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Arseholes that park on the pavement

  • 14-02-2013 12:31am
    #1
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭


    Some car/van have a serious problem with parking properly :mad:

    Walking down the village the last couple mornings to get the bus to college, and three pricks take up the whole pavement with their cars and vans. Having to walk on the road in the pissings of rain while it's dark out cause they can't park properly is a joke. The should be fined for this sort of stuff.


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  • #2
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    Nothing worse,,,you should knock their mirrors off ;)

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  • #3
    tiny timy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭tiny timy


    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    Some car/van have a serious problem with parking properly :mad:

    Walking down the village the last couple mornings to get the bus to college, and three pricks take up the whole pavement with their cars and vans. Having to walk on the road in the pissings of rain while it's dark out cause they can't park properly is a joke. The should be fined for this sort of stuff.
    That and those who park in handicap and mother and child spaces. drives me mad!


  • #4
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    You had to walk on the road, in the rain, WHILE IT WAS DARK!?

    God love ya. how will you ever recover.


  • #5
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    You had to walk on the road, in the rain, WHILE IT WAS DARK!?

    God love ya. how will you ever recover.

    Not easily if OP got Lamped by a passing vehicle

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  • #6
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭Bullseye1


    tiny timy wrote: »
    That and those who park in handicap and mother and child spaces. drives me mad!

    I assume you mean parents and child spaces or are fathers not allowed to park in these?


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  • #7
    boardzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭boardzz


    tiny timy wrote: »
    That and those who park in handicap and mother and child spaces. drives me mad!

    I had to park in the mother and child space one day because I was 15mins looking for the father and child space but to no avail....


  • #8
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    I hate it when people do that, they should be beaten with planks of wood with rusty nails.

    Unless of course they have their hazards on which makes it completely acceptable.


  • #9
    tiny timy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭tiny timy


    theres always a smart ass somewhere. have. look at the painting on the ground the next day an see whats on it before you get any smarter


  • #10
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    Not easily if OP got Lamped by a passing vehicle

    if OP walks out on the road as a vehicle is passing perhaps OP deserves to be lamped.


  • #11
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    Some car/van have a serious problem with parking properly :mad:

    Walking down the village the last couple mornings to get the bus to college, and three pricks take up the whole pavement with their cars and vans. Having to walk on the road in the pissings of rain while it's dark out cause they can't park properly is a joke. The should be fined for this sort of stuff.

    I have to park on the pavement every day. Otherwise the road outside my house would be completely impassable. How selfish would that be?
    Going right up to the wall is taking the p!ss tough.


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  • #12
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    uch wrote: »
    Not easily if OP got Lamped by a passing vehicle

    Exactly. It's hard enough for drivers to see people on the road in normal conditions, add in the rain and it's worse.

    And to the person who asked if the had their hazards on, they didn't. The cars and van were completely idle.


  • #13
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    SV wrote: »
    if OP walks out on the road as a vehicle is passing perhaps OP deserves to be lamped.

    Uh, yeah, you missed the part where I said I've no choice. The WHOLE path is taken up.


  • #14
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    if OP walks out on the road as a vehicle is passing perhaps OP deserves to be lamped.

    But it was Dark and the footpath was blocked

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  • #15
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    I park on the footpath sometimes but i always leave enough room for a buggy or a fat person to get by.


  • #16
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    I have to park on the pavement every day. Otherwise the road outside my house would be completely impassable. How selfish would that be?
    Going right up to the wall is taking the p!ss tough.

    I wouldn't mind if they were just mounting the curb or whatever, but making the path impassable is a hazard.


  • #17
    bluewhitehoops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭bluewhitehoops


    some roads are just not big enough to park your car on the road otherwise you could well end up blocking the road


  • #18
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    Uh, yeah, you missed the part where I said I've no choice. The WHOLE path is taken up.

    So you wait for any vehicles to pass and then walk around.
    uch wrote: »
    But it was Dark and the footpath was blocked

    then the cars will have lights on, making them even more identifiable in the dark.


  • #19
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    then the cars will have lights on, making them even more identifiable in the dark.

    Not the Parked ones

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  • #20
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    Not the Parked ones

    hold on...hold on, the complaint is that you might not be able to see the parked cars and end up walking into them?


    Ya couldn't really make this up..it doesn't get dark enough that you'd miss a parked car in the middle of the countryside on a cloudy night, let alone anywhere with paths.


  • #21
    StinkyMunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭StinkyMunkey


    uch wrote: »
    Not the Parked ones

    Better to park it on the pavement, than block a cycle lane.


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  • #22
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    It's indefensible, irresponsible and a public safety hazard. Attacking the OP for the purposes of defending this kind of idiotic parking is complete bollocksology.


  • #23
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    hold on...hold on, the complaint is that you might not be able to see the parked cars and end up walking into them?


