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

Buford T Justice

Yes, that's two parking spaces - Clickie make me biggie.

dr.fuzzenstein

Voodoomelon wrote: »

^^ Thats a disgrace. At least leave a note under a wiper.
Even better, print those pictures and leave them under a wiper next time.

I have once or twice left notes under wipers, only to see ignoramus come back and either take the note and throw in unread on the ground or just drive off without seeing it.
Later then if they where parked arseways and I could block them in by parking legally, I did that.
Got some nice reactions of people who couldn't understand how I could be so thoughtless and selfish.
I stopped doing that after once finding the car I blocked in gone and a black bumper mark all along my car.
The I switched to lifting the wipers, folding in their mirrors, detaching the wiperblades, detaching the aerial and leaving them on the roof.
Makes a nice point without doing any damage.
THAT got their attention, reaction ranged from shock to horror to outright hissy fit and tantrums.
There is no sight more beautiful on earth than some ignorant bastard going purple in the face and doing a little freakout dance.
Not that they will ever learn their lesson, these people are ignorant by basic design, it is bred into their DNA, every single fiber of their body has been soaked in ignorant from the womb.
So I now do nothing to them, not worth the hassle, except take their picture, but only sometimes and I can't even be arsed posting them here.

Now, on another point:
Here's a petrol station in Lahinch that has double yellows in front of the petrol pumps.
By law, no one should be allowed to stop there to get petrol.
Some brainless bureaucrat obviously just implemented some decision without thinking (obviously the very definition of bureaucrat), so the Irish solution is to just ignore it, by the public, garage owner and local law enforcement.
Honestly I can't blame anyone for stopping there, putting double yellows in front of petrol pumps is obviously idiotic and they should shoot the guy who had the idea, the guy who implemented it and whoever painted those lines.
Obviously no thought process in any of their brains.

Antikythera

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

The I switched to lifting the wipers, folding in their mirrors, detaching the wiperblades, detaching the aerial and leaving them on the roof.
Makes a nice point without doing any damage.

This is criminal damage. I bet you only do it when the owner is not looking.

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Now, on another point:
Here's a petrol station in Lahinch that has double yellows in front of the petrol pumps.
By law, no one should be allowed to stop there to get petrol.
Some brainless bureaucrat obviously just implemented some decision without thinking (obviously the very definition of bureaucrat), so the Irish solution is to just ignore it, by the public, garage owner and local law enforcement.
Honestly I can't blame anyone for stopping there, putting double yellows in front of petrol pumps is obviously idiotic and they should shoot the guy who had the idea, the guy who implemented it and whoever painted those lines.
Obviously no thought process in any of their brains.

Lol! Good level.

dr.fuzzenstein

Antikythera wrote: »

This is criminal damage. I bet you only do it when the owner is not looking.

Lol! Good level.

Well, the point of lifting the wipers and folding in the mirrors is that it causes no damage whatsoever.
It simply is the annoyance factor and I'm somewhat of an expert when it comes to be annoying, no special training, just a knack I guess.:p
I hear it is very common in France to do it.
Detaching the wiperblades and aerial is probably a bit iffy.
I don't do either one anymore, just not worth it and those arseholes never learn.
And of course you do it when they're not looking, very hard to do it whilst being physically attacked I guess.
As I said, don't do it anymore, just couldn't be arsed. Pointless anyway.

On the petrol station in Lahinch, I think it exists in a time bubble outside our reality, everything in and around it is period 80's, right down to the owner and his pre-86 reg Renault.
It's like time stood still there.

Antikythera

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

On the petrol station in Lahinch, I think it exists in a time bubble outside our reality, everything in and around it is period 80's, right down to the owner and his pre-86 reg Renault.
It's like time stood still there.

Yeah, strange one. Maybe if there were any markings other than double yellows, people would be ignorant enough to park there. Someone stopping there to fill up, on the other hand, could (would) surely argue, correctly, that they are not technically parking?

dr.fuzzenstein

Antikythera wrote: »

Yeah, strange one. Maybe if there were any markings other than double yellows, people would be ignorant enough to park there. Someone stopping there to fill up, on the other hand, could (would) surely argue, correctly, that they are not technically parking?

