This SUV parking

That's not an SUV... But yeah it looks like they backed up ONTO the curb, that's pretty rude...

Ah my bad, in Europe we don't see many of these cars. How would you call it? A truck?
- of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk
- I call them any one of the following:
  Grotesque monstrosities
  Pavement princesses
  Four wheeled Freudian excuses
  US trucks are ridiculously oversized and typically never see any actual "truck" usage. They're also insanely expensive and are often redneck status symbols. As an American, I'm sorry they have infested your continent.
  Source: I live in a yeehaw state where people own $70,000 trucks while living in a $7,000 hovel.
- Emotional Support Vehicle
- Yes that’s a pickup truck.
- An abomination against god?
- It's a pickup truck. And probably not used for anything a truck would be used for. They're everywhere in America and just as annoying.
  I personally don't see the point in having a vehicle this big unless it's used for work (hauling materials and towing trailers) And 95% of the time, it's not.
- It's a pickup truck. Often drive by assholes who like them but don't need them
- "Pickup truck"
- Yup. If it's got a bed in the back for transporting stuff, it's a truck. In this case, a short-box truck.
  An SUV is basically like a tall 4-door sedan with hinged doors a hatch-back (if the rear doors are sliding, then it's a van/mini-van)
- That is a truck or pickup truck or pickup.
  SUV does not have a flat bed for cargo.
- As the owner of a Subaru Baja, I call it an Ute. The short bed is useful to a point (hauling tanks of flammable fuel, etc) but not perfect.
  If it's not a body on frame vehicle, I wouldn't call it a truck.
- A pickup truck where I'm from.
- I'd call it worthless. I could fit more in my prius than the bed of that truck.
I mean the truck bed is like 3 feet long, you can't do anything with it, it's never been off-road, and it has two full size rows of seats. It's an SUV in denial.
- Emotional support vehicle
- I call them SUTs if the bed is shorter than the cab.
- Yeah but SUVs go off road. Most "SUV's" on the road these days are just lifted hatch backs

That's not an SUV, it's a pickup truck.

The parking is almost as infuriating as OPs title.
Oh, in that case I guess this is fine.
Bed is shorter than the cab, it's an SUT.
- How about a Sporty Lifestyle Utility Truck?
I thought it was commentary about how both SUVs and pickup trucks are both classified as light trucks, and aren't required by law to have certain features that come standard in regular cars.
No, it's a ute
- My understanding is that utes are generally unibodies, but that truck definitely has a frame. Based off the wheels and bed cover, it's a useless truck driven by a dickhead, but a truck just the same.
Key across the back has the same effect
- I'd love to do that but anything could be on camera these days.

See, my crippled ass is going to squeeze through anyway. Even if that means the metal clasps on my shoulder bag grind against the vehicle, or even if the attachment point for the strap on my cane happens to dig in if I happen to stumble because of the tight space.

Will that result in dents and scrapes? Absolutely. Do I care? Absolutely not.

Bless you and your crippled ass.
My non-crippled ass would possibly also have some issues. I might trip with my keys in my hand or something worse. Who's to know what dangers parking like this could pose.
It sounds like you care a lot.
- Care about how this a-hole blocks the sidewalk? Yes!
  Care about accidential scratches or dents when walking around that pickup? No!

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- They earned that nail like a MF.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve heard that you can call to get vehicles towed if they are blocking the sidewalk. I don’t know if that’s in every municipality, but I suspect the tow companies and the city would not mind the revenue.

So much of that in England. I get people don't want to block the road, but when you are sitting on the entire footpath so nobody can get passed. You're an asshole.

I was so cross when a van didn't bother to park just a few metres away in a designated parking spot to go to the corner shop and just decided to sit and block the entire pavement at a point to close to a hedge that meant we were forced to go out into the road.

Laziness. Just laziness.

That’s not an SUV that’s a trucklet

There is no SUV in this picture.

Would be a shame if someone would squeeze between the trunk amd the wall....while not caring about any metal piece sticking out

Let me just squeeze on by ya with this shopping cart lined with steel wool. Sorry, pedestrians aren't allowed on the road!

Blocking sidewalks anywhere is a shitty move. If you can’t park without blocking the sidewalk, you shouldn’t park there. This includes your own driveway

It might as well be a hatchback towing a box of dildos for all the times that tiny truck bed will be used for anything that looks like work.
- As the owner of a Ford Maverick, with an even smaller bed, you’d be surprised how often I’ve used it to haul bulky things that wouldn’t fit in an enclosed SUV. It’s definitely capable of plenty of “work.”
  That being said, whomever did that parking job deserves all the keying they will be getting.
Buy a truck for truck things and a car for car things. When they try to do both like that, they do neither well. I keep a truck and a car. I wouldn't buy a truck without a full size bed, otherwise it's not a truck. I don't know what that thing is, but it's not a truck.
That's not a knife

While trucks are complete nonsense to have for 9/10 owners, sometimes it's choosing between two evils. Either park it like this, or have it stick out this far at the front, blocking traffic flow.

