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Charge them for the bloody ambulance call-out, more like.
That's the bit I can't get me head around in WCA's narrative. This address is 2 streets away from the hospital and the hospital is usually swarming with taxis. If you felt ill enough to want to go to hospital and your car (hopefully driven by someone else) was unavailable I think I'd be (or the person who would have driven the car) motivated enough to call a taxi and pay the 3 or 4 quid it would have cost rather than waited 3 hours until I had deteriorated enough that a taxi wasn't an option and it became an ambulance issue. Unless it still wasn't actually an ambulance issue and the ambulance was called to save the £3-4 a taxi would have cost. If you were driving yourself and parking in the hospital you'd be costing yourself more than that in fees and would not have a great deal less to walk!
They were put in the position by an inconsiderate arse but the thought process once in that position seems odd.
You are still missing my point, Jamba. People don't key cars if they can be identified and if you key a car blocking your own gate you are pretty stupid. Of course people key cars in Paris and everywhere else in the world when they are irritated with anti-social parking or in Paris just because it's a car that's likely to be driven by a category of person they legitimately hate. What does your good lady drive? People are more likely to key a Range Rover Vogue/BMW/Audi than a Dacia.
WCA, it's only going to get worse, a lot worse. UHS have just announced a load of building on site and have asked a load of staff to forego parking on site one day a week.
Its fair to say there has been a bit of angst.
People choose to park in Southampton?
A few answers to some points raised.
Yes, typo in my note on windscreen
My wife saw the woman return to her car just before 8am this morning in an NHS uniform. Purple if that denotes a rank. When she called from the window to say the parking was bad the lady looked up, shrugged and drove off.
Being blocked in didn't totally prevent the neighbour going to the hospital as they could have got a taxi etc. It did prevent them going there easily so they decided to stay home and hope it would pass rather than getting checked out.
Legally dropped curb to allow new parking position. Curb dropped by the council at great expense.
There was a parking space behind the fiesta as I have started parking on the drive now it has been extended just to free up some road space. She chose to park across two dropped curbs rather than reverse into a space.
Another neighbour said that it is at least the third time she has done this.
Neighbour has been return from hospital to rest, nothing specific identified but to return immediately if they feel strange at all.
Very simple get Southampton University to withdraw their parking permit to that car or that person.
That would appear to be a largely pointless exercise, seeing as how the driver in question isn't using the permit to park where the permit would be appropriate.
It's possible to buy sheets of very opaque crack-back paper with a permanent self-adhesive coating, for printing labels that have to obscure completely anything that's underneath.
An A4 sheet of that stuck on the windscreen right in front of the driver will get the point across that major inconvenience cuts both ways.
It's an absolute [i]bitch[/i] to remove!
People don't key cars if they can be identified and if you key a car blocking your own gate you are pretty stupid
Exactly one does not need to be sherlock Holmes to work out who done it
Yeah but if you do something subtle they might not notice for a while and not connect it to their crap parking several days ago.
Perhaps a brick through the rear window would work.
Traffic enforcement in Moscow used to stick notices on to the screen with superglue
Purple if that denotes a rank.
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Not in every trust, mind you.
Would slightly explain the 'not giving a shit' attitude though. 🙂
Perhaps post something on the hospital twitter feed asking them to include something in their staff newsletter about not drumming up business for the ambulance service?
purple dress equals modern matron
http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/PatientsAndVisitors/Yourstayinhospital/Staffontheward.aspx
not necessarily - matrons @ UHS wear purple but so do some others
Why can't we all just get along?
Wife works at UHS and reckons it will be a Matron or infection control depending on the shade of purple. Matron is more lilac apparently.
The wife won't be able to park at work on Mondays for 18 months so will be dumping her car in a side street somewhere in Southampton shortly.
There is a whole youtube channel for dealing with this problem in Russia, called Stop a douchbag
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Are you suggesting that either a senior nurse or, even worse, infection control nurse wears their uniform out of the hospital? Unless they are on trust business this isn't allowed.
[url= http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/Media/Controlleddocuments/General/UHS-appearance-policy.pdf ]Southamptom uniform policy[/url]
The hospital has a responsibility, perhaps not legally but morally to the local community. Staff who park in local area have a significant negative impact on the community and the hospital should take steps to avoid this. So it seems reasonable to get in touch with the hospital. I'd go to HR.
Many of my patients use special cars to get around and may not be able to use a taxi. It's also why parking on the pavement is so antisocial as they need space to get through.
I think policy allows uniforms when travelling to/from work
The hospital has a responsibility, perhaps not legally but morally to the local community. Staff who park in local area have a significant negative impact on the community and the hospital should take steps to avoid this. So it seems reasonable to get in touch with the hospital. I'd go to HR.
To be fair this is a point. I had to have an official conversation with a paper record in his file with someone I line manage about a complaint (one of a number) from a member of the public about his driving on the approaches to where we work. It went along the lines of bringing the business into disrepute and if it happens again we will have to go to written warnings. Might be worth a shot, especially with photographic evidence.
Again not excusing the shit parking but could the car not have actually got out of the gap? Once upon a time I dragged a car on to my site and fenced it in after some shit parking, the owner went a bit Michael Douglas which was even better.
"Yeah but if you do something subtle they might not notice for a while and not connect it to their crap parking several days ago."
