Author Topic: People who park like fuds (Read 288755 times)

delthebike · « **Reply #175 on:** 04 August, 2012, 09:42:52 am »

The Rozzers have been to the site. The van I reported had gone, no surprise, but they did a 4x4 pickup, that was also there earlier, for obstruction.

AndyK · « **Reply #176 on:** 04 August, 2012, 10:04:45 am »

Quote from: delthebike on 04 August, 2012, 08:52:46 am

This morning, just after 0600, I reported, via 101, a van which had only left room for one person to pass as it was parked on the footway. I just took a call from the rozzers asking if the van is still there, I don't know I can't see it. Any way they said the same to me as a CEO did last week, which is if there is room for a pram or disability buggy/wheelchair to get by then it isn't obstruction!

So if I obstruct the road, but leave room for bicycles, motorbikes, and scooters to pass, it isn't an obstruction…

mcshroom · « **Reply #177 on:** 06 August, 2012, 09:35:45 am »

THis was on the local news last night. It's the Newcastle Central Motorway

On the video footage the hazards were flashing and I'm pretty certain it was a Mercedes

rogerzilla · « **Reply #178 on:** 06 August, 2012, 12:11:50 pm »

Didn't it flood last night?

mcshroom · « **Reply #179 on:** 06 August, 2012, 12:18:24 pm »

It flooded yesterday during the day. I saw the report on the BBC news at 10:30pm

Steph · « **Reply #180 on:** 18 August, 2012, 08:35:42 pm »

Yup. it has grabbed two spaces. Blue badge? Don't be silly. Brockenhurst Tesco.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #181 on:** 20 August, 2012, 12:01:23 am »

But just look at that fully-laden touring bike selfishly taking up over a metre's width of sensible car-parking space! Did you know that for every 16 bike stands you take away you can create a parking space for one whole Mini or as much as two-thirds of a MINI? Why, that means if every bike space in Croydon were tarmacced over, there'd be room for another Audi Qashqai!

Steph · « **Reply #182 on:** 21 August, 2012, 05:03:45 pm »

Oi, Cudz! Don't pick on George!

'salright, ickul bike, nasty man beens telled off.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #183 on:** 21 August, 2012, 10:36:53 pm »

George is very nice, from what I can tell at this distance. Is that a Karrimor front pannier? Whatever it is, and whatever precise type of velocipede he may be, he's clearly having fun being it and being it with (presumably) that there Steph - who also takes up not two, not one, but no disabled parking spaces! No, not even a sixteenth of an Audi Heffalumpenwagen!

Steph · « **Reply #184 on:** 22 August, 2012, 10:38:32 pm »

Carradice front, Altura rear

welshwheels · « **Reply #185 on:** 25 August, 2012, 11:32:32 am »

clarion · « **Reply #186 on:** 25 August, 2012, 06:22:24 pm »

Class!

AndyK · « **Reply #187 on:** 27 August, 2012, 05:47:14 pm »

welshwheels · « **Reply #188 on:** 27 August, 2012, 05:50:45 pm »

Quote from: AndyK on 27 August, 2012, 05:47:14 pm

LOL

jogler · « **Reply #189 on:** 27 August, 2012, 05:56:09 pm »

How the bloody hell did the driver manage that?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #190 on:** 27 August, 2012, 06:34:47 pm »

It looks like one of those rising barriers. In a similar vein:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tnd0i538sfc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/tnd0i538sfc&rel=1</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZdLjKl0lHc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZdLjKl0lHc&rel=1</a>

Domestique · « **Reply #191 on:** 27 August, 2012, 06:49:30 pm »

Looks like the stump or bollard is shaped in such a way that a car being driven fast enough could kind of drive up it and maroon itself.

jogler · « **Reply #192 on:** 27 August, 2012, 06:56:08 pm »

I did consider that it may be a rising bollard but I've never seen one that shape.It does look like a vehicle stranded "on top"

rogerzilla · « **Reply #193 on:** 27 August, 2012, 07:03:33 pm »

The Dutch ones (second video) seem to be that ramped shape. The last car actually takes off.

mcshroom · « **Reply #194 on:** 16 September, 2012, 10:24:40 pm »

This was in my local Coop today

Neither of these had blue badges and those are the only two disabled spaces in the car park. To add to it both vehicles had their won little messages. The Disco has 'Don't follow me, you won't make it' on the back wheel and the Astra had one that obviously shows his driving style: 'Sorry officer, I thought you wanted to race'

Feanor · « **Reply #195 on:** 16 September, 2012, 10:27:23 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 16 September, 2012, 10:24:40 pm

'Don't follow me, you won't make it'

Junior has a ski-related top which says that.
It's probably true.

Torslanda · « **Reply #196 on:** 17 September, 2012, 09:16:36 am »

Quote from: AndyK on 27 August, 2012, 05:47:14 pm

Wasn't that a design perfected by Rommel for use in Normandy?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #197 on:** 17 September, 2012, 09:30:16 am »

I'm not convinced that's a rising bollard. It looks like a stone set in the paving to me. Probably its slope combined with the car's speed and 'lucky' angle to allow the wheel to climb it. But someone who knows the exact site will be along in a minute!

Torslanda · « **Reply #198 on:** 17 September, 2012, 12:15:02 pm »

Not a rising bollard. It's set into the pavement edge and, as everybody knows, ~~violence~~ ~~grows~~ driving on the pavement is illegal in the UK. So there's no reason for a ~~Nazi~~ local council to do so.

Basil · « **Reply #199 on:** 22 September, 2012, 07:50:06 pm »

Sorry 'bout the poor phone shot. What the shadow is hiding is that there is no room to walk between the tree and hedge without turning sideways and doing a bit of a shuffle.

Still. I's rather the tree was there than not.