On facebook one of my "friends" has been bragging about how they dragged a box of cornflakes down the side of a car as it was parked on the path and she seems happy that she has.
This is what she put .........."Would like to say a huge sorry for the car I dragged my huge corn flake box along the side of....but if you want to park on the path with no consideration of pushchairs or any other pedestrian then hard poo!!! Cause it was either that or I risk walking my son in the road...obviously the corn flake box won xxxx"
Ive been trying to get her to see that yes although the car shouldnt be parked on the path etc it doesnt give her the right to deliberately damage someones car but she and the rest of her cronies seem to think they have done nothing wrong.......
"We shoved someone's wing mirror in the other week to get our pushchair through and the glass fell out of it. Shame xx"
Am I the only one who thinks this is wrong ???
I just cant believe it really !!
If the car is parked so you can't get her pushchair through on the pavement..., it might make the owner think twice before they do it again.
Wilful damage to property is wrong and two wrongs don't make a right. I struggle to dredge up sympathy for people whose cars get damaged when they park like pillocks and take the cowardly stance of "I wouldn't have done it but I'm not too sad that someone else has." 🙂
Having an argument on facebook about car parking and damage to cars!!
There will be no winners here...
Someone has lost at the internets.
How much damage can you do with a cereal box?
It was more the wing mirror thing that got me !
How much damage can you do with a cereal box?
Might shred it
It was more the wing mirror thing that got me !
It's the sickening smugness on Facebook that gets me.
Horrible.
Careful- she has a cornflake box and she knows how to use it.
Facebook is full of mongs. Give up.
I faced this dilemma about 15 minutes ago, and her point of view is valid. If you actually understand what she's saying, she's faced with a choice of squeezing through a narrow gap on the pavement or using the road. I think she's taken the right choice.
No time for cereal car vandals.
I often fold in wing mirrors on cars that are blocking the path. No damage done but may encourage the driver to leave more room next time.
She sounds like a right tiger. She called Toni?
Liking the gags!!
Its not about the cereal box as it could of been anything its the point they dont seem to have any morals on damaging other peoples property !
Forget prams, it's wheelchair users I feel sorry for. They really are stuffed if some idiot blocks the path.
And blind people !
Like I said I agree with it being a bit crap when people park on the path making it hard for pushchairs and prams and disabled scooters etc but to deliberately damage or attempt to damage someones else stuff is wrong in my opinion.
Or is it just the way Ive been raised??
"We shoved someone's wing mirror in the other week to get our pushchair through and the glass fell out of it. Shame xx"
Obviously a low value 1970s car then, no harm done. Door mirrors on the other hand...
we have all faced this problem [ and it is a pain with a pram] and you squeeze through getting annoyed.
I have never deliberately damaged a vehicle for doing this - you would be there all day in some areas- and as DD notes two wrongs dont make a right.
Folk arguing on the internet about folk arguing on the internet ...priceless 😉
Lol at the defenders of property.
"Just walk in the road you lazy b@tch..."
Stop parking like arrogant selfish barstewards, easy.
If you park on pavements you run the risk of upsetting people, personally I don't blame them, even the cereal offenders.
Quite nice to know I'm not missing anything by not being on Facebook.
Heated mirrors?
Was it deliberate damage? Just sounds like she didn't go out of her way to avoid the car or keep her shopping off it. Should everyone shuffle along carrying their shopping at head height just to stop it rubbing?
You only need heated mirrors if it's a bit Frostie
I always park my car with two wheels on the kerb pavement, still ample room to get past, but otherwise i've had countless wing mirrors knocked off from passing cars. Everyone in the area does it on main roads.
I wouldn't deliberately damage a car in those circumstances, but if the pram was to accidently scratch it all the way down the side I wouldn't lose any sleep.
Samuri, why didn't I see that response coming!
*Shakes fist*
Grrrr!
I often carry a cereal box for those idiots that park in cycle lanes...
Ive tried to say that to them all that I agree with it being a pain in the **** when cars park on the path etc but willful damage is out of order in my opinion....
They are just not getting my side though..........
