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Selfish parking 🤬

Disabled parking. There Is two types of bays and one was strictly disabled only parking and the other is advisory.

You may come across two different colours of disabled parking bays: yellow and white. The reason they're painted in different colours is to differentiate them, as each colour has a specific meaning.

Yellow disabled parking bays​

In order to use a yellow disabled parking bay, you must meet the eligibility criteria. Having these bays are mandatory according to the acts previously mentioned, and are enforced by the highway authority and local police.

White disabled parking bays​

White disabled parking bays are advisory. They’re not legally enforced, which means that technically anyone can park there, even if they don’t have a blue badge.

Not many know this .

Up in scotland they are mandatory only but when it changed people were not aware or ignored it using it as a defence.

I believe there is still the two in england and Wales but I could be wrong.
 
Lived in Southport for many years and when the Council took over Parking along with introduction of Pay and display
Blitzkrieg was declared against bad parking!
Rapid response units on scooters to tackle hotspots, Things improved but also got silly, Hearse booked on funeral outside church,
Blue light Ambulance booked whilst crew purchased Lunch etc,etc,
The Blue Badge Brigade (I am one) found they needed to read the little booklet you get with it as it is ,of course not
permission to just dump your car where you like!
 
It becomes very territorial where parking is concerned around people's property.

I've found the polite approach is better than the foul mouthed threatening approach.

It can confuse the neanderthals who want you to be confrontational.

Of course it's always nice to break their faces if it does escalate.

But remember.... they now know where you live.

A damaged car can result in a damaged house.

Sometimes better to take a deep breath and let it go.... Just sometimes.
 
I had a neighbour 30 odd years ago that would park with the front of his car a couple of feet across me garage door 🤬
Got absolutely pissed of with asking him to move it so we could go out
Got me little trolly Jack ( which I still have ) fitted with a bit of soft wood on it for me motorbike’s
Jacked his car up a pulled it around 90 degrees, blocking off the rest of the close ( we were the 1st house on right )
We just went out but I bet he had residents knocking at the door 😂😂😂😂
Never did it again 😏😂😂😜😝
 
My friends father, in his 70's, had problems with someone parking a truck on his lawn. Turned it into a muddy mess, despite asking them not to park there. So he put a row of short square white posts along the frontage and they just ran over them. As this stage my friend became involved. Whilst the truck was away during the day he went round and sank a 2" diameter solid steel bar a metre into the ground in quick setting concrete with about 2' above the surface. He then put an earlier carefully constructed white painted wooden cover over the top which matched the other posts. Around 5.00pm there was a loud thump. He went out into the garden and the new post has a slight lean on it. Looked over at the truck parked 10 metres away and the front had a neat fold in the centre about a foot deep. Didn't try parking there again.
 
4x32 said:
Go and speak to a copper it's not obstruction unless completely blocked I know from experience. Sorry didn't realise I was speaking to someone that's never broken the law. How boring
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After having neighbour issues including parking. You can legally park across a drive as its not a right of way. Even with a H painted on the road.
 
Eggy Pop said:
Hi folks .
I was hoping to go to the range this morning but some selfish tw@ has parked halfway across my driveway when there is room further down the road . I could probably squeeze past it and I’ll end up doing that but that’s not really the point is it ? Why should I have to potentially damage my tyres ( over £400 a go ) or wheels bumping up and down the kerb just because someone is too lazy to walk a bit further 🤬
This seems to be indicative of people’s attitudes these days . Is it just me ? Or are a lot of people just very disappointing ?
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Call your council traffic(?) department. Know someone who lives near a school n the kids parking is atrocious. At least a car a week removed.
Teachers complain the kids have only just passed their test, to which the response is they should know not to.
 
Neil123 said:
I access my parking down an alleyway at the back of my house. It's only 1 car wide and people park there to "nip to the shop"
After 14 years of it I'm done reasoning with them. It's every flippin day! Sometimes multiple times a day I either can't get in or out because of selfish, lazy gits.
If I pull in and the alley is blocked it's handbrake on car locked and it stays where it is blocking there exit.
Then I get my spare (an old Rover) and park it in the other end of the alley.
It usually takes them a while to track down the right house to ask to be let out.
At which point I tell them "S*d off, I'm busy"
Not wanting to stereotype but a common complaint from them is "vot is problem, I only park for mineet"
lots of Passat"s and Skoda Octavia's🤨

My mum lives opposite a school and pick up/drop off times have become a nightmare. They block her in, sometimes even park in her driveway and constantly pull up the driveway to turn round (it's a cul de sac)
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Alternatively, take a dip from a glass of something that looks alcoholic. Sorry can drink n drive
 
Luckily my drive emerges on a corner with double yellow lines so it never gets blocked. I did a summer job when I was younger working for an engineer who was almost bipolar with his mood swings, there was a wide ally at the side of his place with a post office on the far side of it. He owned his side and had employee parking only signs up. Obviously post office customer s always used to ignore it. He cracked one day when he saw someone parking there, told them they couldn't and they told him to piss off and walked away. By the time they got back to the car he'd blocked it in with (I think from memory) the forklift with the forks under the car. They hammered on the door and demanded he move it, he said "I'll move it in an hour, I've more urgent work to do now". Woman was in tears about how her daughter was going to be late for school.

Police turned up about 20 minutes later, looked at the sign and told her "well you shouldn't have parked there should you, he'll move it when he's ready". This was the late 90's not sure it'd to the same way now.
 
JD grrr said:
After having neighbour issues including parking. You can legally park across a drive as its not a right of way. Even with a H painted on the road.
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Are you sure about that, please see below.



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No, you cannot legally park on the road blocking someone on their driveway. Parking in front of a driveway without the owner's permission is considered illegal and can lead to legal consequences. The Highway Code states that vehicles should not be parked where they may cause an obstruction to a driveway. If your driveway is blocked, you have the right to ask the owner of the vehicle to move it. If the owner cannot be located, consider contacting local authorities or the police for assistance. Blocking a driveway can result in penalties such as fines or the vehicle being towed
 
We had all this nonsense donkeys years ago: Knobheads parking across the drive “Because I'm just nipping to...”

And we have a station in the next road, so we had the other Knobheads who dumped their car halfway across our drive and left it there all day.

In the end we approached the council who dropped the kerb half a space either side of our driveway and then stuck yellow lines across it.

Now there's one less parking space in the street but at least we can get out.

So well done Knobheads – you shafted yourselves.
 
I did see one chap putting sticky labels on cars parked in disabled bays, extra stick jobs across the drivers view. SORRY THIS IS FOR DISABLED DRIVER PLEASE PARK IN THE CORRECT BAYS. The chap made himself scarce after putting the notices on, just as well as one driver was irate even before he tried to remove it, and when he tried 🤨🤬🤬🤬🤬. It came off in tiny pieces. I sat across the car park in stitches.
 
 
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