Someone parks so close to you that you hang to bang your door off them

Random · 25-03-2009 11:36PM #1

Right. You're parked in Tesco's car park. Someone comes along and parks so close to you that you have no method of getting into your car without you door banging off there's and obviously leaving a mark.

Assume you're blocked in from both sides.

You've waited from 2pm to 6pm, the shops closed now and no one has come to move either car.

Do you make your own arrangements to get home? Do you hit your door off theirs and leg it? Can they still hold you and your insurance liable?

Any thoughts on this hypothetical situation?

peasant · 25-03-2009 11:38PM

take off your jacket, put it between the door and the other car, get in carefully, remove jacket.

no waiting about, no dents, no hypothetical situation

MarkN · 25-03-2009 11:40PM

After parking at home the other night I came down the next morning to spot someone in another car had parked so close to my car that I couldn't get in my side. I had to crawl over from passenger side (not easy to do in my type of car as the running gear etc is so wide) all while rushing to work.

I came home that evening and low and behold the same person was pulling up, I had a word.

Random · 25-03-2009 11:40PM

Assume you have no jacket ...

Really though .. fair enough, that's out of the box thinking! I'd probably be in the mood to throw a trolley through the window though.

Anyways, thread spoiled, mod banned, nothing to see here move along

voxpop · 25-03-2009 11:44PM

Id do exactly the same as MarkN - climb in the passenger side. Id hate to damage the paint on the edges of my door.

Random · 25-03-2009 11:45PM

voxpop wrote: »

Id do exactly the same as MarkN - climb in the passenger side. I hate to damage the paint on the edges of my door.

The passenger side is the same in my scenario above.

Tipsy Mac · 25-03-2009 11:47PM

Nothing you can do about people like this, they are born selfish idiots and have no spatial awareness whatsoever, they are the people who Q for 10 mins at an ATM and then when they are top of the line go on their mobile and then when they have finished there 5 minute call they proceed to look for their ATM card, they should be taken out of their car and shot in the back of the head with a harpoon

Del2005 · 25-03-2009 11:51PM

Random wrote: »

Right. You're parked in Tesco's car park. Someone comes along and parks so close to you that you have no method of getting into your car without you door banging off there's and obviously leaving a mark.

Assume you're blocked in from both sides.

You've waited from 2pm to 6pm, the shops closed now and no one has come to move either car.

Do you make your own arrangements to get home? Do you hit your door off theirs and leg it? Can they still hold you and your insurance liable?

Any thoughts on this hypothetical situation?

The chances of both car drivers not coming back in the space of 4 hours is fairly slim.

If you have folding rear seats you could try getting in the boot and letting them down. if that doesn't work, hit your door off their car. If they can't park it should be in bits from everyone else hitting it;)

L1011 · 25-03-2009 11:53PM

If I've managed to park in the middle of the space with my little car; this hypothetical scenario would need both drivers to have gone over the line in to my space so I'd just get the carpark clamper firm out to shift them both... sorted

Additionally if you open your door slowly and rest it against theirs its not going to leave a noticeable if any mark... unless they happen to be a detailing obsessive!

Big Wave · 26-03-2009 12:02AM

MYOB wrote: »

I'd just get the carpark clamper firm out to shift them both... sorted

You do realise that clampers aren't the ones that tow cars, yeah?

L-M · 26-03-2009 12:05AM

Some bollix put a small mark on my door recently. I swear, I'm never using public parking again as long as I live*

*Not true, but I am going to park at the end of the row so it narrows the chances.

I don't see the point of the post though OP, if you can't get out either side, drive out and find another space lol!

Wishbone Ash · 26-03-2009 12:08AM

At least when both cars are parked very closely, any contact between the door and the other vehicle will be much 'flatter' (if you know what I mean) and unlikely to leave any mark.

It's really much worse when there is an average gap and a parent, while occupied with seat-belting a young child, will allow their open door to constantly rub against your car!

Wishbone Ash · 26-03-2009 12:10AM

Limerick man wrote: »

I don't see the point of the post though OP, if you can't get out either side, drive out and find another space lol!

The OP is referring to returning to his/her car after parking it appopriately.

luckat · 26-03-2009 12:11AM

Have you noticed that car parking spaces seem to be getting narrower? Seriously.

