In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours…
These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!
I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car…
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Check local laws about blocking sidewalks. You may be able to report them to a parking authority. Also, it may be illegal to have a hitch like that on the back while not actively towing (in some states in the USA it is).
That should count as parking on the pavement violation imo
I don’t know what the laws are like in the UK, but I would be surprised, if it did not. Governments don’t build wide footpaths for the fun of it. They exist to allow parents with prams/strollers as well as folks in wheelchairs to pass. When someone blocks the path, no matter the acrobatics they undertake to not actually have wheels on the path, that still makes the path unusable for its intended purpose.
This community is called “Fuck Cars”, you don’t have to censor the word asshole and wanker.
We’re all adults here.
Man that truck bed looks useless.
As a londoner who hates cars, im not even bullshitting you I would have put that bin on top of the truck bed and carried on past
Off topic but do people censor wankers? Is it that level of swear? I thought it was on the same level as “crap” where it’s a crass word but not exactly vulgarity
Hmm, my impression was that it’s mainly Australia, where they say it like it’s a friendly morning greeting. UK folks certainly still say it, but it is deemed rude, and I could see some folks deciding to censor when writing it down, especially when it’s used as a proper insult like here.
What a bunch of wankers
You should be able to walk by and smash the tail lights. The truck is an obstacle in the way of a public walkway. If you are using the sidewalk appropriately, there should be no obstruction, and any damage that may occur would not have happened if the truck was not blocking a public walkway.
Violence is the only option left. We’ve been legally restricted from doing anything else.
Same here in Prague. When parallel parking, sometimes these cars are so fucking wide, that even tho there’s more than enough space behind em, it’s still impossible to navigate around their fat fucking ass, and by the time I’m finally behind it I’m at a 90 degrees.
These kind of trucks have their utility if you work in a trade and you need to get stuff in and out, or maybe do frequent tip runs as a business.
This never seems to be the case for where they’re actually used, though. I’ve known one person use them as such, and they very quickly switched back to a transit van because it was “much cheaper to run, and simpler to park”.
I have discussed this with a friend of mine and have come to the conclusion there is only 2 cases these kind of trucks are needed, and even then i only accept one as valid. All the rest can be solved with a regular, european, work van like a fort transit or mercedes sprinter.
The cases?
Farmers that need to get heavy shit off and on the field quickly if they dont have a regular traktor ( which they do, but it might be malfunctioning ) and when you are handling a hot air balloon.
Thats it.
The rest work better with vans or trailers or both together…They’re pretty shitty for most tradesmen who only need to carry tools. The beds are so high and deep it’s annoying to lift toolboxes in and out. A van with a roof rack is way more useful.
a van with a roof can also hold a similar volume as the pickup can safely, while also being lockable, making it safer for the actual transport of said tools
It doesn’t matter if it were being used for its intended purpose, parking like this is absolutely wrong.
Only partly disagree. They parked fine, hell they parked backwards which is the perfect way to park. They could have moved a bit more forward, yes, which wouldnt have ruined the sidewalk but you cant have both with these shit cars
Agreed, ultimately there isn’t really a way to actually park these cars safely without taking up two spaces - which is in itself selfish.
And here, they ticket people where the trailer hitch reaches into the pedestrian space…
Looking down the line, seems like multiple offenders.
If I remember I’ll show you what the space between my schools parking lot and the fense
Look at the end… It’s not a truck yet it occupied the same if not more.
I just scrap my keys on them at this point. I done dealing with car brain shit.
I dream about the day when the petro dollar crashes and fuckers that bought these things die in their house because they’ve never left their house on foot or bike before.
