 days a month so it is easier to ignore them and pay the penalty if you do get caught.

How about a massive cock and balls painted on the car with that invisible Volvo safety paint that's reflective at night time ?

As above, not sure the uni needs to make some sort of public apology for the dickishness of one permit holder; it's hardly like they say "You've got a permit, park wherever you want". Saying you expect an apology from them by Monday morning as if the press office works 24/7 or you're going to unleash the social media mobs is a bit ****ty.

Yeah, I'd probably re-draft without a beer 🙂

Jack it up, put a McDonalds tray under each rear wheel and push it/tow it to wherever you want.

Some of the stuff you've done could be straight out of Alan Partridge, like writing "Fool" on the side in big letters, anyone selfish enough to park like that will just laugh and then drive off!
Write "Arse" on one side and "Hole" on the other 🙂

I still don't understand what me parking my car there had to do with the guy going to hospital.

Not condoning the idiotic and selfish parking but how did it prevent the person getting to hospital? Could a neighbour not have taken them or they could have got a taxi for example.

Not excusing the inconsiderate parking but couldn't the ambulance driver just reverse, pull forward into the road and shuffle the ambulance so the rear door could open onto the pavement? I know the ambulance would then be blocking the road for a few minutes but it's a bright yellow vehicle, easily visible for other traffic to see it and stop for a few minutes.

Getting to hospital, call a taxi?

Bad parking, a sticker on their windscreen each time they do it plus a complaint to the Uni (I'm assuming that this was in work time).

Although looking again at the picture, should they be parking in the front garden ie has it a legal dropped curb.

If you are going to do passive aggressive at least try to spell everything correctly.

What's the full context here? No normal person parks across drives, especially for more than a minute or two. Close to the hospital - could it be a front line employee called on an emergency and effectively abandoning in a desperation? Still not right but more understandable.

We are directly opposite a primary school and parents (read mostly fat ladies) feel it is their God given right to park across our drive for a few mins to drop off their kids rather than waddle another 50yards from a more courteous location - or rather they did until my wife was blocked in once too often on her way to work and I went batshit mental (on the outside, calm as you like inside - special teacher skill) and now they all avoid me at all cost as clearly deranged.

In these circumstances any damage or tampering with the car means you loose all your moral high ground - blocking in for the win. Putting them in a position where they have to make contact with you and will have to wait until you have finished telling them what a cockwomble they are is far more demeaning and attitude changing.

No normal person parks across drives,

hahahahahahaha. You don't get out much i guess......

I get out loads thanks. Did you read to the middle paragraph for context or is your attention span too limited.

No normal person parks across drives, especially for more than a minute or two.

As a past president of the university areas of Southampton they (drivers) really do park that selfishly for extended periods (I've been a victim and had to involve the police before).

My parents have similar issues regularly (and that's a small market town) and again have had to involve police.

I sense from other posts that they are less willing to help these days.

Also if you read the op the driver has previous.

hahahahahahaha. You don't get out much i guess......

Plenty of people aren't normal, they're selfish cockwombles. He didn't say it's a minority. One of our neighbours is a total dick about parking - on the rare occasions he uses his drive he actually parks 6' back from it, so he makes it harder for about 5 other people to get out.

As a past president of the university areas of Southampton

You'd think you could have done more about it with that sort of power..

Doh. Dam phone keyboards.

Anyone who has read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would know that the purpose of a president is not to wield power but to distract attention from it. The bloke we need to find for exercise of real power lives in a shed and believes he has a cat who he calls The Lord.

those are some ridiculous street markings though, especially if the driver is a bit cognitively challenged

Sod all that. They'll just drive off. In the absence of any enforcement with penalties, you'd need to do something that costs them to get the message across. edited to sound less angry, I hate selfish parkers.

I'd be interested to know if it would be possible/feasible to use money claim online to charge these morons the cost of a taxi if you couldn't get your car out to get to work for example.

I have a garage away from my house and there's been a couple of occasions where I've been unable to use it because of the mentally challenged parking in front of it, at the time I had 2 cars so I was still able to use one. I'm down to one car now and so far it hasn't been an issue.

The excuses are just brilliant:
"I pay car tax I can park where I like" (that one nearly ending ended in a fight when I pointed out that if he thought like that he must be a ****ing imbecile)

"I didn't know there was car in there" (it's a garage, just assume).

"You should have just came and got me and asked me to move" (this from a non-resident I'd never seen before - how am I supposed to know which house you're visiting???)

@mdavids why not put up a sign - no parking 24hr access needed ? Worth a try.

@Edukator, as I said I should have put Paris as thats where we see it first hand a lot. Mrs B's car has been keyed twice both times we believe where people have taken offence with parking for some reason (eg too close to a scooter parked end-on ?). I have had it explained to me numerous times thats its common practice.

Stick a sign on the car saying (words to the effect of) "As a resident of this street I feel it is only fair to warn you that there has been a mysterious outbreak of cars having all of their tyres slashed. For some reason this seems to primarily effect cars that have been selfishly parked across drives. You may wish to consider parking elsewhere in future." If they've any sense they'll not park there again..

@mdavids why not put up a sign - no parking 24hr access needed ? Worth a try.

Yep, already done.

I don't have an actual drive but, being northern, I've two big gates that allow me to park in my yard.

Dropped kerb on it and signs saying " keep clear " but I still get morons nipping to the local hairdressers, tanning shop and chippy parking across it.

I now always have either the van or car parked across the gates depending on which vehicle I'm using. The only way of stopping the morons.

over reaction, and if the patient wanted needed to go to hospital driving his own car is not realy good enough, taxi or if serious an ambulance.

We used to have people taking our paid for resident's bay in our old flat. I printed a load of A3 posters up saying "sorry for the inconvenience, this is much how I felt when you took my resident's space" and would pritt stick them on the windscreen right in the driver's line of sight. We never had any repercussions (maybe because bays were letters not flat numbers?) but we did see some awesome meltdowns and domestics as a result!!

Maybe worth doing something like that? As it's pritt stick, no "damage" but a bloody great inconvenience to this person.......

Buy some marker spray paint and box off the dropped kerb areas. At least yours and pass the paint around.

Lot of organisations will issue more permits than they have spaces. I imagine it is hospital staff, given the hour.

I'd be interested to know if it would be possible/feasible to use money claim online to charge these morons the cost of a taxi if you couldn't get your car out to get to work for example.

Charge them for the bloody ambulance call-out, more like.