18 November 2013

Tales of Monday Parking

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Some call it a punishment from God for a world full of sin, some say it was a curse placed upon drivers after one cut an old witch off at an intersection once, most just assume there are lots of stupid lazy people out there…

But whatever the reason, the fact remains that poor parking is a never ending blight upon us all!

Well except for right now, right now it’s here for your amusement.

Send any photo graphic evidence of this ancient evil you have to images@the-riotact.com.

Do it!


1. Melonhead sent us this image titles “Parking Dickson Style”:

More correctly driving, then parking style.

But you say he's just a friend.

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2. Patsy might have delivered us our first poorly parked boat photo:

This is in the bus interchange Friday afternoon. Nope, not a taxi, nope, not a goods vehicle in a loading zone and yes, stopped. Champion effort!

This is my hour, can I get just a little bit of power? Make me think. The power of equality.

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3. Tigs doesn’t actually think they’re great:

Such great housekeepers- their ‘garden’ (not shown) covers the footpath and now we have this monstrosity to deal with too!

Whatever happened to humanity?

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4. Marcus with a double:

Pic 1 is at the front of the Deakin Childcare Centre, off King St

If you have to ask you'll never know.

Pic 2 is behind the netball courts in Deakin. The sign in front of the car reads: ‘No Parking, Keep Clear’.

Will not be told to go.

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5. Patsy notices these things:

This one at the Jerra shops, tail well and truly hanging out.

I am a man.

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6. Joe wonders:

Really it’s not that hard is it?

Twisting and turning.

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7. Rioter It’s a bit Rich has a theory:

Here’s a parking submission for next Monday. Taken at 5pm on Melbourne Cup day outside the Hellenic Club in Woden. The race that stopped the nation stopped their brains.

You're breaking the girl.

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8. Marcothepolopony took a trip to Bruce:

Non-disabled driver in the place I normally park at work, so I took umbrage at this!
No Invalid /disabled identification anywhere on the vehicle. Thanks.

She loves you no more.

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9. Gnaty77 appreciates the placement:

Saw the owner of this vehicle drive down the path between Parkes Place and Parkes Place West (between Treasury and Finance buildings), park, hop out and walk into the Finance building, presumably for a meeting given the notepad in his hand. Parking is atrocious in the parliamentary triangle but this guy solved that problem! Love that he parked perfectly in front of the sign for me to take a photo for the RiotAct 😉

I've been doing all I can.

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10. Mothy is above average:

An average photo of below average parking in Belconnen this afternoon.

I've got a riddle for you.

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11. Stuart draws conclusions like Sherlock:

State of the car speaks volumes for their driving ability. Ernst n Young car park, THU 14 NOV

You are all alone.

At their finest, outside 243 Northbourne Ave.

Live and die an honest man.

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12. Craig ponders:

Small conundrum…
Ernst & Young car park, civic. I know it can be a bit difficult to decide if your car is ‘small’ for such car spots. In particular, my 2011 Corolla is bigger than my previous 1999 model. But this….?

Yeah, oh yeah.

Garden Variety – Manuka shops.

Shoulda been, coulda been, woulda been dead.

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13. Tim gave us this gem:

A special snowflake at Farrer shops.Hit me, you can't hurt me.

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14. A series of numbers sent us this one:

Parking dickson style..he stayed in the car, but the engine and lights were off. Guess he gave up on parking midway

Give to me sweet sacred bliss.

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15. Bubzie caught this winner with no no disability permit:

There must be something in the way I feel that she don't want me to feel.

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16. JonahBologna call this “It’s a footpath, not a car park…even if it is Saturday”:

Barry Drive at Northbourne. The car on the left is in a loading zone, the car in the middle is parked on the footpath and HAS A TICKET on the windscreen, the car on the right is on the footpath and driven by a lucky/stupid person that didn’t get a ticket.

I could of lied, I'm such a fool.

Rudd Street at Northbourne (Pilgrim House):
These entitled ****s didn’t even try to find a car park, they just parked on the footpath.

And now she gone, yeah she gone away.

