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Stirling uni was full of them today including these two fine examples. What you got?
And that is why I need a 4x4......
Shouldn’t that read ‘International don’t park like a **** day’ as bad parking seems to be the standard?
What you got?
Can't find the image now, but I did once have a photo of the boss's car carefully parked between the two rows of racks inside the bike shelter at work, thus rendering parking for about 30 bikes completely useless.
Yep. One tit had managed to park outside my house taking up two spaces with one stupid urban off-road thing.
Bonus points for having the back wheel hanging off the kerb by about 3 mills of rubber on the sidewall.
It didn’t even require any manoeuvring as you can drive straight into the space from behind.
Tit.
An Audi?
Why yes.... yes it is!
#notondoubleyellowswhatsyerproblemsunshine
Twitter account @yplac would love that one
I had the pain of watching a grown man execute a painfull 6 point turn on Sunday evening. Drove up the drive , assesed the situation wrongly , then made a complete hash of doing a 180' turn. Stopping approx 4ft from either my garage door or fence.
It was the sort of parking fiasco normaly reserved for Nissan Micra's with "powered by fairydust" on the back , and pictures of butterflies stuck randomly over the bodywork.
Having stood agast at this chaps utter incompetance at piloting his Fiesta ( its a 3 point turn in V70 barge ), I actually said too loudly " You park like a girl " , which enraged this man somewhat . I do not care . He needs driving lessons.
Yep. One tit had managed to park outside my house taking up two spaces with one stupid urban off-road thing.
Just one? Everyone along our street seems to be under the impression that the minimum parking distance from the car in front is roughly 3/4 of a normal car length. There is even one woman who moves into a space, spends an age running backwards and forwards, stops in a sensible place then reverses back using the 2/3 rule thus taking two spaces habitually.
I'm convinced one day I'm going to snap and just park my shitbox nose in to spite the arseholes until they get the message.
Near my shop there is a **** who parks his car outside is house. Fair do.
His schedule is
get up
move car from drive to outside house
at 11 am move car back onto drive to avoid parking restriction
12 midday move car back onto road
7 pm car back onto drive.
No matter if a bus was parked on the other side of the road he will park outside ,leaving exactly zero room for a fire engine to get through.
His life must be one of total anger.
at 11 am move car back onto drive to avoid parking restriction
12 midday move car back onto road
Can you then park your car on the road outside his house at 11.30? Extra points if you film his response.
Fill your boots:
Parking like a tit in Cornwall Facebook group
ETA: Usually a bit busier in summer...
On my way to work on Monday, there was a 5 series parked perpendicular to the curb on station road(?) in Alvechurch, if it is there tomorrow I will try to take a pic, then someone can talk me through posting them.
An ex colleague couldn’t understand why they’d been given a parking ticket, so on our advice asked the supermarket to provide evidence that they’d parked illegally. This was the response.
That is superb...
Another Audi, snap!
The blonde bimbo in this drove around but couldn't find anywhere close enough, so she plonked it here. No blue badge or any other sign of disability of course. The only visible disability was her inability to park straight.
She'll be shopping in Aldi cos she'll be debted up to the eyeballs so has to keep the cost of living down.
@matt in fairness that’s a pretty standard day at Stirling uni, even 20 years ago 😀
An Audi?
Why yes…. yes it is!
Sorry, I though Audis were only meant to be parked with wheels on either side of a white line, preferably with the line down the middle...
Edit: I see there's an example further down
“You park like a girl”
He might have been enraged by the sexism 😆
Maybe they wanted to be close to the tree as they were retrieving (someone else's) drone?
Having the misfortune to live near old Trafford the constant stream of rangrovers and other high end stuff parked in bushes, on pavements or generally abandoned to avoid paying for the bloody tram which gets you closer is incredible
This boiled my piss a couple of days ago. Not helped by the fact X6's are on my personal top "****-wagon" list. 6 inches out from the curb, 12" out of the parking bay. Photo doesn't really show how narrow the space left to get through was.
To be fair, even if their tyres were scuffing the kerb that parking bay is way too narrow for that car.
To be fair, even if their tyres were scuffing the kerb that car is much too wide for that parking bay.
FTFY 😉
No - the car is too wide for the bay. Cars have got bigger and wider.
The issue of narrow bays is due to the widening of the footpaths (indicated by the tarmac edgings) to allow for wider prams and obese pedestrians.
/s
yep - as i was leaving the house this morning there was someone merrily pulling onto our (one-way) street from the wrong end, ignoring the large no-entry signs and the other vehicle trying to exit the road, so that they could just nip up to a parking space 10 yards along
(we live opposite a school, this is actually a pretty common occurrence)
drlex wrote
The issue of narrow bays is due to the widening of the footpaths (indicated by the tarmac edgings) to allow for wider prams and obese pedestrians.
