[Closed] Share your tales of parking madness

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(Seeing as neighbor is a forumite, and our car is regularly parked on the street not the drive, I am backing out this thread... 😆 )

Some **** once built a 2' high drystone wall around my MG; I had apparently parked in 'Their' spot.

These cars have never moved.

Isn't there some legal requirement that the cars are actually used and not just "abandoned" on public land?

I once reserved a space for a jug.
It was ideal for ewer parking. 😉

Torn between letting the thread disappear off the front page by not posting and hoping that the OP comes back to it within the edit window.

[edit] phew.

Why does it need an edit?

Inspired by a local couple who have purchased two extra cars, one for each side of their driveway, in order to 'protect' said driveway - on which his and her regular cars are parked - and the bit of road in front of their house. Yes, that's right. They have bought, taxed and insured two extra cars in order to protect 'their' bit of road. These cars have never moved.

And your point is ?

Its there choice and money to do this cars are parked there legally so what's the issue ? Nothing to stop you doing the same...

Next ! 🙄

Sorry, spotted it. Your (sic) all very critical.

(He did it).

Thanks peterfile 🙂

That was close

*wipes brow*

This was the scene when I got to work a couple of weeks ago:

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(license plate redacted for obvious reasons).

Turns out it was the director of the company who thoughtfully wanted to free up some car parking spaces for other people because the car park was really full.

The irony of blocking the parking intended for the people who [i]didn't[/i] bring cars was apparently lost on him. 😆

What a dick. I'd have chained my bike to his car.

As with a fair few others here I'm sure, I live on a Victorian terrace, usual thing, cars parked parallel to carriageway all down two sides, with room for only one to drive the length. I shit you not but there isn't a day that goes by that [i]somebody[/i] (of course, yes, the same dozen or so cars, eternally) hasn't parked like a ****. I wouldn't even know where to start.

Next they'll be joining the two canopies to give themselves covered parking 🙂

Nowt queer as folk,especially when it comes to parking.

That's bonkers !

Come on guys spill the beans, what was the posting error ?

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unfitgeezer - Member

"Inspired by a local couple who have purchased two extra cars, one for each side of their driveway, in order to 'protect' said driveway - on which his and her regular cars are parked - and the bit of road in front of their house. Yes, that's right. They have bought, taxed and insured two extra cars in order to protect 'their' bit of road. These cars have never moved."

And your point is ?

Its there choice and money to do this cars are parked there legally so what's the issue ? Nothing to stop you doing the same...

Next !

You are his neighbour and I claim my €7.

I think it falls under 'parking madness' regardless of any other judgement.

Illegal use of an apostrophe. In the title. Pretty disgraceful.

You are his neighbour and I claim my €7.

I think it falls under 'parking madness' regardless of any other judgement.

I bet I'm not I win the 7euros !

Thanks peterfile

That was close

*wipes brow*

The damning evidence is still in the URL 🙂

Its there choice and money to do this cars are parked there legally so what's the issue ?

Would you be as happy if they had done it with anything other than a car?

Like maybe had two skips permanently deposited there? Or maybe just a couple of sheds?

The damning evidence is still in the URL

I've made a full and frank admission. As long as it's right now, that's what matters.

No one has a right to park on the highway unless there is a traffic regulation order permitting it. Anything else is just tolerated.

OP

Was there any grass verge involved in the parking area ?

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I've made a full and frank admission. As long as it's right now, that's what matters.

You did the crime, you do the time. This isn't Rastamouse you know.

As with a fair few others here I'm sure, I live on a Victorian terrace, usual thing

My neighbours have to park [i]directly[/i] outside their own houses, meaning that just over half the roadside is full of parked cars and the rest is gaps with enough space between a given pair to almost-but-not-quite get another car in.

What odd about the people in the OP - if they didn't bagsey the spaces in front of their house in the way they have at least some of the time they'd have free parking space in front of their house- available to them as much as anyone else. They've gone to this effort and expense to that they [i]never[/i] have space in front of their house, they don't inconvenience anyone more than they inconvenience themselves. The intent is selfish but the result is completely self defeating.

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Just get a couple of mates, a trolley jack and move the cars closer together so they can't exit/enter their drive.

