Thread: Raising the bar on bad parking

When you got to get a drink, you got to get a drink.

Originally Posted by A Duke

When you got to get a drink, you got to get a drink.

If that's the best they can do on the way there, I would hate to see what happens AFTER they have a drink

And what makes you think they went for a drink......

I presume that it also did not have a disabled person permit displayed in the car.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

I presume that it also did not have a disabled person permit displayed in the car.

Actually it did - but only one of them. You would think it would need two to park like that.

Sadly this kind of thing happens all the time, really do wish there were much tougher laws to prevent this from happening in the future.

Alternatively wish this would happen to more people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9AwxQL3S4

One of my pet hates is the driver who insists on reversing into a parking bay in a parking lot where there is too little overtaking space for other cars to pass. I imagine that they will argue that this makes it easier for them to later drive away - however there is not only a lot more effort going into reverse parking in tight bays, but a steam of car waiting for them to do so.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by tonzeyd

Sadly this kind of thing happens all the time, really do wish there were much tougher laws to prevent this from happening in the future.

Alternatively wish this would happen to more people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9AwxQL3S4

Hope he got pinged for littering as well.

Originally Posted by derekcohen

One of my pet hates is the driver who insists on reversing into a parking bay in a parking lot where there is too little overtaking space for other cars to pass. I imagine that they will argue that this makes it easier for them to later drive away - however there is not only a lot more effort going into reverse parking in tight bays, but a steam of car waiting for them to do so.

Regards from Perth

Derek

I'll be the first to put my hand up to say I'm one of those people... however in my defence i do find reversing out of a car bay takes alot longer than reversing into a car bay as often times its harder to see if anyone is coming.

I am fairly confident at reverse parking, so most of the time will get it first go and often find am quicker at it then when i try to forward park. Having said that where i do agree is when someone is driving a small two door hatch back and requires a million moves to get into a bay.

Derek I do understand where you are coming from, but it isn't always that clear. My cab chassis tray back ute has a wide turning circle, which makes driving into parking places almost impossible, therefore I always reverse in; mostly in one go. Been reverse parking for about 50 years now, sort of gotten used to it.

In the sixties, I picked up a job in an inner city car park. In this car park, every vehicle was parked by one of the attendants. All were reversed into their respective parking bays, they were extremely tight which was the main reason they had a valet parking situation. We used to love the push button automatic Valiants, firstly because automatic transmissions were quite rare, but mainly because we liked pushing the reverse button while still rolling forward, sped up the process by at least 3 seconds.

Mick.

Originally Posted by derekcohen

One of my pet hates is the driver who insists on reversing into a parking bay in a parking lot where there is too little overtaking space for other cars to pass. I imagine that they will argue that this makes it easier for them to later drive away - however there is not only a lot more effort going into reverse parking in tight bays, but a steam of car waiting for them to do so.

Regards from Perth

Derek

I do this all the time. The reason is that I drive a van, which does not have windows on the rear sides. It is very dangerous to reverse out, when you can't see who or what is coming. Take this into consideration when getting P'd off (you will be even more p'd off if I run you over)
tm

Seems like i'm not the only one.

Originally Posted by doug3030

You would have to go a long way to beat this one.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

I presume that it also did not have a disabled person permit displayed in the car.

Originally Posted by doug3030

Actually it did - but only one of them. You would think it would need two to park like that.

what I find scary, is that a person with that level of spacial unawareness is allowed to drive

I'm going to also say I prefer to reverse park.
The vision when driving out is much better for cross traffic.
Vehicles backing out can hold up traffic - that they did not hold up when driving in forwards. So it balances out.

The other thing I need to consider is wether I will need access to my tailgate as I need to allow space for that. If I do not need to get anything in or out of the back, if it is very close to a wall it can not be opened.