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Maybe it’s a nitpick, but it’s annoying having to get on road just to walk pass it.

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sidewalk should really be a different material than the road and be labeled, that looks like a parking spot.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (29 children)

It's a different colour and raised. It's clearly not a parking spot.

Edit. Proof below if anybody else doubts that this is clearly a sidewalk.

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[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why aren’t they getting towed?

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Same reason cows in India are not forcefully pushed out of the street...

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You do realize that cows that stop producing milk are pushed out to live in the street, right?

They usually die from eating plastic shortly thereafter

Else, many are sold to Pakistan for slaughter

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 17 points 1 week ago

Wow what terrible design 😬

[–] Manapany@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a nitpik ! We should stop to be so compliant with bad biaviour.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Whenever cars obstruct sidewalks, I think about how it affects disabled people.

How does it affect a person in a wheelchair? A sight-impaired person? A person who has difficulty walking but is forced to park further away?

You're right, it's never nitpicking to complain about a person who parks on a sidewalk, or even about a person who partially obstructs a sidewalk, for example, with a massive trailer hitch on their massive eyesore of a pickup truck.

These people might be making somebody else's day much more difficult and stressful, in exchange for saving themselves a few seconds of walking. It's pathetic and it's the actions of a sociopath.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've done this. It's fun.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Be careful not to crack the windshield while walking over it, because that'd be a real bummer for the car brain.
More importantly: don't get caught ;)

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Walk over the top. Leave footprints so that they learn from their mistake.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A ticket would be better than potentially getting into trouble for damaging somebody's car. Call the police or whoever is responsible for things like this in Your country.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

If you do that in my country, the police won't investigate the crime you're reporting, but they'll keep your info on file in case a car is damaged later.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

If not car park, why car park shaped?? (everything is car park shaped if you're car brained)

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 week ago

Just walk over it?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

Why would you red out their license plate?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

100%

I will put deodorant on the door handles of a car that does this. Unacceptable.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Needs a bollard

Maybe you can find a big broken concrete block and put it in the middle.

Maybe if you find some yellow ribbon trash you can tie it to the block too.

All is solvable for free from trash

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oops, my hand slipped that happend to hold my keys

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It looks like Poland. Drivers looove to do that shit here.

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