Keep doing this until they crack under the stress of their 'possesed' cars

My office has about 1000 people in it and parking for 200 cars. As a result the streets nearby fill up pretty quickly in the mornings. They are just residential streets with no parking restrictions.

This pisses of some of the locals no end and the lengths some of them take to reserve "their" bit of road is something else. Cones are the most common, wheelie bins in the road is another. Some even make up official looking signs "Private parking residents only" Er no it isn't!. Some people in the office have had their cars damaged or their wiper blades stolen.

I've moved cones a few times. I was confronted once:

"You can't park there"
"Yes I can"
Was the extent of the argument

OP

Was there any grass verge involved in the parking area ?

I've not looked at that thread yet. I take it it's worth a visit?

You did the crime, you do the time. This isn't Rastamouse you know.

But, but.... I made a bad ting good?

The parking lot where I work just now fills up early. There are surrounding residential streets, which I almost never have to use thankfully. Last week, a chap was standing outside his house supervising, so I politely gave his driveway plenty of clearance. He approached me and asked that I move forward a metre or so, as "if you leave even a couple of inches somebody will park there". So this guy, who to his credit was very polite and respectful, stands outside and guards his driveway every morning. Fun life !

Someone once parked across my drive, so I had to perform an interesting manoeuvre involving a 3 point turn and drive down a section of pavement and grass to exit via the neighbours drive, the other person in the house contacted the police to get the car moved and they said there was nothing they could do as I was out of the drive, they can only remove them if they have blocked us IN, not OUT... crazy.

Some even make up official looking signs "Private parking residents only" Er no it isn't!.

Yeah I had that in Edinburgh once - nice BLOCK CAPITALS note left on my car saying that they knew I didn't live on that street, I wasn't entitled to park there and if I did it again they would inform the police. 😕

No formal parking restrictions posted obviously - just some self-entitled curtain twitcher that thinks they own the road.

I was quite pleased when the council made it all Permit Parking and all the residents had to fork out for annual permits 😀

It's the next village so it doesn't put me up or down. My mate lives opposite them. Apparently someone visiting him once parked in their space, overlapping the drive entrance by a few inches. They came tearing out, her with a bandage on her arm, declaring that he had to move his car immediately due to a medical emergency. His visitor did so, then they drove off glaring at him, in their car off the driveway. Then round the block and back to their house, parking in 'their' space. 🙂 I thought people like this only existed on the telly.

when I worked in Larndan (well Twickenham) in the 80s I used to buy maxis with a years mot and towbar for £300. I used to steet park wherever I could.
in maxi 1 I came out to find where I'd parked had been retarmaced and the car was awol, luckily this old codger said - it's down there son, it was the only car so they just moved it so they could get a bit more done today

in maxi 2, hideous winter day, dark, pissing and howling, ran out head down, opened door and jumped in and started it up - it was only when I grabbed the furry covered steering wheel that I realized it wasn't my car, mine was 2 cars up .....

In one house I had I was next to a nursery, and just up from a busy commuter station, so at certain times of day, parking was difficult. Sometimes you had to park further up the street where the houses on our side had drives and were set back and up from the road there was one woman who saw my housemate doing this and told us that we couldn't park there because it ruined her view*. I pointed out why we were leaving it there, that her garden had a 6ft wall topped with a 5ft hedge and there was no way that you could see the car from the house even without leaning out of the attic windows but this didn't satisfy her. She started putting rubbish on his windscreen after a while.

*a spectacular panorama of the 70s semi facing.

There was a small housing development built next to my wife's school.

Parents started using it to park when dropping their kids off.

Residents got upset and demanded the school 'do something'.

School agreed that caretaker would 'patrol' the road and ask parents who parked across drives to move their cars.

Two weeks later a resident reversed off their drive without looking properly and ran over the caretaker (who was wearing hi-viz).

My neighbours have done the same thing - after a series of officious little notes stuck to cars had no effect they've bought, taxed, and insured an old banger and abandoned it on the pavement outside their house.

The mind boggles.

I used to give a lift to an old colleague occasionally and for some reason, he insisted on driving near to mine but parking his car in a side street at the end of the road and waiting there for me, rather than just sticking his car on my drive.

