View Full Version : Car park opposite the fire station in town last night.


lalaland
03-07-2005, 20:03
I parked in the car park opposite the fire station in town last night while out with some friends.

We got back to see many people stood in the car park and discovered they were all trying to get their cars out, but couldn't due to two vehicles which were obviously parked by idiots!

The car park was full and some fools has parked on the drive to the car park, making it single file in and out, but the biscuit was taken by the 2 vehicles that had parked at the top end of the car park, not in a space, but in the route that allows people in and out!

This meant that no one in the second half of the car park could get out at all and by the time we arrived there were many unhappy drivers.

A few minutes later a group of lads arrived and jumped in one of the vehicles, a white van, smoked what appeared to be marijuna (by the smell) and reversed out of the way.

The second vehicle, a dark blue Ford Fiesta, was still there.

Luckily a couple of cars in the middle of the car park, parked sensibley in spaces, moved out of the way and we all got free. Unfortunately as these spaces got taken up the others in the second half of the car park would have been trapped again.

This may seem like a small issue, but some of the people had been stuck there for at least 20 minutes and wanted to get home.

As we drove off I did see one of the owners of the car let down the tyres of the Fiesta, claiming this would teach him a lesson. Normally I would try to stop someone doing this or at least report it, but this person that parked there was a complete tit.

I hope he wasn't involved in an accident, but I do hope he had trouble getting his tyres sorted, the same that he caused people that were trapped by his selfish action! If there aren't any spaces, then drive somewhere else, don't just dump the vehicle and trap the rest of us in. :rant:

muddycoffee
03-07-2005, 20:13
If there are enough blokes about it is possible to bounce a car out of the way. Without opening the doors or damaging the car. That's what I would have done if I had been kept by such selfish and totally unreasonable behaviour.

All you have to do is get the back end of the car bouncing up and down on it's suspension, and one other person just gives the side a good shove at the right time. And you can quickly move it yards in either direction..

When you get good at it you can do it with such accuracy that you can get cars blocked into spaces where it is impossible to drive them out. If there is a wall in front and behind the car..

lalaland
03-07-2005, 21:58
I don't think there was anywhere to bounce it to, if they had tried that then they would have blocked the route further down. The car park really was quite full...

WallBuilder
03-07-2005, 23:50
If you can pick a car up so it's rear wheels are off the ground you can then roll it on iyts front wheels, however a lot of modern cars don't like being 'bounced' or 'rolled' and you tend to end up with part of the bumper that you have just pulled off the car.
I think if I'd of got the time I'd of done more than let the air out of the tyres I'd of jacked the car up and removed the wheles entirely, that's probably against the law though.

owdlad
04-07-2005, 08:05
The tyre's down followed by a screwdriver through the tyre wall sounds the best option to me.

Cyclone
04-07-2005, 08:25
can't blame the guy really. No one could be so thoughtless as to not realise what they were doing, they just didn't care.

muddycoffee
04-07-2005, 08:29
Originally posted by WallBuilder
however a lot of modern cars don't like being 'bounced' or 'rolled' and you tend to end up with part of the bumper that you have just pulled off the car.
Well in that case if you unfold the windscreen wipers you can leave the bumper on the windscreen and they won't go without it.:thumbsup: