Isn't this a job for some reinforced concrete posts in the hedge?
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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You can't park there, mate
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For all parking disasters, not just simple bad parking (for that see yplac.co.uk).
Also includes "you can't park there, sir" for the police equivalent.
Rules:
- No deaths or serious injuries because who would be around to get told they couldn't park there?
- Be excellent to each other
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What about building a ramp hidden behind a very thin hedge?
Then if someone goes through it: cool action-film sequence!
Have to point it away from the house though or:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4493713.stm
Yeah, but what an anecdote!
It was so amazing, a former Beatles member resurrected himself and moved in next door, simply to say 'what had happened was "just absolutely incredible."'.
If you want dead people instead of a damaged hedge, sure.
Becky Guy said her daughter and her dog are often in the garden
If the choice is between endlessly letting reckless drivers crash into your hedge and hoping that they don't injure anyone else while waiting for the council to do its damn job and put a speed restriction up and running the risk of said reckless drivers sustaining more serious injuries then I think that in that imperfect world I might invoke caveat rector.
What an absurd thing to say! In what world would anybody be driving so fast into a hedge while parking that a collision might result in death?
I was fully prepared to admit my mistake but what you described is not at all what is happening. One does not park at 60 mph+
I’m sorry, I didn’t read enough of the article to realize that it wasn’t people parking, but rather crashes on a road with too high a speed limit.
Your comment in that context is actually quite reasonable!
Haha, I didn’t read the article either until you commented— I just looked at the picture and estimated/assumed.
So I appreciate your comment, it made us both look a little closer!
Better dead reckless drivers than a dead you hit by said drivers while in the garden.
A hedge doesn't really have a lot of stopping power to save you from a ton of steel and plastic.
If only they could manage to not crash into bushes.
Sounds good
Is this milkshake related?
Damn right, hers is better than mine.
I don't see where she's charging but maybe?
She isn't charging right now, but she have to charge. I think that's why all the boys bring their car to the yard
I see this and think to myself, huh, this has happened multiple times in the past-- I wonder how the road might be encouraging drivers to go this fast?
checks google maps streetview
No streetlights, ~~no reflective signs near the turn~~ (there are signs if you are heading south), the road is completely straight leading up to the turn, and the lanes look huge (can fit nearly two cars in one lane).
And they are wondering why this happens?
Perhaps they need to dig a giant pit where everyone is crashing, so they can sacrifice the drivers to Chaak to get more rain for their garden, and free car parts