    Ya couldn't really make this up..it doesn't get dark enough that you'd miss a parked car in the middle of the countryside on a cloudy night, let alone anywhere with paths.

    No the parked cars/vans won't have lights, don't know if there were street lights, OP did'nt say, it was raining and Dark, and where I live there are plenty of eejits that drive without their lights on, so yes I can see a problem for the OP, if you can't, well then I'd love to live in the cosy little atmosphere that you do where everything is perfect.

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  • #24
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    woodoo wrote: »
    I park on the footpath sometimes but i always leave enough room for a buggy or a fat person to get by.
    Wheelchair people??


  • #25
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    Have you considered setting alight the vehicle? Its justified surely


  • #26
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,304 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    uch wrote: »
    Nothing worse,,,you should knock their mirrors off ;)
    I park responsibly, but if I caught someone knocking the mirror off my car, I'd probably use them as a punch bag.


  • #27
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    sfwcork wrote: »
    Have you considered setting alight the vehicle? Its justified surely

    Welcome back ;)

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  • #28
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    No the parked cars/vans won't have lights, don't know if there were street lights, OP did'nt say, it was raining and Dark, and where I live there are plenty of eejits that drive without their lights on, so yes I can see a problem for the OP, if you can't, well then I'd love to live in the cosy little atmosphere that you do where everything is perfect.

    plenty of people drive around you without their lights on in the dark whilst it's raining?
    ah stop now would ya, you're clutching at straws.



    not everything is perfect, no, but it certainly has the illusion of being perfect compared to the absolute shíte that some people complain about on here.


  • #29
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    uch wrote: »
    No the parked cars/vans won't have lights, don't know if there were street lights, OP did'nt say, it was raining and Dark, and where I live there are plenty of eejits that drive without their lights on, so yes I can see a problem for the OP, if you can't, well then I'd love to live in the cosy little atmosphere that you do where everything is perfect.

    There are street lights, but they're pretty poorly space out.

    Also, it's straight after a bend, so a car could come flying around the corner, and I'd barely have a chance to react.


  • #30
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    There are street lights, but they're pretty poorly space out.

    Also, it's straight after a bend, so a car could come flying around the corner, and I'd barely have a chance to react.

    You should make your way around the cars that are offending you a bit quicker then.


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  • #31
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    uch wrote: »
    Welcome back ;)


    Thanks.I had the sweats all week ;)


  • #32
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    plenty of people drive around you without their lights on in the dark whilst it's raining?
    ah stop now would ya, you're clutching at straws.



    not everything is perfect, no, but it certainly has the illusion of being perfect compared to the absolute shíte that some people complain about on here.


    What straws am I clutching at ? Pedestrian can't use the footpath because it's blocked by Illegal Parking at a Dark and wet time and you think it's not dangerous,,, now me thinks you're the one clutching at something, and it's not straws

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  • #33
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    What straws am I clutching at ? Pedestrian can't use the footpath because it's blocked by Illegal Parking at a Dark and wet time and you think it's not dangerous,,, now me thinks you're the one clutching at something, and it's not straws

    Your claim that plenty of people go around where you are without lights on at night, I think you just made it up to suit the argument.


    There's an insinuation and a half, go on, what am I clutching at? You don't actually have anything to say here do you? You can PM it if you want, I swear I won't be offended!

    Nah I don't think it's dangerous at all. I think knives and guns in irresponsible hands are dangerous, though.


  • #34
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    Bullseye1 wrote: »

    I assume you mean parents and child spaces or are fathers not allowed to park in these?
    f.f.s!!


  • #35
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »

    Nah I don't think it's dangerous at all. I think knives and guns in irresponsible hands are dangerous, though.

    In fairness a box of matches is dangerous in the right hands but what has your point got to do with people parking on footpaths ?

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  • #36
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    In fairness a box of matches is dangerous in the right hands but what has your point got to do with people parking on footpaths ?

    You appear to be shocked that I don't find this dangerous so I thought I'd let you know what I do find dangerous is all.


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  • #37
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    SV wrote: »
    You appear to be shocked that I don't find this dangerous so I thought I'd let you know what I do find dangerous is all.

    Grand so, Blocking a Footpath isn't,, we'll leave it at that so, I'll gracefully back down from this now as there's no educating some people

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  • #38
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    the_syco wrote: »
    I park responsibly, but if I caught someone knocking the mirror off my car, I'd probably use them as a punch bag.
    i live in an estate with a long grass verge.next to this is a wide concrete footpath..next to this is a black tarmac cycle lane.marked..and de-lignated with two lane cycle symbols...YET cnuts drive up on to and park/abandon cars on these lanes that are CLEARLY marked cycle lanes.....lets just say for example..im on the cycle lane my kid on the back of my bike. and i dont see your car in the dark your car is illegally parked on the cycle path..what happens to you/your car?


