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

P.C.

ardmacha wrote: »

You must have worked in retail as you call customers moronic for suggesting that they should be served properly, little wonder that Irish retail has the reputation it has.
I didn't say anything whatsoever about people browsing in the shop. If I was queuing in the shop I would expect the staff to serve the queue, not someone who just skips the queue. Likewise I expect them to serve people who are using the forecourt in an orderly way in preference to people who are parking in no parking areas, driving in by the exit and the like. Quite apart from good customer service there are health and safety implications to some forms of queue jumping, blocking entrances etc.

Oh, you are so right. :rolleyes:

Sorry, I can't serve you, as you drove in through the 'Exit only'.

Sorry, I can't serve you as you were driving with your fog lights on, and that is against the law.

Do you think that the staff in these shops look forward to being abused by some 'boy racer', or 40 something mammy in a 4X4 who can't drive properly.

I hope you have never driven over the speed limit, or else you might be refused service next time you go to a shop. After all, driving faster than the speed limit is a health and safety risk.

Have you ever worked in a shop, and refused to serve a customer because they drove/parked badly?

Orla K

ardmacha wrote: »

You must have worked in retail as you call customers moronic for suggesting that they should be served properly, little wonder that Irish retail has the reputation it has.
I didn't say anything whatsoever about people browsing in the shop. If I was queuing in the shop I would expect the staff to serve the queue, not someone who just skips the queue. Likewise I expect them to serve people who are using the forecourt in an orderly way in preference to people who are parking in no parking areas, driving in by the exit and the like. Quite apart from good customer service there are health and safety implications to some forms of queue jumping, blocking entrances etc.

I think you should calm down. You seem to be getting carried away with this. I just have some points to make
1. In retail your focus is on who your serving, not who is parking where, the person would be in the shop before you know what's going on.
2. The cameras are there for a recording if somebody steals something not to stare at.
3. Don't you know the managers are too busy counting money to care.

Back to the bad parking, I did once see someone take up THREE parking spaces. Instead of being virtical he was horizontal. I have also seen someone stopping on a busy street and getting out to go into a shop, they didn't pull in they just stopped, the road was too busy and small for the cars behind to get by, so they just had to sit there.

Berty

I saw a jeep and trailer outside Harvey Norman yesterday taking up 9 spaces 3 of which were disabled.

I had NO digital camera with me. I was so mad I could not show you this.

F*cking gypos!!

Angus MacGyver

I posted this picture somewhere on boards before but i reckon its one of the worst parking job i have ever seen. I checked the windscreen for a disabled sticker but there wasnt one

ninty9er

Here's one I couldn't believe. I'd say the driver had difficulty getting in after I tucked in next to it.

Space is at a premium in that little gem of a car park. Centre of campus and free:pac::pac:

Wasn't gonna let bad parking stop me getting a space:P

L-M

Bloody astra crossing the white line:rolleyes:

Berty

Limerick-man wrote: »

Bloody astra crossing the white line:rolleyes:

Pssstt. Its not even his. I saw his mother driving it(or older girlfriend) last night with him in the passenger seat. LOL

Berty

Anyway I was too hungover today to stop and take a photo of it but its there every single day.

Its the new Hyundai **** box from our friends on the Tipperary road in Limerick.

Its parked on the traffic island blocking a footpath/wheelchair/blind person pebbledy type thing.

L-M

Berty wrote: »

Pssstt. Its not even his. I saw his mother driving it(or older girlfriend) last night with him in the passenger seat. LOL

ROLF:D

Berty

ninty9er wrote: »

Space is at a premium in that little gem of a car park. Centre of campus and free:pac::pac:

Is that not the visitors car park?

