I found this pic in my archive, taken I know not where after all the time that has passed.
The reason I grabbed the pic was down to something that had become a ‘Thing’ in America at the time – it may still be for all I know, but at least people are (apparently) no longer sharing pics and calling for violence against the car owner.
For a while, it became a ‘Thing’ to photograph cars not perfectly parked inside the lines marking a parking bay.
NOT just in cases such the UK example I captured here, where the word ‘abandoned’ would be slightly more accurate than ‘parked’, but all the way down to examples where it would take rulers and lasers to confirm that the edge of a car/vehicle was on, or over, a line.
Things in the good old US didn’t stop at pics though as there were not only the pics I mentioned, posted with calls for acts of violence against the driver concerned, but those incensed by what they saw as unacceptably sloppy parking would get hold of friends with massive 4×4 and trucks (including artics and trailers), and park them around the ‘offending’ vehicle to prevent it being driven away.
Others would park their trucks flush against the sides of the offender’s vehicle, making access to the doors impossible.
Those blocking vehicles would just be left there, while their owners settled down in another, and videoed the return of the driver to their inaccessible vehicle.
Others even pictured trucks pulled up against the supposed offender’s vehicle, with some pretty big guys (Rednecks?) sitting on that vehicle, presumably waiting for the owner to return.
I never see these now.
Either the photo/video hosts have banned them, or there has been actual violence with injuries, and that’s led to them being banned – I don’t know.
But it was getting out of hand, and I would not be the least surprised if someone had been beaten up or even shot over there as a result of escalating silliness.
In many cases, it was also clear that the car park was nowhere near fully occupied, so this really was more an issue of thugs and bullies in big vehicles finding someone to pick on rather than of fixing allegedly bad parking.
Not American Car Park
Secret Scotland 