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[–] [email protected] 227 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Double parking should be an automatic tow even if half the lot is empty.

[–] then_three_more 55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'd be happy with small print that says you have to buy two parking tickets. Nice and small at the bottom so they don't realise and just get slapped with a £90 fine whenever they park like it.

[–] damo_omad 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Being in Aus, a car park like this would most likely be free.

If I couldn't find parking I would 100% do what the white car did (and have done before)

[–] brygphilomena 18 points 4 months ago

I went to work one day at Disneyland. And a truck took 4 parking spots, right at the front. The lot was packed, people were parking at the end of the rows not even in spots. I drive a very small car. My hood fit under their bumper so I parked in front of them in just one of the spots they took.

I came back to a nasty note on how they paid for 2 spots (but took 4) and how much of an asshole I was for parking in the only spot I could.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's not a little white car. That's just a white car. Fuck cars, but fuck these monstrosities that wouldn't be street legal in any reasonable country especially.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla 25 points 4 months ago

Yup, that used to be a mid size car back in the day. This is actually a pretty good illustration of how out of control the size of our cars are getting

[–] eatCasserole 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck cars but I think it's a Camry, which is actually a mid-size car.

[–] hydriplex 12 points 4 months ago

Mid. Median. It's a car. It's not a small car, it's not a big car.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 99 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nobody likes these fucks in the giant trucks. I run a condo and those trucks stick out about 2 feet into the driveway and fit tightly on the wide side. We started banning them and it pissed off a few rednecks, but if you buy a car that literally doesn't fit in your parking spot, that's your problem.

[–] FinalRemix 60 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I've got an old F150 farm truck and I still make a point to park in east Jesus nowhere in a parking lot so I'm not in the way. It's common fuckin' decency.

[–] Etterra 24 points 4 months ago

Thank you for your courteous parking habits.

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[–] Olhonestjim 22 points 4 months ago (27 children)

Yeah, I require a large truck for work. I haul a large trailer and work rural. If I didn't need it, I wouldn't blow money on it. I park out of the way on principle, and pretty much don't bother with downtown areas anymore, sadly. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't sweat it. Folks don't mind a truck that actually works driven by a courteous driver.

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[–] saltesc 98 points 4 months ago (4 children)

$130K?

Mate, the second he left the dealership, a piece of shit like that devalued to $FuckAll for obvious Australian reasons.

But enjoy the loan payments, being laughed at, and this shit whenever going shopping.

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[–] Duamerthrax 75 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's too much for a truck that's never going to see real work. All hat, no cow.

[–] Crackhappy 18 points 4 months ago

All condom no dick.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Pavement princess

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Emotional support truck! Loooooool.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

Gender affirming vehicle

[–] Thcdenton 63 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Tarquinn2049 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Wow, it costs alot of money to be an idiot. You can get a truck that is equally, if not more functional for 10 grand. You could even super splurge and get one for 30k that is even incredibly similar on the non-functional stuff too. There are much better things to spend the 100k remaining than the difference between a 30k truck and a 130k truck.

[–] givesomefucks 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (28 children)

I grew up on a tobacco farm, shit ton of manual labor, and the extended families all helped each other

A cousin had a jacked up truck (obviously we're all hillbillies).

But he lifted it so much, it couldn't hitch to a trailer, and only one of the wagons. He took a functional truck and made it almost impossible to actually use it for anything.

I've been shitting on all the idiots driving lifted trucks ever since. I have zero idea why so many guys live in cities and work desk jobs but drive a giant truck for their commute. And there is an insane amount of them at my current job.

My point is, even in rural areas this shit is completely useless. The only reason anyone buys them is they're insecure in their own masculinity. They need a big truck to feel like a big boy

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[–] Delphia 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Yes it does but no you cant, this is the Australian market with the Australian dollar. Brand new dual cab diesels like the Ranger or Hilux are $70k plus, Brand new Chinese dual cabs are $40k. Once you start looking at 3.5 ton+ towing the market gets pretty skinny and most of them are 100k plus. We dont have a history of massive pickup trucks like big old F350s and C30s that are cheap enough that you can just have one for when you need to tow.

