The Considerate Person (not) Award 2016

boliston said:
as the boot is open it could just be there to unload a heavy item - did you see how long it was parked for?
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Doesn't matter how long.
That one wins an award.
 
Sejanus Aelianus said:
Given that I did rather misjudge my original posting, what do people think of this example of parking?

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They're not going to do the inner sidewall of the front offside tyre any favours.
 
The car behind the red one looks like it's parked/abandoned across a driveway. As pointed out, the red one could be loading and only there for a moment or 2 with the driver handy to move if required.
 
Nod said:
The car behind the red one looks like it's parked/abandoned across a driveway. As pointed out, the red one could be loading and only there for a moment or 2 with the driver handy to move if required.
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Doesn't make it a legal park, or any more acceptable for someone with a wheelchair or kids buggy.
 
It's a Red Hyundai, people who drive those deem themselves above us mere mortals ;)
 
If you feel so strongly about bad parking. Why not have the courage to show the offenders number plate.
 
viv1969 said:
Doesn't make it a legal park, or any more acceptable for someone with a wheelchair or kids buggy.
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IF it's loading, it's not parked. Oddly, Exeter apparently has its own specific law WRT parking on the pavement, as does London. The Highway Code actually specifies that "“You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it." and a Pedestrian rights website points out that " ‘Should not’ is code for it not being illegal." http://pedestrianliberation.org/2010/08/30/are-vehicles-allowed-to-park-on-the-pavement/

My guess is on it being a school runner unloading a buggy!
 
Apparently each council can set its own rules on this, when I looked at it before, it seems that its strongly discouraged here, but not actually illegal.
 
Doesn't stop them being a right proper cockwomble.
Totally blocking a pavement is a qualifier :D
 
I sometimes wonder why people "mask" number plates as there is not really anything you can do with a numberplate - far more people are likely to see a specific plate with their own eyes than the number of people who see it on this forum
 
No argument re cockwomblism, just the legality and the difference between parking and loading.
 
boliston said:
I sometimes wonder why people "mask" number plates as there is not really anything you can do with a numberplate - far more people are likely to see a specific plate with their own eyes than the number of people who see it on this forum
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Cars can be cloned for the purpose of committing crimes. If a car is stolen, it's much easier to go unnoticed if it is sporting the registration number of a near identical car. It can also make it easy for car thieves to get a rough location of a vehicle, if they have a specific vehicle they wish to steal.
 
Post a photo of a car being inconsiderate... Told 'they are probably just unloading' no big deal.

Post a ' thread' saying you were just unloading and blocking the path and say had an argument with someone that couldn't get passed.... Get slaughtered for it!

That folks is TP![emoji14]
 
Cg_Girl said:
Post a photo of a car being inconsiderate... Told 'they are probably just unloading' no big deal.

Post a ' thread' saying you were just unloading and blocking the path and say had an argument with someone that couldn't get passed.... Get slaughtered for it!

That folks is TP![emoji14]
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You're only just realising? :D
 
Nod said:
No argument re cockwomblism, just the legality and the difference between parking and loading.
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Here in Worthing (and Brighton) you are allowed twenty minutes for loading and unloading provided that this can be seen to being done. Otherwise single and double yellow lines allow for five minutes (the computer that the CEO uses to issue the tickets count down the time allowance before being able to 'accept' and print). While no contravention might be being made in the picture if the driver was indeed loading/unloading, I would say it is obstruction which is dealt with by the police and would be within their rights to tow it away. (I had a similar situation with a disabled badge holder blocking a turning on double yellows.) I do wish we had been allowed to ticket people for stupidity though.
 
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JulesP said:
Not as bad as that idiot at Stratford butterfly farm [emoji51]
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Indeed that was a bad one, criminal also really that neither of us photographed that :confused::eek: but hey some kind soul rescued me ;)
 
w!puffin. and thats to the Op, not the parked van.
 
What some people seem to forget is that there is a difference between "legal" and "right". For example it may be legal to park on the pavement for 20 minutes whilst unloading, but if that forces pedestrians onto a busy road then you shouldn't do it.

There's a great Facebook page called Parked Like A Knob In Maidenhead, and the policy there is not to obscure number plates. Name and shame.
 
I'd just like to point out the vast majority of roads have a pavement on both sides of the road. If the road is truly that busy it will have pedestrian crossings.
 
StewartR said:
What some people seem to forget is that there is a difference between "legal" and "right". For example it may be legal to park on the pavement for 20 minutes whilst unloading, but if that forces pedestrians onto a busy road then you shouldn't do it.

There's a great Facebook page called Parked Like A Knob In Maidenhead, and the policy there is not to obscure number plates. Name and shame.
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Completely agree but down here (in the same city as the OP's OP was shot), there is an awful lot of pavement/double yellow/yellow zig-zags parking done by those who would be most inconvenienced by their parking on said zones - school run mums and disabled drivers.
 
The sight outside most primary schools in the morning is proof enough to see just how many terrible and selfish drivers their are. Up on the pavement, parked on yellow lines, over people's driveways and even on the corner of junctions. All because it saves them a minute or twos walk, if people are like that with hundreds of young children around is it any wonder their so inconsiderate elsewhere.
 
nilagin said:
I'd just like to point out the vast majority of roads have a pavement on both sides of the road. If the road is truly that busy it will have pedestrian crossings.
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It doesn't matter how quiet the road is, a person (for instance) in a wheelchair or a blind person shouldn't be forced to to go into the road to get around a parked vehicle, whatever the reason.
 
studioworks said:
The sight outside most primary schools in the morning is proof enough to see just how many terrible and selfish drivers their are. Up on the pavement, parked on yellow lines, over people's driveways and even on the corner of junctions. All because it saves them a minute or twos walk, if people are like that with hundreds of young children around is it any wonder their so inconsiderate elsewhere.
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Mostly women then. ;)
 
Looked at the thread title, Oh it's about about parking, not moose :D
 
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