After a few occasions of parking in the same spot, he returned to his car to find golden syrup completely covering his door handle.
I was livid when he told me and was gonna start knocking on doors to try & find who'd done it, but he was very blasé about the whole thing and just stopped parking there.

My neighbours are cut from similar cloth the op's it would seem. Despite ample space between their driveway and "my half of the wall" as it were they insist on parking any one of their 3 cars inch perfect to insure they use all of "their" space. They are so transparently anal and guarded it's hilarious, getting out and checking multiple times that they've used every available inch. Despite having ample room for 3 cars in their driveway.

They are so petty that recently some random stranger parked in front of my car on "their" side so in retaliation their son parked across my drive, blocking me in "accidentally". Suffice to say, choice words were had.

I live in an end terrace house- land at the side - technically mine as well but no one is allowed to park a car there- and my neighbour thinks we share this* as a parking space between us
he has fallen out with everyone who lives there - as he told me very aggressively the day I moved in when i asked him to move whilst i moved in. Anyway to cut a long story shoirt i just let him park there as life is to short etc

one day he knocked on my door
"when are you going to cut the grass and could you put some hardcore down and smooth it as it was muddy and slippy". I last parked there about 3 years ago at this point

ME staring in disbelief at this request. "so you want me to fix the land that you park on.? "

Him " yes , well it is your land"

Me well in that case get the **** of my land , take your car with you and dont ever park there again....shuts door"

Before that he asked me to fit a motion sensor light so they could see in the dark when they parked.

We dont speak now.

Tbh there is usually space in the street and I dont know whey he cares as they are always out moving the order of cars so they can get out the next day etc

He also likes to leave his roof box overhanging from his shed so it is half in my garden....so tempted to take a chain saw to it
People get so territorial over parking when in reality it is a road and a free for all.

Years ago as a student looked out the window of my shared terrace house to see my car (Morris Ital - very stylish :)) slowly going past the window and found the next door neighbour pushing my car out from the front of his terrace house. I told him to stop and he told me that if I parked in front of his house again he'd "Damage" me. I laughed in his face and for the next two years of piss taking he was "Mr Damage". "Good morning Mr Damage"

[i]it was only when I grabbed the furry covered steering wheel[/i]

Eww! You should definitely keep that sort of behaviour to your own vehicle.

Just remembered. When I was younger we came back from my Nan's house and there was a car parked slap bang across our driveway. They literally couldn't have positioned it any more central and the rest of the road was completely empty.

My Mum started ranting, but Dad just got out and went over to the car, opened the drivers door and took the handbrake off to let it roll clear of the driveway (the house is on a fairly steep hill) before reapplying the handbrake.
I thought this was hilarious.

Sometime later, the couple who had parked their car there came out from the neighbours house and spent a long time scratching their heads, walking around the car and pointing to where the car had definitely been. You could see them trying to work out how the car had moved. I think they drove off none the wiser.

Lady tried putting cones on our street, did a fly by ride to remove.

Used to live in a wee cul de sac that had an extra 4 (ish) spaces at the top of the driveway. Now, everyone who lived in the cul de sac had a place to park, so these were extra, On Sat and Sun the occasional spot would be used by folk dropping off, or watching sons/daughters play footy or rugby on the playing field opposite. This drove my neighbour (an older woman living on her own) absolutely bat-shit mental. Fine ok, you don't like people parking there, trouble was she would stomp around to my house and demand that I do something about it....

"why, I don't mind" I said.
"well you should"
"why"
"what about your 2 children"
"What about them? They don't drive they're 10 and 7, they don't care either"
"they might get kipnapped"

At this point I stopped, did she really say that, did I mishear?

"Kidnapped?"
"Or murdered"

At which point I'm looking around for the hidden camera, but no, this daft old bat thinks that my children are at risk from being kidnapped or murdered by cars parked in the driveway.

Shamefully, to keep her quiet, and leave me alone, I wrote a note and slipped it under their wiper asking them politely not to brutally murder my children. Somewhere on another website, some random guy is posting about the note he got accusing him of being a potential axe murderer

With these taxed (and presumably insured) placeholder vehicles you need to play the long game... eventually they'll need an MOT, that's when you strike!

Get everyone to move their cars down a little bit so that when they return from the MOT the only place they can park is overhanging their own driveway, thus either blocking their other cars in or out of their own drive.