Could be, just looked up double yellows and it just says no parking, so I don't know how it effects stopping for a few minutes, but it must be legal, since everyone does it.;)

Berty

The DYL in Lahinch/Lehinch make perfect sense, except for the Garage owner.

Before and after the Garage there are spaces recessed into the footpath so any other parking would be contravening the passage of traffic.

nicol

Beer Baron wrote: »

The DYL in Lahinch/Lehinch make perfect sense, except for the Garage owner.

Before and after the Garage there are spaces recessed into the footpath so any other parking would be contravening the passage of traffic.

I'd say the garage owner could've asked for the dyl as it would deter people from parking outside his garage unless they were getting fuel. Just a thought.

shedweller

Bad parking or just looking after his car?:rolleyes:

Berty

Parked next to a badly parked cashcow. Who wouldn't mind his M3?

rcdk1

Antikythera wrote: »

Yeah, strange one. Maybe if there were any markings other than double yellows, people would be ignorant enough to park there. Someone stopping there to fill up, on the other hand, could (would) surely argue, correctly, that they are not technically parking?

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Could be, just looked up double yellows and it just says no parking, so I don't know how it effects stopping for a few minutes, but it must be legal, since everyone does it.;)

See 5(2)(e) of ROAD TRAFFIC (TRAFFIC AND PARKING) REGULATIONS, 1997
If you're not contravening any other parking law you can park on a DYL for 30 minutes for the purposes of loading or unloading.

billymitchell

http://www.imgur.com/MxA9O.jpg

seen in north dublin today. Just made no sense

KoolKid

Someome who's nervous reversing??:rolleyes:

Cantona's Collars

Voodoomelon wrote: »

^^ Thats a disgrace. At least leave a note under a wiper.
Even better, print those pictures and leave them under a wiper next time.

Better still,get a couple of people together to bounce the back of the car onto the road and wait 'til a truck tears the side out of it.

Victor

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Lahinch

I'm surprised they still allow a petrol pump on the footpath. They've long been considered a hazard.

Is that a solid white line in the centre of the road?

dr.fuzzenstein

Victor wrote: »

I'm surprised they still allow a petrol pump on the footpath. They've long been considered a hazard.

Is that a solid white line in the centre of the road?

Hard to tell, almost looks like it.
But whatever it is, it will get ignored, along with all other signs and roadmarkings, as is customary in small, rural villages.
You should see Ennistymon, it holds shared first place with Corofin in Clare for insane and random parking, just coast to a halt, jump out and she'll be the finesht.

stampydmonkey

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Same location yesterday. When saving this jpeg I discovered that 05-D-19087 was parked in the exact same spot several months ago. Clearly there is absolutely no effective enforcement taking place on this very busy pedestrian route. It is also evident that the word "obnoxious" has to include those enforcers who wilfully ignore the safety and comfort of vulnerable road users, including infants and disabled people.

That's behind the courthouse in Galway? I'd put money that the Merc belongs to some pompous barrister down from the big shmoke for the day...lord knows they can afford the ticket!

Gophur

Antikythera wrote: »

This is criminal damage. I bet you only do it when the owner is not looking.
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How so? Nothing was damaged!

MarkR

Kildare Outlet Village *shudder*

Place was wedged. Another car had given up trying to park in the spot. A lesser man. The place was wedged, no way was I going to let this car away with two spaces



Once again, doesn't look like much from the pic, but I can assure you it was about as close as I could get. They'd folder in my mirror on my return, so hopefully they were inconvenienced.

Iwannahurl

stampydmonkey wrote: »

That's behind the courthouse in Galway? I'd put money that the Merc belongs to some pompous barrister down from the big shmoke for the day...lord knows they can afford the ticket!