Instead of being infuriated by the way it's parked, we should be just because it's a truck that Is useless to have, especially in the Netherlands.

Block the flow of traffic. Vehicle traffic has predefined rules to deal with this and it happens all the time. Now you're forcing pedestrians to go onto the road creating a safety hazard. Strollers, like with OP, or disabled people or really you name it are severely disadvantaged by this, just because this person needed a gigantic car thought vehicle traffic was more important than pedestrians.
- I'm not saying one is better than the other, all I'm saying is that both ways it sucks and trucks in general are just infuriating.
I mean, the answer is "Your vehicle is too large to park here." It's one of the reasons I drive a smaller car, parking is a bitch where I'm from and I'd hate passing up spots because I can't fit.
Then buy a smaller truck????????? Why the fuck does anyone need a car that massive
In my country it's actually illegal to do this. Law states that wherever you are parking you have to make sure there are 1.8m left for the pedestrians.

Main character syndrome

Where is the SUV though?

The bed is too small to be an effective truck I'd say, def an SUV lolol.
- trucklet

Good luck to anyone in a wheelchair.

Extremely annoying when it's done so often, cars just love intruding every little space they can.

Ow damn. Weird seeing my city and a car that I know. The owner lives in my apartment complex. There are some 'main character'-parking-toddlers living at my place that get my blood boiling every time they try to redefine the lines on the parking lot.

The Netherlands?
- Yes, now for some geoguesser genius to also state the city.

It's a garbage truck now. Everyone bring out your garbage.

If you try it, watch your shin on that ball hitch.

Oh my god, it's the poop guy!
- Is this your thing now? Very flattering to have a stalker.

There is an offer in Lidl for a portable plasma cutter

What's that? I live next to a lidl.im actually always Tempted to get the tools. They must be at least as good as harbor freight
- It's a machine that uses a jet of plasma to cut stuff
  https://youtu.be/Z_5JGygxl9E
  I have most of my tools from lidl and they are good enough for doing stuff at home.

What would be the most effective way to handle this without violating the law?

I live in México. I don't care about laws when it comes to fucking dumbasses like these.
- Now I'm curious. How does parking like this go over in say, Juarez or Mexico City?
This will get towed in Germany if you report it, as it's putting others in danger by forcing them to use the road.

Looks like someone is getting stroller gouges! Take your baby out of it first obviously.

This is very dangerous for people like me!

Points to pony tail

Key that shit

Usually I scratch the paint off. Sure it's not acceptable, but fuck cars. I've also smashed the ad signs in Sydney.

As shitty as people can be, it’s never appropriate to respond to non-damaging inconvenience with vandalism. That’s you stooping even lower than their level.
- Hmm, I wonder:
  why is inconveniencing one person (admittedly on a worse level) worse than inconveniencing everyone that uses the sidewalk (so smaller level, but wider scale)?
  why do you believe this? Is it just because the law states one is punished worse than the other?
- fuck you lol

This slashes the tires

I would parkour over it

They should park it with two staircases.

🔑

Piff-poof goes the tire.

Those moments when you wish you stole one of those emergency hammers from a Bus!

You have them not stolen?!
- I think they just replace them a lot here, I know more than one person with one on the wall 😂

That is not parked, that is abandoned.

Calling this truck an “SUV” is very mildly infuriating.

🤦🏻‍♂️

Would bet €20 this is the Netherlands

Yup

I let my dogs scratch the fuck out of cars that are parked like this, i put big spike collars on them for walks just for this reason.

Christ, do you really not know what a fucking truck is? 🤦‍♂️

We are truly fucking doomed.

You mean wankermobile?
To be fair, they're really not that different. A common definition for SUVs, to my knowledge, is essentially just a passenger car built on a light truck chassis. Lots of these modern trucks have a full set of front and back seats and a relatively small bed (compared to the size of the vehicle anyway), and further, many are used by people who almost never actually haul stuff in it. In such a case, such a truck is basically getting used as an SUV anyway, just shaped like a truck because lots of people like trucks I guess.
- Some Minivans share the same chassis as sedans. I'm not starting to call sedans "Minivans" just because the chassis is shared.