Car park marking gone bad..!

[Doggy Styles]

I thought it was about parking bays, where you need a plank or something to keep the lines straight.

[OrangeHopper]

Excuse me! What is wrong with barb wire collecting?

[Muttley08]

There's a really funny student prank in there somewhere about repainting a car park and confusing all the mums even more than their normal trouble they have parking

[EternalOptimist]

We'll have to take your word on that.

I once had to do a 10,000 word essay on 'The Marxist interpretation of Hegelian Dialectic and the counter-factual variable concept of car-park delineation' - An extra 10 marks if parallels are drawn to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of traffic wardens. ie do they operate in waves and what are the frequencies

[Pogle]

There's a really funny student prank in there somewhere about repainting a car park and confusing all the mums even more than their normal trouble they have parking

Oh yes lets really piss off sleep deprived Mothers of small children - that's REALLY funny, I know lets also let down the tires of smug patronising male IT contractors too ha ha ha - jolly japes eh!

[bogeyman]

Oh yes lets really piss off sleep deprived Mothers of small children - that's REALLY funny, I know lets also let down the tires of smug patronising male IT contractors too ha ha ha - jolly japes eh!

Ooh! Ouch!

[RSoles]

Ah yes when you look into it carpark marking is a fascinating subject.

In the carpark of the Ulster Folk and Transport museum in Belfast, some genius decided to paint parking bays. To help people park in a one-way section of the park he painted the bays at 45 degrees to the flow of traffic.
So far so good.... but... he forgot to take account of the fact that this narrows the bays. Result, bays 1/root two of a car width. They're there to this day.