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Why? There is enough space on the parking lot

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨reddfugee@feddit.de⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Practical answer: because they haven’t installed concrete wheel stops on the ground in that parking lot. If that’s a used walkway, they should.

    I know, people are assholes, etc. I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.

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    • Nugget@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.

      Beautifully put. So often there are simple solutions to these problems.

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    • TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have never seen these things in my life. Apparently they are not a thing where I live. But it’s sad that we need something like that so that idiots learn to park.

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      • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We also use them to stop ppl getting run over.

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    • HerbSolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While we can’t unasshole everyone we can start ticketing ppl who park outside the lines. In most cities there’s traffic wardens anyways, so that should be cheaper than installing bumpers on every parking spot.

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, though the other reason to have bumpers is physical safety. This is a walkway. If someone is just a little bit negligent, they could run over someone. Ticketing them doesn’t help at that point. And the cost of that life is more than a million bumpers. So again, as much as I’d like to punish bad parkers too, as emotionally satisfying as that would be for me, the practical solution that will just work is to add the bumpers.

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    • Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think, in this case, it’s due to people being assholes. More like, people are dumb and completely oblivious to their surroundings.

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      • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tomato / tomato

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ive started to see these more and more, and imo they are a good thing! They really prevent this b/s from happening!

      Though sometimes i feel they are placed a bit much too the front for my hatchback, but i understand this is so family cars dont go too far either

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      • ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have poor spatial awareness and learning to drive later in life - plus still getting to know my car. With a long, low nose, these bumpers are so handy, particularly the lower ones and/or made of rubber, so I don’t scrape my car’s poor snout!

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    • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m just mentioning a solution that is actually available, where unassholing everyone isn’t.

      Not with that attitude. Just need enough superglue and some determination…

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  • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really they should just have some concrete parking blocks in that lot. Not sure if I can really blame the drivers here… it’s just a bad setup.

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    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, this is more of a design failure than people being assholes.

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      • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The design failure is only failing to anticipate that people are going to be assholes. The two are not mutually exclusive.

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    • hdnsmbt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Shouldn’t the driver be able to know where their car ends without a concrete barrier?

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    • legion02@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a curb. That idiot just pulled up onto it.

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  • WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because if you park too far out, there’ll be an idiot that will hit your car.

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    • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you park on the lawn there will still be some idiot who finds a way to hit your car.

      That is no excuse to park like an asshole.

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    • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe, but depending on where you live, parking like this will get your car scratched up and headlights broken. which is the right thing to do

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    • czech@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don"t fit in the spot then. Need to find a bigger spot or a smaller car.

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      • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve been on the middle of a parking lot, in a smaller car then both my neighbors, with my bumper (on front and back) less far out than my neighbors and still got a nice $500 bumper-rub.

        Being remotely close to the edge is not in your personal self interest.

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, they need a car stop bar or whatever that informa the driver when they are safely parked

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    • Zella111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait until I try to get by the front of their cars with my walker.

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      • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s more idiots driving cars than walking walkers.

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    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Many cars are too long for the road.

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    • bossito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s clearly a residential area if someone would hit their cars it would happen either way… you’re supposed to drive slowly there.

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  • Globulart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most people aren’t doing terribly here really. It’s not ideal but it’s not horrific, until you get to the light blue/turquoise SUV 3 or 4 cars down. That fucker has clearly mounted the kerb and without the car there this picture looks pretty normal.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      very suspicious framing

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    • Tippon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Aren’t doing terribly? Every one of them is overhanging the pavement.

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      • Globulart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah not ideal as I said, the picture just looks a lot worse because of one douchbag who has fully mounted the kerb. Most people here have parked badly, one person has parked awfully. Without the one person this picture looks very different.

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  • malloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is why parking spaces tend to have those horizontal blocks. It’s to stop dumbass drivers like those depicted in the picture from blocking the sidewalk.

    Unfortunately, with the rise in insecurity compensators (“sports” utility vehicles and light duty trucks). Those measures are quickly defeated.

    I live in the southern states of America and the amount of dOdGe RaM 1500 hD/f150s and “luxury” SUVs just blatantly blocking the sidewalks in urban settings (downtown) is too fucking high. If you are visually impaired expect to run into many of these idiot’s cars/trucks.

    Fuck cars.

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    • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sorry to say that I’m often one of those dumbass drivers (though I drive a little Civic). I need to do a better job of not pulling so far. Pedestrians and bicyclists deserve a sidewalk free of obstacles, and It’s not good for the car either.

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those are called a “tire stop” in english (american). Many US cities require them to avoid this very problem…

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s when you get your key out and write them a love letter with it

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

      !fuckcars@lemmy.world

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  • CheesyGordita@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably because people are bad at parking and it’s easy to pull forward till you feel your tires bump against the curb. Only problem is that with increasing safety standards usually resulting in longer hoods and bigger engine compartments for crumple zones, you get this.

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    • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not bad parking, lots of places use parking stops and you’re told/taught to pull up to them or the curb to park.

      Where I am, if you don’t have parking stops, your curb must be 3m wide, to account for hood overhang and leaving the required space for handi egress.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They want their cars scratched, that’s why!

