Parking On The Pavement

[mikey4444]

I was involved in a small incident over pavement parking this morning.

I was walking up a street, about 10 miles up the Valley from me, and I saw an elderly gent having great difficulty negotiating the pavement, as some one had parked a brand new Mini in the way.

The gent was driving on of those electric buggies, one of the smaller ones that aren't really suitable for road use. He couldn't come down onto the road, as the kerbs were far too high. I was trying to work out how he was going to get past, when the this brassy-looking woman came out of the house and shouted at us, not to scratch her nice new car !

I pointed out that she was obstructing the pavement with her car, and would she please mind moving it. The language that then resulted would have made a navvy blush. I asked her to be reasonable and she got even worse !

After about 5 mins of this log-jam, a Council van came up the road with two workers in it and stopped to help. faced with the the four of us, eventually this brassy woman did move her car, with very bad grace, but only over to the other side of the road and promptly bocked the pavement there !

The poor old clap in the buggy was rather upset by all this and I felt sorry for him.....why should he have to put with this ?

[hc4361]

There is a UK website for posting photos of badly parked vehicles, complete with registration plate, but I'm darned if I can remember what it's called.

[gness]

Oh I know it's not right, Allen....but I love the video of the truck "nudging" the badly parked car.....☺