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17. Sheep Groper delivers:

Apart from the faithful chemist, Bunnings delivered someone who didn’t want to walk far,
Civic showed why vegetables don’t make great drivers as the van partially blocked the lane
entrance, and a van chose to block a driveway in Woden.

Where did we go wrong? Better days. What I got you gotta give it to your Mother How come everybody want to keep it like the Kaiser?

Seen in quick succession, a guy chose to use a cycle lane to change a tyre which wasn’t
coming off very easily, and a pedestrian weaving from side to side as they wandered along.

Mellowship Fellowship

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18. Jason watches them fall:

Found at Civic. As prices of cars become lower so do the parking standards.

Kiss me right here on my tattoo.

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19. Karl would like to have:

Spotted this parking near Costco on 17 November. Fangio flew up Majura Road (Airport end), swung into the carpark near Costco and headed into the shops. Nearly cleaned up a few cars as the driver worked through the roundabouts.

I’d like to have seen how they managed to pack their Costco purchases into the car.

Will you be my friend?

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20. Logan doubles up:

Out with the pram on Saturday and had to walk into oncoming traffic in Richardson.

Holy Mother Earth, crying into space.

Australia Post van felt the need to park in the disabled zone on Sunday, plenty of other spots available.

Praying for a better day.

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21. Meganubbin has this for you:

One for todays parking roundup – spotted at Canberra Contemporary Arts Space – Gorman House on Friday, right in front of the fire escape from the main gallery space!

How many pieces do you wish?

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22. Zeital likes watching people have fun:

Friday afternoon underground civic car park. People having fun trying to get around it while not being able to see the cars coming up the ramp from lv-2.

Blood sugar crazy and she has it..

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23. Astrojax in the third:

Astrojax’s filter has discovered another weird looking motorcycle, this time in the car park in civic opposite west row, behind the wig and pen…

Blood sugar baby, she's magik!

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24. MightyJoe called them a muppet, I like that:

This Muppet has taken up 2 parks in an already busy area of Barton – Blackall Street. 2 hour parking. Someone else has left a message – Learn to park.

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner.

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25. Ericka took this:

Some bad parking for your Monday parking thingy. These were taken in Palmerston on Saturday – they were there all day and people had to walk in the middle of a really narrow winding street to pass them.

I never worry, now that is a lie.

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26. Loxmyf almost finishes this week:

More parking capers around the traps
Belconnen Mall. Many empty spots further down the aisle.

Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood.

Good job by the new guy in the mall.

I could not get enough.

And there were 3 legal spots in front of the red car at Kaleen BWS.

I threw my life away.

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27. Belcoman got in at the last second:

Young Miss Belcoman spotted this in Civic yesterday.

Good to see the ticket there.

Yay yeah.

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Aeek said :

#17 cycle lane shots – both of these are legit uses of cycle lanes; many of these used to be shoulder/breakdown lane before they were rebranded as cycle lane.

We used to have a pedestrian killed every few years walking home from a party along a main road,
the cycle lanes doubling as emergency footpaths have reduced that too.

I didn’t submit those as parking thread entries, they were in a seperate Images of Canberra email. I did it to show the non-cyclist uses that one small strech of a cycle lane can be put to, as well as pointing out the traffic hazards in the 80 kph bit of road.

The pedestrian was weaving along, nearly in the first car lane for the short time I was attending to their presence, with a perfectly good footpath a metre or two away. You might not mind that he might lurch over the line and hit my car, or fall over and get run over, but other drivers might, and that’s a distraction with traffic potentially slowing for the intersection ahead.

As for the bloke jerking his wheel, we have the “attractive nusiance” of a firm bottom bobbing vigorously over the dividing line, leaving the average red blooded female driver the problem of tearing her attention away from the point of interest in case she veered too close, and having to check if the next lane was free in case the guy lost his grip and fell backwards.

And the bottom bobber chose to drive past at least two car parks in order to do his thing on the roadside again with 80 kph traffic whizzing past, a hazard to himself, cyclists and possibly cars. He could even have driven forward some meters and parked well away from the lanes and jerked in more safety.

m00nee said :

Aeek said :

#17 cycle lane shots – both of these are legit uses of cycle lanes; many of these used to be shoulder/breakdown lane before they were rebranded as cycle lane.