If you ran over my child, a child who has to walk in the road because of a car parked on the path, as you were driving along on your way to work....who would you blame Steve . As often when cars are parked on the path you cant see the road properly.....is it a; my fault for not watching my child on the path...b; the owner of the car parked on the path or c; your fault for not being aware then when you see a car parked on the path there might be a family walking on the road to get past it?
I'm obviously missing the bit where your friend says she deliberately damaged the car. She doesn't actually say that does she?
I think you'd struggle to leave so much as a mark on a modern car with a cereal box....
I think you'd struggle to leave so much as a mark on a modern car with a cereal box....
Unless it's a Zafira, in which case you'll easily scrape off the [s]cream cheese[/s] paintwork down to the primer 🙁
She doesn't actually say that does she?
Hopefully she left a note if it was accidental. 🙂
I often carry a cereal box for those idiots that park in cycle lanes...
I find a variety pack box easier to keep in a camelbak
Doesnt the cereal block the bite valve ?
He'll crunchies nut when sees the damage.
Give her a Frostie reception when you see her.
It is a major hassle with young kids having to walk them into a road to get around cars on pavements, and while the risk is small - when it's your kids, any risk is significant.
Car drivers don't pay pavement tax.
Doesnt the cereal block the bite valve ?
Weetabix is ok if you suck hard enough once its gone mushy, Crunchy nut is a bastard though....
Call the police saying that the said car contains a suspicious looking package.
The bomb squad will come along and hopefully blow up the offending car.
What the hell is she on about? A cardboard box wouldn't mark a car.
jekkyl - Member
What the hell is she on about? A cardboard box wouldn't mark a car.
what if she ziptied it to the catylitic convertor?
Parking on pavements particularly pi**es me off, not just because its inconsiderate but because its really stupid.
Theres no logical reason, the roads often still aren't wide enough for two cars to pass if you park completely across the pavement so why park a bit on it? You just increase the risk of getting damaged by someone try to squeeze a buggy past without reducing the risk of getting it struck by a passing car.
People just use the pavement as an extension of their property without consideration of anyone who may want to do that strange thing of actually walking to get somewhere.
I have a drive that I could park half a dozen cars on but still park fully on the road most of the time, it slows passing traffic and no one has knocked a mirror of in the last 10 years of parking this way and I get more private space as garden.
More power to the cornflake army, go girl.
Agree competely with Ian. If you park on the pavement rather than parking somewhere you can without inconveniencing others, then tough sh*t if your car gets damaged, deliberately or otherwise. The pavements aren't designed to take the weight of cars they're there for pedestrians and similar to use.
Its selfish, arrogant and there is no excuse. Park on the road, or park in a space further away, don't be a tw*t.
Joking aside, claiming what she did on Facebook isn't bright but she wanted her 5 minutes of fame I guess. If I want "revenge" on someone then I'd do it and say nothing, I've no qualms about that and if they deserve it that's fine by me.
Where I live there's a main road where residents who have quite large drives leave their cars on the pavement and they do block it completely at times and anyone with a pushchair, wheelchair wouldn't be able get past whatsoever and I hope someone does damage their cars as they're completely pig ignorant of their parking and what they force pedestrians to do. Even worse when it rains the cars going past absolutely soak anyone walking as the drains in the roads are all blocked so nothing drains away. I'm sure the car owners will be reported soon as it's getting worse.
I put a scratch in someone's car by accident, after they decided it was a car path as opposed to a footpath. I had both my sons in the pram at the time, so I was buggered if I was going in the road. I felt a tiny bit guilty at the time (soon passed though). It does really grind my gears that people are that inconsiderate. The worst ones are those who have a massive drive then do this???
Its like getting a list of those who dont live in terraced houses 😉 There is no other space for the cars unless they parked a few miles away as everywhere has no space for all the ****ing cars we have everywhere.
Its annoying, many things are but there is no actual solution beyond fewer cars, which is most unlikely
If you get cross by this you are going to get cross a lot.
There was a ginnel out the back of my old house the way I had to take by bike out - people used to park on a bit of waste ground at the end of it completely blocking the way out.