What ticket?! :mad:

Wexfordian

Gophur wrote: »

How so? Nothing was damaged!

Its worth looking at the Criminal Damage Act 1991. I originally looked it up because I thought the people who reflexively go "Criminal Damage" were a bit over the top, but its a very vague act in some ways. Both "dismantle" and "deface" are covered

Criminal Damage Act 1991

Iwannahurl

Wexfordian wrote: »

Its worth looking at the Criminal Damage Act 1991. I originally looked it up because I thought the people who reflexively go "Criminal Damage" were a bit over the top, but its a very vague act in some ways. Both "dismantle" and "deface" are covered

Criminal Damage Act 1991

Perhaps that's one way to deal with OPs: one piece at a time, Johnny Cash style?

Robbo

Iwannahurl wrote: »

That path is too narrow for a buggy or wheelchair, so the obnoxiousness is moot. Where are the nearest bike racks, btw?

What of those of restricted mobility and the elderly? The visibility is rubbish around that corner, I wouldn't like to be dismounting the pavement if I was using a walking stick or walking from William St West.

The nearest bike racks to my mind are at Raven Terrace maybe 120m away but if we go down that reasoning, we may as well excuse obnoxious car parking for lack of marked spaces.

Fey!

Iwannahurl wrote: »

That path is too narrow for a buggy or wheelchair, so the obnoxiousness is moot. Where are the nearest bike racks, btw?

When bike parking is provided equivalent to that enjoyed by motorists then by all means have a go at cyclists. Mind you, there's no short of pedal-pushing OPs -- I even have a few pix of them myself...

There's a bike rack outside the Bridge Mills 100 yards away, and another across from the shop at Ravens Terrace 50 yards away.

Across from where those bikes were parked is 4 Star Pizza, a mecca for bad parking!!!

corktina

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Perhaps that's one way to deal with OPs: one piece at a time, Johnny Cash style?


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thats one way to defeat the clampers...

Iwannahurl

Robbo wrote: »

What of those of restricted mobility and the elderly? The visibility is rubbish around that corner, I wouldn't like to be dismounting the pavement if I was using a walking stick or walking from William St West.
The nearest bike racks to my mind are at Raven Terrace maybe 120m away but if we go down that reasoning, we may as well excuse obnoxious car parking for lack of marked spaces.

Fey! wrote: »

There's a bike rack outside the Bridge Mills 100 yards away, and another across from the shop at Ravens Terrace 50 yards away.
Across from where those bikes were parked is 4 Star Pizza, a mecca for bad parking!!!

I don't want to dwell on this too much, since the emphasis here is on photos.

The distance from the top of Munster Avenue to the Bridge Mills is about 300-350 metres.

The bike parking on Raven's Terrace is about 150 metres away.

If either of you think that is adequate availability of bike parking for The West, as this part of Galway City is often called, then clearly you have little or no understanding of cycling as a door-to-door mode of transport.

There are P&D car parking spaces scattered throughout the area, and illegal parking is endemic, which means that cars are being catered for. Why not bikes?

I agree that the bikes are parked obnoxiously, but I also think that the footpath itself is in an obnoxious state and the chronic lack of bike parking in Galway City is also an obnoxious failure on the part of the Council. God knows they have been begged for years to provide more.

TestTransmission

Less yappin please

ootbitb

stampydmonkey wrote: »

That's behind the courthouse in Galway? I'd put money that the Merc belongs to some pompous barrister down from the big shmoke for the day...lord knows they can afford the ticket!

this would be towed away in any law abiding country

ootbitb

pr-guru wrote: »

:rolleyes:
Before you do that, you should obscure the licence plate in that pic, like a good lad.

quoted from first page.


noticed posters leaving the plate numbers visible now. Is this allowed.

Hope it is.

Absurdum

Loads of free spaces within an 8 second walk as usual, but too far for this one :rolleyes:



On the subject of hiding reg plates, I hid the innnocent bystander here out of politeness, the guilty party can go and ****e :P