Parking Fails That Show Why You Can’t Park Just Anywhere
Parking a car is one of those minor life skills that's underappreciated. After all, every driver has to do this constantly, but while some of us can parallel park like nobody's business, others guide their vehicles like they're large boats.
Of course, this can all culminate with some truly brutal parking jobs. Some are intentionally sneaky, others are purely accidental, and a select few will leave you wondering how the driver seemingly defied physics.
Boxed in
This is an amazing example of a construction site being petty with a repeat offender.
It's a known no parking zone, yet drivers continually put their cars in the designated space. Of course, this being a construction site, the workers knew exactly how to ensure this would never happen again.
Taking a drink
A calming drive through the countryside will cure what ails you, as you take in lush nature, babbling brooks, and big skies.
Then again, if you're going a little too fast, you might just experience those babbling brooks from an up close and personal position.
Never getting out of there
If you park in a busy loading zone, you shouldn't be too surprised when the goods being loaded prevent you from leaving.
It kind of looks like this was done intentionally, but the driver was playing with fire by parking here in the first place.
Straight shot to seafood
Every town has its fair share of drivers occasionally slamming their vehicles right through plate glass windows and into stores.
This was either an accident or the driver just wanted to get to the seafood section as quickly as possible.
Just...how?
It looks like this car ran over the bollard, flattening it out, then attempted to reverse course, which dragged the bollard back upwards and punctured the car.
This is one of those scenarios that you really don't want to have to explain to your mechanic.
Can't park in this century
Parking garages have all sorts of maddening little quirks, but here's a new one: a garage that believes you parked your car more than 45 years ago.
It's definitely a good idea to follow these instructions, because nobody wants to pay for literal decades of parking.
Could be a treehouse
It's hard to fathom the physics involved in launching a car this high, or the happenstance of the car lodging itself in a tree.
It's also hard to imagine how this car will be brought down, or how it could ever be repaired to be roadworthy again.
Spider-Car, Spider-Car...
Lift bridges open up in a way so the road surfaces aren't quite vertical, but they're pretty close.
This car clearly has decent emergency brakes. Things might hold if the bridge doesn't get any steeper.
A tight fit
We have no idea how this started, or who's legally parked here, or whether there was malice.
The fact that there are three identical white vans and one outlier car, though, suggests the car might not be authorized to park here.
Who do you call?
On one hand, it's good to see a collision investigation specialist hurrying to the scene of a collision.
On the other hand, said specialist has now created a secondary collision to investigate. Hopefully they've got more than one vehicle.
Read the sign!
Here's a tip for all drivers: if you're driving something that's taller than usual, and you come across a sign saying a bridge is lower than usual, consider a different route.
The warning signs could not be any clearer, and yet a truck has still managed to pull this off.
Scaffolded in
If you park somewhere you shouldn't, and a bunch of scaffolding experts are in the area, you just might encounter something like this.
There's no way that car's getting out of there, but at least the scaffolding makes it easier to climb on the roof.
Group photo
If you've messed up this catastrophically on the job, there's a good chance you're getting fired.
These six workers recognized this fact, and decided to pose for posterity before their inevitable punishment.
Are we at war?
Not only is this a no parking zone, but this is some kind of military vehicle cramming itself into a residential street.
It might make residents feel like they're better protected, or it might have them wondering if a war has kicked off.
Bridging the gap
This absolutely has to be intentional, because no bus route is going to allow for a situation like this.
In fact, looking closely, it's clear that a person can enter the bus on one side of the canal and use the bus as a bridge.
Modern art?
This car somehow caught air and launched itself perfectly onto this bollard.
Crews are already on the scene to remedy the situation, but maybe they should just leave it alone. It looks pretty cool.
What a view
There's nothing like seeing a starry night when you're far from civilization. In fact, you might even want to rush to the spot that gives the best vista.
This driver might have rushed a little too much, but at least they got a nice photo out of it.
Show the street view of that
Google Street View vehicles are a fairly common sight, as the fleet has traveled the world to document the highways and byways of various countries.
This is either a driver error, or the vehicles are going to start expanding into river views soon enough.
A perfect fit
You don't see as many ultra-compact cars as you used to, but this image shows one of their biggest benefits.
True, the other cars may have no way to get out of the spot now, but at least the little car fits.
Definitely can't park here
Here's an outlier - not only is this a boat and not a car, but this situation happened through a natural disaster.
Whatever hurricane storm surge dumped this on the beach house probably isn't going to deposit the boat back in the water, either.
Meeting Poseidon
It's hard to know if this car crashed into the water at high tide and is now being exposed, or if it just crashed right onto the rock.
In any case, it could be in worse condition, but still looks like it might be a write-off.
Foiled by the bridge
A lot of places have these low railway bridges that, despite all of the warning signs, get crashed into with some regularity.
In this case, the crash has not only closed off the road, but created an impromptu parking lot of its own.
Still learning
A proud (or not-so-proud) dad posted this photo after a driving lesson with his teenage daughter went sideways.
At least this one is salvageable, though it looks like the truck's body is going to need a bit of work.
Going to hurt when they get out
Of all the things you probably don't want to step on after randomly crashing your car into a store, Lego just might top the list.
Unfortunately for this driver, they just crashed into a Lego store and spilled bricks everywhere.
Technically correct
Green is a less popular color for cars, but green cars are still pretty common.
It makes one wonder if these "green vehicles only" signs contain some smaller text specifying that it isn't about the actual color of the car.
An orphaned truck
A driver encountered this curious scene: an Amazon truck trailer, with no truck cab in sight, stranded in the middle of a busy intersection.
It looks like anybody who was depending on Prime delivery on this day may have had to wait a little bit.
If I fits...
Motorcycles are small, and riders are able to sneak their bikes onto medians and narrow areas that cars can't fit into.
Subarus, on the other hand, are notably big and boxy. This Subaru technically fits here, but it's more than a little bit awkward.
Fancy a swim?
It's never a good situation when a car crashes into a building, but certain buildings are easier to extricate a crashed car out of than others.
Like, you don't want to crash into anything - but if you absolutely must crash into something, a swimming pool isn't a great option.
A perfect fit
Unless this is a new kind of aquatic car driving on a purpose-built canal, this is a terrible miscalculation by the driver.
The scene could still develop though, as it looks like the car is still trying to rev its way out of there.
Merry Christmas!
Imagine setting up your Christmas tree in the den, only to hear a loud noise, look over, and see this.
The holidays are a great time for friends and families to gather together and spread the cheer, but there are subtler, less destructive ways to do this.
