tich 0 Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I have worked with disabled,or as they now like to be known less abled bodied people for 40 years, and have found since my mum has been in a wheelchair, more and more people like to use the pavements for parking, have I never noticed this before,or is it just that I am now pushing my mother into the path of buses and the likes with her life in mortal danger, and mine running to the next available space on the pavement. Do these people who park their cars not think or is it just ignorence. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 ...Do these people who park their cars not think or is it just ignorence. Both! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 I know what you mean Tich, these inconsiderate motorists aren't content with being on the road they want to take up half the pavement as well, not leaving much room for me to ride along the pavement on me bike Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 All the funnies aside I am with you all the way tich, well I would be wouldn’t I. I must admit I have done the same but don’t make a habit of it, not like some motorists do, many seem to think they have to put two wheels on the pavement no matter how wide the road is, they treat it as a normal thing to do when parking. I could go out tomorrow with me camera and within half an hour I bet I could catch on memory card a dozen or more offenders, I’ve even seen the odd police car parked like it while the drivers partner is in the chippy getting their diner. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 True Story, anyone who know's Western Bouelvard at Whitemoor will know the "pavement" there is approx 12 feet wide, one day in 1970's 2, not 1, policemen knocked at my front door there re me leaving a escort car on such, saying I'd be reported, so I started parking around the corner near St Leo's church. 4 days later I saw one of these plods at police station when I went to report my car stolen! Never heard no more about it. In later years this pavenment became not only a parking bay for everyone (as far as I know still illegal?) but an extra lane for cars to avoid the traffic jam at the lights or an access to houses 100's of yards up the boulevard at 30plus mph, nobody, police, council or residents (apart from latter moaning but doing **** all about it) eventually I got council to put bollards up, The point I'm trying to make is the laws are there but nobody interested? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zab 47 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I agree with Tich, I think pavement parking is becoming far more prevalent and I'm just glad I don't have to wheel a pushchair or wheelchair through some of the narrow gaps; it's motorists being totally selfish. Pavements are for people not for cars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 And not forgetting the damage they do to the pavement slabs which have to be replaced or in most cases now tarmaced. Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Excuse my ignorance, but is pavement parking a police or civil highways issue, who do you report it to. The reason I'm asking this is because of the b@st@rd neighbour thats been taking the p@ss out of my 93 year old mum. I've had a phone call this morning from Nottingham to say that my efforts at stitching him up as regards health issues have paid off and there are currently vans outside his house removing cr@p and asbestos waste, presumably at his own expense. My next step will be planning enforcement, but I'll give him a week so when he thinks he's safe then make the arsehole suffer again. My following move will be to have him done for parking on the pavement and across my mothers drive, I presume that this is a police matter then. Everyone on the road hates the man but are to scared or complacent to do anything about him, quite frankly he wants deporting back to where the filthy selfish pig came from, he has no place in our society. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 If your mother has touble getting her car out of her driveway because someone has parked across her driveway entrance, then it is a police matter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedDemon 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 if it is not cars you cant get past, its wheelie bins parked in the middle of the pavement, as I have put in my blog me and "scooby" often struggle to get past them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted October 2, 2009 Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Parking enforcement is now a local authority rather than police matter. Oddly enough parking on the pavement is an offence only in London Boroughs and those local authorities that have a bye law. However, if a driver is causing an obstruction by parking on the pavement then the police can get involved. Enforcement is very haphazard in Nottingham. City bosses are happy for their parking attendants to ticket cars parked in (very poorly signed) suspended parking bays while at the same time they prefer to send warning letter after warning letter to secondhand car dealers (using the road as an unofficial forecourt) rather than ticketing them. Go figure as they say. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 So who do you suggest that I complain to about my mothers neighbour, the police or the Highways department, my gut feeling is the police, it'd be nice if he had his collar felt, serve him right. Which reminds me, no doubt it's down on his motor insurance form that he parks on his now non-existant drive, are there any legal issues over that, would the police be interested, it's insurance fraud isn't it. I've had one triumph this week, he was descended on by the Environmental Health and done for having asbestos waste on his property, I wonder who tipped them off. I think that other issues arose, hopefully child welfare too, but I haven't got all the details back from Nottingham yet. When he thinks he's safe I will get a planning enforcement order stuck on him, that'll upset him, or perhaps I'll get the police in first. The moral of the story, don't f##k with 93 year old lovely lady and treat the rest of your neighbours with equal contempt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 I'd be out in the wee small hours and take all the "cores" out of his tyre valves and ditch them down the nearest drain. A few times done and I think he'd alter his attitude. One flat tyre is a pain, all four with no valve core in is a nightmare. !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Ayup Pete, Torch it on November 5th Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'd be out in the wee small hours and take all the "cores" out of his tyre valves and ditch them down the nearest drain. A few times done and I think he'd alter his attitude. One flat tyre is a pain, all four with no valve core in is a nightmare. Unfortunately I live too far away to do this. We did have a criminal, wife beating, arsehole, bully boy who used to take up one of our nominated parking spaces at a previous residence. The powers that be, and him, and it's a long story, wouldn't do anything about it. Simple solution, crawled under his car and loosened his sump oil drain plug, apparently the car engine detonated half way down the M11 as was he was on his way to carry out a burglary in London, nice result that one, I think that the scumbag is still inside. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Went down Bailey Street Old Basford today and look what someone parked partly on the pavement Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Did you ask em to move ???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 ich bin shiftenze zor wagon? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 If its parked on the pavement on Halloween, A dozen eggs would be a good Idea. The kids would get the blame! Killing two birds with one stone as it were Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Like your logic there Mick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Went down Bailey Street Old Basford today and look what someone parked partly on the pavement C'mon, you can see that they're all looking at the map and are clearly lost, must have taken the wrong turn out of Dunkirk and gone to the nearest police station for directions. I wouldn't risk chucking eggs at them though, the owner of this vehicle was clearly not amused by that; Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I know what's happened, it was that Home Guard road block on Church St bridge, they've obviously took the Western Boulevard route then turned right at bottom of bridge towards St Leo's which then would appear on wrong side of their maps and confuse them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 It must have been the reason for 'Seelowe' to have been called off, all them jams, roundabouts and traffic lights on Western Boulevard would have done Von Rundstedts head in, the 1000 Year Reich would have collapsed before they got to Basford, pretty cute those Nazi generals, you have to admire them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,580 Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Sometimes don't you just wish the earth would swallow you up?? Pete, operation "seelowe" or operation "sealion"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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