Caliden

You dont even wanna know the state of some parking at NUIG

Berty

Caliden wrote: »

You dont even wanna know the state of some parking at NUIG

You should have seen the upset I used to make delivering in a 17 tonne truck in the tunnell thingy in NUIG. I would just stop half way down. I once had to reverse because some vagabonds decided it would be funny to set fire to the bins during the night. Reversing a truck at 8:30am on a Monday morning with no alarm or rear camera 500 mtrs through a tunnell is not fun.

ninty9er

Limerick-man wrote: »

Bloody astra crossing the white line:rolleyes:

ON the white line (i.e not in 2 spaces:P:P)

Berty wrote: »

Pssstt. Its not even his. I saw his mother driving it(or older girlfriend) last night with him in the passenger seat. LOL

Says he who has to get his boss' permission to get his car fixed:D

Berty

ninty9er wrote: »

Says he who has to get his boss' permission to get his car fixed:D

Im ok because I dont have to pay. Its suckers like you that have to pay to get your car fixed. SUCKER! :P

peasant

Lads, take your private banter to pm

L-M

peasant wrote: »

Lads, take your private banter to pm

*whispers* What if we whisper??

Berty

Limerick-man wrote: »

*whispers* What if we whisper??

BAN HIM. JEHOVA JEHOVA JEHOVA


BTW Peasant. Dont worry, that is my last post in this thread off topic.

Cpaw

Berty wrote: »

BAN HIM. JEHOVA JEHOVA JEHOVA


BTW Peasant. Dont worry, that is my last post in this thread off topic.

Reported. What a rude and immature post. Are you 12?:rolleyes: I hope for your sake that there are no Jehovas Withness on here.

So has anyone got any more 'Obnoxious' parking stories? Lol at the OP's Incorrect spelling :rolleyes:

Seth Brundle

@Cpaw - I think you need to be a Monty Python fan to understand Berty's post and it is not meant to be offensive towards JWs (I can't believe that I'm defending this).
Anyhow, I'm quite tempted to close this thread but for the moment, I won't.

Berty

kbannon wrote: »

@Cpaw - I think you need to be a Monty Python fan to understand Berty's post and it is not meant to be offensive towards JWs (I can't believe that I'm defending this).
Anyhow, I'm quite tempted to close this thread but for the moment, I won't.

Kbannon, I had to a whole reply typed this morning when I saw this but then erased it and moved on with my life.

I felt the same, why should it be defended? It would be like a engineer complaining if I reffered to weighing a witch against a duck. :rolleyes:

Monty Pyhthon FTW. Its that time of year, surely Life of Brian is on the tv soon, maybe Cpaw can watch it.


* off to work with a fish to cut down some trees

Seth Brundle

Now everyone back on topic before I lose my temper!

highdef

Berty wrote: »

Maybe you should read the Motors Charter

* No car registrations to be mentioned without photographic proof

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055037358

In fairness, is the photograph not photographic proof of the parking??? I can't see any reason why the reg number can't be shown in the pic. Having said that, it's still there so it must be ok.

Oh, and if anyone as much thinks of taking up two spaces, as long as I can still fit my car nicely between the two lines beside them, I will go ahead and do it. Even if I'm an inch away from the drivers door of the adjacent car. I'm not going to go and mess up a whole line of parking spaces just because one person is unable to drive their car. It's so funny trying to see them clambering over the passenger seat to get to the drivers seat when they get back.....even funnier if they even attempt to complain to me. It's rare to meet the drivers though, unfortunately. I've had drivers attempt to say that my bad parking means they can't get into the car!!! hahaha. How stupid can some people be.
And before someone says it, I don't look out for bad parkers....if I see a space that I can fit into, I'll park in it. I shouldn't have to go park somewhere else just for the dopes that can't park their car.

Cpaw

kbannon wrote: »

@Cpaw - (I can't believe that I'm defending this).

Why?

Berty

Berty wrote: »

Anyway I was too hungover today to stop and take a photo of it but its there every single day.

Its the new Hyundai **** box from our friends on the Tipperary road in Limerick.

Its parked on the traffic island blocking a footpath/wheelchair/blind person pebbledy type thing.

Its still there so here is a picture of it. It did manage to change colour though. Cheeky so and so's. Just before taking the picture a woman had to walk around it. AND before people wonder was I driving when I was taking it. Ironically I was parked up on the other footpath. LOL


but only to facilitate taking the photograph. BTW, they also park on the other footpath as well in the gravel. They are not in the way though. Their actual car park is overflowing with all their crappy jeeps nobody wants. LOL

L-M

Cpaw wrote: »

Why?

You're posts make me laugh, before i wanted you gone, now you might as well stay.

@Berty, any pics of the bad parking we saw at the motors meet:D

timmywex

Angus MacGyver wrote: »

I posted this picture somewhere on boards before but i reckon its one of the worst parking job i have ever seen. I checked the windscreen for a disabled sticker but there wasnt one

Ah, good oul kilkenny people! Top of parnell street id be right yeh, thats the cathedral in the backround?

NewApproach

Limerick-man wrote: »

@Berty, any pics of the bad parking we saw at the motors meet:D

:rolleyes:

mumblin deaf ro

www.iparklikeanidiot.com

Berty

mumblin deaf ro wrote: »

www.iparklikeanidiot.com

I like their opening screen saying "Dont stick these on others peoples car like these people did". You can really believe the sincerety of selling something sticky that you should not stick.

pyramuid man

Berty wrote: »

All they would do is put out a PA looking for the driver.

Ah you should have let them put out the announcement, thickest Limerick accents ever!!! Always makes me laugh

Berty

pyramuid man wrote: »

Ah you should have let them put out the announcement, thickest Limerick accents ever!!! Always makes me laugh

Sort of as annoying as the scardy cat security guards in the Parkway shopping Centre in Limerick who one night put out an annoucement saying "get off of that" then "go home, will you" and "I told you lot already, get off that childs toy".

BTW they now have bought themselves the cheapest looking clamp ever but failed to buy the signage informing people of the clamp. Oh legal implications on the horizon me thinks The clamp looks like a steering wheel lock.

L-M

Berty wrote: »

BTW they now have bought themselves the cheapest looking clamp ever but failed to buy the signage informing people of the clamp. Oh legal implications on the horizon me thinks The clamp looks like a steering wheel lock.

Maybe they're hired people to break into cars and put the locks on. Cheaper me thinks.

modm3

Absolutely without question the worse, worse, worse parking is displayed with proud tradition in Limerick - it is truly shocking, the parkway, the cresent the city - OMG the city, on a Sunday it's a complete joke. You'd swear it was back in the early 70's when nobody had a car, you could park anywhere you liked. In Limerick city on a Sunday the traffic is often as bad as any other day of the week, purely due to 'effing arseholes parking on double yellows.

I could publish my own multi-volume picture collection of sh1te parking in Limerick, all over the place. I have had 3 cars utterly whacked by complete incompetance, twice in the cresent and once in the new Childers road Dunnes - each time our car was parked away (on purpose) from the idiots and each time over €500 damage done - we managed to get one spiteful woman who's excuse was "she was pregnant" - if you can't park a car due to your condition, then you shouldn't be driving one on the roads. Got nothing out of that one as the witness cried off !!!

I have reported and gotten successfully prosecuted a guy who nearly ran me off a footpath in Limerick, as he couldn't find a parking space - I got the height of abuse, he then left, for me to find his commercial landcruiser parked in a wheelchair access space --- Arghhh!!!! Straight up to the cops, pictures of both incidents and one of his "commercial" tax disc along with the very evident rear passenger seats complete with baby chairs - JUSTICE !!!!

Nees to calm down..........:cool:

Berty

modm3 you will be glad to hear that on Sunday when Arthurs Quay car park was full, Thomas Street was full, Henry Street was full, cruises street was closed and Cornmarket was full the cars spilled onto the streets as usual.

The Gardai were walking up to people sitting in their cars asking them to move but the cars without people in them were ignored. Easy option for the Gardai. Also, imagine shooting fish in a barrell by giving them all tickets.