And for some reason they're seldom designed at a slant in this country - it's really handy if they're diagonal, because you can drive in more easily, and you can back straight out and are able to see behind you, instead of having to do an L-shaped backing manoevre.

mumblin deaf ro · 26-03-2009 12:11AM

If it leaves you locked out of your car, could you get in via the boot?

L-M · 26-03-2009 12:12AM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The OP is referring to returning to his/her car after parking it appopriately.

My bad, don't know what I was reading...

mumblin deaf ro · 26-03-2009 12:13AM

luckat wrote: »

Have you noticed that car parking spaces seem to be getting narrower? Seriously.

And for some reason they're seldom designed at a slant in this country - it's really handy if they're diagonal, because you can drive in more easily, and you can back straight out and are able to see behind you, instead of having to do an L-shaped backing manoevre.

They're called herringbone - easier for driving in and reversing out of; although I thought it was supposed to be safer to reverse in and exit frontwards for regular bay parking, something which is almost impossible to do in a herringbone space.

Wishbone Ash · 26-03-2009 12:15AM

peasant wrote: »

take off your jacket, put it between the door and the other car, get in carefully, remove jacket.

no waiting about, no dents, no hypothetical situation

.....but a big dry-cleaning bill in the depths of winter!

Wishbone Ash · 26-03-2009 12:17AM

luckat wrote: »

And for some reason they're seldom designed at a slant in this country

mumblin deaf ro wrote: »

They're called herringbone - easier for driving in and reversing out of

They are not generally used here as (in a public place) it's illegal to reverse out onto a road of greater importance.

TomMc · 26-03-2009 12:19AM

This is where an estate with a panoramic sunroof comes in handy. You have loads of options.

Wishbone Ash · 26-03-2009 12:24AM

It must be a curse for those with gull wing doors!

jvc · 26-03-2009 12:43AM

TomMc wrote: »

This is where an estate with a panoramic sunroof comes in handy. You have loads of options.

Forget about remote starting. Remote sunroof opening FTW.

chickenhawk · 26-03-2009 03:52AM

Take off their wipers and throw them in a hedge or on a roof. Last time they;ll do that to ya.

chrisinwestcork · 26-03-2009 04:54AM

get a taxi to the local youth club( street corner,fast food place, doggie estate ect ect) pay a young person 10 euro to go and "remove" the blocking car,job done:D:D:D

Yakult · 26-03-2009 04:58AM

hop in thru the boot.

philstar · 26-03-2009 08:49AM

leave a message on the windscreen

its the only way these numbskulls will learn

L1011 · 26-03-2009 08:51AM

Big Wave wrote: »

You do realise that clampers aren't the ones that tow cars, yeah?

Generally the clamping firm has or has a contract for towing capabilities as they have to be able to remove abandoned cars or ones which are blocking access.

c4cat · 26-03-2009 09:05AM

luckat wrote: »

Have you noticed that car parking spaces seem to be getting narrower? Seriously.

And for some reason they're seldom designed at a slant in this country - it's really handy if they're diagonal, because you can drive in more easily, and you can back straight out and are able to see behind you, instead of having to do an L-shaped backing manoevre.

So why is that, I can not believe that this idea has not come about here, its just pure common sense to park at a 45 degree slant.

You also find that those that park so close to you are older cars that dont care a feck about either you or their own paint work, so if bumping their car door with mine is unavoidable 'so be it!!!' (so be hit)

c4cat · 26-03-2009 09:07AM

chickenhawk wrote: »

Take off their wipers and throw them in a hedge or on a roof. Last time they;ll do that to ya.

and what about CCTV watching you?

c4cat · 26-03-2009 09:10AM

mumblin deaf ro wrote: »

They're called herringbone - easier for driving in and reversing out of; although I thought it was supposed to be safer to reverse in and exit frontwards for regular bay parking, something which is almost impossible to do in a herringbone space.

Pretty inpossible whan a car is parked in front or there is a wall there too

EPM · 26-03-2009 09:12AM

Pretend to drop something then leave the air out of their back tyre:D

Someone parks so close to you that you hang to bang your door off them

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