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’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.
Steal the hitch, OP. Remove it and throw it in that bin right there.
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.
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
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.
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.
That truck isn’t remotely long enough to explain this.
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
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 !
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
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
Tie a chain from the trailer hitch to the a fence post (note ‘fence post’ not fence chain) and leave about five or six feet of loose chain.
Most drivers (including myself) never bother to look at what their truck is attached to unless they were the ones who hitched a trailer to it themselves.
Lots of fun all around as they damage the fence and have to explain it or whip a chain to their tail end.
Leave the area and never return for about a month.
giggle at will
As an American, that’s not even a big truck anymore in my part of the country. That be considered a medium.
It’s awful.
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.
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.
If I remember I’ll show you what the space between my schools parking lot and the fense
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.
I don’t see why pickups are suddenly appearing in England lately, they’re so ugly.
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!
People want a lot of things. Doesn’t make them good, beneficial to society, or anything else.
Making up arguments to win?
I have heard this literal argument on /fuckcars in the past. Merely parroting the community.
They want them as emotional support vehicles. I feel there are better choices for that kind of mental help tbh.
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.
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.
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.
Likely a great way to overcompensate or something.