Patrick Street is the worst. I dont mind other streets.

modm3

Berty wrote: »

modm3 you will be glad to hear that on Sunday when Arthurs Quay car park was full, Thomas Street was full, Henry Street was full, cruises street was closed and Cornmarket was full the cars spilled onto the streets as usual.

The Gardai were walking up to people sitting in their cars asking them to move but the cars without people in them were ignored. Easy option for the Gardai. Also, imagine shooting fish in a barrell by giving them all tickets.

Patrick Street is the worst. I dont mind other streets.

I am glad Berty, I managed to drag myself into town on Sat so I could avoid Sun - it's very frustrating, they're supposed to be attracting people to the city center but there seems to be a few disconnects in how best to achieve this. I saw the gardai ticketing cars parked in loading bays, but not double yellows :rolleyes:

Berty

Toyota are now making 5 seater motor cycles.

BTW, Im not bored that I drive around hoping to spot somebody parking badly. Its just the ones that are blindingly wrong. That is just blatantly wrong.

L-M

I saw a great one today outside currys, a Navara pulled in around parked at an angle across two spaces. The woman was just getting in as i passed:P

Berty

Limerick-man wrote: »

I saw a great one today outside currys, a Navara pulled in around parked at an angle across two spaces. The woman was just getting in as i passed:P

Its got to be the one outside Harvey Norman where the jeep and trailer took up 7 or 8 spaces. Mad

L-M

Berty wrote: »

Its got to be the one outside Harvey Norman where the jeep and trailer took up 7 or 8 spaces. Mad

Not an english reg by any chance?

Berty

Limerick-man wrote: »

Not an english reg by any chance?

To be fair I guess they were probably collecting a couch or bed or whatever but parking like that is madness. No it was an L reg, not a pikey mobile either.

L-M

Berty wrote: »

To be fair I guess they were probably collecting a couch or bed or whatever but parking like that is madness. No it was an L reg, not a pikey mobile either.

Weird, although it'd be awkward reversing the caravan into one space, and the jeep into the other:P

blanco

Just got to love the Orwell Shopping Center for 'good' parking

blanco

Not to mention Dunnes at Kill-a-Banana.
The woman in the picture look horrified when I took this. Wonder if she ever parked there again?:p

The second shot was taken at the petrol station in Dublin Airport.

ninty9er

blanco wrote: »

Just got to love the Orwell Shopping Center for 'good' parking

That Almera's not parked is it?:eek:

blanco

ninty9er wrote: »

That Almera's not parked is it?:eek:

When the old codger saw me standing there, he moved it up so the front wheels touched the kerb. Essentially, the back end was still out there...
He said, 'won't be long. Back in a minute'. And went off. :eek:
Two cycle cops went by a few seconds later, but didn't do anything.

Ryath

The parking is what first got my attention first pretty bad but what I've come to expect in the town in question, could take pics like it all day. Something else though made me think it was worth taking a pic. Sorry about poor image had to crop from a long shot but the item in question should be discernable. Had wanted to get a closer pic but the wife wouldn't let me out of the car.:(

thalia_13

Ryath wrote: »

The parking is what first got my attention first pretty bad but what I've come to expect in the town in question, could take pics like it all day. Something else though made me think it was worth taking a pic. Sorry about poor image had to crop from a long shot but the item in question should be discernable. Had wanted to get a closer pic but the wife wouldn't let me out of the car.:(

Is that outside SuperValu in Moate by any chance??

Ryath

thalia_13 wrote: »

Is that outside SuperValu in Moate by any chance??

Supermacs actually where the inconsiderate parker went into.

stealthyspeeder

Ryath wrote: »

Something else though made me think it was worth taking a pic. Sorry about poor image had to crop from a long shot but the item in question should be discernable.

What is this discernable item you speak off?

Ryath

stealthyspeeder wrote: »

What is this discernable item you speak off?

Passanger side dash board.