http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged parking en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:57 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/snow-sculpture-car-gets-parking-ticket/ Traffic wardens slipped up in Germany when they left a parking ticket - on a full-sized snow sculpture of a Volkswagen Beetle. Pranksters had built the car overnight in a no-parking zone in Aachen, complete with outlines for its headlights, windscreens and even the distinctive VW badge on the bonnet. "It was incredibly realistic looking. It looked like you could get into it and drive away once you'd swept the snow off," said one local. "The wardens ... ]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:36:17 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/snow-sculpture-car-gets-parking-ticket/ http://www.wtfnews.org/religion/priests-in-violent-brawl-over-parking-space/ An 80-year-old retired priest allegedly bit an ear off another elderly clergyman during a fight over a parking space. The punch-up broke out outside an apartment block, which houses three retired Catholic priests, in Perth, Western Australia. Father Thomas Henry Byrne has appeared in court charged with grievous bodily harm over the incident involving his neighbour, 81-year-old Father Thomas Joseph Cameron Smith. According to police, after the brawl Fath... ]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:27:30 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/religion/priests-in-violent-brawl-over-parking-space/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/angry-drivers-deals-with-parking-clamp-with-chainsaw-video/ It seems this Toyota Hilux driver from Grenada decided to take things into his own hands. Busting out a circular chainsaw, he brushed aside a police officer and cut away at the yellow wheel clamp. ]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:42:59 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/angry-drivers-deals-with-parking-clamp-with-chainsaw-video/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/man-found-guilty-of-murder-after-car-parking-dispute/ A 38-year-old man from Gippsland has been convicted for killing two men during a dispute over car parking. A jury found Richard Devries of Newborough guilty of the murder of Evan Rudd and the manslaughter of Roy Poole at a block of flats at Moe last year. The Supreme Court trial heard Devries stabbed the men in a fight when he discovered his car had been blocked in by another vehicle. Devries maintained he acted in self-defence. ]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:58:43 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/man-found-guilty-of-murder-after-car-parking-dispute/ http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/transplant-patients-10-parking-tickets/ Traffic wardens plastered a kidney transplant patient's windscreen with 10 parking tickets. The woman's car was parked in a hospital disabled bay with her blue badge displayed on the dashboard. A note was also visible saying she was a patient at the transplant unit at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She had gone in for treatment after her kidney swap but was kept in for emergency surgery and was unable to move her car from the short-stay bay.%... ]]> Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:34:44 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/law-politics/transplant-patients-10-parking-tickets/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/chinese-man-dies-after-woman-squeezes-his-testicles-in-fight-over-parking-spot/ A female scooter rider killed a man by squeezing his testicles for the packing dispute, in Haikou City, Hainan Province. It was learned, the woman, 41 years old, rode on her scooter to an elementary school in Meilan District, Haikou City to pick up her child that day. When she wanted to pack her scooter in front of a shop, she was rejected by the shop owner, a 42-year-old male. The two parties soon fell into a quarrel, and then the physical confrontation. The furious woman call... ]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:11:19 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/chinese-man-dies-after-woman-squeezes-his-testicles-in-fight-over-parking-spot/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/new-yorkers-living-outside-clubs-looking-to-ban-parking-because-people-keep-having-sex-in-their-cars/ New Yorkers are getting fed up with clubgoers who make hanky panky inside of parked cars. Residents between Seventh and Eighth Avenues around West 30th Street say randy partiers are having sex in cars, leaving condoms on the street, honking car horns at all hours … you get the idea. So the neighbors have convinced a community board to back a request for a no-parking area on weekend nights, the New York Post reports. The board can’t enforce the ban, but has petitioned city... ]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:39:46 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/new-yorkers-living-outside-clubs-looking-to-ban-parking-because-people-keep-having-sex-in-their-cars/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/mickeys-revenge-on-close-car-parkers/ The perfect revenge to assholes who never leave you enough room to get out of your parking space ]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:52:44 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/mickeys-revenge-on-close-car-parkers/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/scilly-parking-ticket-prank/ Residents on the Isles of Scilly complained after being given parking tickets on New Years Day - only to discover it was prank by a local reveller. Police on St Mary's, the largest of the five islands off the coast of Cornwall, were accused of 'draconian' conduct after fixed penalty parking notices were left on cars. But the tickets were the work of Chris Purkiss, 29, a handyman who had dressed as a traffic warden to celebrate the new year, reports the Dai... ]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:06:38 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/scilly-parking-ticket-prank/ http://www.wtfnews.org/general/women-better-at-parking-than-men/ Covert surveillance of car parks across Britain has shown that women are better at parking than men. The study, one of the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences, found that women were more likely to leave their vehicles in the middle of a bay. Women were also found to be better at finding spaces, more accurate in lining themselves up before starting each manoeuvre, and more likely to adopt instructors' preferred method of reversing into... ]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:08:01 -0500 http://www.wtfnews.org/general/women-better-at-parking-than-men/