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Berty

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Hello all,

I was being my grandmothers good samaratin today. I took her shopping to the crescent shopping centre in Limerick. Ha, that my good deed done for this year GOD

Anyway, she is in a wheelchair so had her disc handy so we parked in the disabled spaces at the new entrance when I saw this "numpty" park her car. See the picture before I comment more.



The polo is parked on the wheelchair ramp, the only wheelchair ramp to get from the set parking to the door. I asked her what she was thinking parking there without any consideration for others.

She said that her husband and herself were old and should not have to walk from the car park over.(not disabled) If anybody knows this car park it is at most an extra 100mtrs from the door and considering the end of the disabled spaces it was probably the same distance anyway.

I asked her could she move. She looked at me oddly and asked why. I said that I had to get my grandmother in her wheelchair to the front door and this was the only access short of walking on the road and onto the speed bump to access the front door. She said she would gladly help me lift the wheelchair up the kerb.

You can see from the picture she is actually in the car moving it. I told her even if she had a disabled sticker she could not park here anyway because they were all full and that there is never any excuse for parking on a footpath and blocked the only wheelchair ramp.

She said "I will write to my councillor for a disabled sticker". I asked her how without a disability she thought she would manage that. "Well, were old we deserve more rights".

AAAHHHHHH I felt like grabbing her free medical card and slashing her throat with it.



*****Ah, lets off some steam***** :cool:

L-M

Women drive.........


I won't go there:cool:

pr-guru

Berty wrote: »

AAAHHHHHH I felt like grabbing her free medical card and slashing her throat with it.

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

pyramuid man

Isn't that the crescent. Parking there can be a nightmare at times but that ridiculous.

Berty

pr-guru wrote: »

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

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

Berty

pyramuid man wrote: »

Isn't that the crescent. Parking there can be a nightmare at times but that ridiculous.

It was pretty bad. I was there yesterday and always park in the underground on the right hand side because people always go left at the bottom for some reason. The right hand section under the newsection is always very quiet. Yesterday it was jammed. Got a good space though between two walls so nobody could park near me. It HATE door prangs.

ninty9er

Did you tell her you'd report her to security if she didn't move her car off the FOOTpath?

I'm sure they would have been delighted to clamp her or have her towed.:D

Miserable oul cow....betya the husband was one of those never gets a word in edgeways poor fu<kers.

Alanstrainor

Well, i have another one, even worse than that. If anyone knows it, it's the windy arbour luas stop. Apologies for the crappy drawing, but the "crossing" is the crossing over the tracks, and as you see the red car is completely blocking everybody, dont know how you'd get by if you were in a wheel chair! Parking like that makes me want to do terrible things to said cars.

Berty

ninty9er wrote: »

I'm sure they would have been delighted to clamp her or have her towed.:D

The crescent do not clamp nor do they tow to my knowledge, just put annoying stickers on cars.

Have you seen security in the crescent. Guys dreaming of Swat pulling wheelie bins around.

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

Honey-ec

Keep a few of these in your car and hand her one the next time.

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/notices/notice_1.pdf

Mr Magnolia

Here's one I took a while back, gave me a laugh actually. Parked across not one, but two of the disabled parking bays.

r3nu4l

Abviously this old woman was Ablivious to the rules concerning disObility stickers! :pac:

/Stops being the big man pointing out a simple typo

That's a proper, decent rant! I can't stand the ignorance of people using disabled spaces when they don't need to and that includes the bastids who have a family member that is disabled but use that persons disabled badge so they can park in disabled spots...even when that family member isn't travelling with them in the car!!!

A mate of mine does this and when he was once questioned about it as he returned to his car, he told the parking warden (who knew him by sight) 'Oh er,yeah, my old man is with me but I have to bring the car to him now because his leg has seized up again and he can't get back to the car. That's why he's not here, I'd never use this badge improperly...' :rolleyes:

daveharnett

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Here's one I took a while back, gave me a laugh actually. Parked across not one, but two of the disabled parking bays.

Not to worry, i'm sure some agent of karma pulled up alongside him just to give him a whack of a door.

Berty

Disabled spaces and parent and child spaces are only guidlines. They cannot enforce the parking rules unless they claim to be able to clamp you.

I was in the Childers road the other night(against my better judgement) and waited outside. I had to straddle two spaces because the bitc*h in the SUV came over the lines. There were no other spaces in view.

In front of me were two cars both diagonally across the parent and child spaces. One family came out and loaded up and left for a woman to arrive in a corsa. We know these spaces are massive for a start. Where did she park with her L plate? In the chevroned area that is suposed to be used for getting your children out without slamming your doors off the adjacent cars. Thats right, she parked in the chevon area. She got out looked at me and then looked at her car and its position and actually shrugged her shoulders. I tried to take a picture but the flash did not bring up the image very well and Id be damned if I was getting out in the rain.

