28 October 2013

Monday Parking Justice Squad

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Fellow defenders of parking etiquette, it is Monday and Monday means it’s time to frown at photos!

We have a fresh crop of photos from our rogues gallery of automotive villains, time to dish out some judgemental justice!

If you snap a shot of some sloppy parking, send it to us at images@the-riotact.com.


1. Aeek hits us with an opening salvo:

OOOooooOOOh! Way out in the water see it swimming. Where is my mind? And I asked myself.

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2. Couscous leveraged powerful social media tools to get this image to us:

For your compilation. Dickson Tradies’ undercover parking.

I know that living with me baby was sometimes hard

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3. Deref delivers:

These two were both spotted at the Belconnen lighting shop.

I was 5 and he was 6 I used to shoot you down

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4. Joe has been following this car for a while now:

I see this car most mornings on the way to work in Phillip (around 6:15am), always parked in the ‘No Stopping’ zone across the road from the gym on the corner. Plenty of parks less than 5-10 metres away from here (especially at 6:00am) so true laziness must be going to the gym but parking illegally to avoid walking a couple of extra metres.

and the holy dove, she was moving too

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5. Rocket is losing patience:

Ngunnawal Primary School car-park 9am. Still after copious newsletters and police attendance at drop of times, some numnuts in the community still don’t get it. Notice the female drivers close parking to footpath and the car trying to see around her car for oncoming kids or other cars. DON”T UP GUTTERS AND PARK ON THE GRASS WHEN DROPPING OR PICKING YOUR CHILDREN UP FROM SCHOOL. This lazy woman could have drove another 20m to other end of car park where there were at least 6-7 free car park spaces. Obviously wasn’t convenient for her.

It’s not a cry you can hear at night I did my best it wasn't much

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6. D does and D does:

The white car is outside the Hellenic Club. The motorcycle space is Marcus Clarke Street.

I am old, but I'm happy You will still be here tomorrow but your dreams may not

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7. Mothy delivers on a monthly basis:

Nope, not just leaving!

You're still young

Yeah, I think you might have a little more room there…

It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.

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8. Clare sent us this gem:

Saw this fool outside The Garden in Weston.

Is there life on mars? See the mice in their million hordes.

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9. Goggles13 has found some gold:

Spotted near the hellenic club in Woden.

I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad. Their tears are filling up their glasses. I went to school and I was very nervous.

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10. An anonymous Rioter had a run in at Revolve:

Taken at the Green Shed (Revolve) at Hume. Typically, this is where cars with trailers park. This 4WD caused a bit of a jam as I got stuck, with a trailer on, half way in, couldn’t squeeze through and couldn’t reverse because of the traffic behind me. I was very pissed off when I realised later that there was a woman in the passenger seat who had done nothing despite the horns and clusterf**k behind her.

Enlargen your world.

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11. Troy took a trip to Mecca:

It seems the back of Argyle Corner is a Mecca for bad parking. Here’s the 4 I took photos of, I didn’t get a chance for happy snaps of the other 5 I spotted as I didn’t notice them until I drove out. (All pictures taken on Wednesday October 23rd.)

I wish I was special I don't care if it hurts. I want you to notice when Im not around I'm a weirdo.

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12. JayCroix dug deep for this:

Taken in the underground parking of the Canberra Centre.

RUN RUN RRRRRUUUUUUNNNNNNN

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13. Sheep Groper hands us his usual haul:

I present for you a mixed assortment from Civic, Woden ( yes the cheap chemist yielded a good harvest considering I only walked past it twice – and to be fair the tradie who decided to park on the road and pavement at the same time did move his ute after noticing I’d taken a
happy snap to end up parked near his legally parked mate ( reads RiotAct perhaps? ) ) and Dickson.

When I look into your eyes Do you need some time all alone Everybody needs some time on their own *SOME GUITAR* I know it's hard to keep an open heart *BIG GUITAR SOLO* Sometimes I need some time on my own *ANOTHER GUITAR SOLO*

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14. Dom takes a guess:

Another example of a car blocking my driveway: my guess: the driver wanted to park as close as possible to his place of work and decided that a third of his car blocking my driveway was acceptable, even though there were no cars parked in front of the station wagon, with the added bonus of parking his car legally 🙂

Caught between the twisted stars.

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15. Pork Hunt has this for you:

Queanbeyan Roos Club seems to attract hopeless parkers.

The crack dealers are dreaming of an uzi someone just scored

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16. Harold has high hopes:

It almost fits…

Something flickered for a minute, then it vanished and was gone.

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17. Holden Caulfield finishes us off this week:

I was visiting a mate on the weekend and we noticed this 4WD parked in an access lane of the basement car park at his apartment. That lane provides access to about 20 or so other parks and, assuming the car park is full, it’s the only way those residents can get to their parking spaces. It was there for at least an hour on Saturday and my mate said the car was still there the following morning.

Then we went down to times square, and ever since I've been hanging around there.