/s
the the bays should only have been put on one side of the road, the problem is due to cars getting wider
I take great pleasure in shoving the pushchair along cars that park on pavements. Should be fair game to remove wing mirrors to increase clearance. Entitled pricks.
Parking on any bit of free car sized space does seem to be a "thing" these days. Regardless of any consideration for others.
Whilst I can't condone damaging someone's car becuase they've parked badly, I'll often nudge the wingmirror if they are parked on the pavement unneccessarily.
Case in point, an old Landrover Defender with wide wheels (2"+ outside of the bodywork) regularly used to park with both wheels fully on the pavement when it was completely unnccessary, so they used to get the wing mirror nudged as I walked past. I took no pleasure at all from seeing it parked one morning like it usually was with the windscreen smashed and the side window completely shattered. Haven't seen it since.
To be honest, the best place to see ridiculous parking is outside any primary school at home time. I've seen cars parked on mini roundabouts, on zig zags, its just mental the lack of regard some parents have.
It's raining so its OK to park on the double yellow lines and besides it's a fee paying school so we can do what the **** we like!!!
In the "what is the biggest item you have you got in your car" thread, there's a picture of a Yaris (with a canoe hanging out the back) parked 4 wheels on the pavement.
Parking on any bit of free car sized space does seem to be a “thing” these days. Regardless of any consideration for others.
Ever been to France?
Its a “thing” there fo’sho’ and has been for decades.
Find a spot 1mtr smaller than your vehicle, and bump/wedge/bump your way into the spot.
Or find a bit of grass and park on it (not unlike the Audi in the first picture)
It annoys the hell out of me inconsiderate parking, but I am British so I have to moan about parking and driving abilities... don’t i??
Seems that a disproportionately high number of BMW saloons end up parked on the s**** in marked parking bays.
I have no strong feelings on the brand or drivers but muse on how come these wundervagons, fitted with all manner of electronic driver aids, fail to end up "nice and square".
Untidy, I tell you. Untidy.
bikebouy- that's standard practice in Spain too. My brother in law says people don't use the handbrake so that cars can be pushed out of the way, making the bumpers live up to their name.
Local school has had to send out various emisle about parents parking, if I have to drop boys off in the car I just park a bit further away and walk a bit further, seems to solve the problems.
i used to live in Maids Moreton. There was rugby club that had a very good turnout on a Sunday for kids rugby with several pitches being used. Trouble was there was next to no parking, so on a Sunday morning the parents would turn up with one child per 4x4 and because the road past the club was busy they would park half on the pavement so you couldn't walk past. If they were prepared to walk a couple of hundred yards there was enough on street parking available.
After talking to the club with little result it took the best part of 6 weeks of calling the police on a Sunday morning to ticket the cars before things started getting better.
To be fair, even if their tyres were scuffing the kerb that parking bay is way too narrow for that car.
Which tells you the stupid car is too big. I've never seen a standard car that hasn't fitted in before. It was blocking the road for anything larger than a normal car (ambulance, fire engine etc.)
Have some Sheffield Parking on the Twitter universe https://twitter.com/ParkinginSheff
I take great pleasure in shoving the pushchair along cars that park on pavements. Should be fair game to remove wing mirrors to increase clearance. Entitled pricks.
As much as I dislike inconsiderate parking, you sound just as 'entitled' as the pavement parkers. Well done.
I carefully pointed out to a lady this morning that she shouldn't be parking outside the school on a yellow line with timed restrictions (right opposite the entrance).
Came out of school, after dropping kids off, to have her go nuts at me. She stated that I was 'very rude' and that she can park where she likes as it was outside her house. I then pointed out that there was a yellow line with a restriction. The restriction sign was right next to to her car.
She wasn't having any of it and continued to shout off her mouth to all and sundry that I was very rude.
I wish I hadn't bothered.
I wish I hadn’t bothered.
I've had a few run ins with people, and when I realised I was getting a bit too close to a punch in the face, i just stopped saying anything. Trying to take the approach now that someone less concerned about the outcome than myself might come along and key their pride and joy
People are dicks, and they seem to be spreading at an alarming rate
the real thing - the difference is he is entitled to walk with baby buggy along the pavement, the car is not entitled to drive and park on the pavement.
Willyboy - photograph her with the sign / yellow lines in view and walk off making sure she has seen you
how come these wundervagons, fitted with all manner of electronic driver aids, fail to end up “nice and square”.
