Forum menu
I am liking that approach WCA.
I presume you also have suitable passive/aggressive note on window explaining why, and that whole street is looking on...?
It has to be someone localish - they only do 2k a year mileage, according to the MOT history!
Unbelievably inconsiderate and no excuse for it. But......
Is it worth contacting the council to ask for proper Road markings to be painted to avoid this happening again ?
From the photo it looks like the White dashed line signifies that where the car is parked is a parking bay (it doesn't look like a dashed road centre line). Obviously the driver shouldn't have blocked dropped kerbs but having road markings that suggest they are parked in a bay could make it confusing for simple people.
Passive agressive note left in window
[url= https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7290/27575184956_cc44e017f0_c.jp g" target="_blank">https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7290/27575184956_cc44e017f0_c.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/J1J2Mo ]BAD PARKING[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/89686376@N04/ ]WCA![/url], on Flickr
Yes there is some fading parking area that appear to cover the front of both driveways but the car in one, the gate in the other and the dropped curb in both sort of suggest people might want to get out
A street view image from a near by road showing the ridiculous way that parking bays are marked. (I don't know if this is the road in question, but is a random place on a random residential street near the hospital)
The bays should be marked to end where there are dropped kerbs.
The council has spent public money to paint the bays and put up permit signage, you should pressure them to do it properly.
[url= http://s33.postimg.org/j971rr7nz/20160611_232747.jp g" target="_blank">http://s33.postimg.org/j971rr7nz/20160611_232747.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://postimage.org/ ]image uploading[/url]
Note even in this random example there is a silver astra blocking a dropped kerb.
but it might be that persons dropped kerb or they might be visiting that house.
By not putting double yellows it lets people with a single driveway park 2 cars but it also opens up the chance of inconsiderate a-holes blocking your drive.
The dashed parking areas go across all dropped curbs along the road but the entire area is parking permit holders only.
Permit parking means it should be controlled.
Her permit isn't valid but the meter maids only work 9-5 and possibly 2 days a month so it is easier to ignore them and pay the penalty if you do get caught.
How about a massive cock and balls painted on the car with that invisible Volvo safety paint that's reflective at night time ?
As above, not sure the uni needs to make some sort of public apology for the dickishness of one permit holder; it's hardly like they say "You've got a permit, park wherever you want". Saying you expect an apology from them by Monday morning as if the press office works 24/7 or you're going to unleash the social media mobs is a bit ****ty.
Yeah, I'd probably re-draft without a beer 🙂
Jack it up, put a McDonalds tray under each rear wheel and push it/tow it to wherever you want.
Some of the stuff you've done could be straight out of Alan Partridge, like writing "Fool" on the side in big letters, anyone selfish enough to park like that will just laugh and then drive off!
Write "Arse" on one side and "Hole" on the other 🙂
I still don't understand what me parking my car there had to do with the guy going to hospital.
Not condoning the idiotic and selfish parking but how did it prevent the person getting to hospital? Could a neighbour not have taken them or they could have got a taxi for example.
Not excusing the inconsiderate parking but couldn't the ambulance driver just reverse, pull forward into the road and shuffle the ambulance so the rear door could open onto the pavement? I know the ambulance would then be blocking the road for a few minutes but it's a bright yellow vehicle, easily visible for other traffic to see it and stop for a few minutes.
Getting to hospital, call a taxi?
Bad parking, a sticker on their windscreen each time they do it plus a complaint to the Uni (I'm assuming that this was in work time).
Although looking again at the picture, should they be parking in the front garden ie has it a legal dropped curb.
If you are going to do passive aggressive at least try to spell everything correctly.
What's the full context here? No normal person parks across drives, especially for more than a minute or two. Close to the hospital - could it be a front line employee called on an emergency and effectively abandoning in a desperation? Still not right but more understandable.
We are directly opposite a primary school and parents (read mostly fat ladies) feel it is their God given right to park across our drive for a few mins to drop off their kids rather than waddle another 50yards from a more courteous location - or rather they did until my wife was blocked in once too often on her way to work and I went batshit mental (on the outside, calm as you like inside - special teacher skill) and now they all avoid me at all cost as clearly deranged.
