Are these Coast’s worst car drivers and parkers?
WE all know it’s hard to find a car park on the Gold Coast. But these examples of bad parking are just ridiculous. And now residents are fighting back. SEE OUR BAD PARKING GALLERY
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GOLD Coast residents fed up with dodgy parking are hitting back – publicly calling out bad behaviour with cheeky cards.
Ciara Holland regularly posts onto the Bad Parking and Driving Australia Facebook page, sharing images of drivers parking over lines – and leaving a calling card behind.
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The cards say: “You should check your door … The next time you park like this it won’t be a card being left it will be a door f — king keyed. #Learntopark.”
Ms Holland said she bought them after she finally “cracked” when she was forced to place her child into the back seat through the window because someone had parked so close to her.
“People just don’t care, the level of self righteousness is just obscene,” she said.
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She said the bad parking didn’t just happen when she was out and about, but also close to her own home where a neighbour keeps illegally parking.
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“People can’t park within 10 metres from an intersection,” she said.
“But he does it on a regular basis.”
The driver even parks two wheels on her front yard, meaning her husband can’t mow the grass.
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But Ms Holland is not alone in her anguish, as dozens of photos on the page show Gold Coast drivers parking haphazardly, illegally — and in ridiculous spots.
The group describes itself as a “home to post all of those photos and videos you have of people parking and driving badly.”
The page has also asked the worst place on the Gold Coast to park. Answer: Harbourtown.
And the page even has a “W**ker of the Week” award for the worst park of the past seven days.
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