Poor Parking...

[MWHCVT]

its the TR6 owners club getting pay back

by the way if you park the rangie in just one space you arent doing it right - a true ranger rover owner parks across at least 2, and possibly as many as four spaces http://parking-fail.com/tag/range-rover/

Erm like most things in life it's the bad apples the tarnish the name of the majority...maybe it was the TR6 owners club, I did see a TR that day funnily enough

 

[Cobra]

He said that when he came out the supermarket there would still be loads of spaces in the area his car was parked, except one of the spaces next to his lol.

I always do that where possible too, but then, yeah why do they do that? Scared their car will get lonely while they are away?

When we got back to the car one of those large Police riot-vans had parked way over the white line next to my drivers door within about 12".

As above my response to Mike

Likewise...... sadly some "parents" don't and couldn't give a damn

How many times have we seen kids exit cars, by pushing the door open with their foot, straight into another car?
And as you rightly say, the parents just ignore the fact.

 

[Decca]

I work in a layby that is used as a free car park for a hospital so we've seen the being blocked in thing many many times.

To answer the question: If you were legally parked and are then blocked in by another driver you call the police as they have prevented you from gaining access to your property - the inside of your car is the same legally as your front hallway, and if they can't find the owner they will tow the car, iirc Karen has seen this happen but I've never seen it get that far.

Earlier this week: after a day of using the main hatch as a door the woman who owned this car turned up. She was asked why she parked so close to the cabin she blustered at us and said "I've been in the hospital today so I don't need this" and drove off. Well that's nice dear but it can't have been that bad given that you were only in a few hours and were allowed to drive yourself home.

 

[MartynK]

Reminds me of the yummy mummies in expensive SUVs or German sports saloons 'duelling' for the parking bay closest to the entrance of the gym in Joburg, when most of the car park is empty. I've seen the same battles in the more upmarket mall parking lots too.

 

[Cobra]

Earlier this week: after a day of using the main hatch as a door

It seems to me as if there is enough space to squeeze out the door and scramble up & over her bonnet, rather than the serving hatch

 

[MWHCVT]

I work in a layby that is used as a free car park for a hospital so we've seen the being blocked in thing many many times.

To answer the question: If you were legally parked and are then blocked in by another driver you call the police as they have prevented you from gaining access to your property - the inside of your car is the same legally as your front hallway, and if they can't find the owner they will tow the car, iirc Karen has seen this happen but I've never seen it get that far.

Earlier this week: after a day of using the main hatch as a door the woman who owned this car turned up. She was asked why she parked so close to the cabin she blustered at us and said "I've been in the hospital today so I don't need this" and drove off. Well that's nice dear but it can't have been that bad given that you were only in a few hours and were allowed to drive yourself home.

That really would royally p*** me off, not to mention it's bloody dangerous, what would happen if there's been a seriously bad issue, I remember being at one burger van that had a small fire break out while I was there a number of years ago...

If guess you don't know what she was there for, I know when my mum was close to death just over 3 years ago I got very annoyed at the lack of parking so ended up just dumping the car in a pedestrianised section, frankly I wasn't too fussed if it was still there when I came out my one interest was to get in an see my mum...not that it's any excuse for parking dangerously I wouldny have do that however my parking that was most would have seen as very inconsiderate

But the notion of being able to contact the police if really needed is reassuring

 

[Decca]

We would have completely understood if there was a lack of space but what you can't see is the 4ft of blank space behind it, or the paid car park at the hospital. Traffic wardens being evil sods always turn up at visiting hours to catch the people on double yellows and grass (don't break the double yellows to park anywhere, it's classed as being on them).

The hospital staff we completely understand as they have to pay £8 a day to park where they work but you would be staggered at what people will do to avoid paying for parking across the road from a empty car park. Once or twice a day we see someone clearly too old or incapable of walking being made to walk quite some distance to the entrance by a cross looking driver and then you have all the people in very expensive cars bouncing along the potholes to avoid paying £3, had a aston martin scraping and juddering along it a few weeks back.

 

[StewartR]

Reverse and forward "nudging" is common practice in france...so much so that folks often leave their handbrakes off when parked. Crazy.

Not crazy at all, surely. It's a very pragmatic way of maximising the number of cars that can park in a given space.