I'd be tempted by a midnight trolleyjacking mission to move them overnight personally, and if some nefarious unknown passer by happened to superglue all the locks on the same night, well that would be mighty unfortunate wouldn't it 😉

Either that or time to start listing the bangers on Gumtree and autotrader.

Wouldn't be too hard to print off a few "Police Aware" signs and post them on the vehicles in question. 😀

Parking...the one thing that turns sane people into mentalists.

One of our neighbours is old and retired and is very territotial about the piece of road outside his house, despite having a huge driveway.

We fell out big time a few years ago when someone dropping something off parked like a bit of a tit and was across his drive a tiny bit. They were literally dropping off a box of somethhing. Our neighbour wasn't going anywhere and came charging down his garden shouting, going mental about it. I don't think asking for him to calm down helped. He didn't speak to us for ages after that.

He started to speak to us again last year and has had a load of building work done this year and every day one of his builders will park across our drive. But that's OK because they're working at his house....all day. I came home the other week to find a van half way across our drive so parked as close to it as I could and he hasn't spoken to us since. Oh well.

I have two parking spaces that are mine these days, one at the village and one at work, both within 200m of each other.

After a long day of meetings in the city, I got in around 12am to find my neighbour, one of my staff, in my space at home. Everybody else has a free for all, I have a double space. I could fit another car in, but it's a perk of the job.

I had to park on a bit of grass next to my space, that was wet from the rain, with uncut long grass. As I got out, my suit jacket fell into the grass, on picking it up the trousers inside fell into a puddle full of mud

By the time I had got in I was livid that she had dared park in my space....I was going to....

Her partner had done it dropping the car off, and hadn't realised it was my space.

Strange how such an odd thing can piss you off as parking.

One of the residents near our local hospital 'parks' an old bicycle on a prop stand on the road outside his house (chained up so that it can't be moved) just so that folk can't park outside his house 8)

What sort of life do these people lead?????

You work 200m away from where you live and still drive to your job?

I had to park on a bit of grass next to my space, that was wet from the rain, with uncut long grass. As I got out, my suit jacket fell into the grass, on picking it up the trousers inside fell into a puddle full of mud

Quirrel yesterday:

After a long day of meetings in the city, I got in around 12am to find my neighbour, one of my staff, in my space at home. Everybody else has a free for all, I have a double space. I could fit another car in, but it's a perk of the job

So, having a 'double space' at your home is a 'perk of the job'???

"so you want me to fix the land that you park on.? "

I think I'd be fixing that with a bloody great boulder at the entrance.

For a Brucie Bonus, install it after he's parked there.

My parents live in a quiet cul-de-sac that gets used by folk parking for a nearby football stadium. One day my old man came home and discovered the street full of cars as usual but someone had parked right across our drive. He had a 4x4 at the time so he jumped out, headed into the garage, got a tow rope, attached one end to the offending car, the other to his then dragged the thing into the middle of the cul-de-sac and left it there. Cars could get round it ok though. About 15 minutes after the footy ended the door bell goes with some plonker demanding to know how his car ended up in the middle of the street...

I confess to taking pleasure in d1ckhead parking when in my last year at college. Five of us in the house and three cars between us; the old chap across the road had a Morris Ital that only moved on pension day. Soooo, we used to stay back and pinch “his” spot when he beetled off to the post office. We’d then take delight in approaching whichever car was outside his house, putting bags in and making it look like we were going; he’d dash out to get his lime green chariot, and then be denied as one of the other two cars pulled up, and we’d bundle into that one and drive off, leaving him almost incandescent with frustration.

Loads of examples at the website youparklikea****.co.uk
Most definitely NSFW. Replace the asterisks with [i]see you next tuesday[/i] 😉

a midnight trolleyjacking mission to move them overnight personally

You work 200m away from where you live and still drive to your job?

If I am going out for the day, or have meetings in another city yes, how else would I get there?

So, having a 'double space' at your home is a 'perk of the job'???

Company provided housing, so yes. Saves me having to put any effort into my parking and can just leave my car in my own space without any consideration for anybody else

I think I'd be fixing that with a bloody great boulder at the entrance.

I am sure you can get in bother for having those painted white stones on the verge outside the house, is that not correct? If they damage a car when they are parking.

