i remember some years back now.. i had a little fiat panda.. an dthe people who lived down the road to me would park their cars in such a way.. no one else who lived along there could park.. and then when the others members came home.. they would go and and have a move about and you got two more cars in!!!! so i thought one day.. sod this!!! i am going to get my car in there.
after about 5mins i had it in.. with inches to spare front and back.. the guys in the garage opposite all applauded when i got out.. which was great.. i did feel pretty pleased with myself..the nieighbours were not amused at all.. and the next morning i went out my back wiper and offside wing mirror were broken off.. and this damage continued for a week.. until i thought enough is enough.. so i went out late one night and did same damage to their cars.. and i never had a problem again from them.. and they stopped hoggin the street to.
not that i recommend this sort of behaviour of course but my grandad said sometimes with people you hve to treat like for like to make your point!
Wow, that's quite a story, GF!! It is the sort of thing that my instincts tell me to do before my OH tells me how stupid it would be and warns me of the awful retribution that will be exacted if I do it. So then I meekly give in and feel defeated and frustrated. I'm glad you won and rather envious o! the fact that you actually had the guts to do it!
G/G, Never had any problems parking Tanks, if there was something in the way you just sat on it, with thirty ton of tank you did not even notice. Had a couple of hairy moments in Catterick during training, tracks were not made for black ice so heading down the road on a cold and frosty morning could be interesting at times.
G/G, I would not squash a Panda, humans yes, well some of them. We had road tracks in those days rubber pads on the tracks which made it even worse on ice as they were smooth. We delivered repaired tanks by the tank roads which went across country but at times would be on roads. I drive those tank roads now in the Vale of York nearly all now proper traffic roads. Catterick is expanding again as the troops come home from Germany and some of the Garrisons in the South close.
Crikey, Frank, I didn't realise Tanks could skid! I would have thought that thirty tons and the metal tracks would have broken through ice. I also thought that you had to put rubber boots on the top of tracks (like a tyre that fits on the top) if you were taking them out onto public roads, so as not to damage them and have a man from the council shout at you - mind you, if I were a man from the council, I would be intelligent enough not to shout at anyone in a tank.
GF - great story, thats the sort of thing that gets me annoyed, although when I had something similar, a chap parking so close to his front wall that I couldn't get past, let alone the pushchair, I called the 101 number and complained. Couple of days later and there was a PCSO doing the rounds of the street, talking to everyone who was parking on the pavement, and asking them to shift their cars as there had been complaints, and warning them they would be patrollng to make sure it wasn't a regular thing. The guy whose car I originally complained about was 'known to the police' and driving around in a car registered abroad, as he still has the car, I believe he paid the fine and escaped having his beemer crushed.
My driving bugbears are being cut up (it weighs nearlly two tons and is pillar box red), I think all old range rovers come equipped with cloaking device, people who don't bother indicating so you are left guessing, people who stop and wait for an invitation at roundabouts. And what really , really gets me are the lazy a£%£$%£$ that park in disabled or parent and child spaces (I really need the extra room as I have two child seats in the back, usually with a child in them), because they're suffering from near-terminal ignorance and there's nothing wrong with them, no blue badge either!!! GRRRRRRRRR!
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Hollie-tail gaters...
Totally agree!
Verd..coat...NOW!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It was me, Verdun!
Verdun always seems to be cold. I wonder if he'll get his coat in summer!
i remember some years back now.. i had a little fiat panda.. an dthe people who lived down the road to me would park their cars in such a way.. no one else who lived along there could park.. and then when the others members came home.. they would go and and have a move about and you got two more cars in!!!! so i thought one day.. sod this!!! i am going to get my car in there.
after about 5mins i had it in.. with inches to spare front and back.. the guys in the garage opposite all applauded when i got out.. which was great.. i did feel pretty pleased with myself..the nieighbours were not amused at all.. and the next morning i went out my back wiper and offside wing mirror were broken off.. and this damage continued for a week.. until i thought enough is enough.. so i went out late one night and did same damage to their cars.. and i never had a problem again from them.. and they stopped hoggin the street to.
not that i recommend this sort of behaviour of course
but my grandad said sometimes with people you hve to treat like for like to make your point!
Wow, that's quite a story, GF!! It is the sort of thing that my instincts tell me to do before my OH tells me how stupid it would be and warns me of the awful retribution that will be exacted if I do it. So then I meekly give in and feel defeated and frustrated. I'm glad you won and rather envious o! the fact that you actually had the guts to do it!
G/G, Never had any problems parking Tanks, if there was something in the way you just sat on it, with thirty ton of tank you did not even notice.
Had a couple of hairy moments in Catterick during training, tracks were not made for black ice so heading down the road on a cold and frosty morning could be interesting at times.
Frank.
Great story, Frank, but I should think if you tried the tank manoevre today on the local high street, you might have a problem!
GF, I always read 'fiat panda' as 'flat panda' and have a gruesome mental image of a panda squashed flat by a tank. So keep pandas and Frank apart!
G/G, I would not squash a Panda, humans yes, well some of them.
We had road tracks in those days rubber pads on the tracks which made it even worse on ice as they were smooth.
We delivered repaired tanks by the tank roads which went across country but at times would be on roads. I drive those tank roads now in the Vale of York nearly all now proper traffic roads.
Catterick is expanding again as the troops come home from Germany and some of the Garrisons in the South close.
Frank
Crikey, Frank, I didn't realise Tanks could skid! I would have thought that thirty tons and the metal tracks would have broken through ice. I also thought that you had to put rubber boots on the top of tracks (like a tyre that fits on the top) if you were taking them out onto public roads, so as not to damage them and have a man from the council shout at you - mind you, if I were a man from the council, I would be intelligent enough not to shout at anyone in a tank.
GF - great story, thats the sort of thing that gets me annoyed, although when I had something similar, a chap parking so close to his front wall that I couldn't get past, let alone the pushchair, I called the 101 number and complained. Couple of days later and there was a PCSO doing the rounds of the street, talking to everyone who was parking on the pavement, and asking them to shift their cars as there had been complaints, and warning them they would be patrollng to make sure it wasn't a regular thing. The guy whose car I originally complained about was 'known to the police' and driving around in a car registered abroad, as he still has the car, I believe he paid the fine and escaped having his beemer crushed.
My driving bugbears are being cut up (it weighs nearlly two tons and is pillar box red), I think all old range rovers come equipped with cloaking device, people who don't bother indicating so you are left guessing, people who stop and wait for an invitation at roundabouts. And what really , really gets me are the lazy a£%£$%£$ that park in disabled or parent and child spaces (I really need the extra room as I have two child seats in the back, usually with a child in them), because they're suffering from near-terminal ignorance and there's nothing wrong with them, no blue badge either!!! GRRRRRRRRR!
frank my brother was tanks too 17/21st and queens own lancers, Challenger II's