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I just witnessed some insane parking fail.  Normally I’d just twitter this, but I need well more than 140 characters to explain what I just witnessed.  So, this is my best attempt to explain it, but I have a feeling I might need to create some images to truly describe everything.

First, the set up.  My neighbors have a one car garage that never has a car in it; they always park in their driveway or on the street.  Today, it looked like they are having a cookout.  They had an empty garage with two cars (one behind the other) parked in the driveway.  On the street, there was one car parked to the right of the driveway and another to the left of the driveway.

A car pulled up that was full of occupants.  They decided to park in front of the driveway, blocking both of the cars in, and left their hazard lights on.  This was what drew my attention to the entire situation.  There was plenty of street parking available, so why not pull up 15 feet and park there?

Four minutes later, two different individuals came out of the house.  One was the owner of one of the cars in the driveway and needed the car with the hazard lights on to move so they could leave.  One of them jumped in the car with the hazard lights and attempted to move it out of the way.  In the process of doing this, they backed into one of the cars that was parked on the street.

After the parked-in car was able to leave, the previously illegally parked car decided to park in the driveway.  The problem is they didn’t pull up all the way, so the backend of the car was still blocking the sidewalk.  Less than a minute later, the original driver of that car came out and moved it on the street, in a legal parking spot.

So, in the span of 5 minutes, this car parked three different times by two different drivers.  Two of the parking jobs were illegal and there was a minor fender bender in the process.   After all of this, the car ended up parking in a location that was available from the very beginning.

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