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Double parking should be an automatic tow even if half the lot is empty.
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.
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)
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.
How about free the with small print that if you take up two spaces it’s 90 dollar bucks an hour, payable by calling a premium rate number?
in parking lots, the parking is free, unless you’re in a parking garage or on a street meter, and even sometimes parking garages don’t charge admission. Though it’s less common.
These lots are almost always at a store, where people buy things, and the companies make money.
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100%
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.
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
Fuck cars but I think it’s a Camry, which is actually a mid-size car.
Mid. Median. It’s a car. It’s not a small car, it’s not a big car.
This model was advertised as a “Wide-Body Camry” because they were so much more spacious.
That’s too much for a truck that’s never going to see real work. All hat, no cow.
All condom no dick.
Pavement princess
It reminds me of those people who get working dogs and then lock them up in a tiny apartment.
Emotional support truck! Loooooool.
Gender affirming vehicle
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.
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
Those idiots also drove the price up for those of us who need them for what they’re meant for…work.
Weird how not a single contractor, farmer or labourer in any other countries need them huh? They’re not made for work.
Drive up to a building site in one of those and be prepared for someone to spray a massive cock n balls on it with expanding foam
weird how they use semis/lorries usually for large equipment, when here in the usa we haul most of our own equipment. A hilux is not hauling a 12k lb skid steer, or even a small dozer, or 20 1k lb round bales of hay. Most builders haul most of their shit with them. Weird how you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Read - builders can’t afford the equipment they need because they got tricked into spending 100k on a tiny-penis-compensation truck lol
No builder is buying a 100k truck… you’re not even making any sense, stay in your lane on your tiny island and keep thinking how your little world works the same everywhere.
They actually have them on the massive continent where I live, well, just a few.
People put stickers on the back of them saying “fuck your environment, I’m compensating for my micropenis” 😂
These big yank tanks are nothing but penis extensions, they’re not used for work. People out bush all own Hilux or Navaras
The jacked up ones, %100 agreed, but the large trucks designed for hauling are used exactly for that, hauling. I say this as a Toyota guy, I have a 1st gen tundra I use all time out here, but I’m not delusional and think it can do what the f350 we have can.
A cab-over is much more practical 99% of the time. An Isuzu N-Series or Hino 300 has much higher GCM, more comfortable cabin and larger bed.
They just aren’t fitted with V8-powered inadequacy compensators.
A cab-over is much more practical 99% of the time. An Isuzu N-Series or Hino 300 has much higher GCM, more comfortable cabin and larger bed.
Then what? You’re other vehicles? An n series or hino 300 is a baby lorri, not a truck.
They just aren’t fitted with V8-powered inadequacy compensators.
https://www.hino.com.au/news/hino-launches-high-horsepower-300-series-models/
And while we are at it…those cabs are not more comfortable than our truck cabs, we have trucks just like them here and they’re fucking awful for long hauls.
When I am supreme emperor, Carolina squats will be punishable by death.
Carolina squats are the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen someone do to a truck. Trucks already have bad sight lines, and squatting makes it exponentially worse to the point that you can’t even see the traffic ahead of you.
Anyone caught squatting their truck should immediately get impounded and get a suspended license.
There are companies now that make adjustable height hitches for what I believe is that exact reason
Granted I’ve never seen a truck with one of those towing anything, but it at least adds a little bit of functionality back!
Mixing ride height to that extent is something no one that knows what they’re doing would do…
So they’ll probably sell a lot to the idiots buying lifted trucks who just want to be able to say they could tow something but still never will.
Most likely the case, a lot like the lifted 4 wheel drive jeeps that only ever see parking lots. They could go off-road, but likely never will
My mother-in-law is one of these. She drives a 4WD jeep, which has never willingly been off of the pavement. They were doing some construction outside of her neighborhood, and the turn into her street was filled with gravel for a few months while the concrete was torn up. She would slowly crawl over the gravel section at like half a mile an hour, because she was afraid of breaking something on her jeep. Even I went faster than she did, and I drive a midsize sedan.
My wife and I joked that she could have hopped the curb and driven across the adjacent field, and still made it to the main road faster than if she had creeped across the gravel.
she was afraid of breaking something on her jeep
Legit fear. Jeeps are dog shit.
Jeeps are perfectly fine vehicles… Until they’re not. It’s like they have a built-in killswitch from the factory, where every single dashboard warning light is designed to turn on in the same three or four days.
I have seen several towing.
One was the owner of a Health Drink company and had a mobile kitchen for events.
Another was an oversized-palatial-mansion-suite-on-wheels (caravan). It was too big to fit in the caravan park.
Adjustable height hitches are practical for most tow vehicles to get a safe and level load.
The ADR 62 and Australian Standard 4177 also dictate legal ball heights for towing (basically a 50mm ball has to be no more than 400mm from the road surface).
