Share your tales of parking madness

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones.

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johndoh – Member

I have now started photographing the incidents and sending them to the head who is compiling them with other parents now doing the same and sending to the police.

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying ‘please don’t park like this’…..might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

I once had A4 sheets taped to three windows advising that where I was leaving my car was a residential area and asking me to be considerate to the residents. Wasn’t in front of a drive, opposite a junction, blocking the road or pavement, etc. Decided I was better off leaving the car elsewhere, I had nothing to gain from informing them of their wrongness.

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying ‘please don’t park like this’…..might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

I like this idea…

The school should print poster sized prints out of the bad parking, saying ‘please don’t park like this’…..might embarrass a few people into not doing it.

considering they are already parking like ****s in full view of the rest of the school I’m not sure trying to shame them in front of the rest of school is going to work.

I guess 1 or 2 may not be aware of how much of a **** they are being, but I reckon the majority know full well and just don’t give a shit.

Despite the lack of spaces in our office car park people regularly fail to park in the box and end up taking two spaces. I’ve considered deploying a note saying something like:

“If you are unable to position your car within the designated parking bay then please ask a man to do it for you.”

With the intention of irritating and shaming both male and female drivers for similar but different reasons. 😈

where’s the like button?

need a turkish german version of that for here.

Ok, here are a couple of my old ones. I used to dump the car where ever.

and then wonder why you got humped for scratches and dents when you handed it back 😉

I have someone opposite me that “own” he bit of road outside their house no one else is allowed to park there.
I don’t care who parks outside the front of my house as have a (now) nice driveway at the rear, just as well living 4 doors away from doctors Surgery !
Last year the driveway wasn’t looking good so had it relayed so couldn’t use it for a week. Only 5 miles to work so plan was for misses to park out front and I would leave my van at work and cycle.
Ok for the first day but misses parked a bit too far along the road the second night. She woke me on the Tuesday she was blocked in car to the front and one reversed up to the rear would get it out for her.
The gap looked ok at first until I got to the car the car reversed up to mine had a huge great swan neck of a towbar sticking out the back.
No space to manoeuvre with that there, bit of luck on closer inspection it was a detachable swan neck! Just enough to get the car out. Was a bit disappointed with myself for putting it back on
Brought my van home that night and parked it for two weeks 😀 as the weather and cycled to work.

It’s not just car drivers.
On more than one occasion I have opened my front door to find a load of bicycles chained across my doorway!
Fortunately I live next to a river and they’re always only lightweight road bikes.

Also opened my door to find someone had left a dog tied to my doorknob.
I did not throw the dog in the river.

We’re on a new-build estate. Everyone has 1 space, parking is pretty darn tight. We have a drive and a garage, I keep one car in the garage, and the other on the drive.

Crazy old boot round the corner keeps blocking us in to our drive by getting her Dad to park behind her car on her 1-car long drive. Refuses to get her Dad to park on the road outside her house, or move her car onto the road, or even to move her car right up to the wall so that we can just about scrape past.

This is because the sales woman who sold her the house said it had parking for two cars. So she is going to park two cars there, regardless of whether my car can fly or not.

Apparently getting my trolley jack out and budging it over so I can get out is ‘criminal damage’.

The same woman goes mental at anyone parking alongside her back fence, because apparently ‘burglars will climb over her fence’ if you do that. Fence is std 2-metre high stuff, which you can easily vault, aided by parked car or not.

Nowt like brits and arguing about parking is there?

In my cul-de-sac we have two blocks of new-ish build flats. Every flat has either a space or a garage. No excuse for anyone parking elsewhere (assuming they only have one car)

There’s a fat slug of a woman in the block opposite mine who rather than park in her own space, will just leave her car abandoned wherever she likes. The council put yellow lines down last year and she seems to think parking completely on the pavement, rather than on the road, somehow circumvents the yellow lines.

On the way to work this morning she was parked on the pavement with a traffic warden giving her a ticket. I chuckled.

Refuses to get her Dad to park on the road

What’s her dad have to say about it? Talk to, somewhat literally, the engine driver?

What’s her dad have to say about it? Talk to, somewhat literally, the engine driver?

He is a bit gormless. Shouldn’t really be driving any longer, but that knackers up these old folk’s independence. I can live with having to get it moved, or moving it myself. If they take the piss I’ll ring the Police.

gonzy: those videos are awesome. The first two are like watching someone who has had a major stroke and no longer understands the concept of left.

There are cars parked along one side of the access roads into our housing development where there are no double yellows. All the houses have off-street parking, and none of the houses actually front onto the road anyway – there are separate access driveways. People seem to park there to car-share as it’s near the motorway.

It’s a bit annoying because you can only get one car so there’s a bit of waiting and shuffling; but it’s more annoying when people drive the other way too fast and generally act like dicks. But it’s perfectly legal and not a big deal.

However someone has come along this morning (twice) and squired what looks like used engine oil on the door handles and windscreens of all the cars. What a monumental c*nt.

gonzy: those videos are awesome. The first two are like watching someone who has had a major stroke and no longer understands the concept of left.

The second one in particular is absolutely brilliant

she seems to think parking completely on the pavement, rather than on the road, somehow circumvents the yellow lines.

problem is she’s probably right. (having recently reported people parking on pavement to avoid double yellows and council pretty much telling me “nobody cares”)

Not legally Donk – you can be ticketed for parking on the pavement if it’s next to double yellow lines.

Pavement parking is illegal within London regardless of road markings I believe but as above elsewhere there need to be parking controls in place to allow tickets to be issued.

Just checked back, I’d pointed out that there were double yellows and got this reply
Unfortunately, if cars are parking on the pavement and there are no yellow lines for civil enforcement it is a police matter. However, the police do not prioritise the obstruction unless it is server such as blocking road access.
So yeah lines could get you ticketed but sounds like this particular council employee wasn’t pushing for anything to happen (or didn’t read my original email properly).

Not legally Donk – you can be ticketed for parking on the pavement if it’s next to double yellow lines.

“Can” being the operative word. Road markings apply to the road, pavement and verge, but it’s down to the local council to enforce so whether or not you’re likely to be ticketed is dependent on the whims of the individual council.

I used to live in Ealing in road of semi-detached and terraced housing. A guy who lived virtually opposite bought a brand new car every 2 years…expensive BMWs 5 series etc. But I only very rarely saw him drive it!, he had shopping delivered and could walk to the local shops. I must confess that one day I whilst working at home I saw him drive off. Of course I did the decent thing and moved my car to ensure that his space was saved. I then went out for a couple of hours. Childish I know.