My father-in-law has a Jag with front and back parking cameras that show an overlay of where the car will end up based on how you turn the wheel. It can also park itself automatically if requested.
It literally couldn't be easier, but somehow he still regularly ends up at an angle, several feet from the kerb.
After talking to the club with little result it took the best part of 6 weeks of calling the police on a Sunday morning to ticket the cars before things started getting better.
We have the same in our road with the kids football club opposite, but I had a word with the chairman who i know anyway, he sent a letter out and the parking got a lot more considerate. Even to the extent that one time i pulled up across a dropped kerb and before I'd even blipped the car shut a parent had come across and was starting to berate me for blocking a drive. His concern abated somewhat when i pointed out it was my own drive and i was only unloading the shopping anyway...... we both saw the funny side.
My latest one next to our Xtrail today, I nearly keyed it but that would've been silly. The car that was there when I parked up was parked spot on, & that was there when I got back.
I might start a Facebook page on crap parking.
esselgruntfuttock
There already are several
As much as I dislike inconsiderate parking, you sound just as ‘entitled’ as the pavement parkers. Well done.
Thanks! Faced with that or walking in the road I'll shove through. Any damage is purely accidental, and of their own doing. If there's still room to get through I won't scuff along the car, though, that's unnecessary and I agree would make me as entitled as the pricks who can't park.
An old one tbh but this was the official branded truck at Sheffield Decathlon. Parked across 2 (two) disabled bays.
Had to chuckle, at home having a late lunch, and its nearly kicking out time for the nearby primary school. Car comes up and due to one of the other mums taking a space and a half, they have the half space and partially block the neighbours drive. Then their son in law turns up and they had to move so he could get in the drive. Ha!
Ever been to France?
Its a “thing” there fo’sho’ and has been for decades.
Find a spot 1mtr smaller than your vehicle, and bump/wedge/bump your way into the spot.
This. You are all parking pussies; when I lived in Paris you always left the handbrake off so that neighbours could shunt your car forwards or backwards to create space. Most cars had cracked bumpers.
Ever been to France?
Its a “thing” there fo’sho’ and has been for decades.
Find a spot 1mtr smaller than your vehicle, and bump/wedge/bump your way into the spot.
This. You are all parking pussies; when I lived in Paris you always left the handbrake off so that neighbours could shunt your car forwards or backwards to create space. Most cars had cracked bumpers.
Indeed.
I lived and worked in Bordeaux for a couple of years, I had a Company Car at the time. Within 2mths of new ownership it looked like a relic from a a few laps around the local grass track club circuit.
I bought an old VW Polo off a colleague down there which was smattered with all manner of scrapes and scratches and then I proceeded to drive and park like a local.. using the bump and grind method.
One thing it teaches you is that it’s suprising just what size car will fit in the most inconceivable gaps.. with some effort.. obvz.
Ive got an excellent picture of a Toyota 4x4 parked at right angles across 2 disabled parking bays.
Unfortunately I have no idea of how to post the picture !
I went to a Screwfix yesterday and there was a bright yellow Lotus or some such pose-mobile parked diagonally across two bays right outside the store.
Either they can't park, or just don't gaf, or maybe it was strategic to prevent others from dooring their pride and joy.
Fill your boots:
Parking like a tit in Cornwall Facebook group
ETA: Usually a bit busier in summer
Ha there was one of those parking like a ...... Facebook groups in our village
Heinous little shite that ran it was a very brave keyboard warrior till it got made public who and where he lived and he wasn't so interested in calling people out on the www
Serves him right really I reserved the right to park acrossa all the motorbike bays at tesco
i used to live in Maids Moreton. There was rugby club that had a very good turnout on a Sunday for kids rugby with several pitches being used. Trouble was there was next to no parking, so on a Sunday morning the parents would turn up with one child per 4×4 and because the road past the club was busy they would park half on the pavement so you couldn’t walk past. If they were prepared to walk a couple of hundred yards there was enough on street parking available.
After talking to the club with little result it took the best part of 6 weeks of calling the police on a Sunday morning to ticket the cars before things started getting better.
Surely the men's first team could have saved the police a chore?
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I’ll just leave this one here, ok?
They make the pavement especially wide in my road for the safety of everyone...
Had a word with this bloke today. Told him he was in a bus stop bay and he basically said tough if a bus showed up and it would have to stop elsewhere. Arsehole.
Kateezdad2 is that the Formby Tesco?
TBF to the Honda above it always was permissible to use bus stops for parking after a certain time.
not in Edinburgh - bus stops are always no parking
the real thing – the difference is he is entitled to walk with baby buggy along the pavement, the car is not entitled to drive and park on the pavement.