*Blood boils*

cabrwab

ok that is some seriously special parking. She deserves a car door scrape! I assume you got it sorted in the end op. And i thought id seen bad parking!

GreeBo

Berty wrote: »

Disabled spaces and parent and child spaces are only guidlines.

I had to straddle two spaces

She got out looked at me and then looked at her car and its position and actually shrugged her shoulders.

*Blood boils*

Maybe if you were parked properly she could have parked beside you?
You just told us that these spaces are only guidelines and that there were no other free spaces in the car park. Why do you think what she did was any worse than what you did?

jim o doom

haha I drive a motorbike so I am not as unfortunate as all you poor people having to deal with the retards that park like muppetry was going out of fashion - but I see ignorant douches parking so ignorantly and badly I feel like starting a "crime squad" and towing all their stupid cars and dumping them in the bay. A childish fantasy but god how I would love to carry it out

ergonomics

GreeBo wrote: »

Maybe if you were parked properly she could have parked beside you?
You just told us that these spaces are only guidelines and that there were no other free spaces in the car park. Why do you think what she did was any worse than what you did?

What's with the selective quoting of Berty's post? What he actually said was:

Berty wrote: »

I had to straddle two spaces because the bitc*h in the SUV came over the lines. There were no other spaces in view.
*Blood boils*

If you'd actually read what he actually said you'd see there were no other spaces available and it was the woman beside him who was parked badly in the first place. I'm assuming by him being in the car he would happily have parked better if the opportunity arose.

Maybe read the whole post next time, or don't twist it to say what you want?

Berty

Lots of hissing context quoting here.

I would have parked correctly should I have been given the opportunity. Given that the parent and child spaces are only a guideline by all rights I could have parked there but i cant bring myself to bend the rules that much.

I wasnt just planted with the white line down the centre of my car either.

I was actually parked within the normal distance of the other SUV on my other side leaving a mini gap between my car and the badly parked SUV. It meant the space was unobtainable unless you were driving a moped.

galwaytt

Berty wrote: »

Lots of hissing context quoting here.

indeed :D

How's this ?

Berty wrote: »

I would have parked correctly ..but i cant bring myself to .. driv... a moped.

I think I've summed up all quite nicely, there....

Jumpy

Pleeeease mods, pleeeease fix the title. Its killing my brains.

Berty

Jumpy wrote: »

Pleeeease mods, pleeeease fix the title. Its killing my brains.

ups, I is sory abot dat :eek:

Switcharoo

While we're here: here's 3 bad parkers outside where I work:

01 - BMW with it's arse sticking miles out
02 - Focus takes up 2 spots - nice....
03 - Espaz parks on double yellow lines, blocking someone's garage!

daveharnett

Berty wrote: »

I was actually parked within the normal distance of the other SUV on my other side leaving a mini gap between my car and the badly parked SUV. It meant the space was unobtainable unless you were driving a moped.

When I don't have a passenger, in this situation I like to park in the middle of the space as normal, with my passenger side as close to the offending car as needs be. If that means making their driver door very awkward, all the better.

The joys of driving a cheap car

ninty9er

Switcharoo wrote: »

While we're here: here's 3 bad parkers outside where I work:

01 - BMW with it's arse sticking miles out
02 - Focus takes up 2 spots - nice....
03 - Espaz parks on double yellow lines, blocking someone's garage!

You'd wan't to be driving a tank or be a very poor driver not to be able to park a Yaris or Corsa in front of that Focus, and you'd get a family saloon in behind it. Maybe they were there when the driver parked the Focus.

mcwhirter

Abnoxious An annoying flaunting of one's abdominal muscles.

Berty

Here is another.

For those of you who know Limerick City. This is upper Roches Street. This BMW is facing up to oneway system towards me and as I sit here typing this I just heard that a "small blue car" is heading in the N20 on the wrong side of the dual carraigeway. LOL

r3nu4l

That's funny but...dude, are you taking photographs while driving?

Cuddlesworth

r3nu4l wrote: »

That's funny but...dude, are you taking photographs while driving?

It's pretty obvious the car is stationary in traffic.

Berty

Handbrake was engaged because that Micra was considering reversing into the space but then changed it mind and decided the multistory right next to it would do just as well.

Usually I would just give the GF the camera.

John Mason

i havent got a photo, sorry but on Friday night, i called into the Topaz garage on the N2, just across from Glasnevin Cemetary.

