To start s facebook campaign??

[Madamecastafiore]

And post pictures of the cars wrongly parked in disabled or P&C bays?

Because it totally fecks me off.

Big regional shopping centre last week, new shiney Citroen Saxa pulls into disabled bay, no badge so presumed was either tightness of jeans or size of head that prevented owner parking in one of the other couple of hundred bays free.

Then

Popped into Tesco to grab DDs soya milk and as I'm packing car singled 60s guy pulls into P&C bay. I eyeballed him so he ignored me so I asked him whether maybe he could park in a bay not reserved for people with children. Apparently because there are loads of them (3 free at the time) and he was only going to be 2 minutes it was ok.

I told him that wasn't the point and am ashamed to say called him an arsehole! I took a picture of his car too and thought maybe every time anyone sees someone ring this selfish they could post the picture in Facebook hoping it would embarrass the person.

I'm premenstrual and fecked off after me and 2 of the DCs being ill all weekend but am just sick of people's selfishness.

Then to top it all the wench from down the road who ruined our nice quiet street for over a year whilst doing renovations is stood with her dog and 2of her cronies with their dogs next to the sign in the village green saying dogs are forbidden in the grass.

I just want some order in the world!!!!!!

Well, you could. But would it change anything?

Youparklikeacunt.com

Submit them to YPLAC rather than risk a FB campaign that might backfire.

And remember that you have neither the right nor the responsibility to police this kind of thing. They aren't committing crimes, even if they are being unfair, annoying and selfish.

Be careful taking photos and shouting. You might annoy the wrong person. Being right counts for fuck all in intensive care.

With you on disabled bays.

Parent and child are totally different and have no enforceable basis.

However you would be very silly to start posting pictures online of other people's cars. You may find the consequences far from nice for you.

Why don't you become a traffic warden and enjoy life.

Also if you took a photo of my car and swore at me I would report you to the police as an aggressive lunatic.

It's an offence to swear in public you know.

There's one already.

Parking like a twat

However there are now local ones which you could start up for your area

It's fairly shocking that anyone that doesn't need to parks in a disabled bay.

Parent & child though? Meh.

I have said many times, they should make these spaces further away from the shop then the child free people that park in them because they're lazy probably wouldn't bother.

And calling someone an arsehole for parking in a P&C space is slightly unhinged behaviour. I wouldn't sweat the small stuff, you end up stressed out & it won't make a not of difference.

That's a page I'm in which is called 'parking and driving like an idiot in MyTown'
Lots of people upload photos of terrible parking, or number plates of cars that have been total dicks.

m.facebook.com/disabledparkingthieves

It really pisses me off when people compare parking or having push chairs in disabled spaces as the same as in parent and child bays.

They are nothing alike.

Disabled people need these bays.

Parents don't. I never used then with 4 kids or as a cm.

This sort of entitled parental attitude causes selfish cunts to park huge pushchairs in the disabled spaces on buses and refuse to shift.

I would scrap parent and child bays, they arnt really needed, and enforce disabled bay parking instead.

And ban any buggies on buses that can't fold.

I wouldn't risk this. How can you know? Are you going to ambush people and quiz them on their level of disability? Seems like it might be as much a social ill as the parking.

I don't think parent child spaces should be scrapped. They were ideal when my dc had an operation and we needed the extra space to get him out of the car. We weren't entitled to a blue badge at the time.

P&C parking spaces are a simple courtesy, just so you know. Taking a photo or calling someone an arsehole might be considered heavy handed there. They're not something that can or will be enforced.

Disabled spaces are another matter.

YANBU about disabled bays

P&C bays shouldn't be so close to the shop parents and children can manage to walk to the store if they were further away I'm sure.

I'd park in neither disabled or parent and child if either of those didn't apply to me.

I agree disabled should be enforced rigorously.

I'm just fed up with people being bloody selfish.

I do feel a bit unhinged today to be honest. Bad Mothering Sunday Weekend and all.

I will go take some star flower oil or some such concoction and have a gin.

Yeah and tbh your story about the guy parking in a p&c spot perfectly illustrates why Plato thought that only people who don't want to be philosopher kings should be allowed to be them (and would presumably agree that only people who don't want to be parking vigilantes should be allowed...). If there were 3 other p&c spaces and it was not a busy day and he was just popping in the shop there was really no problem. Swearing at him and taking a picture is a massive overreaction. I think you should find a different, non-vigilantism-centred, hobby.

I think you do need to calm down about this a bit (don't mean that to sound patronising, although it probably does )

You came across a twat. But rise above. Don't resort to twattish behaviour yourself. Honestly.

Totally lost me there mello!!
There were lots of other spaces by the way. Ones even nearer to the entrance to the supermarket.

Anyways thanks guys for popping my bubble of anger. Off for that gin.

www.facebook.com/wantmyspacetakemydisability

Theres also a linked petition to criminalise bb abuse on private land

I live in Cyprus, don't come here if bad parking pisses you off......

I've taken to tweeting my local police every time i am prevented from parking on public land. They probably hate me.

My mate chris did a guest blog for scope, theres a link to the petition in it, if you were interested :)