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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What’s a w*nker? Is it someone who winks a lot?
No it’s someone who makes chocolate
With their friend, willy?
This community is called “Fuck Cars”, you don’t have to censor the word asshole and wanker.
We’re all adults here.
That’s a ford ranger, which is only a bit longer (~200mm) than a short wheel base Mercedes sprinter and significantly shorter (~1800mm) than the extended wheel base version
That’s true, things can be even worse.
People carrying things are the ones who probably should have cars. No one is taking a few hundred kilos of cement on the bus
The tilde symbols you used are ~messing up the formatting~ on jerboa.
Just thought you might like to know.
Huh, never had that issue pointed out before, thanks !
Bold parking choice for someone with thin paint that’s softer than my keys
Capitalist problems require capitalist solutions (aka make them pay for being cunt / key their shit)
If a vehicle is too large to be parked safely, it shouldn’t be permitted in regular spots.
Have a special parking area away from the building for these monster trucks.
That should count as parking on the pavement violation imo
Where I live, if the vehicle doesn’t fit inside the lines, it’s illegally parked. Even if it’s the mirrors/bumper/hitch.
So many people think “if my wheels are in the space it’s ok” and it drives me insane
Yeah, it happens here too, because noone really reports illegally parked vehicles.
I report illegally parked cars like a full Karen because my road is very dangerous to pull out from. But no one ever does anything about it
Where I live cars are like a natural creatures of the urban environment with their own will and can’t be blamed. Stroller goes on the street very often because of it.
Even some people I know try to defend drivers who double park and block the bike parking when I complain about them.
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.
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).
This is the UK, there are no regulations regarding parking on or blocking the pavement except in areas where it is specifically posted on signs (which are not super common). You could possibly use a different infraction if they were over the path and parkeds on zig zags for example but they’d be issuing for the zig zags and not the pavement.
It also looks like a supermarket car park which is private property therefore any of the rules based around parking dont really apply, only what they deem necessary to display and enforce. They only usually make any money from camera controlled entrance and exits enforcing maximum stays so that is all they’d ever enforce.
There is also no law regarding keeping the toe hitch attached to your car regardless of use or intent to use.
Steal the hitch, OP. Remove it and throw it in that bin right there.
That’s a bullshit bolt-on charge that cops use to enforce driving-while-black and everyone knows it.
Found one of the bastards that leaves the knee killer 9000 on his lifted princess truck that’s never seen actual work.
And yet here we are with the hitch actively blocking even more of the sidewalk preventing someone with mobility issues from getting through. Seems like it’s a pretty necessary thing that needs to be enforced more.
Both of these things can be true though.
Also in this case that hitch isn’t effectively blocking any space the truck wasn’t already ( with the trash can there, so much if the sidewalk is impassable due to the truck the hitch is practically a non-factor).
Generally the bigger concern about them is increased damage in a rear end collision.
Me in my wheelchair 👁️👄👁️
get a cow catcher attached to the front and just flip that fucker at high speed
I don’t see why pickups are suddenly appearing in England lately, they’re so ugly.
If i could, for once, see one of those huge oversized pickup trucks in city streets loaded up to the brim with stuff in the back bed. But no. Those behemoths drive around just as they came out of shop: empty.
Obviously it’s only to give self-inducted sense of importance to the driver if they move around in huge tank, sitting above everyone and sticking out on the parkinglot as biggest of all. As others said, overcompensating for various head-issues.
It’s for attention. Some kids will do anything for attention, good or bad. Then they grow up and buy ridiculous vehicles to get that same rush they got when they were 7 and shat themselves at their friend’s birthday party.
Likely a great way to overcompensate or something.
There are wankers everywhere and it doesn’t take that many wankers as a proportion of the population to screw things up for everybody else.
It’s almost like people want these things…
No, someone must be forcing them to buy these awful trucks! It’s a conspiracy I tell ya!
They want them as emotional support vehicles. I feel there are better choices for that kind of mental help tbh.
Making up arguments to win?
I have heard this literal argument on /fuckcars in the past. Merely parroting the community.
People want a lot of things. Doesn’t make them good, beneficial to society, or anything else.
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
Man that truck bed looks useless.
It’s vestigial. It’s not meant to be used. It’s entirely so it looks truck-shaped to satisfy a user who has no need for an actual truck. In someways, I’m a fan of the design because at least it’s admitting that you don’t need to own a truck in a tiny way, but in that case, just have a reasonable vehicle.
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.
Not just the pickup truck that is over the sidewalk.
There’s a car backed in that’s blocking just as much of as the truck, wonder why they posted one and not both.
It’s bad parking lot design if a vehicle parks with its tires touching the parking stops, and it blocks the sidewalk. Most cars front and back ends stick out a couple feet, this would be blocked by ANY vehicle doing that here.
People should know how big their vehicle is. If you are relying on the tires hitting a stop to know, you shouldn’t be driving.
The parking stops are for you to park against, hence their name and use… if the people who manage the parking lot installed them wrong, that’s not the vehicles fault. Look how many cars are also blocking the sidewalk in this picture.
Looking down the line, seems like multiple offenders.
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.
