Touch my tyres and there's the potential for some criminal damage I think :tick: :lol:

 

Our lass used to have cards which stated -

'I hope you don't park like you fuck, you'll never get it in'.

Something along those lines, or big fuck-off disabled stickers. When they protest that they're not disabled, tell them to go and get an intellegence test done, and come see me when you've got the results.

 

Just as a thought, how much inconvenience would you be causing to those "poor parents" who would've had the space after "only a couple of minutes" but now have to park at the opposite end of the car park whilst they wait for the "lazy childless arseholes" to go find a foot pump?
Counter productive me thinks... arse kicking aside...

 

Parent and child parking spaces are sacred....A bit like Indian burial mounds.

 

could always mind your own buisness ...i can see punch on the snout coming if you mess with peoples cars

 

Parking parent and child, meh.

Parking in disabled, grr!

 

Or ask for a tannoy announcement.

"Would the cripple parked in the disabled bay in the Blue Vauxhall Vectra reg - KN08EAD please return to their car, it looks like someone has stolen your Blue Badge. Our security guard will happily escort you to your car."

[edit]I did use the word cripple, but I blame my para-olympic gold winning friend for this. Its his word really. And he has a gold medal. [/edit]

 

Its not your problem, its the supermarkets. Get them to enforce it or hold them to account.

On another related note, its ok to keep letting the tyres down on a regular basis to the extent that the person who owns the car keeps buying new tyres over the last 2 years because they think they keep getting faulty tyres or flats - after you witness them key your own car and then blame someone else..... Have I said too much

 

You also need to remember that whilst your dishing out punishment, it is possible for one of the offenders to return to the disabled vehicle with a disabled person after picking them up from the supermarket!

 

So remind me, how did our parents and their parents manage without Parent and Child parking spaces in the past?

Disabled spaces I can understand people getting narky.....

 

This

How the hell did my wife and I manage? - they hadn't been invented 23 years ago.

Perhaps your life isn't all that complicated if you have time to worry about parking more than 50 yards from the supermarket door?

I find that exercise does me good

 

So you parked in the parent and child spot and sat in the car with your child while some poor sod had to park in a normal spot and struggle to get the kid out safely??

This annoys me almost as much as ignorant knobheads who dont have kids using the spaces.

Yours tires should be let down.

 

So you parked in the parent and child spot and sat in the car with your child while some poor sod had to park in a normal spot and struggle to get the kid out safely??

This annoys me almost as much as ignorant knobheads who dont have kids using the spaces.

Yours tires should be let down.

Actually if you read the OP, he sat there with child possibly expecting to have to get out of the car in a child parking place (the whole point of it).

 

...I sat in the car with him while my better half went in and did the shopping and I would come and join her if he woke up...

so you were taking up a space that someone with a newborn might need now so that you could wait & see if you needed it later?

perhaps you should have let your own tyres down? :incheek:

(bugger... took too long typing that)

 

so you were taking up a space that someone with a newborn might need now so that you could wait & see if you needed it later?

This^^^

 

Both blue badge and child spaces grind me a little, the quantity of them most of the time seems completely disproportionate to the clientel...

I worked in a building a few years back where our office was on the first floor, we had 8 allocated parking bays and 3 of them were disabled? Most people with a disability that would require extra space or have trouble walking wouldn't be able to get up the fucking stairs anyway! Complete madness that was

 

I parked in a parent and child space once, I had my mum with me.

 

Well, as a childminder, I find the comments about parent and child spaces comical. They are there for a reason, these days supermarket car parks are huge, it isn't about the 'extra walk', it's about safety, and access in and out of vehicles.

But hey, like they say, let's not let facts get in the way of a good moan. For the record, my Sharan has lost its' side 3 times in supermarket car parks, which isn't surprising......I can't even open my doors enough to get a baby seat out usually.

 

Well, as a childminder, I find the comments about parent and child spaces comical. They are there for a reason, these days supermarket car parks are huge, it isn't about the 'extra walk', it's about safety, and access in and out of vehicles.

Again, how do you think the generations before us coped? As a childminder, do you really take the kids in your care to the supermarket? Just wondering.

 

I think part of the problem (apart from the wopping arses of Didgrot) is the fact that all modern cars are getting bigger and parking space sizes have stayed constant in size.

 

Maybe if all the spaces were a decent width it wouldn't be a issue??
Every new car park they seem to get smaller?

 

order online and have a man deliver it to your door....high horse incident averted

 

+1 Stay at home and avert all possible risk of reality :incheek:

 

VZi does make me laugh sometimes.

 

Funniest thread in ages

 

If you find out the answer can you let me know please ?

I had a chap ring up to report criminal damage when his tyre was let down. I was gonna log it as anti-social behaviour, as his car was not permanently damaged. He then told me he was a copper, wth 7 yrs in, so he knows best, and it was vehicle interference. I told him that I was gonna check with a colleague, as she had 24yrs in ! (he didn't appreciate that).

I really cant remember the outcome, but there was a choice of crim dam, anti-social behaviour, or vehicle interference -depending on who you spoke to (and how they interpreted the counting rules), and how the tyres were let down via the valves exactly.

 

Who can actually enforce any rules in a supermarket car park?

As you are on private land, I doubt it's anything to do with traffic law.

I have always assumed that the parking markings / one way signs / pedestrian crossings are technically voluntary (not that I dont respect / obey them like a fine upstanding citizen ).

I guess that you could be banned from the supermarket


Also, I can vaguely remember that tyre squealing, bass pumping, max power types would typically be charged with noise pollution offences, rather than traffic offences due to the above.

Or perhaps I just imagined that last bit?


And finally, will insurance companies pay out if you have a knock on private land?

 

Also, I can vaguely remember that tyre squealing, bass pumping, max power types would typically be charged with noise pollution offences, rather than traffic offences due to the above.

Or perhaps I just imagined that last bit?

Sounds about right. Was the end of the Edition 38 meets in Guildford thanks to the boy racer fast ford brigade doing exactly that. That was an entertaining night for sure!!!!

 

I would prefer it if people didn't take their children to the supermarket at all. Its a nightmare trying to navigate the aisles with a trolley and avoid the children that are running wild everywhere, usually dropping jars of bolognaise sauce on the floor. I don't the nice quiet children that just toddle after mum and dad.

 

I just called my parents to ask how they coped in the old days in big supermarket car parks without parent and child parking.

She reminded me that they didnt exist.

Can we put that stupid question to bed now?

 

It's amazing we're all alive isn't it?! :lol:

 

As you are on private land, I doubt it's anything to do with traffic law.

The Road Traffic Act applies to supermarket car parks as they are held to be public places.

 

I always wonder why should people with kids be treated differently? Was their choice after all. Bit like the MumsNet brigade who thnk they deserve the right to free child care.......

 

Some of them reckon they deserve free nappies too :lol: