More Obnoxious parking - ***READ FIRST POST BEFORE POSTING***

limklad

Limerick City Council,@ People park. From the Red Van to the city Council van are illegally parked.

To be honest I do not understand why the Double yellow lines are here, the road is very wide to allow parking and it does not obstruct other vehicles passing on the road, but it is nice to show the hypocrisy of the Limerick City Council unable to follow Rules of the road.

Here a view of the street on Street view
http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.658164,-8.629557&spn=0.002174,0.004474&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.658094,-8.629634&panoid=-8eCNImKWspL4RtwD779Xg&cbp=12,67.22,,0,15.4

http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.658441,-8.629289&spn=0.002174,0.004474&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.658353,-8.629364&panoid=XYfGDXr4aoNjgXO404gmIw&cbp=12,193.81,,0,17.04

Tragedy

lostwallet wrote: »

Well parked imo.

Plenty of room for off peak traffic to flow.

My bus was held up for a couple of minutes because of it.

the merchant

paddydriver

Is there a car there somewhere?

Couldn't see past the woman.

Tallon

paddydriver wrote: »

Is there a car there somewhere?

Couldn't see past the woman.

The cars better looking

Top Dog

Tallon wrote: »

The cars better looking

You must have some seriously high standards if you consider the Yeti more attractive than that woman! :eek:

KoolKid

I would need to test drive both of them before making any decisions like that.

TJJP

Not on the lines per-se, but rather difficult to navigate around this ill-parked car as a result:







Such behaviour is in no way particular to corolla drivers. This motor is far more obnoxiously placed by my reckoning:





And age is no barrier either. This bit of road-craft amazed me to such an extent I awaited the owners return just so as to be sure. The elderly owner hopped in and pottered off. No real harm done....

Tallon

Top Dog wrote: »

You must have some seriously high standards if you consider the Yeti more attractive than that woman! :eek:

I actually lol'd

Berty

What were you navigating around the Corolla in anyway? Where would you have been going? Looks like a dead end to me.

I find it ironic they are parked in front of a NCPS sign on the wall.

TJJP

Berty wrote: »

What were you navigating around the Corolla in anyway? Where would you have been going? Looks like a dead end to me.

I find it ironic they are parked in front of a NCPS sign on the wall.

For sure, but it's the only space in which to pull a u-turn, hence the 360 double yellows (I presume). Put the Corolla bit left more and they were grand! I'd have even got my Allegro and Caravan by. The BM though, that's just ignorant given the spaces in the carpark below.

iknorr

found these http://www.pittman.ie/Products/Permanent-Adhesive-Warning-Sticker-Please-refrain-(250roll)__753700.aspx

exactly what im looking for but there a bit expensive!

anyone know where i can get them cheaper?

if i get some ill be posting pics with stickers on the cars...

edit...also found these http://linton.stores.yahoo.net/wachflgr.html

freighter

Berty wrote: »

What were you navigating around the Corolla in anyway? Where would you have been going? Looks like a dead end to me.

I find it ironic they are parked in front of a NCPS sign on the wall.

I lol`d when I see the Corolla driver looking at the OP taking his picture.

Turner

iknorr wrote: »

found these http://www.pittman.ie/Products/Permanent-Adhesive-Warning-Sticker-Please-refrain-(250roll)__753700.aspx

exactly what im looking for but there a bit expensive!

anyone know where i can get them cheaper?

if i get some ill be posting pics with stickers on the cars...

edit...also found these http://linton.stores.yahoo.net/wachflgr.html

You should get a job with NCPS.

hdowney

these first ones were parked on yellow box and footpath at loughlinstown hosp on tuesday.









particularly this fella's work car!






then today Paddy's Day in my local supervalu car park when this car bombs in (being driven by a MAN!!!) and he parks up like this and goes into the shop! :eek:







i parked behind him then this nice car came and parked infront of him :D:D shoulda seen him trying to get his car out!!!!

-Corkie-

None of the cars are really obstructing anyone imo. If you parked behind the Beetle you should have included yourself in the picture...:pac:

Meh to all those pics. I think a visit to childers road is needed for some quality parking..:p

hdowney

well the cars were obstructing cos you couldn't walk with a buggy on the footpath or get thru with a wheelchair, and the ones on the box were impeding the flow of traffic, a car coming up and one coming down and what would happen?

as to parking behind yr man in the beetle i parked behind him in a proper space the proper way round!

the merchant

KoolKid wrote: »

I would need to test drive both of them before making any decisions like that.

Nice rack




(roof)


By the way this was a screen shot from TV3's new motoring programme.

Seasoft

iknorr wrote: »

found these http://www.pittman.ie/Products/Permanent-Adhesive-Warning-Sticker-Please-refrain-(250roll)__753700.aspx

exactly what im looking for but there a bit expensive!

anyone know where i can get them cheaper?

if i get some ill be posting pics with stickers on the cars...

edit...also found these http://linton.stores.yahoo.net/wachflgr.html

While I have no time for obnoxiously parked cars, I feel caution is needed with this. The Pittman website referred to says "This warning notice sticker uses a PERMANENT adhesive which is almost impossible to remove from the windscreen by the driver."
Anything put on a windscreen that cannot be removed would surely make driving hazardous. In fact, in the event of an accident, putting a sticker on a windscreen could make you liaible.

