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I, admittedly, am one of those drivers that intentionally
park over parking bay lines to prevent those drivers from
bashing car doors into my vehicle which is unfortunately
much wider than many popular sedans and/or
hatchbacks, but here's the facts:
1) i never inconvenience other drivers, hence i always
park in the extremities of parking lots, to my own
detriment, since you have to walk far.
2) i never park on reserved bays and/or "no parking"
area's.
on this occasion, i found a totally empty area in the
parking lot, 130 meters away from the shop entrance.
got back to my car to find the same empty open area
with roughly 100 vacant parking spots, and about 15
empty bays closer to the entrance, but with the above
vehicle parked 200mm from my driver side door. the
intention of this driver was obviously to provoke some
kind of reaction. this driver wanted to “teach me a
lesson” in parking skills. once again, admittedly, i
overreacted and placed my empty basket trolley on the
back of his open ldv. no sooner did i do this, when a
hysterical "driver" came running at me, screaming at
both me and his, rather foolishly looking girlfriend to
bring her cellphone to take photographic record of the
ensuing actions. he had obviously realized that his
action would provoke strong reaction, and he was
“ready” to toss the entire kitchen sink into the mix. he
was waiting for the driver of my car to arrive back at
his/her vehicle, since he had not been into the shop
since parking.
this is when this youngster started going off. 1) he
called me “one of those “d – se”(plural form of afrikaans
word for part of the female anatomy) that you read
about parking on “disabled” parking bays. 2)he then
targeted my wife with his cellphone camera,
traumatizing her, invading her privacy. she was inside
my car with this youngster going bananas on the outside
pushing his camera against the passenger side window
to photograph her. he ignored several
requests/warnings from me to stop harassing my wife.
3)then he turned on the video recording on his
cellphone and started recording me, my car, my wife,
the trees, his girlfriend, while continuing to hurl
provocative statements and accusations at me. 4)finally
i squeezed into my car and started reversing out of the
parking bay when he threw down the empty basket
trolley on the ground against my car’s rear bumper to
prevent me from reversing. my wife got out, removed
the obstacles, got into the car. this guy, now livid,
places the obstacles back again. wife gets out a second
time to remove obstacles, gets back in. meanwhile,
“amazed” girlfriend is still looking at all this commotion
– still dumbstruck, but boyfriend is on a roll. 5)so when i
finally manage to reverse, this moron jumps onto the
back of my car, armed with his cellphone, hanging onto
the rear roof rack while still recording through the rear
window. now premeditated damage to private property
is also on the cards.
i am lost for words by this incident. why would a
seemingly normal, responsible, law-abiding young
“adult” intentionally pick a fight, and it turns out to be
daddy’s bakkie. he is so intent on ridding this earth of
those “d –se” that can’t park that his common sense is
severely undermined. i suppose the testosterone got the
better of him. shame, he’s probably failed to impress his
girlfriend somewhere along the way.
reported it to the local sapd immediately. in his stupor
he failed to spot potential eye witnesses.
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