Parking Tards! Our readers are hunting for you too.

By Sean Bonner
June 1st, 2009 @ 7:00 AM Parking Tards

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One of our readers, Geoffrey McStroul sent in that photo and the following story:

Ok, so here’s my parking tard story (photos taken on a Treo 650):
I’m going to Western Bagel this morning (the one in Woodland Hills)
and the area of the parking lot nearest the Western Bagel and the
Coffee Bean mostly has compact spots, and there is this Chevy
Silverado taking up not 2 spots but FOUR spots. Silly me, I didn’t
take the pictures before I went into Western Bagel, but when I came
out I managed to take 2 photos before I was caught and unable to take
the piece de resistance of parking tard photos:

Owner: Can I help you?
Me: Is this your truck?
Owner: Yes.
Me: You’re taking up 4 compact spots.
Owner: Well it is a big truck.
Me: There are other non-compact spots to park in.
Owner: Sorry to ruin your day.

My thoughts after that were that “no, you didn’t ruin my day” and
“you’re going on teh interwebs about to be famous on LA Metblogs”.
(His license plate frame says “Ain’t goin down til the sun comes up”.)

Thanks Geoffrey! Another pic after the jump…

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Related posts:

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  3. Parking ‘Tards: City Employee Edition
  4. Parking Tard Goes All In
  5. Le Tard Parking du Jour — Double Stuff Edition

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13 Comments so far

  1. nabine on June 1st, 2009 @ 8:46 am

    This…is incredible! FOUR spaces? I think he gets the Tard Award.


  2. Lucinda Michele (la_michele) on June 1st, 2009 @ 9:59 am

    What an asshole.


  3. Dixi Bang (paranoidpyro) on June 1st, 2009 @ 10:30 am

    i think it’s a Chevy owner conspiracy.

    surprisingly, NOT the same car. In the Burbank Ikea lot


  4. lezgull on June 1st, 2009 @ 10:38 am

    Its not THAT big of a truck asshole owner


  5. frazgo on June 1st, 2009 @ 1:07 pm

    I love our readers, I really do.


  6. WILL CAMPBELL (willcampbell) on June 1st, 2009 @ 1:56 pm

    I’m with Nabine… this is The Grand Poobah. El Doochay! This guy puts the "king" in Parking Tard!!"


  7. Burns! (burns) on June 1st, 2009 @ 2:26 pm

    Lucinda said it all.
    What an asshole.


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  9. Verdell Wilson (missrftc) on June 1st, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

    You could’ve ruined his day by smearing dog poo on his door handle. Not that I have ever done such a thing.


  10. Sean Bonner (seanbonner) on June 1st, 2009 @ 7:45 pm

    Why settle for dog poo?


  11. Verdell Wilson (missrftc) on June 1st, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

    You take the dog for a walk. You’ve got a bag of dog poo in your hand. Things happen.


  12. frazgo on June 2nd, 2009 @ 6:53 am

    I like Verdell. Work with the tools you have and if its poo…


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