I'm not from Nottingham

[GrumpyGregry]

nor do I understand the meaning of double-yellow lines...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-30138390

 

[Crackle]

I've seen that in Manchester but with a broken down pickup and four trams behind it. I've seen the same thing in Hamburg with bin trucks being blocked by bad parking. They make a quick call, a tow truck turns up in minutes and lifts the vehicle out the way, no doubt incurring a hefty fine too.

 

[ColinJ]

Somebody that stupid should not be allowed to drive!

I had the same thought when a driver decided that it was perfectly ok to overtake me on a narrow, 90 degree blind bend. I encountered the car a mile up the road embedded in the front of a van in the middle of another such bend ...

 

[Cycleops]

Such stupidity defies belief.

 

[Poacher]

Probably from Derby. We regularly block Brian Clough Way, but can't hope to keep 'em all out, obviously.

 

[Drago]

Should crush the car to stop her doing it again.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Probably from Derby. We regularly block Brian Clough Way, but can't hope to keep 'em all out, obviously.

More likely Ilkeston, although the car's a bit posh for Ilks.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

When the metro link opened in Oldham, it runs along a street much as that one with a lot of takeaways clustered at one end. They had to park a traffic enforcement car in the opposite lay-by for weeks as people quite blatantly still parked up to go into these takeaways. We had a pic in the local paper of one car that thought it would keep out of the way by parking diagonally across the pavement from kerb to shopfront.

I think selfish moron should be recognised as a genuine medical condition that can see your licence revoked immediately

 

[mr_cellophane]

Here's how to deal with cars parked in the wrong place.

 

[Bollo]

More likely Ilkeston, although the car's a bit posh for Ilks.

I was going to say Lincoln, but it's not on fire.

(with apologies to Ma and Pa Bollo)

 

[Flying Dodo]

Here in Luton, with our 1 year old guided busway, there is still the occasional idiot who ignores the signs which say "Guided buses only", ignores the second warning sign, ignores the narrowing of the road to a funnel area with metal guide lines, ignores the big car trap half full of gravel, and then tries to drive through, normally resulting in 2, sometimes 4 wrecked tyres, damaged wheels and suspension, a tow charge and a fine.

Sometimes they claim their SatNav "made" them drive down there. Which is an interesting excuse, seeing as the busway has never been a public road, having originally been a railway line which ceased running in the 1960's and has been closed off since then, until re-built as the busway.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Probably from Derby. We regularly block Brian Clough Way, but can't hope to keep 'em all out, obviously.

Oi!
If she was from Derby, the one way system would have swept her into the Victoria Centre car park, the most expensive car park in the history of the universe.

 

[TVC]

Oi!
If she was from Derby, the one way system would have swept her into the Victoria Centre car park, the most expensive car park in the history of the universe.

Glad I'm not the only one to have been dragged into that particular vortex.