The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
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donkmeister said:
Somebody said:
Taken from Facebook:
Sledge hammer to the charging nozzle should release it and sort that obstruction. Difficult to aim in that proximity, mind.Seriously though, what a
!5s Alive said:
mac96 said:
Somebody said:
Taken from Facebook:
I would be very tempted to walk into that to see if the sudden application of a 14 stone weight did it any harmIn fact I might recruit a 20 stone friend to try it first!
It's almost certain that there are rapid public chargers within range, you'd have to be incredibly arrogant/entitled/stupid to do this instead, or indeed to arrive at your destination empty.
(What are you, the police? Doesn’t count).
I’ll start it off..
My kid has a ABCD and I cannot leave him alone (until the car is charged enough for me to f
k off to the nail salon and leave him lone).In a serious point for that charging cable, if there's a kid on a bike not paying attention, someone with poor vision walking along, someone in a mobility scooter or something then they're going to end up in a right mess. It at the very least needs trailing along the floor with suitable guard over it or an overhead arm that I've seen before. Even some high visibility tape would help! Just a dark grey or black cable against a background of dark grey and black is silly.
It'll encourage vandals to have a go at this, too. I believe snapping charging doors off is the modern way to enact retribution on EV's. Some tool will try to cut through it, or snap the end off, and end up electrocuting themselves.
It'll encourage vandals to have a go at this, too. I believe snapping charging doors off is the modern way to enact retribution on EV's. Some tool will try to cut through it, or snap the end off, and end up electrocuting themselves.
Some piece of st in a EV Jag at IKEA Lakeside did this, I couldn't charge my EV and had to drive over to the Tesla chargers in Lakeside, 1st world problems and all that but it really fked me off adding 25minutes to my day, I bet the same person who owns the Jag would moan like fk if they rocked up nearly out of battery to find a piston powered car in the EV charging spaces.
t in a EV Jag at IKEA Lakeside did this, I couldn't charge my EV and had to drive over to the Tesla chargers in Lakeside, 1st world problems and all that but it really fked me off adding 25minutes to my day, I bet the same person who owns the Jag would moan like fk if they rocked up nearly out of battery to find a piston powered car in the EV charging spaces.Edited by gtidriver on Sunday 30th June 18:52
It does demonstrate how monumentally thick some people are though. They actually think that EV parking is parking for EV's, as if it was some sort of general dedicated parking space, rather than only when charging related.
It's very much like parking at the pump, though not buying fuel. It's a mindset that I find staggering and depressing.
It's very much like parking at the pump, though not buying fuel. It's a mindset that I find staggering and depressing.
Cliftonite said:
Hmm. None of them seem to be "bad parking" to me. They are all parked up properly, it does seem the MiTo is over the line but without knowing what was in front of him earlier... it does seem like an improperly sized bay? 7-meters something, which is a really weird size.21st Century Man said:
It does demonstrate how monumentally thick some people are though. They actually think that EV parking is parking for EV's, as if it was some sort of general dedicated parking space, rather than only when charging related.
It's very much like parking at the pump, though not buying fuel. It's a mindset that I find staggering and depressing.
The main car park in Hinckley has decided that the EV parking spaces can also be used by the disabled, in a nice bit of double counting. Morons.It's very much like parking at the pump, though not buying fuel. It's a mindset that I find staggering and depressing.
CheesecakeRunner said:
You know disabled people are allowed to drive EVs too? And charge them.
Not an issue if they're both EV and disabled, but if spaces are dedicated to either, regardless of the other, then it seems that an EV needing charge might struggle if spaces are occupied by a disabled ice, which obviously isn't charging, or a disabled EV which is also not charging, as they're both parked up in their disabled capacity, and a needy disabled ice might find spaces occupied by abled EV, whether on charge or not.Seems a lose/lose?
CheesecakeRunner said:
“But it’s in the shade”, was his plaintive excuses as he sat there with his engine running making the world hotter, as I walked my kids to school in the road.
Pit Pony said:
CheesecakeRunner said:
I'd force my kids through that gap, with their school bags on thier right shoulders whilst shouting at them " try not to scratch the car " CheesecakeRunner said:
Wrong.
Plug in or fk off.
I may have been known to write a note to that effect and place it on such a car.
Being inquisitive, I bothered to read up on the board next to the ticket machine, it clearly states Parking Contraventions, and a link to an Aberdeenshire countil order 2019, which no one reads, but you cant wriggle out of it if you get a ticket, it states -Plug in or f
k off. I may have been known to write a note to that effect and place it on such a car.
An electric vehicle may only be left in a space reserved for such vlehicles during the period taken to charge the vehicles.
I dare say most council car parks say much the same, pity I have never ever seen a warden in Stonehaven in all the years I have lived near by.
Tommo87 said:
BenS94 said:
Hackney said:
I got a telling off once for parking on someones drive we were dropping some things off to. The road was very narrow and nowhere else to park unless I wanted to cause obstruction - just ignored her, dropped the things off and left...I wonder if similar has happened here?
The person driving the car in the picture would have been an even bigger knob, if they had also parked across the driveway, EVEN IF they had an alien call Bob from Titan, in the back seat, who just so happened to be wearing one pink and one green sock on that day.
But, we do so much enjoy how you like to invent imaginative excuses for every new scenario that occurs.
Edited by Tommo87 on Tuesday 25th June 14:33
Last weekend - after at least 3.5 yrs - they cut their front hedge, four feet high nettles and all.
Come bin day they dumped the lot in black bin bags by the bin. Needless to say they haven’t paid for a garden waste bin, and I think collection is bi-weekly (not that week) anyway.
I have considered (rising above it all and) offering to out their waste in my garden bin, but it’s too full to accommodate.
DickyC said:
Maybe the guy wasn't that friendly to you, but judging from ONLY the picture you uploaded here, it seems that the guy didn't realy have much of a choice (unless this was in a service station....? where there would be parking for larger vehicles...).What should he have done..?
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