Scottish Elises

Shamelessly stolen from a thread on blatchat, all good stuff!

http://www.break.com/index/woman_flips_car_on_gate.html

http://www.break.com/index/another_horr ... river.html

...and my fave, this fecking cracks me up...

http://break.com/index/woman_cant_paralell_park.html

this is the reason i dont like parking my car anywhere but my garage!

extreme paranoia sets in when i have to leave it in a tesco carpark

The first two should be jailed! I'm not joking. The 3rd should just be pulled apart with plyers then chopped up with razor blades.

r055 wrote:
this is the reason i dont like parking my car anywhere but my garage!

extreme paranoia sets in when i have to leave it in a tesco carpark

Can the coppers give you a ticket for parking in those fekin 'mother and child' spaces? I could rant on for hours about those spaces (don't get me started ), but is it illegal to park in them / can we get a ticket?

I've seen the Police give a ticket to a (chav styley) car parked in a disabled space in a Tesco car park. The Police had parked in the disabled space next to it I was surprise because I thought if it's private property the same parking restrictions wouldn't apply... or at least wouldn't be enforced by the Police!?

not sure about the law - im doubt it with the parent/child spaces as I think you can just go into the shop and get a sticker.

i just tend to park as afar away as possible and straddle two bays if i can get away with it. i.e. if its fairly quiet.
however saying that, i cant stand the beemer drivers that do that in the spaces near the shop!

With regards to the police, i think that it doesnt matter as it is still a public carpark - even though its privately owned.

Anybody who parks in a Disabled space without a Blue Badge should be strung up..................



tut

I'm sure there was a some Regs passed a number of years ago to make public car parks etc fall under the same RTA legislation as the highway.

I tend to park next to the chav cars - these guys spend £££'s and energy on their car, and tend not to want it bashed,so my thinking is they are unlikey to bash mine.

Derek (non-legal expert faction)

Can the coppers give you a ticket for parking in those fekin 'mother and child' spaces? I could rant on for hours about those spaces (don't get me started ), but is it illegal to park in them / can we get a ticket?

Why would you want to? unless you've got a kid in the car... My guess is if you're fit & healty enought to drag your backside in & out of an Elise, you are probably fit enough to walk an extra 100yards to the shops leaving mothers with kids a slightly easier time of it....

Blue badge holding vets exempted from the above Tut

I am sure I saw a news item recently where they were discussing the fact that new laws were required to have the disabled parking spaces enforced. If that was right then I am confident the "Parent & Toddler" spaces (sometimes men park in them and every now and then they even have kids with them ) are not enforcible.

Friends of mine had a severely disabled daughter and so they had the badge - on one occasion they were parked in a disabled space and some very considerate person blocked them in!?! WTF. Anyway, they ended up getting the police to come and help move the car (I think the owner was found before the police could get a truck in to move it, as it happens). Whilst chatting to the police their advice was simple - if you're disabled and someone without a badge is parked in a disabled spot, just block them in. Provided you are genuine, you will not get into any sort of trouble ...

Tut - you could take on some sort of vigilante (sp?) role where you cruise the country at top speed, as per usual, scanning car parks looking for perps to block in, then go for a wander around the shops or a spot of lunch, before returning to bemused victims Double points if you can overtake the very same car on a blind corner 10 minutes down the road

Robin

Robin, AFAIK the parent & toddler spaces aren't enforcible, I personally get annoyed when someone takes the last spot at Tesco, only to have "Kevin, the plooky 15yr old with 'tude" get out the back himself


But - at what age of kids do you lose the right to use this facility?

My younger bairn is now 5, and still need help clicking in his seatbelt, so I feel justified, but I sometimes** wonder at what stage would people stare at me & think "FFS his kids are too fecking old to park there, inconsiderate cnut!"


**I don't lose any sleep over this, honest

Good idea Robin, will keep me out of mischieve............

I actually rarely use mine in Supermarkets et al, as long as it is not too far to walk, but I do use it in pay car parks. I try to only use the crutches when I walk Thor, but can not actually walk very far without resting.

Found that out when I took the car into Aberdeen for a new screen, then tried to walk to Union street. Ended up having to get a bus for a few hundred yards.

tut

tut wrote: Ended up having to get a bus for a few hundred yards.

tut

I'm sure the free bus pass comes into it's own for occasions like that.

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Dont ya just love'em??!