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F these, even in urban England (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

This community is called "Fuck Cars", you don't have to censor the word asshole and wanker.

We're all adults here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's true, things can be even worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

People carrying things are the ones who probably should have cars. No one is taking a few hundred kilos of cement on the bus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The tilde symbols you used are ~messing up the formatting~ on jerboa.

Just thought you might like to know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Huh, never had that issue pointed out before, thanks !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Me in my wheelchair 👁️👄👁️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

get a cow catcher attached to the front and just flip that fucker at high speed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What's a w*nker? Is it someone who winks a lot?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No it's someone who makes chocolate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

With their friend, willy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

These kind of trucks have their utility if you work in a trade and you need to get stuff in and out, or maybe do frequent tip runs as a business.

This never seems to be the case for where they're actually used, though. I've known one person use them as such, and they very quickly switched back to a transit van because it was "much cheaper to run, and simpler to park".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have discussed this with a friend of mine and have come to the conclusion there is only 2 cases these kind of trucks are needed, and even then i only accept one as valid. All the rest can be solved with a regular, european, work van like a fort transit or mercedes sprinter.
The cases?
Farmers that need to get heavy shit off and on the field quickly if they dont have a regular traktor ( which they do, but it might be malfunctioning ) and when you are handling a hot air balloon.
Thats it.
The rest work better with vans or trailers or both together...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They're pretty shitty for most tradesmen who only need to carry tools. The beds are so high and deep it's annoying to lift toolboxes in and out. A van with a roof rack is way more useful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

a van with a roof can also hold a similar volume as the pickup can safely, while also being lockable, making it safer for the actual transport of said tools

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if it were being used for its intended purpose, parking like this is absolutely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Only partly disagree. They parked fine, hell they parked backwards which is the perfect way to park. They could have moved a bit more forward, yes, which wouldnt have ruined the sidewalk but you cant have both with these shit cars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Agreed, ultimately there isn't really a way to actually park these cars safely without taking up two spaces - which is in itself selfish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

And here, they ticket people where the trailer hitch reaches into the pedestrian space...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Looking down the line, seems like multiple offenders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Look at the end.... It's not a truck yet it occupied the same if not more.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There are a few comments I'd like to reply to, but I'll stick it all into this separate one, in no particular order.

I do not agree with general amounts of anger this or any other fuck<insert thing> sub promotes.
Driver's licence is given to literally anyone who breaths (or their relative, pretending to be them).
As such, driving skill in UK is abysmal.
Parking spaces and lane widths have not kept up with vehicle size increases. Part of those increases is just fashion, but a lot of it is caused by ever tightening safety regulations. For reference - I drive an old 5 series and fit everywhere just fine. The newer 3 series are the same size cars than mine. See here and here. It's truly insane.
This guy obviously cannot tell the size of the vehicle.
Looks are subjective. I, personally, like the way a Ford Raptor looks, but I'd only consider it for offroading as it drives like absolute shit on regular roads. I like driving too much to give up handling for looks.
Driving should be treated as a privilege, not a right.
There's already way too much regulation for all the tiniest, dumbest things around. I can't stand how the general consensus seems to be "I don't want to think for myself, regulate it on my behalf". Just to clarify - I'm not against all regulation.
The trailer hitch argument seems strange to me - must be an american thing. Permanent hitches are very much a thing here, one does not simply get rid of it during parking. Yes, electric ones exist - my car even has one - but not all cars do, especially older ones.
Yes, parking spaces having wheel stoppers at whatever distance is deemed acceptable would help, but this goes back to outsourcing thinking to someone else. How about you get to know the bloody dimensions of you own car?
On top of that - getting out of the car, checking if it fits into the spot and getting back in to fix if it doesn't is not a crime. One simply needs to care.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you don't like this format, you can block communities you know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yes, I can. 3 caveats:

I try to not lock myself into a self created bubble
I want to believe in free speech as much as I can get away with morally
As an instance admin I cannot afford to let dodgy crap slip through just because I blocked a community

Lemmy is really crap on the admin side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm from a different country, so the rules might not be the same, but we have a rule to always leave a certain amount of space on the pavement, regardless what you do. Isn't there a thing in UK driving rules (or whatever it's called)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Not sure, I exchanged my EU licence to a UK one years ago, haven't checked for such a specific thing, tbh. Again, it's never affected me - parking a car is really not difficult, as long as one gives a crap.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bold parking choice for someone with thin paint that's softer than my keys

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Capitalist problems require capitalist solutions (aka make them pay for being cunt / key their shit)

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don’t see why pickups are suddenly appearing in England lately, they’re so ugly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That should count as parking on the pavement violation imo

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Where I live, if the vehicle doesn't fit inside the lines, it's illegally parked. Even if it's the mirrors/bumper/hitch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So many people think "if my wheels are in the space it's ok" and it drives me insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it happens here too, because noone really reports illegally parked vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Even some people I know try to defend drivers who double park and block the bike parking when I complain about them.

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