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Got back to my work car park today to find this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/woogieuk/20120731_163003.jpg
I literally just stood there thinking what??? What's more I have parked there every single day for over 2 weeks with no issues and today come back to this.... Just to make matters worse there was this much room either side of my bike to park
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/woogieuk/20120731_163012.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/woogieuk/20120731_163018.jpg
And all of the bikes parked infront of me had disc/wheel locks on so I was unable to move them..... and so ensued a wonderful 50 point turn for me to get out and squeeze down the side of one of the bikes to the left of me. Need to get me some YPLAC cards/stickers.
i'd have lifted up the front/rear in turn and slowly walked those bike sideways, or accidentally knocked them over
Knocked over, don't look back...
Spank86
31-07-12, 05:42 PM
Rearrange them in a circle so they all block each other in.
Ill see how things go tomorrow. As it was i was a tad worried as I park here every day that they would know it was me.
femaleacid
31-07-12, 05:50 PM
I would of set them off like dominos.
Actually, no, I wouldn't knock it over.
Tomorrow take your own padlock with you.... They won't get very far with it locked to their disk.
Or if you don't like being too subtle, a nice bright one so that they see it's on there before they ride off ;)
keith_d
31-07-12, 06:29 PM
Do you not have any mates at work? Get a mate or two to come down and help you park them a little more neatly. Every one parked facing the wall and so tight you couldn't get a fag paper between 'em, much less reach the disk lock.
Actually, looking at the photo you can see that the maroon scooter doesn't have his disk lock on because it's still hanging there. So you could have just rolled that one out of the way.
Sid Squid
31-07-12, 06:56 PM
It isn't right, but they parked like that so they didn't get blocked in like you did.
Common in double depth bike parks.
Actually, looking at the photo you can see that the maroon scooter doesn't have his disk lock on because it's still hanging there. So you could have just rolled that one out of the way.
I thought that then had a look, There is another disc lock on the front wheel
It isn't right, but they parked like that so they didn't get blocked in like you did.
Common in double depth bike parks.
First time in 2 1/2 weeks its been like that :(
yorkie_chris
31-07-12, 07:09 PM
This is why you need a naked bike with handguards, that looks filterable never mind needing to turn it round and stuff, just bash through, they'll move!
Superglue in their disc locks. They won't be going anywhere for a while then :)
Bloody hell. What a a bunch of ballbags! (you lot, moreso than the parking idiots)
Sid Squid
01-08-12, 12:28 PM
I don't think anyone would recommend you park like that, but think about this; you arrive at work in the morning, there's one space left, what would you do? Exactly.
Then when you came back to your bike to find Superglue in your lock would you you think that was the right thing to have done?
Didn't think so.
Bloody hell. What a a bunch of ballbags! (you lot, more so than the parking idiots)
Quite.
Fallout
01-08-12, 12:38 PM
I like the suggestion of getting some mates down. If I was a parking nob, and I came back to find my bike had been moved, but not tampered with, and just parked correctly, I WOULD GET THE MESSAGE. I wouldn't want someone fiddling with my bike again, so I would park it properly, but since it hadn't been damaged in anyway, I wouldn't be ****ed off and irate, and looking for someone to retaliate against.
+1 vote for getting some muscle and carefully parking them all correctly. They're only scooters, so should be easy!
Doesn't take much to shove a scooter a few inches or feet to one side to make a gap big enough to manouver through. Vandalism is not an acceptable method of dealing with this - for one thing the guys whose bikes have been vandalised wouldn't have a clue why, so they wouldn't have learned a thing from it.
More to the point - Why hasn't the Bandit owner used the bike's steering lock as well... every little helps?
Looks like the White's Row car park near Liverpool Street to me. Do I get a prize? :D I used to park there and always get blocked in so I just used to look for the lightest bike blocking my path and move it out of the way without damaging it. I reckon people expect that to happen.
SoulKiss
01-08-12, 12:51 PM
+1 on dragging scooters sideways - they are not really that heavy.
I don't think anyone would recommend you park like that, but think about this; you arrive at work in the morning, there's one space left, what would you do? Exactly.
I'd rather be 10 mins late for work than block someone else in, knowing that their route out would probably involve scraping my bike?
yorkie_chris
01-08-12, 05:50 PM
If they were bothered about the odd scratch they wouldn't park like a c***. Just get through them in easiest possible way.
An erasable pen, like they use in the scrap trade, with 'THANKS FOR PARKING LIKE A BELL END' written backwards on the screen of that scooter would pos do the trick.
as others have said a few mates at work and moved the bikes blocking you, but for me i would have moved them to another parking spot so they got the message
Sid Squid
01-08-12, 11:18 PM
I'd rather be 10 mins late for work than block someone else in, knowing that their route out would probably involve scraping my bike?
Hmmmmm...
I don't think anyone would recommend you park like that, but think about this; you arrive at work in the morning, there's one space left, what would you do? Exactly.
Searched the other 3 floors above at both ends before finding somewhere that doesnt block someone else in... Or using some of the open air parking in the local area. I'd never park anywhere that causes someone else to be blocked in regardless.... even if someone then took the spot I declined. Thats not me saying that to make a point, I've been driving for just under 8 years and have never once parked in an inconsiderate place
Looks like the White's Row car park near Liverpool Street to me. Do I get a prize? :D I used to park there and always get blocked in so I just used to look for the lightest bike blocking my path and move it out of the way without damaging it. I reckon people expect that to happen.
ding ding ding ding ding someone give this man a medal :P
as others have said a few mates at work and moved the bikes blocking you, but for me i would have moved them to another parking spot so they got the message
Work is about 5/6 minutes away and they probably wouldn't come and help :(
Steve_God
02-08-12, 10:13 AM
This:
http://www.daftgiftshop.co.uk/fake-parking-tickets-1140-p.asp
BlackFlag94
02-08-12, 10:46 AM
Scooters are easily liftable... 2 of my mates carried my old scooter up a flight of stairs and left me with the task of getting it back down.
Besides that, my girlfriend's brother parks his scooter in the way of mine all the time, you can lift and move the front, then the back... keep edging it over til its out of the way. If it happens again with the same bikes then block them in.
Dabteacake
04-08-12, 08:08 AM
I like how people say knock em over lol
hope your bikes get tipped for having a **** attitude!!!!
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