To set up a fake Facebook profile in order to name and shame parents

[PhilomenaCunksBuggy]

Who park on the double yellow lines outside my child's Infant school?! Which is on a hill, on a busy main road which is a 30mph limit (although there are frequent speeders coming down the hill).

I'm so sick of parents/carers who do this. The school, and Board of Governers, constantly send out letters telling people not to park on them due to safety. There were a number of accidents and near-misses last year. Still people do it, and block the only entrance emergency services could access if they needed to get in quickly

So I was thinking of setting up a fake Facebook profile then posting photos of all the cars, Inc registration numbers, to kind of name and shame... It's probably a very bad idea tho...

Contact your local police and ask them to send a psco out.

Ours occasionally come and it leads to a couple of weeks of slightly better parking st least.

Why use a fake account?

Grow up.

Take photos and report to the police yourself.

I don't think you are allowed a fake profile in the ts & cs, but if you do it under real details but hide them, and call the page "X School run" or something, I cant see why taking photos every day of parking should be an issue... except to the bad parkers!

people publish their helmetcam footage all the time.

You can send a photo & location to your local "Parking like a Twat! page on Facebook & they'll do it for you!

Just get the police involved

Posting them on an anonymous page? Who would see them exactly?

The Police sent a PCSO out last year, and I understand the council are well aware of the issues and it's been on the agenda to look at traffic calming or similar for a while now.

Problem is, the local council or Police won't take our concerns seriously about the speed if other parents are constantly flouting the law.

Hmm. Perhaps I should send some photos to our local Police FB page. Thanks for that suggestion

Not sure where I would have posted them with an anonymous/fake account, probably a few of the local "What's going on in Town X" type pages.

Doesn't look like we have a Parking Like a Twat page for our town (It's a small market town).

I’ve considered doing this myself, it’s always the same people doing it and it really pisses me off!

Doesn't look like we have a Parking Like a Twat page for our town (It's a small market town)

Sounds like the exact issue we have in our little market town. The school is on a hill at the bottom of the High St and have the exact issues you describe!

Use the local selling pages to moan

Just put nails under their wheels

I wish you lived in my small town OP, I would happily provide several pictures a day of the primary school next door and comprehensive next to that including;

Parking on double yellow lines, parking on the pavement, parking in the "no parking or loading between 08:00-09:930 and 14:30-16:00" areas, blocking drives off, parking in the school bus layby, stopping and dropping on the yellow zig zags with a bus up their arse and finally, frequently reversing off the road down my drive and sitting there with the engine running until snowflake comes out of school.

The same thing was happening at a school near me. Police were informed numerous times and came out to speak to drivers politely - made no difference.

A "name and shame" Facebook page was set up and offenders were photograhed. Made no difference.

The school asked pupils to come out and speak to drivers (with parents' permission) - made no difference.

Eventually police came in plain clothes and fined 6 drivers. One got points on their license for parking at a bus stop. Some had the cheek to complain to the school and expected the school to pay their fines because they hadn't provided a dedicated parking area! It is a very old school on a busy road with little ground available.

The entitled attitude of some people know no bounds.

Some now stop in the middle of the road and allow their child to jump out. Great idea!

Report to the school or local police. Don't set up a fb page as the admin & complaints a school will have to deal with.

Complain to your local newspaper, our local newspaper ran an ongoing campaign, where they had photographers take photos of parents doing exactly this and shamed them in the local papers (showing their reg plates and all).

Redpony1 wonder if we're in the same town?!

TinaMena If only!

HotelEuphoria and sodabreadjam Sounds like I'm fighting a losing battle then. How depressing.

I have also witnessed INFANT school aged children jumping out of cars onto oncoming 30mph + traffic. I just don't understand how stupid and reckless people can get...

It's a national problem unfortunately. Shaming people on a facebook page won't make any difference, who's going to see it anyway?

As above, contact council/ police/ newspapers.

It's even more infuriating around schools with a super strict catchment area, where pupils cannot come from more than a 10 minutes walk, if that. I live near a private school, and I have to say the parents there are the worst you can possibly imagine regarding driving and parking.

Is there somewhere they can park?

Is there somewhere they can park?
It's unlikely there isn't, but many parents seem to lazy to walk for a couple of minutes even if they could park safely, easily and legally.

philomena maybe! I live in a right royal town

fruitbrewhaha there are a handful of spaces on the hill. No official school parking, but there is a very long High St with plenty of 2hr free parking just a 2 min walk away. People must just be lazy, or always late.

Redpony1 I'm off to name change...!

Spam the council twitter feed with photos. They can send a traffic warden around at school run time. Copy in your local councillor - or better still someone who wants to be your next local councillor

My lips are sealed philo