YANBU. Twatty-aggressive pointlessness. I hate bad parking as much as anyone, and I have posted on here before about all the problems we have with parents from the school nearby using our pavements as roads. As such, I always try and park carefully and I don't think I've ever parked badly enough to be featured in a group like this, but I dislike them anyway, just for the mean-spirited whinging of it all.
The drivers featured aren't likely to see their car in the group and often they've done nothing wrong anyway. Nobody is going to learn anything from being included in these groups, they probably won't even see their picture on it.
A couple of friends joined the local Facebook one and it was all people bitching because someone had parked legally on the road in 'their' space.
Occasionally they tried to justify this bitching by saying things like "yeah but it's upsetting my mum, she doesn't like strange cars outside the house" or some such.
One bloke complained that his driveway was blocked. His driveway consisted of a hole in the wall, planks on the lawn and blocks of wood on the road where a dropped kerb should be. He had also just scraped away the grass on the verge outside his house and put down his own paving slab. So again, the driver was legally parked on the road and the bloke bitching about him was a tight-arsed, self-entitled vandal.
And a few pictures of really big vans in car parks. Either the vans were taking up two spaces to avoid sticking out on the to road or they were using one space and sticking out onto the road. Both are apparently unacceptable to the group but surely better a long vehicle takes up two spaces than blocks a road?
There was also someone parked outside the hospital, in a long parking bay with no individual spaces marked in it, who was taking up more than his fair share of the space.
However people come and go from those bays very quickly, and he could have parked reasonably close to a bigger car, which then left and was replaced by the small car in the picture, and the space between them was bigger than it had been when he originally parked.
That group have no idea if he parked and took up more space than necessary or if someone drove off and left him in a big space. The group seems to be run by the most aggressive prat on the planet and it's mostly his friends posting photos for the sake of it.
If someone is parked illegally or dangerously, report them properly. If they are parked badly in the supermarket car park go in and complain.
But if someone is legally parked but you just don't like them outside your house, or you have made your own driveway without permission because you don't want to pay to have the kerb dropped, or you have no idea what went on before you arrived and took your twatty photo, perhaps think twice before posting on a smug and usually wrong internet group about it.