A pavement parking odyssey

[C R]

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Rather entitled parking at Morrisons this morning.. 👍

I am seeing those more often now. I would be fun if a small car managed to park in the gap on the right hand side.

There's a point to be made, though, about how cars have become too wide for the existing parking spaces.

Edited to add. Most supermarket car parks are now managed by parking companies, who enforce time limits. I wonder if the company that manages that car park would issue the twunt registered keeper a penalty if someone were to forward that photo to them.

 

[PeteXXX]

I am seeing those more often now. I would be fun if a small car managed to park in the gap on the right hand side.

There's a point to be made, though, about how cars have become too wide for the existing parking spaces.

Edited to add. Most supermarket car parks are now managed by parking companies, who enforce time limits. I wonder if the company that manages that car park would issue the twunt registered keeper a penalty if someone were to forward that photo to them.

'Parking Eye' @ Morrisons, I believe 👍

 

[Mike_P]

Saw a range rover driver getting into his unoccupied vehicle parked in a parent and child space yesterday. Idea enforce the use of those spaces and lay out the spaces furthest from the store for ovely bloated cars.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Saw a range rover driver getting into his unoccupied vehicle parked in a parent and child space yesterday. Idea enforce the use of those spaces and lay out the spaces furthest from the store for ovely bloated cars.

You are probably right
but never judge someone by the space they have parked in unless you have the facts

My Dad was disabled and a couple of times he walked a bit too far and knew there was another car park closer so I went back and brought the car to him

proper badges and all that - and you are certainly allowed to drive the car for the benefit of the disabled person
(which can be abused)

and the same would apply to parent and child spaces
maybe he was with the kids when he parked but suddenly had to leave and the otehr adult stayed with them while he left

maybe

anyway - just saying - don;t judge based on limited evidence
but also saying - we know people - and people are ****s

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You are probably right
but never judge someone by the space they have parked in unless you have the facts

My Dad was disabled and a couple of times he walked a bit too far and knew there was another car park closer so I went back and brought the car to him

proper badges and all that - and you are certainly allowed to drive the car for the benefit of the disabled person
(which can be abused)

and the same would apply to parent and child spaces
maybe he was with the kids when he parked but suddenly had to leave and the otehr adult stayed with them while he left

maybe

anyway - just saying - don;t judge based on limited evidence
but also saying - we know people - and people are ****s

Range Rover - the prosecution rests.

 

[lazybloke]

Saw a massive jeep-type vehicle today with tyres that extended way beyond the wheel arches.
Pretty sure this is illegal; would have been the absolute highlight of my day to forward the details (or a photo) to the rozzers.

 

[Mike_P]

You are probably right
but never judge someone by the space they have parked in unless you have the facts

My Dad was disabled and a couple of times he walked a bit too far and knew there was another car park closer so I went back and brought the car to him

proper badges and all that - and you are certainly allowed to drive the car for the benefit of the disabled person
(which can be abused)

and the same would apply to parent and child spaces
maybe he was with the kids when he parked but suddenly had to leave and the otehr adult stayed with them while he left

maybe

anyway - just saying - don;t judge based on limited evidence
but also saying - we know people - and people are ****s

Definitely no diabled stickers etc on the car

 

[Drago]

At the hospital for an early appt with Mrs D.

Arrived to find an M&S lorry doing a delivery, parked across three disabled parking bays.

The driver could see I was trying to park, and instead of being polite switched into small man mode and started to get shirty.

He was only 5'5" or so, so slowly got out and made a point of slowly removing my jacket and laying it on the bonnet, and slowly and carefully removed my hat and glasses to give him time to consider how the food chain actually worked.

I then stepped up to him, forcing him to crane his neck to look up at me and very politely pointed out he was parked unlawfully across three disabled bays, and could have parked quite lawfully at the kerbside 50 feet away.

Of course the self entitled prat would rather inconvenience multiple disabled drivers than have an extra 15 metres or so to walk.