MAte of mine often gets home from work to find people parked in his driveway...

When confronted they get the arse with him with things like "well I wasn't going to be long and you get ticketed if you park in the street"

It has been entertaining to say the least 🙂

Or even leave it in your work space 200m away?

(I'm still a bit confused TBH) 🙂

^ stuff that when it is 36 degrees and 80% humidity.

If I did that I would have to get my boy to fan me all the way to the car.

Ah right, so you don't have quite the same issues with industrial revolution town planning and a consumerist society with an entitlement problem. Getting there now.

I worked in a place like that once. Car spaces were allocated according to grade, so people who were of the inclination to flaunt their newly acquired and vaunted status as middle managers would come in rattling their keys about the place and moaning about the traffic because I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW HOW MUCH MORE IMPORTANT I AM THAN YOU.

One lady was even rumoured to live across the street, but drove to work to make sure her space wasn't re-allocated causing her to lose that hard earned badge of her petty office.

consumerist society with an entitlement problem.

Certainly do have issues with that. Planning though, not really.

When I lived in Paris parking was always interesting. Outside my apartment or anywhere in the city it was normal to create space by pushing other cars out of the way with your bumpers, so everybody left their brakes off. Luckily most of Paris is flat so this works pretty well.

I had a spot in the underground car park at the office, which had an automatic door controlled by a button thingy in the car. One day I opened the door and shot up the steep ramp to street level only to find my way onto the service lane blocked by some idiot who had parked right across the entrance. Parisians may be relaxed about pushing but you DO NOT block car park entrances; this is a sin of the highest order and can get you into major merde. So I was forced to stop half on to the pavement, whereupon the steel door shut on the side of my car, making a nice dent in the door. I was absolutely steaming with rage and sat on the horn for about a minute before realising that whoever owned the car probably wasn't going to come out and deal with a driver who was white-faced and apoplectic with rage. So I also had to do a 10-point turn and drive down the pavement.

The irony was that my office was about 2kms from my apartment along the broad, flat, leafy avenues of Neuilly sur Seine and every day for two years I drove, which could take 20 minutes thanks to the need to cross the Avenue Charles de Gaulle, go down, cross again and then come up the service road. By bike it would have been a refreshing three minute ride yet the thought never occurred to me - I was too caught up in my self-important executive lifestyle.

I used to have some fun with British visitors when leaving the underground car park - I would wind down my window and say: "Open the door!" towards a control box thingy and nothing would happen. Then I would say: "Ouvrez la porte!" and press the button in the door pocket and... hey presto! the door would open. That always amused them. "Ooh! A French speaking door!"

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I think I'd be fixing that with a bloody great boulder at the entrance.

For a Brucie Bonus, install it after he's parked there

Tedious bully really but its not worth the hassle as the street is not that full.

FWIW i would go down the park a banger there route if I choose to fight fire with fire

I would take a trolley jack to the two cars, but I would also play the long game. Move the two cars once a week towards the driveway, but only move them 3 or 4 inches at a time. 😀

A few months ago I nearly got into a scrap over parking. MrsTorm arrived home with the kids looking a little bit shaken and said some chap from the opposite road where we park had given her a furious and pretty fruity telling off.

I decided to go over and have a word to try and smooth over neighbourly relations and the conversation went something like this:

Me: I understand you just swore at and threatened my wife in the street as she was unloading our kids from the car
Him: Yes I **** did, I'm tired of you lot abusing our car parking spaces, they are bringing in a parking scheme you know...
Me: Alright, and when they do bring in a scheme, I will abide by it, but until then, I have every right to park here.
Him: No you * don't
Me: Yes mate, I ***** do. You haven't got a leg to stand on...
Him: **** you pal, you haven't had to live here for 13 years with people from over the road abusing our spaces.
Me: They're not your spaces, I pay my road tax, and who the **** has been making you live in this house for 13 years?
Him: ...
Me: Threaten my wife again and we'll be having words.
Him: Gaaaaahhhh, **** OFF or I'll call the police. [SLAM]

Don't beat your wife on my account mate.

Torminalis - Member
Me: They're not your spaces, I pay my road tax

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Can I get in first with the no such thing as road tax comment !!!

Did people fight over where to tie their horses?

Obviously not !!