Jesus fucking christ, dude. This isn’t rocket science. The photo is NOT being used as proof of anything. It’s being used to remind me what the plate number was. It’s the digital equivalent of making a mental note of her plate number.

I’d have no “proof” just as I’d have no “proof” if I had made a mental note. When you…

Not if it impedes upon another space, or other area that needs to remain open for passing traffic. Keep on making assumptions, though :)

Ok, what if I’m sitting in my car, and this lady pulls out of the spot next to me, sideswiping my car in the process, and leaves? What would I do? I’d immediately write down her plate number, and then call the police to report a hit-and-run using her plate number to identify the offending vehicle.

I took a photo so…

I NEVER park over the line just because the car next to me did the same thing, and I think people who do that are assholes too. Don’t perpetuate the issue. Otherwise you’re just as bad as the person who “started it.”

Of course there is someone always willing to be a bigger asshole. There’s a reason why I don’t do this…

The photo was for my own records because it’s easier to take a photo of a license plate than to write it down.

What is the purpose of the white lines, then, exactly, if the other driver is on equal footing as me for parking across both spots?

And if my alternatives are park in the last available space, or park illegally, then I’ll park in the last available space.

I suppose if you’re a big enough asshole to park like that, you’re probably a big enough asshole to do that too, lol.

I would have laughed so hard watching them do that. I wish they had, lol.

What if this was the only spot left available in the parking lot?

Stepping off a curb into an active roadway is an example of YOU doing something blatantly wrong. Parking within the lines, I am doing nothing blatantly wrong. I’m just doing my best to park in a spot that’s been intruded into by someone else.

By your…

Well that would just prove that they are indeed assholes.

The photo is merely so that I have a record of the plate number so that I can file a police report of a hit and run. At no point would the photo itself be used as proof of anything. Easier to take a photo than write the plate number down.

If you key anyone’s car, you, sir, are an asshole.

Then that kid is stupid!

If they had to respond to an emergency, then they should have parked in such a manner as to make easy egress possible. What if someone else had already been parked there, and they parked that way. Then they would be blocking someone else, and the same could be said of them.

And I definitely considered that they might…

By that logic then, it doesn’t hurt me either, as the comment I was responding to claimed. Good enough for me!

Thanks!

That’s a good point. I completely didn’t see the flames, lol. I’m blind, apparently.

Yeah... not sure why they thought it was a good idea to move. It’s not like they were going to free up that lane of travel or anything anyway...

Whether or not they would have room to pull forward was dependent on how close the car in front of them happened to be when they came out.

And you make it sound as though you think I do this every day. Of course I have better things to do with my time, but once every few months, when I saw a particularly egregious…

All the photo does is prove that I am properly parked within my space. I did the best I could to mitigate any damage to my car by not going over the line on the other side :)

Hence why I did it with my old Outback, but not with my new BRZ ;)
And I always took a photo so I had a plate number if they really screwed my car up.