It was actually quite hard to get the bike out without touching the cars - and I must say I didn't feel like making a massive effort to (don't think I ever actually scratched them though).
Still don't see how a cereal box would scratch a car though.
you lost me at "Having an argument on facebook"
Would like to say a huge sorry for the car I dragged my huge corn flake box along the side of....but if you want to park on the path with no consideration of pushchairs or any other pedestrian then hard poo!!! Cause it was either that or I risk walking my son in the road...obviously the corn flake box won xxxx"
So she is a cereal car scratcher,then,and for clarity could you ask her if it was a Kellogs cornflakes box, or a supermarket own brand, as Kelogs dont make cornflakes for other companies.
Anyone parking in such a way as to block a footpath deserves whatever happens to their car. I found a car parked right in the middle of a bridleway, where it passes a cottage at a junction. There was only enough room to squeeze past if you were on foot, so if, like me, you were riding a bike, it was almost impossible. I felt no remorse for having left a gouge right along the side from the knurled alloy bar-end caps. 😈
How on earth anyone would have got past with a horse I've no idea!
There is no other space for the cars unless they parked a few miles away as everywhere has no space for all the **** cars we have everywhere.
Walk a few miles then, bunch of lazy g*ts! Or use a car club, or hire a car or share one with your neighbours. I've yet to come across a situation where there isn't a car parking space within walking distance of someones home/work, so the few miles thing I call b*ll*cks on!
Its annoying, many things are but there is no actual solution beyond fewer cars, which is most unlikely
If you get cross by this you are going to get cross a lot.
I get cross a lot! I hate car culture and the obsession in this country with the bl**dy things. They're a really useful and great and all that, but for f*cks sake people, use them properly, not as an excuse not to use your legs or your bike!
hmmm...
I'm faintly bemused by most things that I see posted on STW by people having a whinge or a rant, but this one might just get under my skin..
The people in the houses down the way from me all do this, preferring their drives to be filled with hundreds of flowers and plants in tubs and pots..
I've never actually given a flying ****.. I walk my kids along there most days to get to nursery etc..
I happily navigate the pushchair around the cars by going into the road, and always make sure that my eldest doesn't hit the cars with his scooter..
I've never paid it a second thought, but having read this thread I may start getting in a mood about it.. 😕
Hope it wasn't on CCTV for her sake.
She could end up doing Porridge.
IGMC
I've yet to come across a situation where there isn't a car parking space within walking distance of someones home/work, so the few miles thing I call b*ll*cks on!
In fairness it would be about 800m away as this is the only part that is not residents parking only in the area.
As for walk a huge distance to your car - whilst I have it is unlikely you will persuade the populus of this even with criminal damage.
TBh the main problems of society are folk not thinking of others
In this case it seems that is what both sides are doing.
Think only of yourself eh whether the car driver or the pedestrian - dont share the space and accept it is crowded in places etc
"I openly admitted on Facebook to damaging someone's car and now all my equally sycophantic mumsnet cronies are giving me virtual high-fives because I'm in the right and it could be a childs face next time......although I have admitted to a crime on a social network, but still, I'm a mum so clearly in the right"
🙄
Am I missing something here, is cornflake box a nick name for a type of buggy or something. Is that woman completely dense that she thinks cardboard would scratch car paintwork?
She should have gone with Special K, she'd have got through the gap then ....
Round here someone slashed the tyres of every car parked partly on the pavement in a few different locations (about 40 cars total). They all still park partly on the pavement.
She should have gone with Special K, she'd have got through the gap then ....
And we have a winner.
Thanks for playing everyone 🙂
I know a lad in Oz who is pretty nifty on a trials bike.
Any cars in the bike path are regarded as legitimate obstacles...
Can't say I find it in me to summon up any sympathy for them.
Is she on tax credits? So many parents these days don't seem to be able to stand on their own two feet.
daveky - finding any old thread that mentions benefits and trying to inflame things by resurrecting isn't good trolling technique.
You need to make it look much more spontaneous, spend time building up your person as 'right winger down on benefits scroungers and single mums' etc.
What you're doing now just looks like attention seeking.
