To think if you park so far across the pavement that even f**king slenderman would struggle to get past, it’s your own damn fault if your car gets scratched?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Walking into town today with DS in the pram (in the pouring rain). I was walking up a road that is in a residential area, but this particular road is part of a cut-through between two main roads into/out of the town centre and is on a bus route, so it gets a lot of traffic.

It’s a fairly narrow one-way street, on one side are parking bays painted onto the road and dickheads people will often park like dicks across the pavement on the other side if there isn’t a free space and they’re too fucking lazy to park round the corner. The other side of the road is single yellow line so parking is restricted 8-6 Mon-Sat.

Apparently this arsehole bloke didn’t think those restrictions applied to him however, and had parked right the way across the pavement, leaving a tiny gap between the car and a garden wall.

This was close to the end of the road and a lot of cars tend to turn up the road without slowing down at all, so my options were to a) squeeze past the gap between the car and the wall or b) go around the car and into the path of oncoming traffic on a rainy day. It’s uphill too, and between DS, the pram, and my 23 week pregnant baby bump I was already fairly out of puff so wasn’t moving particularly quickly.

So I chose option a. Unfortunately, because it was such a tight squeeze the pram came into contact with the side of the car and left a bit of a graze. I didn’t really give a shit to be honest, so I just carried on walking.

What I didn’t realise was that the arsehole driver of said vehicle was sitting in the driving seat on his phone. When he realised what had happened he got out of his car and came running after me, yelling that I’d damaged his car and demanding I give him my details. I refused, pointing out that he was parked illegally, the pavement is for pedestrians and my and my son’s right to not get hit by cars overrides his right to not have to park somewhere thats a bit inconvenient for him.

He followed me a short distance and then went back to his car, saying he’d be contacting the police.

WIBU?

Parking on the pavement isn't illegal

Parking on yellow lines is though, as the OP pointed out in her first post -
"The other side of the road is single yellow line so parking is restricted 8-6 Mon-Sat."
We even got a pic of the line in question!

I think you deserve a round of applause. And I'm sorry that you were followed and intimidated by this dick.
He was sitting in his car and so presumably could have seen you coming and moved so that you had space to pass.... He didn't.

It's his fault and the police will tell him that he has no rights over you if he's on the pavement - I was told this by a policeman.

I bet any of the twats on this thread who clearly think that their precious cars are more important than human life are the same posters who bitch and moan about them not being able to access P&C spaces because someone with a blue badge is parked in them.

Well done, OP. This might make the selfish twat think before doing this again. However, someone who is so entitled is probably too thick to learn from this.

I hope his has a massive repair bill.

People who block pavements are selfish scumbags and deserve this. Natural consequence.

It was one of those rare wonderful moments where I was able to articulate myself quite capably in the face of confrontation- but to be fair, the parking in this neighbourhood is so bloody awful and makes me so cross that I was only saying out loud what I think to myself every time I see it, so you could say it was well rehearsed!

My neighbourhood fb group actually has a photo album called “shit parking” where people post pics of the worst offenders. These two are both from the same road- the black car is parked more or less exactly the same way as the one I encountered this afternoon.

YANBU for scratching his car

YABU for not doing it deliberately 😄

Good on you!

Good for you. I hope the police are suitably unsympathetic to him.

He’s a dick and he got what he deserved.
Technically what you did is illegal but I hope you won’t get in trouble for it.

Also, if the police shows up at your door, deny that you damaged his car.
Let him prove that you caused the graze.
Bet he can’t.

100% Team Gleeful Scratching.

Just cross the road instead of being a mouthy chav and damaging peoples cars. It’s not hard.

Just don’t park your car on the pavement and stop being a mouthy chav when you’re confronted with the natural consequences of your shitty behavior.

Here, corrected that for you VenusSap

You're not unreasonable if and only if you're okay with someone damaging your stuff if you piss them off, and you're willing to accept the consequences if you're caught.

Sounds like you wouldn't be, and you didn't take responsibility for it either, so you're unreasonable and will feel aggrieved when you get your comeuppance or something similar happens to you.

Also you're shitting on your doorstep here, if he finds out where you live be might decide that one good criminal damage deserves another and take it out on your property. I know would.

You're not unreasonable if and only if you're okay with someone damaging your stuff if you piss them off

She didn’t damage his stuff because he pissed her off. She accidentally damaged his stuff while trying to get past the blockage he’d caused by putting his stuff on the pavement. Those really aren’t the same thing.

[quote VenusSap]@FindYourPorpoise

Well the OP didn’t care about damaging his property. She could of crossed the road but instead she picked to scratch his car and didn’t give a toss.

What goes around comes around.[/quote]
She’s explained why she couldn’t HAVE crossed the road and she didn’t ‘pick’ to scratch his car. Entitled driver chose to block the pavement; as you say, what goes around comes around.

All this about rain, uphill, moving slowly, pregnant, pushchair, can’t walk around the car is just excuses and attempts to justify yourself. You should have walked around it.

Don't be ridiculous. Did you read the bit about where the car was parked in relation to the junction and that she'd have been putting herself and baby in the path of oncoming traffic that she couldn't see?

@davidsong

You're not unreasonable if and only if you're okay with someone damaging your stuff if you piss them off, and you're willing to accept the consequences if you're caught.

Sounds like you wouldn't be, and you didn't take responsibility for it either, so you're unreasonable and will feel aggrieved when you get your comeuppance or something similar happens to you.

Also you're shitting on your doorstep here, if he finds out where you live be might decide that one good criminal damage deserves another and take it out on your property. I know would.

Motorist parks like a dick and other dicks come on here to defend him.

@davidsong

You're not unreasonable if and only if you're okay with someone damaging your stuff if you piss them off, and you're willing to accept the consequences if you're caught.

Sounds like you wouldn't be, and you didn't take responsibility for it either, so you're unreasonable and will feel aggrieved when you get your comeuppance or something similar happens to you.

Also you're shitting on your doorstep here, if he finds out where you live be might decide that one good criminal damage deserves another and take it out on your property. I know would.

If you parked in the way of prams or wheelchairs because you feel you’re entitled to park wherever you wish and they accidentally scratched your pride and joy, you’d actually go out of your way in tit-for-tat behaviour and damage their property intentionally?

Can we also reflect for a minute how utterly shite and ridiculous car bodywork is? After all these decades of car manufacture, the paint can still be damaged by an unarmed toddler. On top of that, people actually pay hundreds of pounds and give up their vehicle for a day, just to make it go shiny again. It's another subtle driver of car worship that we've all fallen prey to and it's fucking ridiculous.

Natural consequence of being a twat.

We’ve got new neighbours and they’ve more cars than the drive allows. So now they block the pavement and the view. It’s a busy road with previous deaths on this stretch already and there’s already a rise in beeping, won’t be long until there’s another serious accident.

"Hi police, a pregnant lady with a pushchair I have no details for scratched my car while I was parked illegally. What are you going to do about it?"

“Yes sir, can you describe this lady, can you describe this pram”

“Right we’ll get get the identikit picture circulated to the media and close all the ports.”

In reality what happened would simply be regarded as an accident; you misjudged the space and left a bit of a scratch.

I'm on your side OP.

We have similar twats who park on the pavement on our road - we had one who continually parked opposite our gate meaning I had to set up the pram in the pavement and then pop DD in it because I couldn't get turn it out of the gate without hitting their car. I left them a note and although they still park across the pavement they do it on the other side of the street
We have another one that larks nearly completely on the pavement - DD is oldee now so we don't use the pram as often, but there's no way we can get past without scratching the car. Parking is so tight that it's difficult to get between cars to cross the road to get to the other side of the pavement, so I literally have to walk in the opposite direction down to the end of the road to cross before walking back up again to get to where we need to go. I did put a note but they've ignored it and I have no idea where they live.

They're parked like a cunt again today, and I'm seriously considering whether to just take DD out for the day (with pram) and just push past the car, not caring if it gets scratched.

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

If you damaged his car then he is right to report. You could have gone round even in the rain.

So the car was more important than their safety?

What if the OP was blind?

You're wrong to knowingly cause damage to another person's property regardless of whether they are a dick or not.

You should have just gone round, there's a good chance it would have been fine because usually motorists are paying enough attention not to hit a woman with a pram.

What if the OP was blind?
Then it would be unwise to be using a pram as a makeshift cane, and if the gap was wide enough to squeeze a pram through a blind person would also be able to squeeze through (probably with less damage to the parked car.

You were wrong to damage his car