Author Topic: People who park like fuds (Read 288408 times)

Guy · « **Reply #825 on:** 24 May, 2016, 02:30:19 pm »

I dunno why, but I find this rather amusing:

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Official Vote Leave bus lands parking ticket in Harrogate

Activists campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union had a shock this morning when their official ‘battle bus’ was given a parking ticket.

The distinctive, red Vote Leave vehicle was parked on one of the main roads through Harrogate town centre while activists handed out flyers.

Sign-carrying supporters of the leave campaign had barely been gone for half an hour when the vehicle received the ticket from a council parking enforcer...

Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/official-vote-leave-bus-lands-parking-ticket-in-harrogate-1-7928520#ixzz49ZytZneD

trekker12 · « **Reply #826 on:** 24 May, 2016, 02:57:34 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 24 May, 2016, 02:30:19 pm

I dunno why, but I find this rather amusing:
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Official Vote Leave bus lands parking ticket in Harrogate

Activists campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union had a shock this morning when their official ‘battle bus’ was given a parking ticket.

The distinctive, red Vote Leave vehicle was parked on one of the main roads through Harrogate town centre while activists handed out flyers.

Sign-carrying supporters of the leave campaign had barely been gone for half an hour when the vehicle received the ticket from a council parking enforcer...

Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/official-vote-leave-bus-lands-parking-ticket-in-harrogate-1-7928520#ixzz49ZytZneD

Which way is the parking officer voting?

Guy · « **Reply #827 on:** 24 May, 2016, 03:28:04 pm »

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“In the interests of balance, I must make it clear that had this been a Remain campaign battle bus then we would also have ticketed it.”

Kim · « **Reply #828 on:** 24 May, 2016, 11:58:48 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 24 May, 2016, 12:01:30 pm

Quote from: matthew on 24 May, 2016, 10:20:54 am
You got that wrong, the bike should be locked to the sheffield stand that is by the drivers door so that they can't open it.

Or, if possible, to the driver's door handle.

Alloy wheel. Steel-o-flex. Sheffield stand.

Just sayin'

Basil · « **Reply #829 on:** 25 May, 2016, 12:04:44 am »

Bad Kim.

Vince · « **Reply #830 on:** 25 May, 2016, 05:08:00 pm »

'allo, 'allo, 'allo

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #831 on:** 25 May, 2016, 05:16:44 pm »

"Police do not park on yellow lines" would be more newsworthy.

iddu · « **Reply #832 on:** 26 May, 2016, 12:48:55 pm »

Quote from: JStone on 24 May, 2016, 09:29:48 am

This morning, outside the office. One BMW blocks 6 parking spaces:

Surely you should have been the good samaritan, found a key for one of the (resident) locks, and made their pride and joy safe via running it through the front wheel --> stand, so no nefarious scrote could make off with their pride and joy, which they had forgotten to secure...

[Edit: Kim FTW...]

clarion · « **Reply #833 on:** 26 May, 2016, 04:17:05 pm »

Quote from: Vince on 25 May, 2016, 05:08:00 pm

'allo, 'allo, 'allo

All the cops in the donut shop say 'Way-oh way-oh'

Moleman76 · « **Reply #834 on:** 28 May, 2016, 06:08:51 am »

Quote from: JStone on 24 May, 2016, 09:29:48 am

This morning, outside the office. One BMW blocks 6 parking spaces:

Lock BMW door handle to bicycle rack to keep it from being thieved

hellymedic · « **Reply #835 on:** 29 May, 2016, 07:59:29 pm »

From my Twitter feed.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #836 on:** 30 May, 2016, 02:18:10 pm »

There's got to be some story behind that. It would take a ridiculous amount of determination to drive a car into that position. Did it fall from somewhere (but where?). Or is it just shopped?

Kim · « **Reply #837 on:** 30 May, 2016, 02:23:46 pm »

Brummies. They'll park anywhere.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/05/29/midland-metro-blocked-by-abandoned-car-left-straddling-tram-tracks/

phil653 · « **Reply #838 on:** 30 May, 2016, 03:04:08 pm »

OT but elsewhere on the page Kim linked to:

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/05/27/watch-is-this-really-wolverhamptons-shortest-cycle-lane/imgid21229905/

hellymedic · « **Reply #839 on:** 30 May, 2016, 05:55:51 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 30 May, 2016, 02:18:10 pm

There's got to be some story behind that. It would take a ridiculous amount of determination to drive a car into that position. Did it fall from somewhere (but where?). Or is it just shopped?

The Tweet was from the tram operators in Manchester, announcing the reason for cancelled services as 'an abandoned car'.

Basil · « **Reply #840 on:** 30 May, 2016, 06:08:05 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 30 May, 2016, 05:55:51 pm

The Tweet was from the tram operators in Manchester, announcing the reason for cancelled services as 'an abandoned car'.

Which is a bit odd as this happened in Birmingham .

hellymedic · « **Reply #841 on:** 30 May, 2016, 06:31:52 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 30 May, 2016, 06:08:05 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 30 May, 2016, 05:55:51 pm

The Tweet was from the tram operators in Manchester, announcing the reason for cancelled services as 'an abandoned car'.

Which is a bit odd as this happened in Birmingham .

Whoops!

ETA Now in the Standard
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/driver-sparks-rail-delays-by-somehow-parking-car-on-fencedoff-stretch-of-track-a3259316.html

Fuddish parking anyway...

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #842 on:** 31 May, 2016, 09:08:14 pm »

That Standard article has no mention of a driver, just that the car was parking naughtily.

hellymedic · « **Reply #843 on:** 31 May, 2016, 09:17:17 pm »

The Tweets don't mention the driver. My version of the article is headlined with the word Driver'.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #844 on:** 02 June, 2016, 05:15:41 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 30 May, 2016, 02:23:46 pm

Brummies. They'll park anywhere.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/05/29/midland-metro-blocked-by-abandoned-car-left-straddling-tram-tracks/

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The incident left hundreds of people who were piling into the city centre for the weekend Pride festival to walk or find alternative transport the last part of their journey.

So that's the story. It's a covert attack by the tactical squad of the straight rights-fattist front!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #845 on:** 07 June, 2016, 05:39:36 pm »

Sunday at the pub down the road. The car park is steeper than it looks in the photos. A car parked without the handbrake on rolled into a one day old Ferrari and shoved it over the grass into the trench and a little while later another car with handbrake off rolled into the ambulance (luckily the ambulance was just there as support for an organised cycling event).

clarion · « **Reply #846 on:** 09 June, 2016, 12:42:40 pm »

Buff out?

pcolbeck · « **Reply #847 on:** 09 June, 2016, 01:02:01 pm »

Chassis well bent according to a friend who saw it happen.

Andrij · « **Reply #848 on:** 12 June, 2016, 12:54:16 pm »

Early Wednesday afternoon, CS3, alongside the Canning Town flyover:

But it's OK -

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In Oxford, a few weekends ago:

Pingu · « **Reply #849 on:** 28 June, 2016, 12:22:10 am »

All the time (and more) that it took me to eat a banananana and drink a can of Irn Bru this fud was stopped with the engine running and left indicator on within 5 seconds walk of legal parking.

IMG_6902_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr