One for the boys in blue?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought it was an offence to park a car with all four wheels on the pavement?

Just about got knocked over by an guy reversing his Audi A3 (I know, enough said really...) on to the pavement this morning when I was walking to work.

All because this guy and several others can't be bothered to park another couple of hundred metres down the road where there are spaces on the road.

I have to regularly squeeze between wing mirrors of cars parked on the pavement on my way to work.

Wonder what Strathclyde's finest would make of that?  Parking fine?  Trip to the compound on the back of a waggon and an even bigger bill to get their cars back?

...or am I just being a grumpy old man now that I am in my thirties...

...and relax......

This is one that annoys me as well. 

 

I stay in quiet a high density area of Leith and while parking can be difficult its not normally impossible to get a space for those with the decency to take a bit of time to find one.  A lot of the corners around my way have been extended so its like double pavements either side of the junction.  Taxi drivers seem to think this is their reserved space for picking up and often folk just park willy nilly!!!

 

Most of these extended pavements have double yellow lines round them but it was only when the council put the enforcement signs, those that say if and when parking is allowed, up were any of the parkers booked � those where there are no signs are still not booked.

 

So as far as I am aware it is not illegal to park on the pavement, unless there are signs no matter how many wheels you have, nor is it illegal to double park!

Cheers for the insight Nigel.

The council in York have a parking hot-line for "illegally parked vehicles" the wardens usually take more than 1/2 an hour to appear in which time the car as moved or they just tell them to move it! The latter is the bowlers from the local park on our road, the reason why we got double yellow lines in the first place. Then they use their disabled badge to get away with it. Our road has a very bad blind spot and a car park not 5 yards from the park gate.

Sorry rant over this is a very sore subject and I could bore you all night , I must be getting old.

 

my biggest hate is t**ts that decide to block my drive... our street is bad for parking so i keep my car in the drive and the misses parks her car in front of the living room window.. now there's a big car park about 50 yards away from our house yet we still get t**ts blocking the drive and the car park is always empty!! the worst one is the boy that lives in the street behind hes parked over the drive on several occasions to which his response is " his car gets damaged out side his house " strange thing is hes never parked it there since i dragged it up the street with the old 4 door 325i .. thing that gets me is though why on earth do ppl leave there car blocking my drive and my neighbors drives instead of using the car park....

Rhys wrote: Misty Morning wrote: Sorry rant over this is a very sore subject and I could bore you all night , I must be getting old. Yep..

Whatever happened to "Brotherly Love" ??