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You can't park there, mate

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For all parking disasters, not just simple bad parking (for that see yplac.co.uk).

Also includes "you can't park there, sir" for the police equivalent.

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Source and additional pics:

https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772

Also from the same thread:

For people who aren't intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.

Edit: it looks like it was not "several miles" but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:

https://piefed.social/comment/11604144

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[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I work for an MTA. This sort of thing happens all the time. People are crazy 🀣🀣🀣

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

Car traps are good, but still close up the line. In this case though maybe the car would be recoverable. Now they need a crane.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So the cars are able to fit through the entrance?

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yes. When the light rail vehicle enters the tunnel from the street, it's at the same grade as the traffic. All a car has to do is ignore signs and bumps, etc. Pretty sure they're usually blind drunk.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

An MTA, I'm pretty sure there's only one MTA (ok well technically there's two)

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

She should prominently lose her license for this but this is America where that doesn't even happen if you kill people.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

yeah driving up a 3 story tall incline (it's a very elevated station) should be grounds for repossessing their license.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

this is Utah. A hotbed of the dumbest most religiously conservative Americans. I would put Utah a degree below Florida on the dumbass scale.

FYI Utah is home of the church of the LDS cult, aka Mormons. it has some of the most fucked up child abuse documented in the country (and that's what's actually documented).

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

One you are objectively wrong look up the station name, two if the FLDS and the LDS are the same then the black hebrew israelites are israelies

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

my mistake, it's Seattle.

but that car (and presumably the driver) is from Utah....the incorrigible cesspool of pedophiles and charlatans.

[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Or it's a rental car. I rented a car in the Seattle area with Nevada plates a couple of weeks ago.

I get the impression that rental car companies register cars in states with lower tab fees and then move them around the country. I wouldn't be surprised if registering in Utah is a lot cheaper than Washington.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is an Utah driver in Seattle. How the hell did they get lost all the way up here??

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

probably on their way to bricks and minifigs and got lost after they stole $200k.

[–] rslogix89@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They’re just waiting for the train to push them into 1885.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

There were much better ways to do that, that Doc Brown would have known.....

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just baffling. I know our light rails, take it to Seatac whenever I travel. How the everliving fuck did that happen?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

Looking at the station makes it even crazier:

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is there a right way to drive several miles on an elevated train track?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago

In a train.

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess that it means that train direction on that track was opposite... I don't think this makes this episode any worse πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I figured, I just couldn’t help trying to be funny.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES

Fuck. I'm honestly just impressed.

[–] valtia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

More like a quarter of a mile

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Lucky she made it to a station.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How, just how can you be this dumb? What's in the water over there? Murcery? Lead?

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mormonism.... Basically worse than all three.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ffs this is in Seattle, mormons might be dumb but even they don't deserve to catch strays like this.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Utah plates though

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

driver is from utah, not here. don't blame us for her crazy shit.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I was talking much wider than the state of Washington.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah and I'm sure all the people where you come from are fucking perfect.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

No, but the amount of dumb coming from that part of the world is staggering.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is wrong with some people...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

IKR?

You're supposed to take the tires off so the rails go in the grooves of the rim.

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What kind of test do you guys have to pass for a drivers license???

[–] guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Well, during our tests, we never have to go past railroad tracks! How can we be expected to just know that we’re not supposed to turn into them?

[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk about several miles, looks like a few hundred meters on a map.

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Has to be sleep-walking, drug use, or schizo-affective. I don’t see how else this happens to someone with a functioning mind.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Could be all 3 πŸ€”

[–] OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or just a Utah driver... but according to her it was GPS that led her astray

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Clearly, you can. But while you're busy wondering if you can, don't forget to stop and ask yourself if you should

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

You know I could not imagine how this could happen but then I recall in my city on one line there is road level crossings twice near the end of the line. Actually there might be another line that has something similar that Im not sure if I have ever been on. That one is like a spur line that expands off the end of the line of one of the more major lines.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I zoomed in on the sign to see if this could be in Phoenix, as if there weren't trees precluding that possibility.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

'Been waiting for Back to the Future IV.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

The transit authorities had to call for backup from the fashion police.