The Official CarSPIN Bad Parking Hall of Shame.

[Rupert]

I think it's intentional so no one can park close and ding it.

[Madman]

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[TurboDan]

Recently in a supermarket parking lot by my house...

[Rupert]

I hate that person. I can just tell.

[Madman]

I've been searching for this old film forever and now I've finally found it!

"Park Car" with spare tire - Ad in the 50's

I wonder why this clever invention never caught on?

[CALL_911]

Outside the building where my lab is, there's a motorcycle/moped spot. I have taken the trouble to turn it from that into a GTI spot.

Well, shit. Got a $40 ticket. After a good month and change of getting away with this, I guess I had it coming.

[Madman]

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Not even Batman can park properly!

[cawimmer430]

[GoCougs]

I got caught just as I was lining up to take this shot. The middle-aged DB owner was coming back to his car and stopped about 10' from me. I saw him, kinda smiled, lined up the pic again, snapped the pic, looked at him again, and walked away :).

[GoCougs]

Same day and Whole Foods lot as the A5. Lots of violators (pretentious, entitled, pseudo wealthy types) in this particular area.

[GoCougs]

I got caught on this one too, but not by the owner. She kinda laughed and I said I just have a hobby of taking pics of bad parking (the sign for the sport says MOTORCYCLE PARKING ONLY).

[GoCougs]

Ha, ha! I got caught on this one too, but purposefully. As I was just getting into my car to leave as she pulled into the offending spot. I got back out and waited till she got out of the car before I started to set up the shot. Once she got out I conspicuously took the shot. She gave me a puzzled look but then figured out what I was doing and then ignored me and walked away. (The sign says NO POST OFFICE PARKING and that is where she was going).

[CALL_911]

I'm guilty of sometimes parking in handicapped and motorcycle spots.

[hotrodalex]

1. What is an "emergency parking only" spot even used for? I understand a fire lane, but what emergency requires its own parking spot?

2. If you make a motorcycle only spot, you should mark it differently, with multiple smaller spots instead of one normal, car-sized spot.

[Cookie Monster]

I'm guilty of sometimes parking in handicapped and motorcycle spots.

Kind of a douchey thing to do.

[CALL_911]

Kind of a douchey thing to do.

Considering it's always fucking freezing here, there are no motorcycles around (except sometimes in the spring). Those spots go wasted anyway. As for handicapped spots, when the whole lot of a place is full and there are like 8 handicapped spots, with like 2 occupied (at the most), it's just plain inefficient for me to not use them. Douchiness be damned.

[CALL_911]

I hate the idea of handicapped spots, honestly.

[GoCougs]

I hate the idea of handicapped spots, honestly.

IME 50%+ of licensed handicapped parkers either fake it (limp when people are looking don't limp when they're not, which I see often from the 2nd floor stretching room at my gym) or chose to put themselves in a handicapped position (morbidly obese). Not sure in your state but in mine it's state law that such spots have to be provided, which is TOTAL BS of course. If it weren't, and property owners did so of their own volition I don't think it'd be a big deal really. People would still cheat it though .

[CALL_911]

IME 50%+ of licensed handicapped parkers either fake it (limp when people are looking don't limp when they're not, which I see often from the 2nd floor stretching room at my gym) or chose to put themselves in a handicapped position (morbidly obese). Not sure in your state but in mine it's state law that such spots have to be provided, which is TOTAL BS of course. If it weren't, and property owners did so of their own volition I don't think it'd be a big deal really. People would still cheat it though .

Exactly. I'm pretty sure it's a requirement here, which is total horseshit, and why I'll generally ignore the rule.

[Cookie Monster]

I hate the idea of handicapped spots, honestly.

Me too, but I still never park in them in the off chance some actually needs them.

[CALL_911]

Me too, but I still never park in them in the off chance some actually needs them.

I'd wager the vast majority of people who are eligible to use them don't "need" them.

[Cookie Monster]

I'd wager the vast majority of people who are eligible to use them don't "need" them.

No doubt. I wish doctors wouldn't give out those handicap signs like candy.

[CALL_911]

There was one spot I used to derive some sort of pleasure out of taking up last year. There was this morbidly obese bitch of an RA who had a placard solely because she was, well, morbidly obese. Fuck her, she needed the exercise anyway.

Later in the year, she wrote me up for having a loud pregame in my room (which we did every weekend, and only got written up on the last weekend of the year). Oh well.

[CALL_911]

Yes, I realize that's kind of fucked up, but whatever.

[Cookie Monster]

Yes, I realize that's kind of fucked up, but whatever.

I find it more fucked up that a morbidly obese person got her own spot.

[CALL_911]

I find it more fucked up that a morbidly obese person got her own spot.

Which is why I took the opportunity to share it with her.

[Laconian]

That is super douchey--and lazy--at the same time. You're making fun of the people that cheat the system, and look what you go ahead and do, hypocrite.

[CALL_911]

That is super douchey--and lazy--at the same time. You're making fun of the people that cheat the system, and look what you go ahead and do, hypocrite.

The very fact that the system exists (only to serve those who, for the most part, cheat it), is what I have a problem with. So fuck it.

[Laconian]

It also serves the people that are genuinely handicapped.

[CALL_911]

It also serves the people that are genuinely handicapped.

If there are 8 handicapped spots in a packed lot, where no more than 2 handicapped spots are used up, would you not call that a plain waste? I'm sure there are people who use them that are genuinely handicapped, but I'd wager the ratio to handicapped spots to people who genuinely need them (I also question how much one would genuinely need one in any instance. There is a difference between "need" and "would be convenient.") is very high.