To be absolutely fed up with this type of inconsiderate parking

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First of all I am not talking busy towns or cities as I know parking is difficult (although I still don’t agree with being inconsiderate).

I live in a village. A village with wide enough roads in which one can park their car on the road and there will still be plenty of space for traffic usage.

Yet people are parking like this on a daily occurrence.

I took this picture this morning. My mum and I were going for a little walk down the road she lives (we live in the same village). Parking like this meant we had to either cross over the road or step off the road and walk on the road around the car. The road is quite busy with regular buses and lorries passing through (often not adhering to the 30 limit but that is another story!) and as my 80 year old mum suffers from Alzheimer’s, is bent over with osteoporosis, uses a stick and is frail we decided not to risk it so turned and walked back instead. But we shouldn’t have had to do that. The pavements are designed for people not vehicles.

Why have people become so self centred and ableist? I work with disabled people and this is a daily occurrence for them. Having to cut their journey short or risk their lives by going onto the road. Are people now so materialistic that they will put their car before the safety of pedestrians?

I feel it’s about time the government made this an offence in certain areas and it should carry a fine. We have a PCSO who will come over and slap on inconsiderate parking tickets but it’s not cutting it.

Yesterday I walked my dog along 7 roads in our village and 5 of those roads had cars parked like this. The worst one was by the school. Cars all parked on the paths or double parked yet further down the road was free, people really are too damn lazy to park a little further down and actually walk.

^ this

When I am taking my daughter to or from school, the traffic is too busy for us to "step around" the dangerously parked car. She is too big in her wheelchair for me to easily push her up or down the kerb. So, if we are blocked, we are blocked.

Oh please bring your council to my area. We have a HGV that parks on the pavement every night, and the pavement had started to collapse. Council aren't in the slightest bit interested.

It does look like the builders work up the road, but the designated spaces are full of their vans too. It’s outside a busy medical centre too.

Agreed.

I push a double buggy which is ridiculously heavy and difficult to manoeuvre, so going out into the road and back again isn't an easy (or particularly safe) task. I assume that if someone is parked like that then they aren't bothered about their car getting scratched by me going past. Feel sorry for wheelchair and mobility scooter users.

Fair enough… but my safety is more important to me than your car, so if you park like a cunt and your car gets scratched as I go through in my chair, it really doesn’t matter to me.

Banging on the boot/bonnet (hopefully setting off the alarm) often brings people running too.

What about the people who don't.

Wow.

In that case I'll stop being so careful when I pass and just scrape the sides.

It's not just work vans that do that here, but normal sized cars, and the woman over the road whose Leaf overhangs the road while it's charging. Between the vans parked half on the pavement and the overhanging vehicles, walking along the pavement is like playing "in and out the dusty bluebells".

I live in a street of semi's that were built with drives long enough for two cars. Nearly every fucker has built a side extension, and consequently only has room for one car on the drive, so the second car has to go on the road, which is only wide enough for one vehicle to pass the parked cars at a time.

We had great fun and games the other day, when a large lorry got halfway down the road to deliver a load of building materials, only to find that they couldn't get to the house they were delivering to because another lorry was delivering a skip to a different house and blocking the road. The poor sod had to reverse the length of the road and enter from the far end.

One of these days someone will need an ambulance while the road is blocked.

Eh? I'm talking to TinglingTangling, who made that comment?

Awful and needs to be properly dealt with with fines etc IMO.
up there with people running their engines while waiting for the kids on the school run.

I'm sure HGVs aren't meant to be parked for a long time on a residential road let alone a pavement?

You quoted me?

oh sorry it got deleted I thought Timgling made it

sorry!

No, I can’t. I can only cross the road where there are dropped curbs. If I can get off the pavement into the road, I put myself at risk not just physically but also legally because my wheelchair is not road legal so I’m not insured- if I bump someone’s car I’m liable. If someone has an accident avoiding me I’m implicated in the way you would be if you decided to ride a push bike down the motorway.

Because of the utter cunts who park like this I can’t safely/legally collect my own child from school.

Whilst you're kicking up a massive fuss moaning about people who are talking about nothing that concerns you.

Cars should not be on pavements. Get mad with drivers, not people who are caused problems by selfish drivers.

The only way your post makes sense is if you are an illegal parker, a nosy parker (nothing better to do that go on posts that don't concern you) or Peter Parker getting tangled in his stupid web trying to think of something a obnoxious cunt may say.

Could happily key the cars but have decided to get my local councillor on board

Having a disability & walking with a stick, I can honestly say that wanky pavement parking is definitely becoming more common.

If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d probably fall over (and don’t fancy a criminal record), every day I’m tempted to go properly hatstand & take out my frustrations on the offending vehicles as I schlep, once again, into the road & back onto the pavement.

Instead I do the thoroughly British ‘tut & grumble’.

The amount of nasty, entitled behaviour towards disabled people is ducking terrible.

This is going to be an epic ramble, even for me.

Strap in.

It gets worse though. A few months ago, DH was assaulted by the husband of a nasty woman who, the night before, had overtaken us on the inside as we went around the roundabout by our green’s communal parking bay, and pulling in to park across 2 spaces. DH asks politely if she could move her car over or if he can park behind her for a couple of mins to help me out (before moving to the next closest parking 200m away, ironically far closer to the woman’s house).

We’re lovers not fighters; DH didn’t raise his voice, he didn’t even get out of the car, but we were subjected to the nastiest tirade with such lovely statements as, “My children deserve this space more than handicapped people,” and “I’ve lived here for 25 years, I deserve this space!”. Now, we _have lived on the green since 1998, and this bloody Audi (why is it always an Audi driver?!) and woman only popped up a few months ago.

We log the woman’s behaviour with 101 of course. Having been a teacher, her rant & vile language was in front of her children, so it’s a safeguarding concern. That’s aside from her driving prowess.

The next day, we return from shopping, find a space & park up, and a bloke runs full pelt across the main road (lots of cars swerving to avoid him), assaults DH & stops us from getting in our house. His shouting attracted our friend’s & neighbours onto the green (so lots of witnesses), all the time goading us & trying to provoke a fight with saying DH is gay because he has long hair, I’m a lesbian because DH looks gay (impeccable master stroke of logic there, not), we’re unemployed chavs - we work from home lol - and the wonderful, wonderful;

“You’re not fucking disabled because you don’t wear a fucking badge!”.

Say what now? I didn’t realise me & my fellow disabled folk had to wear a visual aid to warm the normies of our afflictions.

I rather thought the appliances I use might be a handy hint, although no disabled person ever needs to prove their disability to anyone, because it simply isn’t their business.

Not the sharpest tool, he did all this perfectly framed by our 2 CCTV cameras & in front of our neighbours.

And I snuck a lovely pic of the guy as he jabbed his finger in my face.

Police are involved, guy wants to go to a community resolution to apologise, but not a chance. I’m sick of the ableist bullshit. And since another neighbour who also has had a run in with this pleasant couple has had the woman & her children shout the words ‘cunt’ & ‘chavs’ as she walks her autistic son to school, I’m quite happy to go into bat against these idiots.

I’m on propranolol & have been on lorazepam for a nasty cPTSD recurrence since (having a 6ft plus guy you’re never met launch himself at a 5ft woman who has been sexually & physically assaulted before does tend to do that to a gal).

This couple obviously have an issue with physically disabled people, they’d lose their tiny minds if they realised people had invisible or mental disabilities!

The Police have been great, but like everything that is terminally underfunded by this government, I bet these self entitled charmers will just get away with it despite the CCTV, pictures, plenty of medical evidence & witnesses.

Shame they didn’t clock the Blue Badge on the dash in the midst of this fuckwittery.

Might’ve save these fools a few red faces.

I don’t have a pushchair or wheelchair but I’m still so sick of it. People park all over the pavements around school for the school run and it’s so bloody dangerous. An adult has already been hit by someone doing it in the past year outside school (they got a shock and a couple of nasty bruises but are fine). It’s a matter of time before someone hits a child and no doubt then then stupid, selfish wanker will say it was an accident.

I’m so sorry that happened to you. The world really is full of dickheads. I’m ‘lucky’ in that I’ve never actually been attacked because I’m disabled, just the usual being smacked in the face with bags as people pass, having people move my chair places I don’t want to go and a lot of pointing and tutting etc.

I once went and found a tradesman who had blocked a pavement, and pointed out that there was a toddler group starting shortly, so there would be lots of people with pushchairs needing to get past. He said he'd lost wing-mirrors parking further onto the road, which was why he'd done it, but he did take my point and moved over sufficiently for double-buggies.

Agree. No one is interested. Meanwhile we have to get up at 5am everyday because of it.

How about this for massively twattish parking?

I've complained to the company before and they said they would have a word. Think I need to keep at them.

I haven't hidden their details because I think they deserve all the condemnation thrown their way!

Just "squeeze " pass the car with your buggy. Don't worry if the car gets damaged.

This is what I've done a few times when I've taken grandchild out.

No way am I walking in a main road.

Fight back pedestrians.

Jesus @OliveHenry that's disgusting parking.

Buy a really cheap lipstick and write an appropriate message on the windows

In my pushchair using days I may have done this 😅