A group of keen student activists have started a blog to tackle Southampton’s endemic double-yellow parking crisis.
The leaders of Tumblr blog and radical social movement ‘‘, who have asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, told the Soton Tab they started their campaign because “crappy parking affects us and other people trying to get around”.
The intention of the blog is to “send them a clear message” and make them “confront their cunt-ness head on”.
Overcompensating for not knowing the Highway Code?
This gang of free-thinking vigilantes claim to have started the blog as “[they] thought it’d be fun”.
They added “The worst thing about shitty parking is that you rarely get to confront the person responsible; they get to be a cunt and walk away”.
When asked why they chose the word ‘cunt’ they responded that “not a lot of thought went into it”, adding “you don’t piss anyone off by calling them a nincompoop.”
This monster has already been featured twice
‘Steve’, speaking on behalf of the blog, told us “none of [their] friends outside of the small group of us contributing to IPLAC know about it … We’d like to preserve that as much as possible.”
The vast majority of the snaps feature the double yellow lines on the portion of Westridge Road which intersects Portswood Road. ‘Steve’ commented that the reason for this bias is primarily that “having all of those cars parked illegally up either side of the road makes the area genuinely a little dangerous for pedestrians”.
No good for my blood pressure
He added “I think it gets more attention on the blog because it’s along the route we all take to get home from campus”.
I need a lie down
Anyone still doubting the legitimacy of their cause will be surprised to discover they’ve even had business cards printed, to leave as a Joker-esque calling card to their “cunt” victims.
Yes, this is .
The typically secretive admins would not reveal the exact cost of their signature cards, but claimed they “wouldn’t have bothered at all if they’d cost more than [a tenner].”
Have you been left devastated by a business card in your windscreen? Equally traumatised by local parking standards? Let us know in the comments below.
Brilliant idea. That bit at the end of Portswood Avenue next to Aroma Lounge is constantly full of people parked on double yellows. Ends up blocking the road coming in and going out. It’s enough of a shitsack without these cunts. Cheers and good luck to the admins!
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confront it head on- by not confronting them but instead by posting your picture anonymously on the internet. good one!
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Tumblr Account: Free
Business Card Printing: Less than a tenner
Getting nicked for violation of Section 4 of the Public Order act Priceless.
Seriously gents, I fucking hope the tumblr account and business cards aren’t easily traced back to one of you, because it only takes one of those fuckers making a complaint to kick up a shitstorm.
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Forgive me: Section 5, not 4.
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You sound like a bit of a fun sponge.
To join you at your own game, would they not have the defence that their conduct is reasonable, because all the vehicles featured are committing parking offences, and are therefore parking like cunts, and that since you have to go to a website called “iparklikeacunt” to see these images no one “within hearing or sight [is] likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress” ?
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Fun sponge – whatever, I’m still right.
The person who owns the vehicle will find the business card and could easily claim to have felt distress. And ‘but he did park like a cunt’ is not one of the defences listed in the Public Order Act.
In practice, unless these pillocks get caught putting a business card on someone’s car, it’s unlikely the police are going to take any steps to find out who they are (too busy not closing all those sexual assault cases), but that makes it no less illegal.
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best of luck finding a job when employers google your name and find it attached to an article that has “cunt” written in it.
And the people who thought they’d be edgy and clever for starting this site off – it’s hilarious, but it will eventually get traced back toy you and you will be in deep poopoo.
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If you’re going to steal my Soton Tab username, at least post something intelligent or insightful…
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There seems to have been a lot of username stealing going on recently.
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As though tab usernames are trademarked
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Seriously guys, this is a really big issue. I feel like a part of my personality has been stolen. I bet you’re not even the original Lol.
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I doubt it
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Been done. Pistonheads. Come on students. Grow the fuck up
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Isn’t calling this a ‘radical social movement’ a bit generous?
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