Even the factory Towbar that was supplied with my Suzuki Jimny mounted the ball at 395mm (which was barely legal).
(Articulated Hitches like pin hitches or block hitches don’t have this restriction. I use a ball for my little garden trailer and a DO35 for my lightweight off-road camper. I have different height drop-hitches for each type of trailer.)
He took a functional truck and made it almost impossible to actually use it for anything.
Just out of curiosity, did women his age find his truck interesting/attractive?
Yeah, but hes also had a legit mullet his whole life and that doesnt do too badly either…
He didn’t get it for that tho. But yeah, in general country girls do legitimately like guys in ridiculously huge trucks.
It’s a real thing.
The confusing part is people thinking it works in a city.
Most rural areas don’t have much of an economy, so big, expensive, lifted trucks show that the guy has a job that can at least pay for those things. It’s not unlike men in urban areas wearing expensive clothes and accessories like watches. It shows they have money, and to a certain segment of the population that’s enough to get them interested.
It’s been my observation that the people most interested in talking about or staring at large trucks, is prepubescent boys. Ergo, as far as I’m concerned, the only reason to have a huge unusable pavement princess is to because you want to show kids your “monster truck”.
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.
Australia doesn’t exist.
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.
Did a British upset you?
Who hasn’t the British upset?
- The EU
- Former Colonies
- Existing Colonies
Probably Canadians, but no one can upset a Canadian.
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I remember seeing a RAM 3500 around Sydney, and wondering what would posses someone to import it.
I know a few people with one or something like it.
Its mostly people who have a legitimate business case for owning one (Landscapers/Builders/Horsey people) and use that as a justification to own one that also suits their weekend pursuits. (Race cars, boating, 4x4, caravanning/camping)
If you can make your work vehicle also your family vehicle and part of your toy collection AND tax deduct the lot… makes sense.
I have a neighbour that is none of those things and owns a black one. He is a big fella, and nice enough bloke, but often has to reverse back up suburban streets because he can’t get past the parked cars.
His wife has a white Tesla 3 and is stereotypical “I have a self-driving car so I don’t need to look up when I am driving”.
Penis Enlargement Surgery is only $30k max. Fella like this . . .
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.
Imagine thinking the car is the asshole in this situation
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.
Just get some handles on your bumper. You can lift a Geo Metro with maybe one other person help.
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.
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.
This is the big one for me too. I’m Albertan; we have a lot of lifted crew-cab short box pickups with absolutely immaculate paint jobs.
If you want to waste money and fuel on a vehicle you don’t need, at least have the class to buy an old hotrod
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.
But TruckBoy’s whole idea was to manspread in to the 2nd spot so nobody could park there.
Leaving enough space for someone else to park would have been too soyboy/considerate and folks might have doubted his ability to be a selfish lover.
Truck driver has some “I’m The Main Character” energy
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.
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.
Even when I’m driving my little mazda3, in love being by the curb or parking a few spots further away to have nobody on either side of me. Having the room and getting the extra 10 seconds of exercise are both good in my eyes.
I work in transport, it’s a race every morning to get one of the 12-14 kerb spots so you can hug that kerb for safety, and it guarantees one side won’t get a door opened into it.
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”
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…
Im sure a Seppophile who drives a ‘Murucan truck would use “Pal”.
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! :(
I always loved parking my tiny mazda pickup right next to the biggest truck in the lot.
Doin’ the universe’s work. Carry on and be well.
as a certified shitbox lover myself, i would 100% box one of these fuckheads in, and maybe leave a little cart ding in the door as well.
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.
“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!”
I would also 100% climb out of my trunk to give that “fuck you” to the truck. Only a shame they couldn’t block the drivers side.
I have done this. Shitty hatchback was the best teenage car.
Edit: they’re in Australia. They DID block the driver’s side! Fucking hero right there.
We drive on the Left in Australia. That is the Drivers side.
It’s a shame they’re not flipped so white car could park 1 cm from the truck driver door. See how you like climbing into your pavement princess from the bed pal
I live in Qld.
Qld stands for Queensland.
Queensland is in Australia.
In Australia we drive on the left hand side of the road.
So the steering wheel is on the opposite side (right).
The truck can’t get in the drivers side.
😘👌
Ah I didn’t catch that. Well done Camry, well done.
But, but, but… They can just climb in from the passenger side and comfortably scoot over, right? I mean that thing is huge, you might even be able to just walk over.
Kiwi who does the same thing to muppets who picked a car they couldn’t handle… most of them seem to be the big American style utes like Rangers although there is the occasional Range Rover…
WYM? If it is qld (Australia) then the cars are right hand drive.
Good point! Though it doesn’t look like that much more room on the right side. But that makes this absolutely hilarious.
That’s probably cause you don’t realise Australia is a right hand drive country, so driver is on the opposite side to US and most of Europe.