Aeek is mostly correct regarding the use of cycle lanes. To paraphrase parking operations, It is illegal for a motor vehicle to stop in a cycle lane, but a vehicle breakdown (including a flat tyre) is grounds to appeal against any infringement notice issued, noting that this does not include stopping to answer a mobile telephone. There is nothing in the legislation restricting pedestrians from using the cycle lanes, specially when there is no suitable footpath.

I am more surprised at the overhanging trees in front of the 4×4, that make the cycle lane unusable.

The thing that most surprised me was that he doesn’t seem at all concerned about his posterior hanging out into the motorised-traffic lane, ready to be collected by some passing motorist.

Yeah, well I screwed up. Realized it was a parents with prams space right after I emailed it, doh!

The thing that made me laugh, was the numberplate said “winner”
Well, clearly not a winner at parking 😛

re: Number 9 – well, when your bosses think it’s OK to use CabCharges to visit wineries (allegedly; actually I don’t think he’s disputing the facts), CommCars to attend weddings, Business Class flights to attend weddings, finalise purchase of your investment property, or run in an Iron Man contest that just happens to be in a marginal seat, or to return from the overseas wedding of a billionaire miner. why would you expect the plebs to obey parking rules? The word “entitlement” has several meanings…

IP

#2… No obscuring of the rego number on the illegally moored vessel?

gungsuperstar6:27 pm 18 Nov 13

I used to really look forward to the Monday parking… but this is just rubbish.

What part of society are we living in when Rioters with too much time on their hands are playing “GOTCHA!” with cars who are 15 centimetres over the line.

A broken down car pulling over off the road? CALL THE POLICE! I’m a cyclist myself, and this is a perfectly legitimate use of a cycling lane.

The Ferrari looks as though it has clearly been parked well away from other cars and deliberately taken up 2 spots to prevent car dooring… poor form in certain instances, but certainly not here.

And there’s about half of these that are the most pedantic shit ever.

This thread has become rubbish.

So who got pinged eh?

#15 looks to be a parents with pram parking spot not a disabled spot so I wouldn’t expect a disabled permit. Although it would be nice if the driver could park between the wider lines.

Aeek said :

#17 cycle lane shots – both of these are legit uses of cycle lanes; many of these used to be shoulder/breakdown lane before they were rebranded as cycle lane.

Aeek is mostly correct regarding the use of cycle lanes. To paraphrase parking operations, It is illegal for a motor vehicle to stop in a cycle lane, but a vehicle breakdown (including a flat tyre) is grounds to appeal against any infringement notice issued, noting that this does not include stopping to answer a mobile telephone. There is nothing in the legislation restricting pedestrians from using the cycle lanes, specially when there is no suitable footpath.

I am more surprised at the overhanging trees in front of the 4×4, that make the cycle lane unusable.

Loxmyf said :

12b and 13 are the same photo in 2 suburbs. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on.

Fixed! Time streams were doubling back over themselves.

smiling politely said :

So, Barcham, I take it you were listening to “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers while putting this together?

Well caught.

the Ferrari was obviously taking up two spaces so when it inevitably catches fire it won’t spread to any other car.

smiling politely2:10 pm 18 Nov 13

So, Barcham, I take it you were listening to “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers while putting this together?

12a is within the lines.

#17 cycle lane shots – both of these are legit uses of cycle lanes; many of these used to be shoulder/breakdown lane before they were rebranded as cycle lane.

We used to have a pedestrian killed every few years walking home from a party along a main road,
the cycle lanes doubling as emergency footpaths have reduced that too.

Holden Caulfield12:32 pm 18 Nov 13

Spotto in 17b? But 27 should win the prize for a double spotto!

Holden Caulfield12:27 pm 18 Nov 13

27 pages, that’s a new world record, right?!

12b and 13 are the same photo in 2 suburbs. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on.

14 is a “parents with Prams” spot, not a disabled spot. No (traditional) disabled permit needed.

I too saw the red Mazda in 27. Not just parked in the motorcycle only spot, but half on the road anyway. Top effort. At least he was pinged. One of my mates snapped the shot before I did and was just going to grab it off him.

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