So it was a stalemate. He was being a gobs***e and clearly would have liked a fight but was wary about pushing it that far with a chap so much larger than him. Tempting as it was I could hardly deck him and move the lorry myself.

So I settled on photographing him and his lorry and as we speak Mrs D is putting posts on Facebook for his employer, the council and the police to enjoy. I suspect of the three it'll be M&S who'll be most likely to act.

I parked up the road and made a point of asking him if his mummy would be proud of him as I pushed Mrs D past in her wheelchair.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

At the hospital for an early appt with Mrs D.

Arrived to find an M&S lorry doing a delivery, parked across three disabled parking bays.

The driver could see I was trying to park, and instead of being polite switched into small man mode and started to get shirty.

He was only 5'5" or so, so slowly got out and made a point of slowly removing my jacket and laying it on the bonnet, and slowly and carefully removed my hat and glasses to give him time to consider how the food chain actually worked.

I then stepped up to him, forcing him to crane his neck to look up at me and very politely pointed out he was parked unlawfully across three disabled bays, and could have parked quite lawfully at the kerbside 50 feet away.

Of course the self entitled prat would rather inconvenience multiple disabled drivers than have an extra 15 metres or so to walk.

So it was a stalemate. He was being a gobs***e and clearly would have liked a fight but was wary about pushing it that far with a chap so much larger than him. Tempting as it was I could hardly deck him and move the lorry myself.

So I settled on photographing him and his lorry and as we speak Mrs D is putting posts on Facebook for his employer, the council and the police to enjoy. I suspect of the three it'll be M&S who'll be most likely to act.

I parked up the road and made a point of asking him if his mummy would be proud of him as I pushed Mrs D past in her wheelchair.

Good on you
You do have an advantage of being big (stop giggling ta the back!!)
but pointing it out to someone like that might just stop them doing it again in the future when a little old lady is trying to push her disabled husband in

and sending the images to all and sundry is also good - makes the employer consider more extensive "training"

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Not just any lazy and thoughtless delivery driver.

An M&S lazy and thoughtless delivery driver.

Good on you for reporting them.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Good on you
You do have an advantage of being big (stop giggling ta the back!!)
but pointing it out to someone like that might just stop them doing it again in the future when a little old lady is trying to push her disabled husband in

and sending the images to all and sundry is also good - makes the employer consider more extensive "training"

Sorry - addendum
things like this remind me of something from many years ago
my Dad was disabled - fractured spine when a bomb dropped out of a Stirling he was bombing up during WW2
very low down or I wouldn;t exists - but he could only walk with leg irons and a stick


anyway - when I was old enough he waited one Saturday until my Mum was out and then asked me if I would help him get to a shop in Chester
He had it all planned out
There was disabled parking nearby - Chester was a problem for it all those years ago - and the shop was within range

It was the first time in most of his married life that he would be able to get her Christmas present himself!

so we went down to Chester and

all the disabled parking was taken
I have always suspected that most of them were not disabled drivers

so we drove home and he rang my Mum's sister and asked her to get the present - as usual


only a little thing a long time ago

but it showed me how important disabled parking is

even my ex realised I would not give way on that topic and it was one of the few "rules" of mine that she never demanded I transgress
(she did ask several times)

 

[wafter]

One of the regular fixtures of the shop near where I work is dickheads parked in the disabled bays with no authority to do so; sometimes even across two at a time.. really boils my p*ss and disgusts me that some people can be so utterly selfish.

Ultimately smallfry but it always eats away at me to just let stuff like that slide, which beyond an utterly ineffectual stern / disgusted look on my part is usually what happens.

I had great fun yesterday; as usual there's a regular cohort of scumbags who like to park on the double yellows running round the inside of a poorly-sighted bend near the shops. I've struggled to contain my thoughts here on a number of occasions (not clever as I'm small and often the scumbags are from a particularly fighty demographic). I did have the pleasure of holding up one carful of w*nkers a while ago while I waited to negotiate my way around them on the bike.