  • #39
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    uch wrote: »
    Grand so, Blocking a Footpath isn't,, we'll leave it at that so, I'll gracefully back down from this now as there's no educating some people

    You haven't really made any kind of attempt to 'educate' at all.
    Every single point you've tried to make has been refuted, not that you really made any kind of point.


    but anyway, laters ;)


  • #40
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Maudi wrote: »
    i live in an estate with a long grass verge.next to this is a wide concrete footpath..next to this is a black tarmac cycle lane.marked..and de-lignated with two lane cycle symbols...YET cnuts drive up on to and park/abandon cars on these lanes that are CLEARLY marked cycle lanes.....lets just say for example..im on the cycle lane my kid on the back of my bike. and i dont see your car in the dark your car is illegally parked on the cycle path..what happens to you/your car?

    Nothing would happen to him, but you would probably get hopped off the car and may end up hurting yourself unless you went around the car.


  • #41
    cruderbeef
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭cruderbeef


    Maudi wrote: »
    i live in an estate with a long grass verge.next to this is a wide concrete footpath..next to this is a black tarmac cycle lane.marked..and de-lignated with two lane cycle symbols...YET cnuts drive up on to and park/abandon cars on these lanes that are CLEARLY marked cycle lanes.....lets just say for example..im on the cycle lane my kid on the back of my bike. and i dont see your car in the dark your car is illegally parked on the cycle path..what happens to you/your car?
    You would go cycling at night with a child on the back of tbe bicycle and no light on the front with eyesight so poor that you cannot discern large objects within the stopping distance of a bicycle?


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  • #42
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Parking on the footpath, very annoying.

    Parking in the middle of the road however....


  • #43
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Sure just bring a torch with you:rolleyes:


  • #44
    EmptyTree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Wheelchair people??

    Good point.

    Whatever about someone who is able to (take their chances) and walk around the cars blocking the path. This is much more difficult for someone with limited mobility. Even just getting on or off the footpath can be problematic.

    I wasn't until I saw a friend who has a sibling in a wheelchair having problems with this that the penny really dropped with me, up until this point it never occured to me what an inconvenience (to put it mildly) this could be.


  • #45
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    cruderbeef wrote: »
    You would go cycling at night with a child on the back of tbe bicycle and no light on the front with eyesight so poor that you cannot discern large objects within the stopping distance of a bicycle.not sure what you is implying son.but if they is up on a bicycle lane with their/your car and i dont see you whilst you is parked on a cycle lane..and i crash into you on my bicycle.well then yes..you is in a whole heap of trouble son..


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    EmptyTree wrote: »
    Good point.

    Whatever about someone who is able to (take their chances) and walk around the cars blocking the path. This is much more difficult for someone with limited mobility. Even just getting on or off the footpath can be problematic.

    I wasn't until I saw a friend who has a sibling in a wheelchair having problems with this that the penny really dropped with me, up until this point it never occured to me what an inconvenience (to put it mildly) this could be.

    Agreed.

    I often take out a relative with a custom wheelchair. Cars parked on the footpath mean we have to turn back unless there just happens to be a ramping at the edge of the pavement. Her wheelchair means its impossible for me to manoeuvre it off a normal kerb.

    I think people who park on the pavement are the worst kind of selfish morons possible. They have no idea how they inconvenience someone in a chair, or possibly they do and just don't give a ****. The road is for cars, not the pavement.


  • #47
    cruderbeef
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭cruderbeef


    Maudi wrote: »
    cruderbeef wrote: »
    You would go cycling at night with a child on the back of tbe bicycle and no light on the front with eyesight so poor that you cannot discern large objects within the stopping distance of a bicycle.not sure what you is implying son.but if they is up on a bicycle lane with their/your car and i dont see you whilst you is parked on a cycle lane..and i crash into you on my bicycle.well then yes..you is in a whole heap of trouble son..
    Why? What would you do about it?


  • #48
    jd80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭jd80


    Group 4 security parked in a disabled bay in Tesco the other day.

    Took pictures - sending to G4s HQ


  • #49
    razorgil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭razorgil


    councils/corpos strategically position their disabled bays @ atms, post offices and the like, only for able-bodied asshóles to use them for their own convenience, "i'll only be a minute".....dickhéad.


  • #50
    Maudi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    cruderbeef wrote: »
    Maudi wrote: »
    Why? What would you do about it?
    ppfftt!!


  • #51
    jd80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭jd80


    razorgil wrote: »
    councils/corpos strategically position their disabled bays @ atms, post offices and the like, only for able-bodied asshóles to use them for their own convenience, "i'll only be a minute".....dickhéad.

    Yeah - at this Tesco there is an ATM.

    The G4S was parked here as it was near the door - so nice and lazy for them. I got htere at 15:50 and at 16:10 they were still there.

    Another day I saw all four of five bays used by able bodied people - most of which went to the ATM and then into the store


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