Bastards parking on pavements!

[LuisSuarezTeeth]

People that completely block the footpaths with their cars. AIBU to have pre-printed some notes to leave on windscreens because on a 5 minute journey I counted 12! There is NEVER an excuse!

This boils my piss! (in case there was any doubt)

I think it's better to do something than nothing. It's not earning me any smiles though

"There is nowhere else to park"
"What the fuck has it got to do with you"
"No-one disabled lives down here anyway"

My personal favourite:

"It's my path" (she owns the public footpath?

I can't see that anyone is advocating criminal damage fourwoodenchairs, which deliberately keying a car clearly is. But I have had many situations where I have had the choice of trying to squeeze my DS wheelchair past a car parked on the pavement or wheeling him onto a busy road and putting us both at risk. I try my utmost to avoid scratching the car but if I inadvertently do so I don't consider that my fault. And it is not criminal damage as there is no criminal intent.

I have no time at all for people who park on the pavement, I get the kind of responses LuisSuarez quotes when I complain to them. These are grossly inconsiderate people who really do not give a damn about everyone else. And fourwoodenchairs although I am sorry that your car was damaged and I don't condone that, if you habitually park on pavements that makes you one of these types of people.

I do feel sympathy for people who can't access pavements, and it is inconsiderate but at the same time there are more and more cars, and less and less places to park.... people need to walk along pavements, people need to park their cars somewhere. It's a fine line of what to do if there really is no parking nearby.....

That said I don't park on pavements as generally I look for somewhere safe to park - I drive new vehicles through work (not a stealth boost btw just an explanation) and I don't want to have to pay for any damage because someone scraped past my car - deliberately or otherwise!

Why did you park on the pavement fourwoodenchairs?

I genuinely can't think of any valid reason for doing it!

I remember a granny in the papers who was convicted of causing £2k worth of damage to a Merc that was parked on a pavement. I think she was fined about £200 (that someone else then paid )

She was over the top though, it was proper gouges or crosses or something. Accidentally scratching a car with a buggy, or wheelchair (or handbag ) is hardly in the same vein, and I think you'd be hard pressed to prove it was malicious - esp if the car that was parked on the pavement is making it dangerous for pedestrians. It would just be the case owners word against the pedestrians.

Instead of thinking of all sorts of insults, rude kanguage and glue type of activities, maybe you need to think about the reason why people Park like this.
Near schools, you have parents parking like this, parents who have had the same issue thinner OP with their pushchair.

Near our school, the situation is like this:

• very little parking space because there are do many exists from garages one after the other that the space where you can actually park is minimum. One area where you CAN park is in a bend, just before a junction so really even if you can legally park, it's not safe.

If people park normally then there is only one car that can go pass which creates lots of osdues with traffic, incl a standstill right in the middle if said bend and junction. So people have arrived to some sort of organisation where cars are parked normally on one side and on the pavement in the other. There is no parking space further away either as it is the middle if an estate and the road 'around it' is with double yellow lines (and rightly so). The issue here us basically that there is not enough parking space around the school to allow for drop off abd pick up. The design was clearly around the idea that all children would walk to School which isn't the case (lots of reasons but one of them is that the intake now covers a much wider area that initially planned). So if you want to take actions, maybe the people to contact and have a go at are the planning officers at your local council....

Btw we've had the same issue with our surgery. Not enough spaces to park there so people parked on the road. With the same issues the OP described. The issue was fully solved when they finally decided to offer adequate parking facilities. Bye we have no cars in the way, neither on pavements nor on the road.

Strong reaction there Mick!!

Really local areas/councils need to start considering parking issues when they're planning and bunging loads of houses on land. More and more people have more than 1 car now but no provision for parking.... crazy

I didn't, MIL did. We live on a very fast dangerous main road. She could have parked opposite on the green but as there is no pedestrian crossing it would have been very dangerous to jay walk across the road pushing a wheelchair user. MiL had come to drop SiL off who is in a wheelchair. Anyway, the drop off took maximum a minute and in that time that she wheeled SiL to our door a man keyed MIL's car. It's not the first time he's done it but we couldn't prove it the first time. Thankfully it was witnessed by many people and I'm so glad the law was on our side. I bet he will think about being such a coward next time.

Also in most cases, when I've seen people parking on pavements it was because they thought it would be more dangerous to be parked fully on the road.
So not an issue of 'oh these people are just inconsiderate counts' but a case of 'after looking at issues with parking on the road and parking in the pavement I chose the least bad one'.

Pavements and kerbs are not constructed to take the weight of cars. Therefore parking on them over time causes damage, cracked flags, uneven surfaces etc, making the pavement less safe for all pedestrians. Pavement parkers are costing all of us money for repairs apart from their sheer selfishness.

lol inconsiderate counts.....

I hate parking on the road - always afraid someone is going to wipe my car out by driving too closely, or wing mirror pinging off....

I agree with your PP btw TheFriar re schools, inadequate parking etc. All well and good envisioning people walking to school, fresh air and all that but it just doesn't happen so much!

What a charmer you are Mick. Threatening violence because you parked badly forcing someone to walk in the road.

TheFriar yes that is the common thing. So it's about getting people to rethink what they do. In reducing a road danger, they are unwittingly causing danger for users of the footpath.

Mick there is always a choice.

Well at least we can rest assured that if Mick did commit a violent assault on a parent or carer who accidentally scratched his car he'd be locked up (and his MH issues looked at)

In my area it is generally other parents causing the parking on pavement issues, but that's because they are lazy bastards. There is a pub car park right next to the school that can be used (20 cars?), a church driveway that is about another 100 yds away that can be used (10 cars?) and the long and sweeping museum driveway that could fit about 200 cars on, but is a whole 4-500 yds from the school.

The same driveway could have been used on fireworks night, but people moaned because it was 'muddy' (same mud they were going to stand in whilst they watched the fireworks) so they parked on the pavements instead and made it dangerous for the villagers to walk back home.

But Luis how do you it's not more dangerous to park on the road than on the pavement though?

People make choices all the time. Sometimes they are right, sometimes not. But more often than not, they will be seen as 'right' from one pov and 'wrong' from another perspective.

That's why the important but is to address the real issue.

Having said that, when people don't want to walk 100 yards .....

Fry one... Look up the definition of criminal damage...

A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence.

Reckless... The behaviour was reckless ... Probably more feckless tbh

It is always more dangerous to park on the pavement if doing that forces a wheelchair user into the road. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

YANBU. This happens on the road where DD's school is. They mount the pavement as you're walking past without any regard for safety. The school have an arrangement with a pub a 5 min walk away which has a large car park but very few of us use it! When it's bin day, you have to walk single file and squeeze through. People also park across residents driveways. (Selfish, lazy tossers IMO)