Putting it on a rear side window might be more sensible.

ART6

Seasoft wrote: »

While I have no time for obnoxiously parked cars, I feel caution is needed with this. The Pittman website referred to says "This warning notice sticker uses a PERMANENT adhesive which is almost impossible to remove from the windscreen by the driver."
Anything put on a windscreen that cannot be removed would surely make driving hazardous. In fact, in the event of an accident, putting a sticker on a windscreen could make you liaible.

Putting it on a rear side window might be more sensible.

Sometimes "obnoxious" parking is unavoidable and the reaction to it needs a bit of common sense. Some years ago I was catching a flight out of a UK airport, and had been badly delayed by traffic conditions. I arrived at the car park, which was almost full, and was close to missing my flight. I found one place, but the car on the right had parked badly, so the only way I could get in was with my LHS wheels just over the white line.

I flew back in the next day to find one of those stickers right smack in the driver's side window, severely obstructing my view out of that side and making my car undriveable safely. I tried to get it off but couldn't shift it.

By then I had had two days of hassle and was well p****d off. I drove to the car park gatehouse and explained what had happened. The guy there shrugged and told me it was my problem, and that lit me up. I told him that if he didn't get his b****y manager to come and get his feckin label off my car I would not be responsible for my actions. I told him I would sue the a**se off his tinpot company for making my car unroadworthy.

I then spent half an hour watching them getting the label off my car with soap and hot water and a lot of scrubbing, accompanied by lots of apologies and suggestions that their attendant had perhaps been a little over zealous.

OK, off topic lads. But sometimes it simply isn't possible to park exactly as we purists would like.:o

Iwannahurl

Chief--- wrote: »

You should get a job with NCPS.

If I had the money he'd be working for me!

Iwannahurl

Seasoft wrote: »

While I have no time for obnoxiously parked cars, I feel caution is needed with this. The Pittman website referred to says "This warning notice sticker uses a PERMANENT adhesive which is almost impossible to remove from the windscreen by the driver."
Anything put on a windscreen that cannot be removed would surely make driving hazardous. In fact, in the event of an accident, putting a sticker on a windscreen could make you liaible.

Putting it on a rear side window might be more sensible.

I think sticking such notices on a side window (driver's side especially) is the norm.

Permanent adhesive for such a purpose sounds like my kind of glue. The obnoxious parkers might think twice the next time. Someone/something's gotta larn em.

Limerick Bandit

iknorr wrote: »

found these http://www.pittman.ie/Products/Permanent-Adhesive-Warning-Sticker-Please-refrain-(250roll)__753700.aspx

exactly what im looking for but there a bit expensive!

anyone know where i can get them cheaper?

if i get some ill be posting pics with stickers on the cars...

edit...also found these http://linton.stores.yahoo.net/wachflgr.html

damaging someones car in a public place could get you in a lot of trouble, court or hospital

Arciphel

In my experience the only thing that shifts those stickers is a glass scraper and some paraffin. Not that I have gotten loads of them in my life or anything!

Shell1234

Mc Love

they must have been on the run

bijapos

Mc Love wrote: »

they must have been on the run

They probably had the runs if my experience of those places is anything to go by. :mad::mad::mad:

dr.fuzzenstein

bijapos wrote: »

They probably had the runs if my experience of those places is anything to go by. :mad::mad::mad:

Don't buy the chicken wings in the evening when they've been under that heat lamp for six hours!;)

iknorr

Seasoft wrote: »

While I have no time for obnoxiously parked cars, I feel caution is needed with this. The Pittman website referred to says "This warning notice sticker uses a PERMANENT adhesive which is almost impossible to remove from the windscreen by the driver."
Anything put on a windscreen that cannot be removed would surely make driving hazardous. In fact, in the event of an accident, putting a sticker on a windscreen could make you liaible.

Putting it on a rear side window might be more sensible.

I wouldnt have to permanently stick it on there ( place it under the wiper blade) BUT if they parked there after warnings i would stick it to a side rear window. OR over the tax/insurance/nct disc holder.

EDIT:
My justification.

i totally agree with ART6 . Sometimes its unavoidable to park in a way that would piss off other people but again these are people who park on double yellows with 2 private no parking signs and the usual no parking council signs.
At the moment theres a bit of construction going on and no one can park there. But arriving home each night/afternoon seeing the same cars illegally parked.....causing me hassle to enter my car park which i pay for is extremely annoying.
I have called the local traffic peeps, and they normally come clamping and towing. I dont like doing this. I know about 4 of the frequent cars are being parked by people who work in the pub right alongside where the parking is going on.

The road itself: When cars are parked illegally then only one car can pass at a time. ( normally 2 can pass). There are 2 junctions between where they park. One is a blind T junction and the other is from a one way street where anyone entering has to do a U-turn from the main one way street-then as they turn they are met with parked cars on there side of the road and must edge out to the other side of the road while doing a u-turn blindly. Countless near misses have occurred.

SerialComplaint

1) Black 10D Mondeo parking in disabled space on level 2M in Dundrum Town Centre - no blue badge
2) Grey van taking up two spaces at DLR Meadowbrook at peak time - Sunday morning - car park jammers with people at Mass and at the pool
3) Red Renault MPV parked in set-down space at Balally Luas all bloody day - it was there when we went into town at 2pm, and still there when we came home at 5.30pm