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Witnessed some soccer training event Tuesday evening at the Brumby University. One million kids kicking balls. Half a million double-parked soccer moms in four-wheel-drives. A RiotACTer with a camera would have had a field day, but quite possibly would have been lynched.

One car (not a 4wd but an older Hyundai wagon) was parked somewhere it shouldn’t have been, and had a big yellow “illegally parked” sticker stuck on the windscreen. Someone had added a few small branches to its roof and bonnet. That really deserved a photo, sorry.

IP

Zan said :

SheepGroper said :

Zan said :

Nothing wrong with the bike on page 1 – it is out of the way not impeding anyone. Or would you like it to take up a whole car space? This is how they park in Melbourne and Paris Rome and Vienna.

I happened to be walking past the spot where the bike was yesterday and snapped a car parked by those bins, no doubt you’ll be saying the same thing when it gets posted up next Moanday – or is it only motorbikes that have special dispensation to break laws?

I ask again: would you like all motorbikes to take up one car space, as they are entitled to do so? There are many bikes in Canberra. The law should change just like Melbourne, Paris, Rome and Vienna.

Luckily there is a reasonable amount of bike parking space in Canberra, but yes, I’ve had a rant from someone when I parked in a car space. I pointed to the facts that two cars had used the motorbike parking about 200m away which was illegal and what I was doing was not illegal.

But hey we all know if you don’t drive a big SUV in canberra with my family stickers on the back, that you don’t count when it comes to commuting.

SheepGroper said :

Zan said :

Nothing wrong with the bike on page 1 – it is out of the way not impeding anyone. Or would you like it to take up a whole car space? This is how they park in Melbourne and Paris Rome and Vienna.

I happened to be walking past the spot where the bike was yesterday and snapped a car parked by those bins, no doubt you’ll be saying the same thing when it gets posted up next Moanday – or is it only motorbikes that have special dispensation to break laws?

I ask again: would you like all motorbikes to take up one car space, as they are entitled to do so? There are many bikes in Canberra. The law should change just like Melbourne, Paris, Rome and Vienna.

poetix said :

astrojax said :

poetix said :

There is far too much interest in the flogging of Barcham in these parts.

Or in the interesting parts of Barcham being flogged.

I don’t understand.

then barcham shall be flogged again until you do…

Jolly good.

Nice to see that traditional Catholic education valuesa are back in vogue under the new regime…

IP

astrojax said :

poetix said :

There is far too much interest in the flogging of Barcham in these parts.

Or in the interesting parts of Barcham being flogged.

I don’t understand.

then barcham shall be flogged again until you do…

Jolly good.

poetix said :

There is far too much interest in the flogging of Barcham in these parts.

Or in the interesting parts of Barcham being flogged.

I don’t understand.

then barcham shall be flogged again until you do…

SheepGroper said :

or is it only motorbikes that have special dispensation to break laws?

Yes.

I didn’t see anything making the scooter parking illegal. The whole point of scooters and motorbikes is to take up less parking space, take up less road space, and use less fuel. Most anti-motorbike rants are just jealousy.

IP

Zan said :

Nothing wrong with the bike on page 1 – it is out of the way not impeding anyone. Or would you like it to take up a whole car space? This is how they park in Melbourne and Paris Rome and Vienna.

I happened to be walking past the spot where the bike was yesterday and snapped a car parked by those bins, no doubt you’ll be saying the same thing when it gets posted up next Moanday – or is it only motorbikes that have special dispensation to break laws?

There is far too much interest in the flogging of Barcham in these parts.

Or in the interesting parts of Barcham being flogged.

I don’t understand.

thebrownstreak696:28 pm 28 Oct 13

johnboy said :

Fixed. Thanks.

Barcham will be flogged.

mmmmm…lucky guy!

johnboy said :

Fixed. Thanks.

Barcham will be flogged.

Jeez, I wish I could mix business with pleasure like that. 🙂

johnboy said :

Fixed. Thanks.

Barcham will be flogged.

we require photographic evidence…

IP

Nothing wrong with the bike on page 1 – it is out of the way not impeding anyone. Or would you like it to take up a whole car space? This is how they park in Melbourne and Paris Rome and Vienna.

an easy freebie for anyone with a digital camera who wants to be famous for next Monday’s parking adventures – drive along near the front of Lennox Gardens and keep your eye out for green falcon with number plate HAK something something something. Each and every day of the week it parks on the striped area outside of a valid parking spot instead of moving one or 50 spaces forward into a legitimate spot.

Can we cull the chemist from future parking Monday round ups? It is like making fun of the spastic kid for not having full motor control, or the deaf kid for not being able to hear.

#7 is wonderfully incompetent.
Remind me again how such a numpty is able to get a driver’s licence in the first place?

neanderthalsis1:10 pm 28 Oct 13

Jaguar at #9, yes it is not in straight, but I can clearly see the line beside the rear tyre, so I would call that a fair park (with points deducted)

Fixed. Thanks.

Barcham will be flogged.

next page button is dead XD

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