The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]

[MightyBadger]

21st Century Man said:

E34 or E39?

[Every day a journey]

That’ll do

[C5_Steve]

Every day a journey said:

That’ll do

Making full use of the nose lift there.

[donkmeister]

Hackney said:

donkmeister said:

5s Alive said:

donkmeister said:

Maybe they're just goth? Pink teeth from all the snakebite and black is a dead giveaway.

I had a Vauxhall 10+ years ago, one mod that the blue LED brigade were fawning over was replacing all their interior trim with "piano black". Great, shiny black cheap-looking plastic everywhere with fingerprint marks on it. Even car manufacturers realised it was ste and it seemed to be a very short lived trend on new cars.

One of my colleagues had a gen4 Prius, and that was a gloss white trim horror show. He had those pieces wrapped in gloss black vinyl almost as soon as he collected it from the dealers. Didn't last long as he had it re-wrapped in a dark grey carbon weave after a few weeks.

Smart move - adding carbon wrap to bits lightens them.

I carbon-wrapped my folded down back seats and almost created a black hole.

Oof, lucky escape. Good thing you only added one layer.

[thetapeworm]

Loads of 'safe' spaces 2 seconds walk away but oh no...

[thetapeworm]

I love having to drive on the wrong side of the road as I approach a junction.

[TarquinMX5]

C4ME said:

Two beauties just spotted.



and

Portscatho?

I wonder if the boat owner is a local?

[TarquinMX5]

Funny, I thought it might be ; let's hope he (it's bound to be 'he') doesn't leave his car at the bottom of the slip whilst 'rescuing' the boat. Always fun to watch.

[Blib]

[Jimjimhim]

Blib said:

How is that badly parked?

[Wafu7]

[thetapeworm]

Stolen from a post by The Motorist on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/share/mUnbRYKxV78yiWhr/



Safe 2 space parking so those Ferrari types don't bang their Ferrari doors into your Ferrari doors.

[sleepezy]

Went to pick up daughter from Uni today - planning to collect a car-full of stuff - no problem plenty of parking at the house...

Oh hello:





Now, just to be really clear - this van has nothing to do with the house - it's owned by a neighbour who has just decided in his utmost arrogance to dump his van there, go into town and ignore is phone. The house has the drive by the side and the space in front of the garage (ie where the mini is, which is owned by one of my daughter's housemates)

Made sure there was virtually no space to squeeze by too, just for good measure

[Red9zero]

Didn't get any pics, and I can imagine it`s the same situation in a lot of places this morning, but people who went to the pub last night and left their cars parked outside the local shops. Our local shops have all of their layby full of cars left from last night, so are losing trade as people are just driving past. There is a 1hr limit on the parking 0800 - 1800 but we don't have any traffic wardens, so it is very rarely enforced.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

vikingaero said:

Lancelot said:

Apologies for the poor picture...taken from the hotel room.
Destination charging, chargers are visible at the bottom of the picture.
1 EV charging, other spaces occupied by ICE cars.
It was a large carpark as well with plenty of spaces so no need for them to park there.

"Hurr hurr hurr, I stopped someone from charging their EV"

I'm torn on this. I reckon 9/10 times I go somewhere with EV charging spaces, they are just filled with EV's NOT actually plugged in and charging. Just using it as parking near the shop door. So some poor sod who NEEDS to charge up, can't, because some lazy is abusing the spaces. Like parents who park in the kiddy spaces, only for one parent to get out and run in to the shop for fags and wine.

[vikingaero]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

vikingaero said:

Lancelot said:

Apologies for the poor picture...taken from the hotel room.
Destination charging, chargers are visible at the bottom of the picture.
1 EV charging, other spaces occupied by ICE cars.
It was a large carpark as well with plenty of spaces so no need for them to park there.

"Hurr hurr hurr, I stopped someone from charging their EV"

I'm torn on this. I reckon 9/10 times I go somewhere with EV charging spaces, they are just filled with EV's NOT actually plugged in and charging. Just using it as parking near the shop door. So some poor sod who NEEDS to charge up, can't, because some lazy is abusing the spaces. Like parents who park in the kiddy spaces, only for one parent to get out and run in to the shop for fags and wine.

If I owned an EV, I'd be an arse. I'd buy a long charging cable, park behind/block the offending car and charge. I might even put my mobile number on display in my car so they could call me and I'd tell them I'm on the pish all day and can't drive.

[MightyBadger]

vikingaero said:

If I owned an EV, I'd be an arse. I'd buy a long charging cable, park behind/block the offending car and charge. I might even put my mobile number on display in my car so they could call me and I'd tell them I'm on the pish all day and can't drive.

Your car would get dragged out of the way.

[ZesPak]

vikingaero said:

If I owned an EV, I'd be an arse. I'd buy a long charging cable, park behind/block the offending car and charge. I might even put my mobile number on display in my car so they could call me and I'd tell them I'm on the pish all day and can't drive.

I've done this. I have a little plastic thingy in my glove box with my number on.

5 years ago crossing Europe, especially in some remote Italian villages, you sometimes needed to get "creative" with parking to charge. These days infrastructure has come a long way though.
I also put it on the dash if I plug in overnight at a hotel/bnb, that way people could contact me if they wanted to charge and my car would be full.

Rusty Old-Banger said:

I'm torn on this. I reckon 9/10 times I go somewhere with EV charging spaces, they are just filled with EV's NOT actually plugged in and charging. Just using it as parking near the shop door. So some poor sod who NEEDS to charge up, can't, because some lazy is abusing the spaces.

These are the worst ones. If you have an EV yourself, you should be aware of how inconvenient it is not be able to charge when you absolutely need to?
I know a number of EV owners that have no driveway or garage with power, they rely on public charging being available to them every now and then.

Edited by ZesPak on Monday 15th July 10:19

[donkmeister]

Blib said:

I'm in two minds about that car...

On the plus side, that is an excellent tip run machine for max load capacity.

On the down side, if your tip has a jobsworth who thinks anyone throwing away more than grass and polystyrene is someone disposing of trade waste, he'll recognise you straight away and demand your permit.

(Yup, been there. I must be a mechanic moonlighting as a landscaper moonlighting as a builder moonlighting as a plumber, who does all of this out of a Citroen, by the logic of my local little Hitler)

[donkmeister]

sleepezy said:

Went to pick up daughter from Uni today - planning to collect a car-full of stuff - no problem plenty of parking at the house...

Oh hello:





Now, just to be really clear - this van has nothing to do with the house - it's owned by a neighbour who has just decided in his utmost arrogance to dump his van there, go into town and ignore is phone. The house has the drive by the side and the space in front of the garage (ie where the mini is, which is owned by one of my daughter's housemates)

Made sure there was virtually no space to squeeze by too, just for good measure

Is this the "ugh, bloody students" mentality? Students are a cross-section of society but some people do have a real chip on their shoulder and act as if they're a homogeneous group of "Ritchie from the Young Ones" types.

I once had someone berate me in my part time minimum wage job for "not paying tax" when I was an undergrad. He couldn't get his head around the fact I hadn't earned enough to pay tax so was no more a tax evader than he was, and arguably less so as he was getting benefits to top up his earnings.