People that park their cars on pavements.....

doughnutmachine

lazer wrote: »

A coat zip wouldn't damage a car and 2 wrongs never make a right.

There is a road near my house where car owners park on the pavement. This forces pram users etc to walk on the busy road (it's a narrow pavement). About 50 feet away the road is a lot wider and they could park there and cause no one any problems.

I just don't think it wrong to walk along the side of the car while scraping along a carrier bag etc.

earthstorm

so put it this way, Mr A parks their car on the PUBLIC footpath, so Mrs B with her pushchair has to walk along the road, then Mr C is driving along the road and hits Mrs B and her pushchair.

whos at fault

1) Mr A for using the PUBLIC footpath as a carpark.

2) Mrs B for walking along the road as the PUBLIC footpath is now a carpark.

3) Mr C for hitting Mrs B.

well i would say its the fault of Mr A as if he was not using the PUBLIC footpath as a carpark then Mrs B would not have been walking on the road, so Mr C would not have hit her.

stephen77

lazer wrote: »

So you think its ok for your child to damage someone's property - regardless of how the car was parked - it is not ok to damage property.

I used to park half on the pavement, half off it, as when previously i parked fully on the road - my wing mirrors got damaged reguarly and the car got scratched (mainly by people getting in and out of taxi's)
I lived on a street of terrace houses off a main road which was restricted to 1 hours parking, no parking duiring peak times etc.
I honestly don't know how far away I would have to have parked so as not to ahve to park ahlf on the pavement. - but it would ahve been at least 30 minutes walk away

There was a back alley - but you couldn't park in - was for bins only - not really wide enough for cars.

If you left room for people to walk past. Then its wrong to damage the car.

If you have not left enough room for some one to get past then its a fair game. As a pedestrian I do not want to walk in a road as its dangerous. I will not damage a car on purpose, but if I clip it by accident and it get scratched, then I will not feel guilty about it.

I am not sure how much space you left when you parked.

stephen77

earthstorm wrote: »

so put it this way, Mr A parks their car on the PUBLIC footpath, so Mrs B with her pushchair has to walk along the road, then Mr C is driving along the road at hits Mrs B and her pushchair.

whos at fault

1) Mr A for using the PUBLIC footpath as a carpark.

2) Mrs B for walking along the road as the PUBLIC footpath is now a carpark.

3) Mr C for hitting Mrs B.

well i would say its the fault of Mr A as if he was not using the PUBLIC footpath as a carpark then Mrs B would not have been walking on the road, so Mr C would not have hit her.

I would blame MR A. However MR c would probably be the one with point on there license.

earthstorm

So how would you pass these without going onto busy roads

aileth

The Police car is atrocious, "Oh don't want to park on double yellows or people will complain that the Police have double standards, I'll park on the ENTIRE pavement instead, that doesn't have double yellows on so that's obviously okay, right?!"

earthstorm

aileth wrote: »

The Police car is atrocious, "Oh don't want to park on double yellows or people will complain that the Police have double standards, I'll park on the ENTIRE pavement instead, that doesn't have double yellows on so that's obviously okay, right?!"

well he does not want to be disturbed by a jobsworth traffic warden while he is having his tea and biscuits from the WI for parking on double yellow lines

tuggy12

earthstorm wrote: »

Obviously an emergency !!


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Torry_Quine

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

not where it was. If a bin wagon was going down there then it's bin day. Plus, logic would dictate that people aren't going to drag their bin from their back yard and stick it by their front door. They'll all get dumped together; just like my street where everybody lines them up at the entrance to the car park to make it easier for the binmen

That may be how people put their bins out where you are but it's a new one on me. Certainly here we take our bins from the back garden and leave them on the pavement in front of the house for collection and that's all I've seen in other areas.

If the bins aren't put out the front then why is the bin lorry going that way?

earthstorm

Torry_Quine wrote: »

That may be how people put their bins out where you are but it's a new one on me. Certainly here we take our bins from the back garden and leave them on the pavement in front of the house for collection and that's all I've seen in other areas.

If the bins aren't put out the front then why is the bin lorry going that way?

thats how most bins are collected, as i stated the bin lorry most likely was only passing down that street to get to its next collection