Author Topic: People who park like fuds  (Read 286498 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1050 on: 10 November, 2018, 11:14:51 am »
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Oh dear, someone bought a Brokeback wagon too big for the country.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1051 on: 10 November, 2018, 04:36:08 pm »
Some clod just round the corner from Larrington Towers has one of them.  And a Dodge camper van.  And a really shit 90s Mustang.  All with matching black and white paint jobs :sick:
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1052 on: 10 November, 2018, 08:28:41 pm »


fairly snug parking for a Saturday afternoon in Cambridge...

Hmm, interesting if they did that behind the Dodge wagon, or my Disco
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1053 on: 11 November, 2018, 09:10:53 pm »
I've been reminded, again, that cars are getting ever more bloated.
A 1950s double garage is now merely a roomier than usual single garage.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1054 on: 13 November, 2018, 09:32:48 pm »
I was pleased to emerge from my driveway this morning to gaze upon the corner that will one-day-have-double-yellow-lines to see a van blocking the junction and preventing the green waste lorry from getting up the street.

Pleased because it was emblazoned with the words

Surrey Highways

Super.

They've actually started ticketing the cars at the bottom of the road now. It makes me feel warm inside to see those little fluttery penalty notices.


Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1055 on: 17 November, 2018, 02:03:28 pm »

Not strictly parking, but obstructing a cycle path by non-cycle related activities..


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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1056 on: 17 November, 2018, 03:15:16 pm »
What are they actually doing? Looks like it might be a feeding the homeless thing – or maybe it's a feeding station for runners? Either way, they don't actually seem to be obstructing the cyclepath as much as eg expanding dog leads.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1057 on: 17 November, 2018, 07:36:53 pm »
This one drove onto the path running alongside the road and parked up right in front of me. The path in question is a mandatory cycles only path (blue circular sign with only a picture of a bike on it, no pedestrians, etc.) running along the South side of Field Lane in York adjacent to the East Campus of the University of York.

Here:  https://goo.gl/maps/oRS3t4mrjXy (You may need to move the view from straight down! Technology, don'tcha love it!!)


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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1058 on: 17 November, 2018, 09:53:04 pm »
I saw something earlier that I haven't seen for a very long time - a traffic warden (or whatever they're called now). It was wonderful watching her ticket many, many twattish SUVs parked on the pavement, double yellows etc... I don't know why they don't come down my street more often - they could easily be employee of the month every month. I've often thought about becoming a traffic warden, I'm not sure the pay is that great, but I would get a hell of a lot of job satisfaction!
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1059 on: 17 November, 2018, 11:51:55 pm »
What are they actually doing?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/17/french-protester-killed-accident-anti-fuel-tax-blockade


The motto seems to be "just block everything", the roads, the roundabouts, and even the cycle paths.

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1060 on: 10 December, 2018, 08:47:32 pm »




nice one, in leafy Didsbury  ! - Probably why he got stuck....

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1061 on: 10 December, 2018, 08:50:35 pm »
The invasion is cancelled due to leaves on the track.
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rogerzilla

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1064 on: 08 January, 2019, 07:05:19 am »




nice one, in leafy Didsbury  ! - Probably why he got stuck....

There's a SONG about that (listen from 2:20 onward if the first bit doesn't rock your boat...) :)

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1065 on: 11 January, 2019, 07:46:55 pm »
I've discovered that in some Chinese cities you not only get a hefty fine for illegal parking, you get 3 points on your licence. The licence-losing figure is 12 points, same as UK.
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1067 on: 30 January, 2019, 01:01:44 pm »

rogerzilla

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1068 on: 30 January, 2019, 02:28:45 pm »
"Ticket fairy"  ;D
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1069 on: 03 February, 2019, 12:27:45 am »

One is an accident, two is careless, but a whole row...
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1070 on: 03 February, 2019, 12:30:14 am »
I'd love to see a timelapse video of how they ended up like that.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1071 on: 03 February, 2019, 06:08:04 pm »
At a guess the "middle" row formed complete and people started parking behind it at one end and in front at the other. Probably the markings being covered by snow didn't help (and they've probably been snowed over for a couple of months). If people just looked...
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Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1072 on: 03 February, 2019, 09:41:36 pm »
Not too bad from this view, "just" one wheel on the kerb


But from this view, you can appreciate the skill needed to cover two bays equally

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1073 on: 03 February, 2019, 10:20:32 pm »
I occasionally tweet pavement parking. The other day someone spotted that the car in question wasn’t taxed. Report form filled :demon:

Re: People who park like fuds
« Reply #1074 on: 04 February, 2019, 08:15:52 am »
One is an accident, two is careless, but a whole row...

I suspect as Kim said they started parking in the outer rows separately, then people driving in saw gaps in the outer rows and filled them without seeing that there was now three.

Many years ago I was doing some work at the Hyundai car factory in Korea. The car park wasn't big enough, so what they did was the first people to arrive parked in the bays normally. The later ones parked at right angles across the front of the bays, blocking a couple of them. However, they left some gaps between the cars, made sure the wheels were pointing straight ahead and left them out of gear without the handbrake on. If your car was blocked in, you could push the other cars around to make enough of a gap to get out of! Actually quite a civilised solution, though it would only work on a flat car park without bored youth* around.


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