Parking on the pavement - it's plain selfish!
People who are guilty of parking on the pavements! This drives me totally insane. Why do these idiots think that the safety of their precious cars is more important than peoples right to walk safely? Park on the pavement at your own risk I say!
My mom was seriously ill and for a while had to use a wheelchair. Ive lost count of the number of times that we had to wheel her into the road just to bypass cars blocking our way. Had she had to push herself she would have stood no chance.
And then there are people with buggies and prams. WHY should any parent be forced to cross a road just to avoid some dimwits car? There have been times when people I know have scratched cars as they have tried to get past. But still these morons insist on blocking the way.
I've taken to carrying Vaseline in my pocket, and generously smearing the pavement-side wing mirrors; I'll smile at the thought them of the drivers trying to get it off when I wake up in ITU after being hit by a car trying to get past these vehicles!
It is a pity the traffic wardens are not sent away from the main shopping centres sometimes to help stop this happening. Im sure that after a few parking tickets the constant offenders would soon stop!
Phew, feel much better now.
By: SarahJaneBlogsworth & Lisa
Comments from visitors
Buy a thinner car.
Throw the book at 'em - 20-Dec-11 20:19
Pedestrians don't walk in to cars, they have to walk into the road which can be dangerous. Park somewhere else. It isn't that difficult to work out the answer but maybe it is for someone who uses 4 question marks.
if people are such moron's that they walk straight into a parked car then clearly they have no common sense or eye coordiantion. you'd honestly rarther me obstruct the road and hinder the ability for a fire engine to get through????, 'its ok the house is burning down but its ok i can walk down this path very nicely' daft really
Gordon Eyles - 14-Jul-11 14:58
Parking on a footpath / footway, should be taken a proof of the offence and prosecuted as such. The ONLY defence should be incontrovertible proof that it got there by teleportation / crane etc.
Driving on the pavement causes vastly more deaths than cycling on the pavement.
Paveparking watcher - 3-Jun-11 07:50
Cynical Boblet - 13-Apr-11 18:46
pete woodley - 13-Apr-11 16:34
Apparently the shop keepers hate it, they say it causes their customers real problems. Neil Herron discovered a lot of illegal parking bays in Bournemouth so I heard, he told the world about it on his website. The Police have handed parking issues over to the local councils, it is now de criminalised, it was known as DPE, it is now called Civil Parking Enforcement or CPE.
The Police only deal with obstruction now, not general parking issues.
parking law expert. - 13-Feb-11 02:04