It was raining cats and dogs. I go pay for my petrol.

Came out of the shop to carnage.

Some muppet decided it was raining too much to parking in the shop only spaces and pulled up outside the shop door and just dumped the car.

She was blocking in 3 drivers and no-one on the other side could get past her.

Cue people trying to reverse out away from the pumps, horns blowing and que in the shop was massive - 6pm on a friday night!!

anyhoo, i was one of the lucky ones, i wasnt blocked in but would have loved to have been there whenever your wan came out

ardmacha

Petrol station owners should not serve customers who act the maggot in this way, they have cameras and can see what is going on. Neither these blockers nor the queue jumping type who reverse in from the exit. Too often the staff in station just ignore this kind of thing. Apart from anything else they will sell more fuel if people can get in and out in an orderly way.

Berty

ardmacha wrote: »

Petrol station owners should not serve customers who act the maggot in this way, they have cameras and can see what is going on. Neither these blockers nor the queue jumping type who reverse in from the exit. Too often the staff in station just ignore this kind of thing. Apart from anything else they will sell more fuel if people can get in and out in an orderly way.

Staff are not paid enough to get into arguments over that.

ardmacha

Staff are not paid enough to get into arguments over that.

They should not be paid at all if they are not looking out for the legitimate customers.

r3nu4l

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

It's pretty obvious the car is stationary in traffic.

It's 'obvious' is is? It might not be moving at 2-5 mph? How can you tell from a still picture?

Berty wrote: »

Handbrake was engaged because that Micra was considering reversing into the space but then changed it mind and decided the multistory right next to it would do just as well.

Usually I would just give the GF the camera.

Good stuff, thanks for clearing that up. It would have been ironic had you been giving out about someone else's driving while trying to manipulate a camera and steering wheel so you could get a shot of it

ardmacha wrote: »

They should not be paid at all if they are not looking out for the legitimate customers.

Well if that woman was buying something in the garage, she's a 'legitimate customer' and while in the ideal world she'd be told to go back and park properly, as has been said already, a lot of the time so long as other customers just mutter under their breath and shake their heads rather than cause a fuss themselves about it, they aren't going to bother as it makes their lives easier.

Berty

r3nu4l wrote: »

a lot of the time so long as other customers just mutter under their breath and shake their heads rather than cause a fuss themselves about it, they aren't going to bother as it makes their lives easier.

How very OIrish of them.

GreeBo

Berty wrote: »

Lots of hissing context quoting here.

I would have parked correctly should I have been given the opportunity. Given that the parent and child spaces are only a guideline by all rights I could have parked there but i cant bring myself to bend the rules that much.

I wasnt just planted with the white line down the centre of my car either.

I was actually parked within the normal distance of the other SUV on my other side leaving a mini gap between my car and the badly parked SUV. It meant the space was unobtainable unless you were driving a moped.

But you could argue that despite the fact that there wasnt an opportunity for you to park properly, you went ahead and parked, improperly.

How do you reckon it looks when the SUV has moved on and other cars arrive to see you in multiple places? You are just continuing the problem. If I cant park between the white lines I park somewhere else, otherwise you are turning 1 mistake into 2 or more and perpetuating the problem.

Berty

GreeBo wrote: »

But you could argue that despite the fact that there wasnt an opportunity for you to park properly, you went ahead and parked, improperly.

How do you reckon it looks when the SUV has moved on and other cars arrive to see you in multiple places? You are just continuing the problem. If I cant park between the white lines I park somewhere else, otherwise you are turning 1 mistake into 2 or more and perpetuating the problem.

Ah ha but I was in the car with my parking lights on and the engine running awaiting a chance to reposition the car in the correct space.

There is a BIG difference than just abondoning the car.

GreeBo

Berty wrote: »

Ah ha but I was in the car with my parking lights on and the engine running awaiting a chance to reposition the car in the correct space.

There is a BIG difference than just abondoning the car.

In that case +1 for you.

But -1 for leaving your engine running and killing the planet! :pac:

Berty

GreeBo wrote: »

In that case +1 for you.

But -1 for leaving your engine running and killing the planet! :pac:

+0.5 for using a diesel and LED lights to make it a little easier on the environment.

McSpud

To OP - you should have parked behind her. Ignorant people never learn unless they are also inconvenienced.

We have private parking at work on spare lot. In theory people can be clamped for parking in our space but office manager never calls the clampers. The only way to discourage people parking in the space is to park behind them so they can't get out. If they come looking to get out I will be busy for a couple of hours.

