Art, that's a pretty mild example as far as A-hole parking goes.
Twice in the last week, I've thought about this thread. I have to get quicker with the camera phone, I could have made videos of both confrontations. The first one was @ Trader Joe's on 3rd and LaBrea, (for L.A. locals), a crowded parking lot with notoriously small stalls. I noticed two open spots ahead, only problem was that they were separated by a Lincoln Town Car who somehow managed to park in
3 compact spaces!
Imagine tiny angle parking spaces and you can get a picture. I could not get my small MB SL into the spot proceeding him, (his tail was too far in it), so I squeezed into the spot after him, (on his passenger side). That's when I noticed that he was sleeping in his car. I opened my door into the side of his car with an audible clunk, still could not get out. That woke him and he honked his horn, even though I was 5 feet away with open windows.
I did not even address the fact of my door hitting his car and laid into him. I told him that he'd made it impossible for anyone to park in the adjacent spaces and that furthermore, it was a compact space and he was not a compact. I told him that he was in 3 spaces. I asked him if he wanted to straighten out his car, that I'd wait to open my door again.
The guy started his car and backed up, I thought he was going to try to improve his parking job but he just backed out and left. When I got out, some black guy sitting in his car a couple spaces over started clapping. He was giving me kudos, saying, "well played, sir!" and the like. I said that I felt a little bad about red-assing this guy with an audience but he said not to worry, the guy knew exactly what he did.
I have to start filming this stuff, it would have made a good post here. There was one other time the other day when some guy just parked so horribly next to me that it warranted a photo as well.