Packet of raw prawns blended to a slurry pour result into air intakes of car . Takes a couple of days to attain full impact and is criminal damage .
[i]The wife won't be able to park at work on Mondays for 18 months so will be dumping her car in a side street somewhere in Southampton shortly. [/i]
I wonder how much a safe, off road parking space on my drive is worth...
If its true that hospital parking is reduced/closed for 18 months I would be straight onto the council to ensure they are patrolling every day plus call them every time you find a non permitted car.
WCA renting out your drive is not that uncommon, there is a website (of course) but easiest way is direct. I have a few friends with parking spaces in London who do this.
I wonder how much a safe, off road parking space on my drive is worth...
[url= https://www.justpark.com/ ]Just Parking[/url]
[url= http://www.parkonmydrive.com/ ]Parkonmydrive[/url]
Car park of the station near me has been closed for renovation. Residents are selling their driveway spaces and using their permits to park on the road, for rates well in excess of the normal station rates which was about a fiver a day.
When they announced the closure of the CP, my mate's wife went and leafleted some cars and before she'd handed out a dozen had had two people approach her and take her up on it.
The wife won't be able to park at work on Mondays for 18 months so will be dumping her car in a side street somewhere in Southampton shortly.
What's happening with the on-site parking in that period?
I look forward to the increase in teacher vs nurse vs parent fights on our all ready crowded road.
[quote="convert"]I get out loads thanks. Did you read to the middle paragraph for context or is your attention span too limited.nothing wrong with my attention span thanks. But anyone who makes an assertion that no one normal parks over a drive doesn't get to deal with many of the slavering inconsiderate morons that some quite normal people turn into when they get behind the wheel. Parking over a drive for a couple of minutes counts as quite rational.
Just had a call from the University parking people.
They will try to identify the person from the permit number I shared and send her an email reminding her to park nicely.
I wonder of that will work...
I hate inconsiderate sods like that. We used to have people partially block us in as we live very close to the tube station and people used to like parking for free. We not have parking restrictions so the problem has gone away thankfully
Everytime that happened, if their wheel was on any part of the dropped kerb, I called the parking wardens out who were only too happy to give them a ticket
I tried blocking one in too but that only got more me annoyed as they were there for a few days and I didn't want to move my car even when I needed it!
WCA at least you got a response. Let us see what happens over the coming weeks with the "car park closed" situation
I suffer this everyday as I live opposite a young children's school . I'm at the beginning of a tiny cul de sac and not only do the parents , I do have more colourful names for them than that normally, park over my dropped curb I've even come home to find someone parked on my drive with their bumper almost rubbing my front door. School does nothing about it and the drivers couldn't care less that after a sometimes a 3 hour drive home I cannot park outside or even by my house. People become ignorant when it's pick the kids up time. And most live in the same road as me.
😯I've even come home to find someone parked on my drive with their bumper almost rubbing my front door
Not long after I moved into my house I once came home from work to find my neighbour had parked his car in my driveway. I was not best pleased and when he pointed out that I had another driveway at the other side of the house I went nuclear.
I may have pointed out that I was extremely glad I wasn't born with two arseholes as he would feel entitled to have a go at one of those too.
[i]I tried blocking one in too but that only got more me annoyed as they were there for a few days and I didn't want to move my car even when I needed it! [/i]
If it happens again I would be tempted to use my truck to pull the car somewhere less inconvenient and then park either end to completely block it in. Luckily I have a third car so could just leave it like that for weeks 🙂
I wonder how the law stands about that...
School does nothing about it and the drivers couldn't care less that after a sometimes a 3 hour drive home I cannot park outside or even by my house.
Possibly. My daughter's school sends out repeated reminders about parking, but unfortunately some parents persist in not giving a stuff.
fd3chris - MemberI've even come home to find someone parked on my drive with their bumper almost rubbing my front door.
This happened to a mate of mine, he'd booked some time off work to get his car sorted, had dropped it off at the garage first thing and walked the short distance home. got around the corner to see one of the local mums opening his gates, pulling on his drive and shutting them behind her whilst she dropped her kids off at the local school.
I'd like to have said her padlocked the gates etc. but he just went inside and made himself a brew.
Ha ha he is a cooler headed guy than me then!
got around the corner to see one of the local mums opening his gates, pulling on his drive and shutting them behind her whilst she dropped her kids off at the local school.
What the actual flip? I'd have gone completely postal.
I'd have absolutely locked the gates.
My two immediate neighbours both have their own driveway, but my house doesn't so I have to park on the road. It's usually no bother, but the neighbours on one side have three cars and never, ever use their driveway so the space outside the house for three cars is usually taken up by two of theirs.
Now, my missus is a university lecturer and often has to cart a load of heavy books to and from the house, so it was a major inconvenience having to park a hundred yards up the road. I tried leaving polite notes, which were ignored. I tried to broach the subject but was blanked. Matters were only resolved when our other neighbour noticed what was going on and parked his car outside their house and left it there for a fortnight. We returned home fortuitously early and also parked outside the house, thankfully it not being term time, we didn't have to use our car for a fortnight either. Did we leave room for a third car?
Did we heck.
Since then they seem to have started using their own driveway.
They're building a "multi"storey (two floors, if the current ones are any guide) in one of the existing flat car parksWhat's happening with the on-site parking in that period?