Vagabond Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Asda are to fine rogue drivers who park in their parent-and-child and disabled bays. So it's £60 if you're one of the selfish cnuts who wrongly park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Kind of a good idea, but I don't know if Asda should be doing it themselves. I guess it's a bit like private clamping companies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kite Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Will this encourage RENT-A-KID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1MAC Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 It will definitely encourage some to go shopping elsewhere & they may end up losing much more than the £60 profit from 1 ticket. Glad they're looking at the disabled bays - cashpoint cripples make me They could also look at the 'I'm only popping in for 5 mins and I've got a flash motor anyway so I'm much more important than you' brigade who park anywhere and everywhere (inc disabled slots). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 If an Asda employee came out and told me to pay £60, I'll tell them to fu*k off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 That always drives me mad! At the gym I go to you can guarantee that the disabled parking slots at the front of the building is always filled with either Fezza's or Porkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair_A3 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I think its unfair to blame the people who own nicer cars, its just selfish in general to park in these spaces. I bet this £60 thing wont really be enforced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I fecking hope it does get inforced and that more supermarkets take this on board - I'd fecking clamp able drivers that park in disabled spaces - £200 release fee should make the lazy feckers think twice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Why don't asda introduce valet parking? afterall, they help you pack your bags. That would stop Mr. Mrs. Selfish B'stard abusing the carpark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] I think its unfair to blame the people who own nicer cars [/ QUOTE ] It must just be pure coincidence then, that all the people who feel it is acceptable to park in a disabled bay 20 yards closer to the door when you are going to the gym!!! Are all Ferarri and Porsche drivers! (oh there is also an X5 that often parks there as well....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] I think its unfair to blame the people who own nicer cars [/ QUOTE ] Agree with that - it's just that the selfish feckers that do this happen to drive nice cars. No connection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 FWIW, this really annoys me too - the number of people who park in the disabled spaces or mother & child space, without due cause. Just as bad, at our local supermarket, are the ones who insist on creating new spaces where there aren't meant to be any by parking at the end of a row of spaces or along the access roads, because it means they have 10 yards less to walk. they causes a great deal of inconvenience for other shoppers when they exit or enter the car park. FWIW I tend to park 3 or 4 rows back from the supermarket entrance so that I can find an area with no cars on either side of me, to prevent the customary car park dents - this applies whether I'm in the Porsche or my wife's A3. Blame the driver, not the car Sidicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I think its unfair to blame the people who own nicer cars [/ QUOTE ] Agree with that - it's just that the selfish feckers that do this happen to drive nice cars. No connection... [/ QUOTE ] Sidicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair_A3 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] I must just be pure coincidence then, that all the people who feel it is acceptable to park in a disabled bay 20 yards closer to the door when you are going to the gym!!! Are all Ferarri and Porsche drivers! (oh there is also an X5 that often parks there as well....) [/ QUOTE ] Stop been sour about not owning a Ferrari/Porsche. Oh and i own a 35k BMW does that mean i'll automatically park in disabled spaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustynuts Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I never park anywhere near the disabled bays. And today I saw the reason why yet again. I stopped at Morrisons on the way home to pick up some bread, sugar, and milk, and parked as usual about 100 yards away even though I was in the van. As I walked towards the door past the disabled bays there was an old bloke in a Fiat Multipla just performing an entry manoeuvre into one of two free bays, side by side. So I goes in, gets my provisions, pays at the hand basket till, and heads back out. I must've been more than five minutes but not more than ten, and when I came out and walked back past him he was just finishing his parking! Turned the engine off just as I got there, and started getting out of the car! And he had a nearly flat tyre aswell. Shows how aware and competent he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I'm not having a go at Porsche's as such - if i could afford one, it's likely i'd drive one. It just seems to be that the tw*ts that do this do seem to have a certain arrogance that does seem to influence the sort of cars they are drawn too..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Thats why getting old means a day out to the shops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1MAC Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I must just be pure coincidence then, that all the people who feel it is acceptable to park in a disabled bay 20 yards closer to the door when you are going to the gym!!! Are all Ferarri and Porsche drivers! (oh there is also an X5 that often parks there as well....) [/ QUOTE ] Stop been sour about not owning a Ferrari/Porsche. Oh and i own a 35k BMW does that mean i'll automatically park in disabled spaces? [/ QUOTE ] I don't think it has anything to do with sourness regarding what people can & can't afford - I might drive an Asbo at the moment but no one has any idea what I can and can't afford to drive car wise and why I have what I currently drive. What it is all about is the attitude and the preciousness of some people, just because they have a few quid in the bank ("I'm considerably richer than you are") or because they are the deputy regional distribution manager (Midlands region) for f*knose plc (my time is oh so valuable and I'm used to getting what I want and now). Yes there are others that do it but it is definitely most prevalent amongst the monied & self important Regardless of what I turn up in, I will park in a proper space (more likely at the back, out of the way) and I would expect anyone with a brain cell or the remotest common decency to do the same rather than do what they currently do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 that's exactly what I was trying to get at... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I always notice the big expensive cars that are parked in disabled spaces or over two spaces, where as when it is a nothing car you don't really take it in. I bet more people in crap cars park in the wrong spaces than those in nice cars, but when you see a massive BMW, Merc or the likes parked there you tend think "arrogant prick" more so than if it was a 10 year old Ford or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highflyin Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 This is an easy one. Dissabled poeple need a radar key to get into dissabled toilets in service areas. airports etc. Use the same key to either shut of a parking proximity alarm or lower dissabled bay posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1MAC Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] I always notice the big expensive cars that are parked in disabled spaces or over two spaces, where as when it is a nothing car you don't really take it in. I bet more people in crap cars park in the wrong spaces than those in nice cars, but when you see a massive BMW, Merc or the likes parked there you tend think "arrogant prick" more so than if it was a 10 year old Ford or something. [/ QUOTE ] There is an element of truth in that and I personally wouldn't suggest that it is solely the preserve of a certain group. Ignorance borne out of possible stupidity is slightly more forgivable than that borne out of likely arrogance. Those in the flash/expensive car really ought to know better but maybe this issue is a little example of the general wrongs of our current society all round ( that makes me sound old). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair_A3 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] This is an easy one. Dissabled poeple need a radar key to get into dissabled toilets in service areas. airports etc. Use the same key to either shut of a parking proximity alarm or lower dissabled bay posts. [/ QUOTE ] That would be cheap to carry out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlot Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 [ QUOTE ] That always drives me mad! At the gym I go to you can guarantee that the disabled parking slots at the front of the building is always filled with either Fezza's or Porkers. [/ QUOTE ] I get a bad back if I drive a Porsche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfc1912 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 If I see someone parking in the wrong bay usually stop and just start starring at them. I then make the comment "Mentally disabled I see then". Watchdog or someone made a big issue of this a few months ago. Asda said that they'd do something about it. For a week after at our local they had someone telling peole not to park there. It lasted all of 2 weeks!! Our Asda is getting that bad, people are parking on the pavements and anywhere else there's space so they don't have to walk from the far end of the car park. Must admit that our Asda is frequent by the local scum of the earth and DSS grabbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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