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Mental Mickey

franksm wrote: »

At B&Q Liffey Valley on Monday. Festooned with Jesus/Christian stickers yet gormless enough to dump the car in a disabled spot. No blue badge on this car.

The only word to describe "people" like that begins with C and ends with T and has four letters.*







































































































































































































































*and it's not a nice word.

Patrick85

bernyh wrote: »

I'm sitting here trying to figure out how the fudge they managed that as far as I can see in the pic there's no damage to the rear and it defo hit rear on... was it dropped off a delivery truck or summit?

SerialComplaint

OSI wrote: »

1. Persona: The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.
2. It wouldn't have been Jeremy and Co that would arrange it, it would be the production team, and the BBC production are usually overly thorough in preparing for everything, so I have no doubt they did so.

You're not seriously suggesting that Jeremy is really a meek and mild paragon of political correctness in real life, surely?

The person responsible for parking in the disabled parking spot is the person in the driver's seat. It doesn't really matter who told them it was OK. The driver should have the cop on to know that it's not OK.

scoobymunster

Patrick85 wrote: »

I'm sitting here trying to figure out how the fudge they managed that as far as I can see in the pic there's no damage to the rear and it defo hit rear on... was it dropped off a delivery truck or summit?

Rising bollard? They parked it when they bollard wasn't there. Bollard rises and takes the car up with it. I've seen similar things happen and those bollards can definitely take the weight of a car, just never seen it manage to push a car up that high before.

Mc Love

Something that will cheer Beer Baron up, the Crescent SC in Limerick have more "no parking" stickers. There is no parking allowed in hatched areas yet people always park there, and the other day I drove past 5 cars all parked in the hatched areas with huge stickers on their back passenger windows. And a car parked down the road from me has one still on theirs and it looks as if they were unsuccessful in removing it

Berty

scoobymunster wrote: »

Rising bollard? They parked it when they bollard wasn't there. Bollard rises and takes the car up with it. I've seen similar things happen and those bollards can definitely take the weight of a car, just never seen it manage to push a car up that high before.

Looks like a fixed bollard to me. The bumpers on those cars are made of light material. The material can pop back into shape. If you hit the thing fast enough then I'm sure that is totally possible.

If anybody is on Shop Street in Galway. You will notice a bent bollard just outside Boots. I did this with a rigid truck. I was parallel parking during loading times and somehow managed to get the bollard between the wheels and the undercarraige barriers so when I went to pull away I nearly mounted the bollard in a rigid truck. The undercarraige barrier thing just popped open, I reversed back, reset it, looked at the bollard(what could I do) so left. It's only a few degrees out of kilter. Students no doubt got blamed :P

Mc Love wrote: »

Something that will cheer Beer Baron up, the Crescent SC in Limerick have more "no parking" stickers. There is no parking allowed in hatched areas yet people always park there, and the other day I drove past 5 cars all parked in the hatched areas with huge stickers on their back passenger windows. And a car parked down the road from me has one still on theirs and it looks as if they were unsuccessful in removing it

Actually I never did understand why they "hatched" those areas anyway. Waste of paint to be honest when they could have just left them as perfectly good spaces.

I like to use the underground under River Island. Everybody goes down there and turns left like "sheep". I turn right and you have a great choice of spaces especially if you can get the unmarked ones near the door.

Mc Love

Or the parking space near the end that could fit two cars but you have loads of space to park one without anyone parking next to you

JustAddWater

2 for the price of 1 in Lucan

:rolleyes:

Iwannahurl

Mental Mickey wrote: »

The only word to describe "people" like that begins with C and ends with T and has four letters.

Indeed. What we have there is a complete clot.

SerialComplaint

OSI wrote: »

What? It was a private parking space on private property that they had permission from the owners to use. What's the problem?

Just because it's marked as a disabled bay doesn't mean it instantly has world wide legal status as being only usable by disabled people regardless of where it is. It's entirely up to the owner of the space to set the conditions that apply to the space, and if they so wish, grant permission to any one they see fit to use it.

What's the point with marking a bay as a wheelchair bay if it's going to over-ruled when any 'celeb' come calling? This really does give bad example, and creates an environment where abuse of parking facilities is tolerated.

OldmanMondeo

SerialComplaint wrote: »

What's the point with marking a bay as a wheelchair bay if it's going to over-ruled when any 'celeb' come calling? This really does give bad example, and creates an environment where abuse of parking facilities is tolerated.

The production team already made a statement about, they asked the property owners for somewhere quite to film, the owners directed them to the disabled spots, the production team didn't think about it and admit they made a mistake. It was not the presenters decision to park cars there. For all we know the carpark could have been closed to the public at the time.

Can we please get back to piss poor parking???

Iwannahurl

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

Can we please get back to piss poor parking???

Oh alright then.

All three vehicles in this pic are obnoxiously parked, IMO.

The one in the foreground is parked in a spot that doubles as an occasional loading bay and rear pedestrian access to a public building.

Note the steps to the left -- there is no space for a buggy or wheelchair to pass. This pedestrian route is blocked nearly every day for hours by OPs, occasionally by people who work in the adjacent public building.