In these circumstances any damage or tampering with the car means you loose all your moral high ground - blocking in for the win. Putting them in a position where they have to make contact with you and will have to wait until you have finished telling them what a cockwomble they are is far more demeaning and attitude changing.
hahahahahahaha. You don't get out much i guess......No normal person parks across drives,
I lived near a city centre (ish) hospital one winter air 20 years ago. Must have been blocked in about a half a dozen times. I guess the issue is that the property and car park size was worked out in the 60s or 70s. Since then they've had to build new facilities on top of car parks (larger population, more treatable illnesses etc), get rid of carpark spaces. Then to compound that there are less buses and more people choose to drive as well. Then everyone in the surrounding area now has cars and parks on the street too.
hahahahahahaha. You don't get out much i guess......
I get out loads thanks. Did you read to the middle paragraph for context or is your attention span too limited.
No normal person parks across drives, especially for more than a minute or two.
As a past president of the university areas of Southampton they (drivers) really do park that selfishly for extended periods (I've been a victim and had to involve the police before).
My parents have similar issues regularly (and that's a small market town) and again have had to involve police.
I sense from other posts that they are less willing to help these days.
Also if you read the op the driver has previous.
hahahahahahaha. You don't get out much i guess......
Plenty of people aren't normal, they're selfish cockwombles. He didn't say it's a minority. One of our neighbours is a total dick about parking - on the rare occasions he uses his drive he actually parks 6' back from it, so he makes it harder for about 5 other people to get out.
As a past president of the university areas of Southampton
You'd think you could have done more about it with that sort of power..
Doh. Dam phone keyboards.
Anyone who has read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy would know that the purpose of a president is not to wield power but to distract attention from it. The bloke we need to find for exercise of real power lives in a shed and believes he has a cat who he calls The Lord.
those are some ridiculous street markings though, especially if the driver is a bit cognitively challenged
Sod all that. They'll just drive off. In the absence of any enforcement with penalties, you'd need to do something that costs them to get the message across. edited to sound less angry, I hate selfish parkers.
I'd be interested to know if it would be possible/feasible to use money claim online to charge these morons the cost of a taxi if you couldn't get your car out to get to work for example.
I have a garage away from my house and there's been a couple of occasions where I've been unable to use it because of the mentally challenged parking in front of it, at the time I had 2 cars so I was still able to use one. I'm down to one car now and so far it hasn't been an issue.
The excuses are just brilliant:
"I pay car tax I can park where I like" (that one nearly ending ended in a fight when I pointed out that if he thought like that he must be a ****ing imbecile)
"I didn't know there was car in there" (it's a garage, just assume).
"You should have just came and got me and asked me to move" (this from a non-resident I'd never seen before - how am I supposed to know which house you're visiting???)
@mdavids why not put up a sign - no parking 24hr access needed ? Worth a try.
@Edukator, as I said I should have put Paris as thats where we see it first hand a lot. Mrs B's car has been keyed twice both times we believe where people have taken offence with parking for some reason (eg too close to a scooter parked end-on ?). I have had it explained to me numerous times thats its common practice.
Stick a sign on the car saying (words to the effect of) "As a resident of this street I feel it is only fair to warn you that there has been a mysterious outbreak of cars having all of their tyres slashed. For some reason this seems to primarily effect cars that have been selfishly parked across drives. You may wish to consider parking elsewhere in future." If they've any sense they'll not park there again..
I don't have an actual drive but, being northern, I've two big gates that allow me to park in my yard.
Dropped kerb on it and signs saying " keep clear " but I still get morons nipping to the local hairdressers, tanning shop and chippy parking across it.
I now always have either the van or car parked across the gates depending on which vehicle I'm using. The only way of stopping the morons.
over reaction, and if the patient wanted needed to go to hospital driving his own car is not realy good enough, taxi or if serious an ambulance.
We used to have people taking our paid for resident's bay in our old flat. I printed a load of A3 posters up saying "sorry for the inconvenience, this is much how I felt when you took my resident's space" and would pritt stick them on the windscreen right in the driver's line of sight. We never had any repercussions (maybe because bays were letters not flat numbers?) but we did see some awesome meltdowns and domestics as a result!!
