Comment on Too many people don't understand this when parking
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days agoso long as you know there are pricks who would park there from every country. this kind of asshole isn’t isolated to the US.
I do admire countries that have better laws for dealing with these jerks tho.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You also need effective enforcement. In my country in the EU people park in disavled spaces all the time because “it’s just for a minute”. Some even make counterfeit disability cards (you need to have a valid one displayed behind your windscreen). The fines for that are huge but the actual enforcement is non-existent.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Also EU. Also sucks, but is a biiiit better. From what I know, it’s city’s guard interest to solve parking issues and they are hungry for them monies. Call them and within 10-15 minutes they gonna arrive and boot every jackass they can get their hands on xD
Only question is if they’ll get there in time for original target
bstix@feddit.dk 2 days ago
The “just a minute”-people park everywhere, not limited to handicap spaces.
I’ve seen people put on the hazard lights in the middle of a street to get their take away food. I get that sometimes people can be in a hurry and it being almost an emergency for them, but it seems like something that becomes a bad habit.
My neighbour’s landlord throws his car anywhere effectively blocking the dead end road every single time he is there, and he’s not in a hurry. I think he even likes the interaction with people asking him to move his shit. He’s a friendly fellow who likes to talk, but he’s also a selfish asshole, who apparently enjoys having other people being dependent on him to solve the issue that he created.
I once had a job interview in one of his companies, and I could tell that his entitlement oozed through the entire organization.
He doesn’t park badly because he’s a bad driver. He’s a bad person and that makes him bad at parking.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in a complex with several buildings and literally hundreds of empty parking spots in the parking lot but I see delivery drivers park squarely in the center of the goddamn street with hazards on, then wander around for 10-15 “just a minute”s going by until they find the right building, pretty much every day. Almost drove straight into a car parked on a blind corner once, that was fun
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
yeah, that’s the problem here too - lack of enforcement leads shitbags to think they’ll get away with it, and they mostly do.
it’s one of those car-entitlement things that makes me ill if I think about it too much.