Well, obviously. I doubt anyone needed telling that. But thanks anyway.
I take great pleasure in shoving the pushchair along cars that park on pavements
Regardless, purposely damaging the cars (and taking pleasure in doing so), makes him just as much as an entitled dick. To fall back on a cliché, two wrongs don't make a right.
If there’s still room to get through I won’t scuff along the car, though, that’s unnecessary and I agree would make me as entitled as the pricks who can’t park.
Just caught up with the posts.....in that case, fair enough. Doesn't quite excuse the 'great pleasure' in causing damage though does it?
IMO we are far too tolerant of bad parking in this country.
One reason why no one parks in cycle lanes in the netherlands - despite a chronic shortage of parking in the cities is that if you do park in a cycle lane you can guarantee you car will be scratched by a cyclist annoyed at the parking. Vigilante enforcement! - that and a calvinistic abide by the rules attitude to everything.
Car drivers in the UK feel entitled to break the law / rules all the time and get incensed when rules are enforced - the " war on motorists" Its high time this was rebalanced
I take great pleasure in shoving the pushchair along cars that park on pavements
If we can moan about how cars have got so much wider, why do the buggies get a pass? Some of those are ridiculous these days. Often pushed by arseholes who have zero intention of sharing the path with anyone else.
while we're on the subject how come disabled badge holders are allowed to park on double yellows? you often seen them parked in very dangerous places, on bends, outside shops etc. often compounded by the fact that they are driven by elderly people wearing hats! Being disabled in some way doesn't magically make that parking spot less dangerous.
Car drivers in the UK feel entitled to break the law / rules all the time and get incensed when rules are enforced – the ” war on motorists” Its high time this was rebalanced
I get the feeling your view of 'balanced' would be incredibly unbalanced in your favour. Do you own a car? Not trying to excuse the atrocious parking in any way, but damaging badly parked cars is not the answer.
There are always going to be dicks who preach 'live and let live', but really mean 'let me do things my way because I am unable to comprehend other peoples point of view'.
while we’re on the subject how come disabled badge holders are allowed to park on double yellows? you often seen them parked in very dangerous places, on bends, outside shops etc. often compounded by the fact that they are driven by elderly people wearing hats! Being disabled in some way doesn’t magically make that parking spot less dangerous.
I think the idea of double yellows is regarding convenience/traffic flow rather than safety.
The fact somebody is disabled might make it harder to walk even around the corner to the shops. I'm pretty surprised I have to point this out!
Also whilst I'm on that note, disabled people are entitled to drive fancy cars too! A friend of some of my friends until recently (RIP) got lots of suspicious looks when parking his sports car in a disabled bay, but he was in his 70s or older and was indeed disabled.
The fact somebody is disabled might make it harder to walk even around the corner to the shops. I’m pretty surprised I have to point this out!
Very valid point and no you do not need to point this out. If they do have trouble walking then surely it would be common sense to go to a different shop or facility where there is adequate and safe parking so that they are not obstructing traffic or making an area unsafe. They are in a car after all.
Its very unbalanced in the car drivers advantage right now. A 2 mile ride into the town centre can often see a dozen card parked in a clearway on the cycleway.
I woulod be very much in favour of "zero tolerance" towards anyone who breaks the rules. Within a couple of years either behaviour would change or there would be no cars left on the road a they would all be banned
If the powers that be will not enforce the rules why can we not? As I said - try parking in a cycleway in amsterdamn - if you can get past the tutting you WILL find your car dmagaed. Would you park there again? No.
Pavement parking boils my piss, because of the thought process behind it. "Ooh, I don't want to block the road and inconvenience traffic, so I'll move as much of the car as I can onto the pavement. Look, if I fold in the mirror you can still squeeze past if you turn sideways and scrape your way along the wall / hedge."
Few things quite as satisfying as watching a tired mum with a pushchair aiming for an interference fit between the car and the wall. Obviously I can't condone deliberately damaging a car, but I do think that if every car parked on the pavement had a scrape running down the full length of one side then the problem would disappear quite quickly.
TBF to the Honda above it always was permissible to use bus stops for parking after a certain time.
Not when it's marked like that.
I once parked near a bus stop that they decided to mark up like that whilst I was away for the week. No parking restrictions prior to that. Somewhere I have a photo of the lines that extended under both bumpers but not quite to the wheels 🙂
Double yellows are often for safety, for example there's normally double yellows at the end of a road to make sure the view for cars leaving the road isn't blocked.
Case in point my road from which turning right requires you to be pretty much all the way across the road before you can see when all the taxis double park for a swift one in the pub before they go on shift... Don't even get me started.