Cpaw

Berty wrote: »

Hello all,

I was being my grandmothers good samaratin today. I took her shopping to the crescent shopping centre in Limerick. Ha, that my good deed done for this year GOD

Anyway, she is in a wheelchair so had her disc handy so we parked in the disabled spaces at the new entrance when I saw this "numpty" park her car. See the picture before I comment more.



The polo is parked on the wheelchair ramp, the only wheelchair ramp to get from the set parking to the door. I asked her what she was thinking parking there without any consideration for others.

She said that her husband and herself were old and should not have to walk from the car park over.(not disabled) If anybody knows this car park it is at most an extra 100mtrs from the door and considering the end of the disabled spaces it was probably the same distance anyway.

I asked her could she move. She looked at me oddly and asked why. I said that I had to get my grandmother in her wheelchair to the front door and this was the only access short of walking on the road and onto the speed bump to access the front door. She said she would gladly help me lift the wheelchair up the kerb.

You can see from the picture she is actually in the car moving it. I told her even if she had a disabled sticker she could not park here anyway because they were all full and that there is never any excuse for parking on a footpath and blocked the only wheelchair ramp.

She said "I will write to my councillor for a disabled sticker". I asked her how without a disability she thought she would manage that. "Well, were old we deserve more rights".

AAAHHHHHH I felt like grabbing her free medical card and slashing her throat with it.



*****Ah, lets off some steam***** :cool:

Why didn't you just bite your tongue? You should not be annoying old people simple as. I actually felt sorry for that old woman in the car and the nerve of you to publish her reg:eek:

seanybiker

jim o doom wrote: »

haha I drive a motorbike so I am not as unfortunate as all you poor people having to deal with the retards that park like muppetry was going out of fashion - but I see ignorant douches parking so ignorantly and badly I feel like starting a "crime squad" and towing all their stupid cars and dumping them in the bay. A childish fantasy but god how I would love to carry it out

he he he thats the best thing about bikes. park em anywhere. Anytime I see someone parked witht he white line down the middle of their car, I park me bike on the drivers side of the car in the tiny little space they left, Fook it the bike fits in no problem and if they give outt o me Ill just point out that the w@anker or w@ankeress is taking up two spaces.

Berty

Cpaw wrote: »

Why didn't you just bite your tongue? You should not be annoying old people simple as. I actually felt sorry for that old woman in the car and the nerve of you to publish her reg:eek:

Publish her reg, this is hardly a penguin collection is it now?

You should have felt sorry for my grandmother who was in a wheelchair but could not use the wheelchair ramp. :mad:

Why should I bite my tongue? Is it because thats the Irish way and what everybody else does?

cjt156

Cpaw wrote: »

Why didn't you just bite your tongue? You should not be annoying old people simple as. I actually felt sorry for that old woman in the car and the nerve of you to publish her reg:eek:

Berty wrote: »

Publish her reg, this is hardly a penguin collection is it now?

You should have felt sorry for my grandmother who was in a wheelchair but could not use the wheelchair ramp. :mad:

Why should I bite my tongue? Is it because thats the Irish way and what everybody else does?

Its OK Berty; check Cpaw's location and all becomes clear...

galwaytt

ardmacha wrote: »

They should not be paid at all if they are not looking out for the legitimate customers.

sweet diatribing jeebus.

So, if I go into a shop, browsing, and buy nothing, that the staff should somehow not receive any payment for staffing the shop? What kind of moronic statement you've made. Never worked in retail, either, obviously.

L-M

cjt156 wrote: »

Its OK Berty; check Cpaw's location and all becomes clear...

Just check every post he's made and it become's clear. Don't know how he's still on here, but there's always one:rolleyes:.

ninty9er

McSpud wrote: »

The only way to discourage people parking in the space is to park behind them so they can't get out. If they come looking to get out I will be busy for a couple of hours.

:D:D

ninty9er

Limerick-man wrote: »

Just check every post he's made and it become's clear. Don't know how he's still on here, but there's always one:rolleyes:.

I like Taytos, do you??:pac:

ardmacha

So, if I go into a shop, browsing, and buy nothing, that the staff should somehow not receive any payment for staffing the shop? What kind of moronic statement you've made.

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.

Hanley

Cpaw wrote: »

Why didn't you just bite your tongue? You should not be annoying old people simple as. I actually felt sorry for that old woman in the car and the nerve of you to publish her reg:eek:

Berty wrote: »

Publish her reg, this is hardly a penguin collection is it now?

You should have felt sorry for my grandmother who was in a wheelchair but could not use the wheelchair ramp. :mad:

Why should I bite my tongue? Is it because thats the Irish way and what everybody else does?

They're a troll. They've already been banned from fitness today.