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    • Schlecknits@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a small kid i once rode my kickscooter in a similar parked car, cause to be honest I wasn’t looking and also wasn’t expecting a car to pretrude like one meter into the sidewalk. While I was definitly careless (and also like 5) you should expect accidents happening when you leave stuff in places they don’t belong.

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Happy to oblige ! whow about an extra tire knifing ? it’s on the house !

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      • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Everyone should carry a good penknife just for moments like this

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone else questioning whether there are the same location? Might be, and I know people park like that, it’s just… weird angle and easy to throw together as rage bait.

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  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the US, half those vehicles would have trailer hitches waiting to bruise your shins.

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And another 30% would have bike racks that are really just there to discourage tailgaters

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  • DiedAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s often because people line up their car according to the car next to them. If one person does a lousy job and the next person copies them it begins to spread like a virus.

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    • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s good there. I think that’s my mistake when I park. I align with the neighboring car’s sideview mirrors.

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah this is probably it. Would explain why people with small cars always pull in waaaaaay to the front. Everytime I think I see a space I’m bamboozled by small cars.

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    • ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do that too, but I also tend to check where the front of that car is…

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      • ironhydroxide@partizle.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A good rule of thumb is to look just below the side mirrors. The average height person seated correctly will see the stop line appear just below the side mirrors when the front bumper is at the line.

        Easy way to know with yourself in your own car is to park right at the line, then sit in the drivers seat and compare where the line is in relation to the mirrors when seated normally.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lots of people are bad at parking. It can be a little difficult to judge distance so people go until they bump something. I think having cameras around the vehicle would help, if people use them, that is.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Last time I used my backup camera, I misjudged the distance and hit someone. Never again.

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      • theragu40@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cameras should be used in conjunction with your mirrors, not exclusively. It makes more sense to me to learn to use safety features rather than ignore them.

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      • jayandp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Newer backup cameras have lines to warn you of the distance, but you still have to be careful just like with mirrors.

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  • soullioness@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a wheelchair user I absolutely hate when people do this! I ended up forced to go around the back of the car which is way less safe.

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    • Skymt@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m fairly sure parking like this would earn you tickets where I live…

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  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I get that this is obnoxious, but I would probably make the same mistake. It’s just a habit to pull my car up to the “front” of a parking spot. Most curb parking that I’m familiar with includes spacing for car overhang that is apart from the sidewalk, so this seems like understandably thoughtless parking, but it’s also really poor parking/sidewalk design. It’s much easier to pull fully into a spot then it is to try to guess how far back from the front to park to leave enough space for the sidewalk but also not having your ass hanging out in the way of through traffic.

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    • falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But couldn’t drivers just, you know, moved back out a little if they realized they overshot it? Doesn’t take them that long to get down to check, and get back in to move the car a bit.

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      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They could. How does that seem to be working out?

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  • alexius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is why parking spaces have the yellow fucking things in the front.

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Idiots that can’t drive properly maybe drive until their wheels touch the kerb? I very rarely see this in the UK, that’s madness.

    Fun fact, when I visited the USA I was very confused by these weird concrete slabs they had in their car parks along each parking space.

    Turns out, enough of their drivers are incompetent enough at driving that they’re put there for them to bump up against as they’re parking, because they aren’t able to figure out how to park properly by themselves xD amazing.

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  • gigachad@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My whooe neighborhood looks like this and I fucking hate it. Sometimes I fantasize about having a giant Flex and cut every car where the sidewalk begins

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  • FluffyToaster621@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most of our parking spaces have terrible indicators for whether or not you’re actually close enough without having your rear-end hang out of the lines. So people tend to park with their wheels nudging the concrete just to make sure.

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  • Lightning66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cause we own the roads and the platforms.

    Whatdya mean you wanna walk

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  • CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah cos fuck pedestrians, that’s why. /s

    Fucking piece of shit drivers.

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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Solution: cover your hands with jelly and make a big scene of climbing over the cars to use the sidewalk, leaving jelly handprints everywhere.

    If confronted about the jelly prints, just say you were eating a really big donut.

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  • ech0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because fuck people in wheelchairs I guess…

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  • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because some idiots don’t feel like they’re parked until the front mud flap is scraping and eventually ripped off.

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  • gamey@feddit.rocks ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You just have to take your place with force, jump on the cars to stay in a straight line and the owners will think twice next time! ;)

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  • SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Time for a janitor to squeeze by with a huge set of keys hanging by his belt

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have the opposite problem when I park. I totally underestimate the amount of room I have in front of me and end up at the very back of the parking space, almost sticking out into the road/parking lot aisle. I don’t stick out completely, but there’s often a huge gap between me and the curb or the other space or whatever.

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  • ScrollinMyDayAway@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    See that kid on a bike back there? Well FUCK them, you little asshole! Serves them right. Just sayin…

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  • Nioxic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A lot of places need those metal rods

    Complain to the owner of the parking lot. Whoever they are. Public or private.

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    fuckcars

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d be willing to be that at least one out of ten people who park this way would say it’s because walking outdoors is only for poor people and if they wanted to walk somewhere they’ll get on their $4000 Peloton treadmill at home, and that sidewalks are no longer relevant. Maybe I’m just getting jaded though

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe if there was a wall there instead of a sidewalk they would all just crash into the wall 😂

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