Utility vehicles that run and drive and arent heaps of absolute shit here are around $5k if they are roadworthy because theres always a new apprentice plumber who needs a work vehicle. If this guy NEEDS to tow big things over long distances and wants to do it in comfort, its not a long list of vehicles. Not arguing that THIS guy isnt almost certainly a wanker, but I know the local market and know it well.

Edit: just out of curiosity I opened up Carsales, a fully loaded F350 here is over $250k, Ram Laramie too. For $30k there were 4 cars in the whole country that could tow 4 ton and they were all 90s landrover defenders, only 1 with reasonable mileage. For $10k you can get a 2013 Ranger with 320,000kms on the odo but it can only tow 3.5. Theres nothing that can tow 4 tons for less than 20k and its a thrashed 90s Landrover with 410,000 kms on the clock.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Australia doesn’t exist.

[–] Delphia 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes it does.

See many many years ago the Poms found a lovely sunny place thats amazing to live and decided that it sounded like a brilliant place to send their convicts while they stayed home, got wet all the time, died of consumption in T'Pit and got really shit at all the sports they sent us over with.

Also, whats the different between a british airways jet and a british tourist? The jet stops whining when it reaches Sydney.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Penis Enlargement Surgery is only $30k max. Fella like this . . .

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I basically treat truck drivers the way I treat cops at this point. Keep a safe distance and treat them like really stupid but dangerous and highly aggressive animals. Not surprising at all that most cops drive trucks.

[–] Nastybutler 51 points 4 months ago

Imagine thinking the car is the asshole in this situation

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I drive an ‘92 geo metro just so I can park my car there and then abandon it if need be. Fuck you, fuck your truck, and fuck your money.

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[–] centipede_powder 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a truck owner (i have a farm) i am paranoid a hell about being evenly between the lines. If you can't afford to take care of your pavement princess when it gets dings then maybe you should get something buy something in your budget.

[–] pingveno 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, if someone has a pickup truck and it's not at least a little dinged up, I'm judging them. Those are working vehicles, not eye candy.

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[–] _stranger_ 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The really stupid part is that truck guy could have parked all the way over the other way and it would have had plenty of space.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

Truck driver has some "I'm The Main Character" energy

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you take the end spot and then park far away from the curb to be a dick, you probably deserve to get your car banged up. I love end spots. I snuggle right up against that curb.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why I pick the end spot. I have a wide car and I don't want it getting banged...so I hug that edge like a mother fucker.

Make it easy for people to not ding your car, and you won't get your car dinged.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

queenslanders dont say "pal" like that

deffo looks like a queensland carpark though 🤔

edit: did a reverse image search, according to reddit its an old satirical post by "Barry Barrington"... still weird to end it in "pal" and not "mate"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

It's a QLD rego plate on the corolla so the pic was taken in a Qld carpark. Probably said pal cause wankers in massive utes ain't our mates...

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this. I've had the great pleasure of doing this to the driver door of two giant asshole truck drivers in the last week. #justcompactcarthings

Update for anyone reading this later, the first truck definitely had to climb through the passenger seat, but unfortunately I had to leave before the second one did. It was overnight too! :(

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I’m impressed the guy in the white car was able to get out of that

Also the dude in the big truck has a small penis, this just convinced me.

[–] umbraroze 13 points 4 months ago

"You think this is bad, this–this chicanery? He's done worse. That car park! Are you telling me that a man just happens to park a car in that small spot? No, he orchestrated it! He exited through the sunroof!"

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[–] pHr34kY 21 points 4 months ago

If you buy a car that's a problem, I will make sure it becomes your problem and not mine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago
[–] BleatingZombie 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As someone who had a car and wanted to avoid door dings: you have to do this at the far back of the parking lot when the majority are empty. If the parking lot is mostly full, you have to park somewhere else

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (8 children)

another massive beef of mine, though ironically, i think older cars were much better along this line, since you could probably just open the door all the way in a parking lot and it wouldn't even be close to touching the other cars.

Doors are fucking annoying bro. Why do they gotta be so fucking big. I have to shimmy my way out through the door while holding it in between notches because it won't fucking sit still outside of them.

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