to fantasize about kicking the bumpers of every car parked half on the pavement

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I walk to DD1's preschool along a busy, narrow B road. It seems that almost every time I go that way there is at least one car parked half on, half off the narrow pavement. Often such that I have to go onto the road with a pushchair and walking preschooler to get around the car. Or sometimes we just about squeeze past on the pavement, scraping along the wall

The road is narrow enough that other cars still have to go past in single file, so parking this way does not make it any easier for other motorists, just harder for pedestrians, especially ones with wide pushchairs or wheelchairs.

Every time I see a car like this, a brief thought goes through my mind of kicking the bumper as I go past, or knocking the wing mirror. I would never actually do it, but AIBU to fantasize?

I am normally a pretty laid back person but this (and litter dropping) make my blood boil.

I once knocked a car mirror clean off while trying to get my pushchair past (it was an accident but I wasn't in the least sorry). I refuse to walk in road and if a car gets damaged that's too bad.

YANBU - I suffer the same thing every evening at my local train station :(

What I usually do is either fold their wing mirror in if it is a modern car or just adjust it up to the sky if it isn't. This is a good way to let the driver know someone messed with their car in a harmless and non-damaging way.

SkinnyMalinkiLongLegs - I did the same to a car parked half on the double yellows by a cash point with my own car! My car was fine but it took their wing mirror right off. I was just able to see the owner shitting himself as I turned the corner and drove away. I never felt any remorse as he shouldn't have been on the double yellows in the first place!

Are you me OP?

I really hate this

Why should a wheelchair user or a buggy-pusher have to go into the road to get past a selfish bastard's car??

I also think it would be such a terrible shame if their car got badly scraped.

1. Get a chapstick
2. Write on their windscreen - "Selfish Git parking on pavement - I may have scraped your car with my baby's pram but I didn't wish to be mown down in the road"
3. They will clean it off of course BUT the chapstick will show up when the windows steam up.

... a lasting reminder to them of their idiocy.

YANBU. This makes my blood boil too. Fucking wankers getting precious about their cars and forcing pedestrians into danger! Grrr!

I would in no way condone or recommend a running a line of tip-ex along the side of such cars. Even though it at first glance looks like a nasty scratch mark, yet scrapes off leaving no damage to the underlying paintwork it would be wholly irresponsible to even think of doing it.

So don't. Ok?

I live on a school road, and everyday, all the mothers and fathers park hitched up on the kerb.

Seeing as it's a huge annoyance for many parents as demonstrated here, why do they do it?

This used to happen in the village where I was born, only it was lorries parking on the pavement, and leaving almost no space for pedestrians, let alone the huge prams that most babies rode in back then.

My dad was in the police station one day, talking to his friend, who was the Desk Sergeant that day, when a lorry driver stomped in to complain about the mum who had given him a good bollocking for doing this. Whilst he was making his complaint to the Desk Sergeant, the woman walked past the station.

"That's the mad bitch there!!" said the lorry driver.

"Oh - you mean Mrs Desk-Sergeant" said the Desk Sergeant.

Lorry driver departed in haste.

Thistledew - if you carefully tear a single strand from the edge of Duck tape, and stick it to a car in a wiggly line, that also looks as if it has been keyed.

I once took the wing-mirror off a car parked on the pavement with my buggys raincover (tore the raincover too) . When I posted about it on a similar thread i was absolutely shotdown in flames for damaging a car with malice.

It was accidental tho, but i didn't spend any time trying to put wing mirror back on.

I wouldn't have shot you down in flames captain - I'd have given you a round of applause.

Ooh can I join in the kicking, I have even fantasised keying said cars (although I never will) it makes me so mad that I have to endanger my child's life for their parking convenience!

I like the sound of Mrs Desk-Sergeant

You obviously had all the twats posters who park on the pavement on your thread captain

Love this thread, the idea of revenge is making smile, I have to do the school run in a mo, I'm always pushed out onto the road because of cars and as for the car which parks right outside the school gates..... love the tippex and duck tape ideas.

I understand the frustration here, but why does it mean you can go to town on the criminal damage front? If you have a problem, report it, leave a note on the windscreen etc etc.

Because they don't work, even a PCSO telling people they are breaking the law doesn't stop them doing it when she isn't there.

I've never damaged a car, but thinking about it is another matter.

244 You MUST NOT park partially or wholly on the pavement in London, and should not do so elsewhere unless signs permit it. Parking on the pavement can obstruct and seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs or with visual impairments and people with prams or pushchairs.
[Law GL(GP)A sect 15]

I wasn't ever aware that it was illegal to park on/partially on pavements (non-driver who has never read the Highway Code) so why do more people not get ticketed for this?

Because they don't work, even a PCSO telling people they are breaking the law doesn't stop them doing it when she isn't there.

I get the sentiment behind fantasising but it's becoming more than that for some posters.

I always want to slightly boot people I see bending over Whale, doesn't mean I've been brave/stupid enough to do it.

I doubt whether anyone is actually going to go out and deliberately damage someone's car YonWhale!

If it happens accidentally the car owner has only themselves to blame - and they are breaking the law by obstructing the pavement.
Sadly, the police probably don't have a lot of time and manpower to sort out stuff like this. But that's another thread.

- Agent that's such an overwhelming desire isn't it??

I also have an overwhelming desire to pull up the crotch-hanging trousers of the boys in my classes but I don't do that either!

Nobody seems to care if they do cause damage or go out of their way not to - as in they were going past on the pavement, as is their right, and it accidentally happened. The attitude is more "barge past and hope some 'accidental' damage is caused".

I agree it's not right to park of pavements and obstruct them of course, but I also think it's a bad thing to crow about causing damage to other people's property.