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…
This community is called “Fuck Cars”, you don’t have to censor the word asshole and wanker.
We’re all adults here.
Bold parking choice for someone with thin paint that’s softer than my keys
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).
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.
That’s a bullshit bolt-on charge that cops use to enforce driving-while-black and everyone knows it.
Found one of the bastards that leaves the knee killer 9000 on his lifted princess truck that’s never seen actual work.
And yet here we are with the hitch actively blocking even more of the sidewalk preventing someone with mobility issues from getting through. Seems like it’s a pretty necessary thing that needs to be enforced more.
Both of these things can be true though.
Also in this case that hitch isn’t effectively blocking any space the truck wasn’t already ( with the trash can there, so much if the sidewalk is impassable due to the truck the hitch is practically a non-factor).
Generally the bigger concern about them is increased damage in a rear end collision.
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.
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.
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 almost like people want these things…
No, someone must be forcing them to buy these awful trucks! It’s a conspiracy I tell ya!
