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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This community is called “Fuck Cars”, you don’t have to censor the word asshole and wanker.
We’re all adults here.
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.
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!
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.
People want a lot of things. Doesn’t make them good, beneficial to society, or anything else.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 !
Me in my wheelchair 👁️👄👁️
get a cow catcher attached to the front and just flip that fucker at high speed
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.
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
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.
That truck isn’t remotely long enough to explain this.
What’s a w*nker? Is it someone who winks a lot?
No it’s someone who makes chocolate
With their friend, willy?
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