 

[MWHCVT]

We would have completely understood if there was a lack of space but what you can't see is the 4ft of blank space behind it, or the paid car park at the hospital. Traffic wardens being evil sods always turn up at visiting hours to catch the people on double yellows and grass (don't break the double yellows to park anywhere, it's classed as being on them).

The hospital staff we completely understand as they have to pay £8 a day to park where they work but you would be staggered at what people will do to avoid paying for parking across the road from a empty car park. Once or twice a day we see someone clearly too old or incapable of walking being made to walk quite some distance to the entrance by a cross looking driver and then you have all the people in very expensive cars bouncing along the potholes to avoid paying £3, had a aston martin scraping and juddering along it a few weeks back.

Oh I can believe all of that and then some frankly often I'd rather pay for the shorter walk when I'm at hospital yeah I sucks having to pay to park at a hospital, but in the grand scheme of things it's never really bothered me

 

[viv1969]

Not crazy at all, surely. It's a very pragmatic way of maximising the number of cars that can park in a given space.

If you say so.
What it says to me is p*** poor parking ability.

 

[the black fox]

move to wales free hospital parking ,free prescriptions ,fresh air clean beaches apart from the six months of the year when the grockles come a'visiting

 

[MWHCVT]

move to wales free hospital parking ,free prescriptions ,fresh air clean beaches apart from the six months of the year when the grockles come a'visiting

Yeah but, well you know it's Wales

 

[JulesP]

just remembered about our trip to Barcelona last December. We arrived at our hotel and looked out of our window and thought 'He's never gonna get that out of there'


However - next morning

 

[StewartR]

If you say so.
What it says to me is p*** poor parking ability.

The average car is about 4m to 4.5m long. But if we want to give them room to get in and out without touching other cars, we need our kerbside parallel parking bays to be 6m long. That means around 25% to 33% of the space is wasted. Paris-style parking allows you to get 33% to 50% more cars into any given space. I'm amazed it isn't more popular and widespread.

 

[andya700]

Not crazy at all, surely. It's a very pragmatic way of maximising the number of cars that can park in a given space.

Ah well, I do hope that the person with the little Peugeot managed to get his bonnet shut then. I would hate to think that I had damaged his vehicle in any way. If it is usual and "pragmatic", then I am quite surprised by the attitude of a passing French woman who seemed to be shocked by my manouvre.
I of course just gave her the classical "Gallic" shrug of the shoulders.

 

[OldCarlos]

just remembered about our trip to Barcelona last December. We arrived at our hotel and looked out of our window and thought 'He's never gonna get that out of there'


However - next morning

Clone tool?

 

[Trev4]

Our daughter is a nursing sister, at one time she was working in A & E. The local council painted double yellows on all roads within a mile of the hospital, and staff were not allowed to park inside the hospital grounds (apart from office staff and doctors of course). This meant she had to park at least a mile away from the hospital and on any road that she could find. There were a few side roads that she and other staff used, and one day she had parked on a side road between two drives so as not to block either drive off or cause any restriction to their access, in fact there was plenty of room both in front and behind her car. When she returned at about 9.00 pm after a 13 hour shift and over a mile walk on quiet roads in the dark, someone had parked both in front of, and behind her leaving no more than 6 inches between the cars. She knocked on the local doors but no one knew who the cars belonged to.
She called me for advise, and I suggested calling the police to see if they could help, they took the numbers of the cars but later called back to say they couldn't get in contact with the owners. In the meantime I had started out to go to her in my works van. When I arrived, there was no way her car could be moved out, but I had put a tow rope in the van just in case. I towed the front car forward, and because I was in the middle of the fairly narrow side road, the car was pulled towards the middle of the road and I made sure it was blocking the drive in the front. The rear car was treated the same way, leaving it at an angle across the road and blocking the other driveway.
Just as she we were about to drive off, a police car arrived, and I thought they were going to be upset over my re-parking of the 2 cars at such silly angles. The did look at where my daughters car was, and where the other 2 cars had obviously been, you could see the scratch marks on the road where the rear hand braked wheels had been dragged. I said, half in hope, that "its ok, we have got her car free now" (with my tongue in my cheek). Their reply was, "yes we can see", as they looked at the 2 cars all askew. Then, they said with a grin on their faces, "have a safe journey home" and left.
I'm still not sure if what I did was illegal, but it gave me faith in the common sense of the police that night, and gave me the satisfaction of imagining what the other two owners would think when they saw their cars abandoned like that, at least one of them knew that they were blocking the car in, probably both of them knew.