username.exe

I used to have to do this when I was working as a labourer for a building firm in central London many years ago. Pick ups and drop offs were nigh on impossible.

Parking is a nightmare in many of the big cities here, but is there at least still an etiquette of first-come first-served, or are you one to put the bins out or get a buddy to stand in it:

scrubbedexpat091

If I was the driver, I would just leave, not worth an altercation over. But the lady holding the spot is in the wrong I would think holding a parking spot isn't cool.

Pulaski

This, every time. If in doubt, assume everyone in the US has a gun, and is prepared to use it.

SultanOfSwing

If you ran her over, that would no longer be a problem

petitefrancaise

they're both off their rockers.
Honestly????? Reversing into a live human being?

I'd drive away even if the woman in the lycra is obviously not carrying a gun.

Pulaski

Curiously, you'd be on safer legal ground in many states if you got out of your vehicle and shot and killed her than if you ran over her and killed her.

SultanOfSwing

I didn't say anything about killing, just incapacitating .

The kind of self entitled twunt who thinks they have a right to save a parking space like that should be tied to the back of a car and dragged the length of I-90, though.

Pulaski

Killing is necessary, otherwise she'd just sue you.

Weeze

I remember this happening years ago in the UK. I was a kid and it was getting near Christmas. The queue went all round the car park. Finally it was our turn and a middle aged woman got out of a car about 6 cars behind us and stood in the space. Fruit loop.

SultanOfSwing

Murica ...

RoadWarriorFromLP

The screaming woman in the video is annoying, but I doubt that she is violating any laws by standing in a part of the street that just so happens to be a parking space. So while my sympathies are with the driver, the scales tip in favor of the shrieking nutcase with the attitude problem.

That, and it would be necessary to kill her and her entire family in order to avoid a lawsuit. That would require a lot of ammunition and probably isn't worth the mess. Probably.

username.exe

But do you get to stand in front of a vehicle and yell: 'You're running me over! I'm calling the cops, I'm being run over!'
At some point... just let nature take its course.

RoadWarriorFromLP

I suppose that you may if you aren't violating any noise ordinances.

She really is irritating, but she's probably not doing anything illegal, which is what matters here. You can't threaten someone with your car just for being tedious.

MsElui

if you are not in a hurry - you could park in front of the space and just sit there too so she couldnt use it either - like a standoff!

sir_eccles

You might be safer just rolling the window down. In some states getting out of your car instantly puts you in the wrong for escalating the situation.