A car was blocking the road this morning and the bin men couldn’t get through. Instead of a note there is a photo of the moment of inconvenience instead.

by timetodine13

42 comments

  5. Bonus points for inconveniencing people in wheelchairs, using walking aids, or pushing prams!

  6. This happens so often they have a portable printer, I love this.

  7. BMW driver, they probably went into a rage that someone touched their precious windscreen wiper that they dont use

  8. Welcome to the UK, we have small houses, big cars and little social contract

  10. I used to drive commercial waste wagons picking up 400L and 600L bins and where we couldn’t reach a bin (for reasons such as this post) we’d have to take a picture on the PDA as proof.

    Most of the time it was because of parking like this.

  11. It’s a shame there isn’t a second photo of them Harlem Shake posing on top of the car

  12. Hold it to the car with some wood screws to keep it in Place while the glue dries.

  13. Fully on the path as well.

    Force pedestrians/prams and wheelchairs on the road so the driver can park his car a few meters closer to their house.

    People like this should have their licence reviewed to remind them of the difference between roads and paths.

  15. I live next to a busy road with lots of parking on it, sometimes in reserved spaces, sometimes not, often on the pavement. There’s in person who owns an exceptionally wide car, a Mercedes, I think and even when he parks up against the pavement it’s over the parking guidelines, but when he parks a foot or more it’s noticeably out in the road. It reminds me if a shiny Humvee, which we can do without on UK roads

  16. Thought I recognised the street before realising there’s a million streets that look exactly like that

  19. It’s funny but they’re not going to stop parking like that until they get a ticket or rammed.

  21. I wonder how badly a car would get damaged if a couple of big lads with full wheely bins accidentally banged into it a few times. It would be a real shame if that happened…

  24. People who do this should be sent a bill.

    Bin lorry had to rearrange collection for another day. That’ll be £1000.

    Ambulance couldn’t get in and somebody is permanently disabled now following a stroke. That’ll be your house, car and shirt off your back.

    But heaven forbid anyone should have to cover the consequences of their own selfish bullshit.

  25. Where I live, our new neighbours decided to park right on the corner of the street. Another neighbour nipped around and asked if they could park further up the street, but this was ignored. On bin day, they ended up with a sign on their car basically saying, “due to your parking, we couldn’t empty anyone’s bins”. They never parked there again!

  26. Just brilliant. Those guys are a national treasure!

  27. Give bin men firefighter rules, park like a dickhead get shunted.

    Fuck it, give everyone the rules. Let’s dodgem this bitch. Expensive cars would be parking perfectly.

  29. One of the roads near where my mother-in-law lives had to put up signs to tell people to leave enough space for emergency vehicles. Yes, this road has a fire station on it, and yet people would barely leave space for a car to squeeze through. Idiots will be idiots.

  30. This is hilarious. I means it’s not great if they are blocking the way but it’s a pretty inventive way of letting them know.

  32. I’m a bin man in the south east and shit like this is the bane of my life. If we can’t find the owner to get them to move the car we either have to pull the entire rest of the roads bins to the truck and put them back or try again two more times throughout the day. Complete waste of time, love it

  34. This is genius the more I look at it. If that was my car, I’d be thinking I’m an entitled prick. I see that. I think about how if they had a few inches more they might have gone for it and ruined by baby.

    It has WAY more potential than a note which would be scrunched up and volleyed into Doris’s garden next door. However minimal.

  35. That sucks, but it looks like the BMW is parked as far on the pavement as possible? I know that’s bad in of itself, but damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

    Our street is similar to this, not quite as narrow but not far off. I don’t know what people expect, every single household to move their car to an imaginary carpark or driveway? Magically find a large enough street elsewhere that’s empty, ignoring the fact this cannot work for everyone?

    We need to move our car to allow for wagons to get down our street easier, they can get down but the there’s a small bend at the start making it tricky to pull onto the straight part of the street. The 5 or so of us that need to move are lucky there’s set of garages we can briefly park in front of for bin collections. Failing that, we’d probably need to park a 20 minute walk away at least, or be willing to park in front of other driveways.

  36. This is brilliant, more of this please. Here’s my anecdote… whilst hanging out in Barcelona, I watched a bin lorry just drive down the middle of a similarly blocked road taking wing mirrors off of all the parked vehicles on both sides. It was awesome. In the UK, there’s this snuck assumption that it’s ok for the car driver to bend the rules a little, but the bin lorry has to obey them to the letter.

  37. So if the lorry can’t fit, did it go another way then reverse back to this car? What’s the timeline and at what point was the photo taken

  39. Not to be a dick, but I am not seeing the problem from the picture. Can someone explain it to me?

    The photograph shows the black car parked at the side of the road. I don’t see the issue here since half the UK parks their car at the path outside their house since they have nowhere else to park. I also see the bin lorry past this black car, so what was blocking what?

    or is the photograph of a black car a different black car to the black car that the photograph is on? If so, then I can’t see what is actually blocking the road because we are looking at the back of the bin lorry.

    Or by blocking, do they mean no space to get the bins from the road to the house?

    Not defending shitty parking, but I’m trying to understand what was done here. What’s the context I’m missing?

  40. Of course it’s a BMW. Couldn’t find three disabled spots to park diagonally across.

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