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colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

I know them passats are huge yokes, but....

I can't believe this, but about an hour ago, this car pulled right out in front of me on the roundabout beside the shopping centre. I slammed on 2 feet from his front door, when I beeped he stopped suddenly which made avoiding him all the harder.

dr.fuzzenstein

colm_mcm wrote: »

I can't believe this, but about an hour ago, this car pulled right out in front of me on the roundabout beside the shopping centre. I slammed on 2 feet from his front door, when I beeped he stopped suddenly which made avoiding him all the harder.

Elderly Passat with a CE reg?
I'd say farmer in his 70's, who has only a 20% clue of what's going on around him.
Not malicious, but doped up to the eyeballs on medication, the good kind, the kind doctors prescribe, the medication that according to Michael Healy Ray it is ok to be completely bombed out of your head on and drive around.
Nah, leave these people alone, otherwise, how would they get to the shops?

corktina

nope ..no towbar.

bijapos

Not obnoxious, but I wasn't sure where to put it. I think this was the car that was washed out of the Dropping Well car park last night, its about 500m downstream at a weir before Milltown bridge. Thankfully nobody was hurt.

Alanstrainor

:eek:

Wolverine_1999

bijapos wrote: »

Not obnoxious, but I wasn't sure where to put it. I think this was the car that was washed out of the Dropping Well car park last night, its about 500m downstream at a weir before Milltown bridge. Thankfully nobody was hurt.

It's only a Micra in any case...

Marlow

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

It's only a Micra in any case...

Probably the reason it got washed away that easily. They are lightweight tin cans.

/M

dr.fuzzenstein

Wolverine_1999 wrote: »

It's only a Micra in any case...

One down...

Our man in Havana

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

One down...

...millions to go!

E39MSport

Theres a plaque on the dropping well wall about 9 foot above ground level marking the point that the last bad flood water reached.
Oul' Charles would have been able to float pretty well with the wooden leg anyway

Antomus Prime

Seen this in the phoenix park a week or two ago.....

ZENER

Mainstreet Swords this afternoon. Got a ticket for his/her trouble too

Ken

Iwannahurl

Less than an hour's worth of obnoxious parking at a supermarket in the West during the "summer" holidays.



Try squeezing in here, between a pillar on one side...




...and a Mini on the other.




Sign says "Parent & Infant Parking: please honour this request". Some hope. No infant in this van.




Merc drivers need a lot of room?




Anything you can do I can do worser.




Shiny new van, same old bad manners (yes, that Hiace is parked).




Obstructing both the footpath and the vehicular exit from the car-park.




Three disabled spaces in front of the store, with at least one and sometimes all three routinely taken by drivers with no Blue Badge displayed.






The driver of the black Toyota 08-CE-4128 has no Blue Badge and is sitting in his car. The blue car bottom left is in fact being driven by a man with a Disabled permit, and he is waiting for a space. I mention this to 08-CE-4128 and he vacates the spot. As he passes the man with the Blue Badge they exchange friendly greetings. Turns out they know each other, which means 08-CE-4128 was happy to sit there and make his disabled friend wait for the space! (The Merc and the Audi don't have a Blue Badge on display either -- photos available on request)




Having vacated the disabled parking bay, 08-CE-4128 decides to park in the car-park exit, making departing drivers go around him.




Having eventually noticed that he was obstructing other motorists, 08-CE-4128 drives up onto the footpath instead. There, that's better.

Midnight_EG

That Mini isn't parked obnoxiously...just making full use of his space :pac:

Iwannahurl

Midnight_EG wrote: »

That Mini isn't parked obnoxiously...just making full use of his space :pac:

Her space. C'mon now, one wheel on the line (knowing there's a pillar encroaching on the other side) and loads of room to her right.

If not obnoxious, perhaps annoying?

CiaranMT

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Less than an hour's worth of obnoxious parking at a supermarket in the West during the "summer" holidays.

I know that place - Car Park is far too small for the supermarket.

Iwannahurl

CiaranMT wrote: »

I know that place - Car Park is far too small for the supermarket.

Car park is made smaller by people taking up more than one space and parking in the lanes etc.

Lots of empty spaces, and potential empty spaces, underground when I was there.

IIRC legal parking also available on roads in the vicinity.

Voodoomelon

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Shiny new van, same old bad manners (yes, that Hiace is parked).

Jesus, thats a new van? Looks ancient!

keano_afc

I long to see drivers clamped/ticketed for not respecting parent and child spaces. Tesco Greystones last week, I pull into the last available parent paking space with my toddler, the other being occupied by a man in a Corsa and a few young fellas in a Golf. Then the last disabled spot beside me gets taken up by a perfectly able bodied fella with his son.

No pistures as I didnt have my phone, but I'm very very close to losing it with selfish morons who are too lazy to look for another space.

Our man in Havana

On what legal basis?

BigEejit

Our man in Havana wrote: »

On what legal basis?

here we go again.....

cython

Junction in the middle of Maynooth between Main Street and the Straffan Road the on Monday night (apologies for crappy quality, but phone camera + low light = mess. The car is fully on the footpath in case it can't be made out):

Limerick Bandit

what are those parent and child spaces spaces about anyway

robbie_998

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

what are those parent and child spaces spaces about anyway

their for parents and children.

jimmynokia

robbie_998 wrote: »

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

what are those parent and child spaces spaces about anyway

their for parents and children.

took the words out of my mouth

Limerick Bandit

robbie_998 wrote: »

their for parents and children.

Parents that cant walk? or children that cant walk?

jimmynokia

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

robbie_998 wrote: »

their for parents and children.

Parents that cant walk? or children that cant walk?

what if neither could walk?

Our man in Havana

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

what are those parent and child spaces spaces about anyway

They are makey uppy spaces that have no more legal meaning than graffiti.

Limerick Bandit

jimmynokia wrote: »

what if neither could walk?

Would that mean they could park across 2 spaces

jimmynokia

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

what are those parent and child spaces spaces about anyway

They are makey uppy spaces that have no more legal meaning than graffiti.

so weather you can walk or not its cool to park lol.