Bold parking choice for someone with thin paint that's softer than my keys

Check local laws about blocking sidewalks. You may be able to report them to a parking authority. Also, it may be illegal to have a hitch like that on the back while not actively towing (in some states in the USA it is).

I don’t see why pickups are suddenly appearing in England lately, they’re so ugly.

That should count as parking on the pavement violation imo

This community is called "Fuck Cars", you don't have to censor the word asshole and wanker.

We're all adults here.

Man that truck bed looks useless.

You should be able to walk by and smash the tail lights. The truck is an obstacle in the way of a public walkway. If you are using the sidewalk appropriately, there should be no obstruction, and any damage that may occur would not have happened if the truck was not blocking a public walkway.

Violence is the only option left. We've been legally restricted from doing anything else.

Not just the pickup truck that is over the sidewalk.

I just scrap my keys on them at this point. I done dealing with car brain shit.

I dream about the day when the petro dollar crashes and fuckers that bought these things die in their house because they've never left their house on foot or bike before.

Tie a chain from the trailer hitch to the a fence post (note 'fence post' not fence chain) and leave about five or six feet of loose chain.

Most drivers (including myself) never bother to look at what their truck is attached to unless they were the ones who hitched a trailer to it themselves.

Lots of fun all around as they damage the fence and have to explain it or whip a chain to their tail end.

Leave the area and never return for about a month.

Off topic but do people censor wankers? Is it that level of swear? I thought it was on the same level as "crap" where it's a crass word but not exactly vulgarity

If a vehicle is too large to be parked safely, it shouldn't be permitted in regular spots.

Have a special parking area away from the building for these monster trucks.

That truck isn't remotely long enough to explain this.

Me in my wheelchair 👁️👄👁️

As a londoner who hates cars, im not even bullshitting you I would have put that bin on top of the truck bed and carried on past

There are a few comments I'd like to reply to, but I'll stick it all into this separate one, in no particular order.

1. I do not agree with general amounts of anger this or any other fuck<insert thing> sub promotes.
2. Driver's licence is given to literally anyone who breaths (or their relative, pretending to be them).
3. As such, driving skill in UK is abysmal.
4. Parking spaces and lane widths have not kept up with vehicle size increases. Part of those increases is just fashion, but a lot of it is caused by ever tightening safety regulations. For reference - I drive an old 5 series and fit everywhere just fine. The newer 3 series are the same size cars than mine. See here and here. It's truly insane.
5. This guy obviously cannot tell the size of the vehicle.
6. Looks are subjective. I, personally, like the way a Ford Raptor looks, but I'd only consider it for offroading as it drives like absolute shit on regular roads. I like driving too much to give up handling for looks.
7. Driving should be treated as a privilege, not a right.
8. There's already way too much regulation for all the tiniest, dumbest things around. I can't stand how the general consensus seems to be "I don't want to think for myself, regulate it on my behalf". Just to clarify - I'm not against all regulation.
9. The trailer hitch argument seems strange to me - must be an american thing. Permanent hitches are very much a thing here, one does not simply get rid of it during parking. Yes, electric ones exist - my car even has one - but not all cars do, especially older ones.
10. Yes, parking spaces having wheel stoppers at whatever distance is deemed acceptable would help, but this goes back to outsourcing thinking to someone else. How about you get to know the bloody dimensions of you own car?
11. On top of that - getting out of the car, checking if it fits into the spot and getting back in to fix if it doesn't is not a crime. One simply needs to care.

You only need to specify if it's one of the other Londons.

These kind of trucks have their utility if you work in a trade and you need to get stuff in and out, or maybe do frequent tip runs as a business.

This never seems to be the case for where they're actually used, though. I've known one person use them as such, and they very quickly switched back to a transit van because it was "much cheaper to run, and simpler to park".

Sweet baby deity, I hate sidewalk blockers.

I had a bruise for months on my shin because some douche nozzle parked with a hitch sticking almost to the other side of the 4ft sidewalk.

If you can't park nicely inside the space, at least have the decency to walk your happy ass across the parking lot and park in the back.

That's a ford ranger, which is only a bit longer (~200mm) than a short wheel base Mercedes sprinter and significantly shorter (~1800mm) than the extended wheel base version

And here, they ticket people where the trailer hitch reaches into the pedestrian space...

Same here in Prague. When parallel parking, sometimes these cars are so fucking wide, that even tho there's more than enough space behind em, it's still impossible to navigate around their fat fucking ass, and by the time I'm finally behind it I'm at a 90 degrees.

If I remember I'll show you what the space between my schools parking lot and the fense