The BAD PARKING thread [vol4]
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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
I take it the mi I was also there first? I mean, how did the van even get out without quite an effort. 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
Feels like he has a grudge
ZesPak said:
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? is abusing the spaces.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
Vipers said:
ZesPak said:
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? is abusing the spaces.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
Rusty Old-Banger said:
Vipers said:
ZesPak said:
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? is abusing the spaces.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
As from today Stirling Council are to start enforcing the "no parking on pavements" legislation. £100 fixed penalty. Badly needed near us - highest count recently at the end of our street was 11 vehicles parked on the pavement (including 3 council vans - we'll see how that goes!)
On a separate note, I noticed a recent housing development which very considerately had a couple of EV charging points. Completely negated by the fact that the two spaces beside them were the only disabled spaces in the development...
On a separate note, I noticed a recent housing development which very considerately had a couple of EV charging points. Completely negated by the fact that the two spaces beside them were the only disabled spaces in the development...
donkmeister said:
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.
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I suspect you're right - or more likely a grudge against anyone with more than just the one brain cell.
Flumpo said:
I take it the mini was also there first? I mean, how did the van even get out without quite an effort.
The mini was - she manged to get out fortunately but it was very closeDeranged Rover said:
It looks like those mirrors are about to fall off...
Tempting but not my styleAh, the "ratty old van" mentality where it seems to be a point of personal pride to dump it in the most awkward place possible. Always at that point where you are not technically blocking anyone in but still overhang driveways or obstruct tight exits to the level anyone in the affected property has to navigate a gap precisely the mirror-to-mirror width of their vehicle or execute a 19-point turn to get in or out.
Bonus points if all of this is done within sight of a space into which said van would fit without bothering anyone, or indeed if this would be true of the space it's in if they'd just bothered to drive it forward or backward another 30cm.
Bonus points if all of this is done within sight of a space into which said van would fit without bothering anyone, or indeed if this would be true of the space it's in if they'd just bothered to drive it forward or backward another 30cm.
Didnt get a pic, but some egit parked on the white line in the road identifying a dropped kerb, and the entrance was to our local church, car just inside the church gate and this egit blocking it.
A very polite note on the windscreen pointing that they were illegally parked and the police had been informed, who in their right mind parks on a white line blocking a car in.
In the Main Street two parked on zigzags, and another with his hazard I am a dick lights on on DYL’s.
A very polite note on the windscreen pointing that they were illegally parked and the police had been informed, who in their right mind parks on a white line blocking a car in.
In the Main Street two parked on zigzags, and another with his hazard I am a dick lights on on DYL’s.
Not the worst on this thread, but by far one of the most battered cars I've ever seen on the road.
All sides and panels were hit in some way and it was rusted all over. Combined with the less than stellar parking, I'd take a wide arc whenever I see it.
As for the car, Chery is apparently Chinese and this Tiggo was between 2010 and 2014. It had a rough life.
ZesPak said:
Not the worst on this thread, but by far one of the most battered cars I've ever seen on the road.
All sides and panels were hit in some way and it was rusted all over. Combined with the less than stellar parking, I'd take a wide arc whenever I see it.
As for the car, Chery is apparently Chinese and this Tiggo was between 2010 and 2014. It had a rough life.
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