You could at least got a 'I hope it was a Tesco's Value Box, not Kellogs' reference in there.
hth.
IanW - MemberParking on pavements particularly pi**es me off, not just because its inconsiderate but because its really stupid.
Theres no logical reason, the roads often still aren't wide enough for two cars to pass if you park completely across the pavement so why park a bit on it? You just increase the risk of getting damaged by someone try to squeeze a buggy past without reducing the risk of getting it struck by a passing car.
People just use the pavement as an extension of their property without consideration of anyone who may want to do that strange thing of actually walking to get somewhere.
I have a drive that I could park half a dozen cars on but still park fully on the road most of the time, it slows passing traffic and no one has knocked a mirror of in the last 10 years of parking this way and I get more private space as garden.
More power to the cornflake army, go girl.
The logical reason is that then somebody can park on the opposite side of the road but cars can still pass, doubling the amount of parking space on the street.
Bit rich also to be calling others inconsiderate when you have a drive 'that you could park half a dozen cars on' yet choose to park on the road, causing others inconvenience.
In my experience mothers with children/pushchairs etc don't give a f*ck for anyone else's car wherever they are parked!
I witnessed the smacking of a door into my car whilst one was unloading the sprogs despite us both being properly parked in a car park!
...and you can't win an argument with anyone that has kids if you don't have them yourself (google the Ed Byrne stand up routine on this).
inconsiderate parking makes me snap crackle & pop.
for Mr second login up there ^^^
To be fair pavement parking is the norm in a lot of other parts of Europe.
So this proves that the car owners were almost certainly immigrants so got what was coming to them
I've yet to come across a situation where there isn't a car parking space within walking distance of someones home/work
Depends on your definition of walking distance I suppose but I reckon some areas of Huddersfield you could have to walk a mile or two. Lindley, for instance, has permit parking where there are wide enough roads and a free for all every where else. The hospital is there so even greater pressure for parking as the hospital car park is well over capacity for both staff and visitors.
Just a consequence of people living in long rows of terraced houses on narrow lanes that were not designed with cars in mind.
Some roads I encounter on my rounds have cars parked at both sides on the pavements with barely a gap through the middle for one car let alone two. Some I know I won't get through in the Transit and I avoid.
Will need to either ban cars or pull all the houses down and rebuild with parking spaces.
daveky - MemberIs she on tax credits? So many parents these days don't seem to be able to stand on their own two feet.
You are a nasty little troll aren't you?
What relevance is your comment anyway? Are you suggesting she was only walking because she can't afford a car?
Anyway, why is she taking it out on the car, it didn't self park, so she should be battering the owner with the box.
Depends on your definition of walking distance I suppose but I reckon some areas of Huddersfield you could have to walk a mile or two.
Of course for many people these days walking distance is less than 50m, probably due to their car use: viscious circle!
RE: Lindley - Fair do's then, my experience is limited to the Midlands, South West and South East, never been to Huddersfield.
The rest of your post is spot on, we have a transport network that cannot cope with the demands being placed on it, particularly in urban areas. The cheapest solution is to limit car use, levelling swathes of urban areas is going to be a bit more difficult I would think!
I always park my 6 year old Range Rover on the footpath.
I don't want cars hitting it. Pushchais have wheels so you can go around on the road if you have to.
Which will be more off roading than most Rangerovers see !
oooo! - I love parking rants 😀
parking on the pavement without leaving enough room for a buggy or wheelchair to pass should carry the death penalty.
My neighbours crack me up - everyone has a driveway and a garage - why do they all clog up the visitor spaces and leave their driveways empty?
and then get all humpty when one of my visitors parks in "their" space which is actually a visitor space.
I used to live at the end of a narrow dead end street near a cinema and would often find myself blocked in by idiots parking on both sides of the street. It didn't bother me one bit that when squeezing my way out that the bull bar on my large eco unfriendly 4x4 managed to remove most of their wing mirrors 😆 (awaits flaming for owning a gas guzzling 4x4 and living in a city)
my attitude is that if anyone parks like an inconsiderate twunt then they're car is fair game - too many selfish idiots on this island.