Yesterday there were a couple of vehicles parked in this area on the pavement. Having been in the shop I walked my bike past and (genuinely unintentionally) caught my brake lever on the wing mirror - twisting the lever on the bars, driving the stem into my hand (where I now have a large bruise) and pushing the mirror on the car forwards. It took a non-trivial amount of self-control to not turn around and kick the f*cker off tbh.

I think all of this is driving me towards getting a camera for the bike as reporting the maggots has to offer some calming alternative to my constant desire to destroy the vehicle in question. That said I did also confirm recently that the valve core removal tool for Schrader bike tyres will also work on car tyres; which could be a convenient and lasting non-destructive means of incapacitating a dickhead.

 

[Drago]

Its a symptom of the slow erosion of standards of behaviour in this country.

 

[DRM]

At the hospital for an early appt with Mrs D.

Arrived to find an M&S lorry doing a delivery, parked across three disabled parking bays.

The driver could see I was trying to park, and instead of being polite switched into small man mode and started to get shirty.

He was only 5'5" or so, so slowly got out and made a point of slowly removing my jacket and laying it on the bonnet, and slowly and carefully removed my hat and glasses to give him time to consider how the food chain actually worked.

I then stepped up to him, forcing him to crane his neck to look up at me and very politely pointed out he was parked unlawfully across three disabled bays, and could have parked quite lawfully at the kerbside 50 feet away.

Of course the self entitled prat would rather inconvenience multiple disabled drivers than have an extra 15 metres or so to walk.

So it was a stalemate. He was being a gobs***e and clearly would have liked a fight but was wary about pushing it that far with a chap so much larger than him. Tempting as it was I could hardly deck him and move the lorry myself.

So I settled on photographing him and his lorry and as we speak Mrs D is putting posts on Facebook for his employer, the council and the police to enjoy. I suspect of the three it'll be M&S who'll be most likely to act.

I parked up the road and made a point of asking him if his mummy would be proud of him as I pushed Mrs D past in her wheelchair.

On disabled parking bays in France, they put up a sign that, iirc, says "Prenez Ma Place, Prenez Ma Handicap" which translates as "Take My Place, Take My Disability" still the self entitled twonks here would just ignore it

 

[classic33]

One of the regular fixtures of the shop near where I work is dickheads parked in the disabled bays with no authority to do so; sometimes even across two at a time.. really boils my p*ss and disgusts me that some people can be so utterly selfish.

Ultimately smallfry but it always eats away at me to just let stuff like that slide, which beyond an utterly ineffectual stern / disgusted look on my part is usually what happens.

I had great fun yesterday; as usual there's a regular cohort of scumbags who like to park on the double yellows running round the inside of a poorly-sighted bend near the shops. I've struggled to contain my thoughts here on a number of occasions (not clever as I'm small and often the scumbags are from a particularly fighty demographic). I did have the pleasure of holding up one carful of w*nkers a while ago while I waited to negotiate my way around them on the bike.

Yesterday there were a couple of vehicles parked in this area on the pavement. Having been in the shop I walked my bike past and (genuinely unintentionally) caught my brake lever on the wing mirror - twisting the lever on the bars, driving the stem into my hand (where I now have a large bruise) and pushing the mirror on the car forwards. It took a non-trivial amount of self-control to not turn around and kick the f*cker off tbh.

I think all of this is driving me towards getting a camera for the bike as reporting the maggots has to offer some calming alternative to my constant desire to destroy the vehicle in question. That said I did also confirm recently that the valve core removal tool for Schrader bike tyres will also work on car tyres; which could be a convenient and lasting non-destructive means of incapacitating a dickhead.

Bricks in suitable places will stop the rims cutting the tyres, if you use that particular tool.

If you're able to get that close, a small amount of dirty oil in key areas on the ground. Making sure you point it out to them.