Maybe worth doing something like that? As it's pritt stick, no "damage" but a bloody great inconvenience to this person.......
Buy some marker spray paint and box off the dropped kerb areas. At least yours and pass the paint around.
I work there and I promise you, there's a space in any of the staff car parks at pretty much any time on any SaturdayLot of organisations will issue more permits than they have spaces. I imagine it is hospital staff, given the hour.
I'd be interested to know if it would be possible/feasible to use money claim online to charge these morons the cost of a taxi if you couldn't get your car out to get to work for example.
Charge them for the bloody ambulance call-out, more like.
Charge them for the bloody ambulance call-out, more like.
That's the bit I can't get me head around in WCA's narrative. This address is 2 streets away from the hospital and the hospital is usually swarming with taxis. If you felt ill enough to want to go to hospital and your car (hopefully driven by someone else) was unavailable I think I'd be (or the person who would have driven the car) motivated enough to call a taxi and pay the 3 or 4 quid it would have cost rather than waited 3 hours until I had deteriorated enough that a taxi wasn't an option and it became an ambulance issue. Unless it still wasn't actually an ambulance issue and the ambulance was called to save the £3-4 a taxi would have cost. If you were driving yourself and parking in the hospital you'd be costing yourself more than that in fees and would not have a great deal less to walk!
They were put in the position by an inconsiderate arse but the thought process once in that position seems odd.
You are still missing my point, Jamba. People don't key cars if they can be identified and if you key a car blocking your own gate you are pretty stupid. Of course people key cars in Paris and everywhere else in the world when they are irritated with anti-social parking or in Paris just because it's a car that's likely to be driven by a category of person they legitimately hate. What does your good lady drive? People are more likely to key a Range Rover Vogue/BMW/Audi than a Dacia.
WCA, it's only going to get worse, a lot worse. UHS have just announced a load of building on site and have asked a load of staff to forego parking on site one day a week.
Its fair to say there has been a bit of angst.
People choose to park in Southampton?
A few answers to some points raised.
Yes, typo in my note on windscreen
My wife saw the woman return to her car just before 8am this morning in an NHS uniform. Purple if that denotes a rank. When she called from the window to say the parking was bad the lady looked up, shrugged and drove off.
Being blocked in didn't totally prevent the neighbour going to the hospital as they could have got a taxi etc. It did prevent them going there easily so they decided to stay home and hope it would pass rather than getting checked out.
Legally dropped curb to allow new parking position. Curb dropped by the council at great expense.
There was a parking space behind the fiesta as I have started parking on the drive now it has been extended just to free up some road space. She chose to park across two dropped curbs rather than reverse into a space.
Another neighbour said that it is at least the third time she has done this.
Neighbour has been return from hospital to rest, nothing specific identified but to return immediately if they feel strange at all.
Very simple get Southampton University to withdraw their parking permit to that car or that person.
That would appear to be a largely pointless exercise, seeing as how the driver in question isn't using the permit to park where the permit would be appropriate.
It's possible to buy sheets of very opaque crack-back paper with a permanent self-adhesive coating, for printing labels that have to obscure completely anything that's underneath.
An A4 sheet of that stuck on the windscreen right in front of the driver will get the point across that major inconvenience cuts both ways.
It's an absolute [i]bitch[/i] to remove!
People don't key cars if they can be identified and if you key a car blocking your own gate you are pretty stupid
Exactly one does not need to be sherlock Holmes to work out who done it
Yeah but if you do something subtle they might not notice for a while and not connect it to their crap parking several days ago.
Perhaps a brick through the rear window would work.
Traffic enforcement in Moscow used to stick notices on to the screen with superglue
Purple if that denotes a rank.
[img] 
[/img]
Not in every trust, mind you.
Would slightly explain the 'not giving a shit' attitude though. 🙂
Perhaps post something on the hospital twitter feed asking them to include something in their staff newsletter about not drumming up business for the ambulance service?