Wibu to have scratched this car?

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Taking dtwins out in our double stroller, cars parked right on the pavement , can't walk on the road, too much traffic. Was I unreasonable to force my pram though, scratching one of the bigger cars in the process?

TWINNY RECKON
What does that even mean?

No cctv here. Glad some people agree that if you park like a twat then your car may get scratched

They aren't doing anything wrong by parking there

Unless there are markings or local displayed rules allowing parking on the pavement, you are not allowed to park on the pavement and can be ticketed immediately.

Pressed enter too quickly, do you mean chinny reckon?

Soup dragon been on mn for ages actually but got a new phone and couldn't remember my log in details. That ok with you?

I've done it before, I really didn't mean but was not sorry at all. Busy road on the left, car parked on the right in front of the shop, I was looking so carefully on the right to avoid scratching the damn car with my pram that I didn't see the wheel coming off the pavement on the left, and I over compensated to keep it straight, nearly taking the bumper off in the process. There was a woman in the car, I was so fuming she didn't even come out of her car.

I don't know why people don't leave more space, it's obvious the cars are gong to be scratch by anyone with a buggy!

I have no idea how people in a wheelchair manage. Its hard enough with a buggy that I can lift somehow!

Unless there are markings or local displayed rules allowing parking on the pavement, you are not allowed to park on the pavement and can be ticketed immediately
That isn't true. Pavement parking is illegal in London elsewhere it needs the local authority to enact a byelaw to make it illegal. Not many bother.

Unless you live in London parking on pavements is legal

It's happened to me. Car on an already narrow pavement, bins also out, busy road, damn right I tried to get past, knocking the bin and scraping past the car with my double buggy. No idea if I actually scratched the car - not sure if it's possible with a buggy, but I was really pissed off.

Pisses me right off when cars block the pavement, particularly if it's not possible to cross. I wouldnt scratch them on purpose but I also wouldn't be massively concerned if it happened accidentally.

Persian cat lady

Fair enough, I live in an area where they clearly have enacted the byelaw then.

Going against the grain I'm going to say YWNBU. Hopefully the driver will realise what has happened and reconsider parking like a twat in the future.

It's not just wheelchair users and people with prams who are inconvenienced by this sort of parking. I saw a blind lady in our village trying to navigate around a car parked just as the OP described. She had to walk around it onto the main road which is really busy at times. Afterwards she used her stick with which to hit the car - I don't know if she did any damage but I hope she did.

Not many MNers seem to have tried moving a wheelchair with a heavy adult in it, as helper or as chair-rider, up and down curbs or past people who have decided to park on the pavement.

It is very much harder than a buggy or pram whose occupant may only weigh a twentieth as much. I think it is best to fold back the wing-mirrors of cars causing an obstruction to reduce the risk of damaging them.

I have come to the conclusion that people who don't want their cars scratched don't park on pavements.

Yabu but people who park on pavements are very inconsiderate. Ds has banged/kicked on a few cars when we have been squeezing through and it annoys me that I have to try and control his hands and feet at the same time as pushing his sn buggy. The worst offenders have unused drives so no excuse.

I'd have loved a twatty driver to have reported me for scratching their illegally parked car!

I was just 22 when dh1 started using his wheelchair, the next two years were difficult enough without assholes making it harder. I'd have happily explained to the police. We only had a handful of years in the end, nowhere near long enough to waste time finding detours to avoid scratching some selfish cunts car.

YANBU - I've done this once and I honestly couldn't give a shit about it. Wanker parked their car so far over on the pavement I couldn't get my (single) stroller through. Absolutely no reason for them to do this (I.e they would not have obstructed traffic by parking on the road) and I was hurrying to catch a train so I just shoved the stroller through the gap and almost certainly scratched the passenger door. Fucked if I was going to cross the road or start knocking on doors to get the selfish twat to move their car.

And yes I'd do it again if I had to - flame away.

I once knew a blind man who walked to and from places he knew using just his stick. He would swing it from side to side to ensure his path was clear. He quite regularly scratched cars parked on pavements. Not deliberately, but just because he needed to get about safely and believed that he could use the pavements to do so.

I don't think you were being particularly unreasonable unless you actively did the damage out of spite. Parking on the pavement is an incredibly selfish act and is highly likely to lead to your car being damaged, deliberately or otherwise.

Love that so many people don't get the 'twinny reckon' play on words, but hey ho!

Drivers are being unreasonable to park like this. Pavements are for pedestrians, and the safety of children in buggies and wheelchair users trumps an inanimate object like a car. The op has already said that the road was too busy to risk taking the buggy out on to it, so what would those of you who say she is BU have her do? If keeping the buggy on the pavement was her only option then the scratch was collateral damage. Tough!

no she meant 'Twinny' I reckon as the OP has twins

I do agree though

Depends. Did you force your buggy through, and accidentally scratch the car, or force the buggy through knowing in advance that it would scratch the car? There's a big difference between these two positions, and from the OP we can't tell which. though it does sound like the latter, in which case yabu

Maybe the OP is an undercover PC looking to see how many MNers are ok with vandalism...

It's annoying but you're nasty.

Why is the op nasty? Why isn't the nasty person the one blocking the pavement?

A lot of people don't seem to realise that it's actually illegal to park on pavements

A lot of people do realise that but still say it's criminal damage to deliberately scratch some ones car.