I brought this obnoxious parking to the attention of two Gardai who happened to be strolling by. And I mean sauntering, not striding, marching, hurrying, running.

One was on his mobile phone and the other's inital response was that there was room to pass on the steps. No mention at all of buggies, wheelchairs etc. She said she'd "have a look at it" then walked off, slowly, with her colleague.

A minute later I called her back. "Officer, are you just going to ignore that car?"

"We're not officers," she said. "We're Guards."

"We'll have a look at it," she repeated, and strolled off in a different direction.

Dazza Mc kenna

:P

Oral Surgeon

Come on Dazza, cut him some slack, he has no choice but to park like a prat....

Check out the rims on the trailer...:)

TestTransmission

Oral Surgeon wrote: »

Come on Dazza, cut him some slack, he has no choice but to park like a prat....

+1

No car + boat designated spots anywhere to be seen :pac:

hdowney

Bank Holiday Monday in my town is Regatta day. The culmination of a ten day festival ends with the rowing. lots of people come down to the seafront where i live. Now there is a 100+ space carpark behind my house.

This is a picture of the parking out front on that day



The car in the below image was one of the first to park up, early in the day. The three occupants got out, walked past my house, round into the PRACTICALLY EMPTY at this point car park, and out onto the seafront to watch the racing :eek::mad:

Mc Love

Just watching parking wars on bio, it's great!

Kenny Logins

That reminds me of Aldi in Carrigtwohill, every day someone has parked at the footpath out front, but to access the shop you must walk through it and out into the near empty car park behind, and then back in again.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Carrigtwohill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=51.908696,-8.271675&spn=0.042731,0.077162&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.455479,79.013672&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.908736,-8.271481&panoid=uKGO1nFtdNdNJOpLp5yU5g&cbp=12,63.27,,0,20.62

Signs are much bigger now, but still people park in there and at the footpath outside where the black brat carrier is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Carrigtwohill,+Ireland&hl=en&ll=51.909332,-8.270473&spn=0.04273,0.077162&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.455479,79.013672&layer=c&cbll=51.908987,-8.270392&panoid=GKB7xZ6kUROa_LsepuAX0Q&cbp=12,305.29,,0,-6.36&z=14

Stinicker

The fellow with the boat looks like he deliberately choose to park in the arse end of some car park so as to not cause obstruction, perhaps he was only going in for to buy groceries or whatever before setting of fishing. He appears to have had no choice, now if it was the boat parked by those houses on regatta day I'd have a different opinion.

Seasoft

Strange, but both badly parked cars were blue today, only a few metres apart.

The-Game

Too lazy to correct it after a swinging in attempt.

Guy:Incognito

hdowney wrote: »

Bank Holiday Monday in my town is Regatta day. The culmination of a ten day festival ends with the rowing. lots of people come down to the seafront where i live. Now there is a 100+ space carpark behind my house.

This is a picture of the parking out front on that day

I hope thats not your trailer abandoned on the grass.:)

lewis

The-Game wrote: »

Too lazy to correct it after a swinging in attempt.

Well in all honesty, the two cars each side are very close to the white lines, so I`d say if they we`re to park correctly, they would`nt be able to get out...

SerialComplaint

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

The production team already made a statement about, they asked the property owners for somewhere quite to film, the owners directed them to the disabled spots, the production team didn't think about it and admit they made a mistake. It was not the presenters decision to park cars there. For all we know the carpark could have been closed to the public at the time.

And you really believe that story, word for word? It sounds like an after-the-fact justification to me.

hdowney

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I hope thats not your trailer abandoned on the grass.:)

nope. belongs to the neighbour two doors up who has a boat. obviously the boat is not on the trailer at the moment. but it will be, all winter, directly outside his front door. he also parks his jeep up on the grass half the time too. make of that what you will!

MarkR

Got to protect these classics.

OldmanMondeo

SerialComplaint wrote: »

And you really believe that story, word for word? It sounds like an after-the-fact justification to me.

This is totally off topic, but it is presenters who make decisions regard locations etc, to allow lighting for cameras, so yeah, I would believe them.

johnos1984

hdowney wrote: »

Bank Holiday Monday in my town is Regatta day. The culmination of a ten day festival ends with the rowing. lots of people come down to the seafront where i live. Now there is a 100+ space carpark behind my house.

This is a picture of the parking out front on that day

In fairness that's not bad and only happens once a year. The way people abandon cars outside of the social welfare office just up the road is ten times worse and also the driving in Wicklow is pretty shocking at best.

johnos1984

SerialComplaint wrote: »

And you really believe that story, word for word? It sounds like an after-the-fact justification to me.

I do having asked someone who is heavily involved in the programme and it's production.

hdowney

johnos1984 wrote: »

In fairness that's not bad and only happens once a year. The way people abandon cars outside of the social welfare office just up the road is ten times worse and also the driving in Wicklow is pretty shocking at best.

in fairness yes that wasn't as bad as previous years. and you are right about the social office up the road. the cars, vans etc dumped all over the place on signing day is beyond diabolical. might take a pic of that next

i was most peeved about the group that parked on the footpath and walked through the empty carpark to go out onto the seafront though. smacked of obnoxiousness to me.