Author Topic: People who park like fuds  (Read 286451 times)

Tim Hall

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1000 on: 15 June, 2018, 10:01:41 am »
In Liege at the weekend, we spied a car parked sort of underneath the folded arm of a parked cherry picker.  Which was there first I don't know. However, later that evening, I imagine through the power of slowly leaking hydraulics, this happened:
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Mr Larrington

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1001 on: 21 June, 2018, 12:05:04 pm »
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1002 on: 26 June, 2018, 03:48:25 pm »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Paul

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1003 on: 27 June, 2018, 12:37:22 am »

Prime fuddery in Kirkwall by Mr Larrington, on Flickr
Sometimes this is the result of fuddery that started earlier, and left the subsequent parkers no choice.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1004 on: 27 June, 2018, 08:59:56 pm »


I think this deserves a new thread: "People who design cycle paths like fuds".

Kim

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1005 on: 27 June, 2018, 09:45:57 pm »
I think this deserves a new thread: "People who design cycle paths like fuds".

There's a website for that.

Graeme

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1006 on: 28 June, 2018, 08:25:42 am »
Aren't some of these really: "People who park inconveniently"? The vehicle(s) can be negotiated.

Try it in a wheelchair which is 2 feet wide and has 8 inch front castor wheels, please!

Thinking about castors gave me an idea... A small jack and four small steel plates with castors, each plate the size of a car tyre's footprint, would make a very simple kit for moving a car from in front of a dropped curb... Once the car is rolling it could be pushed anywhere. Does that make it my problem to find a new legal parking space. :)

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1007 on: 28 June, 2018, 11:30:42 am »
I think this deserves a new thread: "People who design cycle paths like fuds".

There's a website for that.

Brilliant!

Jaded

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1008 on: 28 June, 2018, 11:39:56 am »


For a brief moment I thought that was a CDC in the wrong thread.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1009 on: 28 June, 2018, 01:43:26 pm »
From another forum so I don't know if the link will work without being logged in..

What's this bottom line for anyway?

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1010 on: 28 June, 2018, 01:57:10 pm »

Thinking about castors gave me an idea... A small jack and four small steel plates with castors, each plate the size of a car tyre's footprint, would make a very simple kit for moving a car from in front of a dropped curb... Once the car is rolling it could be pushed anywhere. Does that make it my problem to find a new legal parking space. :)
No need to make your own Graeme. Just buy them here for £54 a pair.
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/awd1-automotive-wheel-dolly-pair/

Or for maximum ease of use buy them with the jacks built in.
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/sealey-ws680-wheel-skate-hydraulic-680kg-capac/

Oh what fun we could have!

Graeme

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1011 on: 28 June, 2018, 02:18:57 pm »

Thinking about castors gave me an idea... A small jack and four small steel plates with castors, each plate the size of a car tyre's footprint, would make a very simple kit for moving a car from in front of a dropped curb... Once the car is rolling it could be pushed anywhere. Does that make it my problem to find a new legal parking space. :)
No need to make your own Graeme. Just buy them here for £54 a pair.
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/awd1-automotive-wheel-dolly-pair/

Or for maximum ease of use buy them with the jacks built in.
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/sealey-ws680-wheel-skate-hydraulic-680kg-capac/

Oh what fun we could have!

£54 for a pair... Machine Mart could be marketing them on every 'bad parking' Facebook page. #MischiefManaged

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1012 on: 08 July, 2018, 05:59:06 pm »


I'm not sure if this has been parked in the ditch, reversed into it, or crashed in a remarkably neat manner. It seems to have reversed in, so probably not the last, but who knows? I'd say "stolen abandoned" except it's right outside a farm house.
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fuzzy

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1013 on: 10 July, 2018, 11:51:56 am »
Could well have been someone parking and finding the verge a lot softer than they expected ;D

Tim Hall

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1014 on: 07 August, 2018, 09:59:10 pm »
 This is a mixture of crap cycle facilities and people who park like fuds.
The lane is all over 2m long (although it leads to a shared use footway) but is often used as a teeny parking bay.
linky
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1015 on: 07 August, 2018, 10:40:50 pm »
Special.
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Kim

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1016 on: 07 August, 2018, 11:49:36 pm »
We've got one of those, but bigger.  It functions as over-spill wankpanzer parking for when good weather causes half of Birmingham to drive to the park and/or cricket is being perpetrated at Edgbaston.

Oddly, google maps only seems to have photos of it not in car park mode: https://goo.gl/maps/PSa6WLGyHjs

The bollocksinfra quotient is enhanced by several strategically positioned potholes at the point where you have to execute a confusing (to motorists) right turn to join the path.  The usual method of ignoring crap cycle infrastructure entirely is contraindicated by it leading to a useful (for stopping the endless flow of cars) toucan crossing.

Tim Hall

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1017 on: 08 August, 2018, 12:17:45 am »
Ooh! Prompted by Kim linking to Google maps, I find my one is in car park mode again on Streetview. linky
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Kim

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1018 on: 08 August, 2018, 12:19:55 am »
Ooh! Prompted by Kim linking to Google maps, I find my one is in car park mode again on Streetview. linky

If you scroll back through time you can see that prior to becoming a luxury parking space, that bit of pavement was once home to a portacabin, and a glitch in the space-time continuum.

Andrij

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1019 on: 11 August, 2018, 11:25:08 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Andrij

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1020 on: 30 August, 2018, 11:00:29 am »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

hulver

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1021 on: 30 August, 2018, 11:20:36 am »

Andrij

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1022 on: 30 August, 2018, 11:09:31 pm »
At the east end of Cable Street there is a triangular traffic island to split traffic turning left or right.  The side of the traffic island along Butcher Row is about the length of a car.  So...   ::-)
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

hellymedic

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1023 on: 31 August, 2018, 02:52:14 pm »


But, that is a red car.  ;D

Parked EXACTLY as is shown on the sign!

What's the problem? ;) ;D ???

I presume that sign means such diagonal parking is prohibited but can see how it might purportedly be interpreted by those looking for excuses.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1024 on: 23 September, 2018, 08:35:10 pm »

Moving-in day for new students. Unfortunately they brought their imbecilic parents with them.
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