Another izoneiz thread: are you "parked" if your car doesn't touch the ground?

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Was just reading about that vigilante in NYC who goes around taking videos of illegally parked government vehicles, and something occured to me.

Let's say I go out and buy a car-lift (one of the small, home-use ones) and plonk it down in a regular parking space in London. I then drive a car onto the lift, and hoist the car up, leaving the space underneath vacant for another car to use.

In this scenario, is the hoisted car technically parked? It's not touching the ground, and isn't taking up a parking spot, because it's still there - so, what would happen? Ticket? Tow-away (if possible)? Police? Would it be ignored.

I would argue that the car is not parked and not using a parking bay and hence isn't affecting anyone, so, um, traffic wardens can bog off
 
Where would the car lift be though. Surely the base of the lift would be either in the space or on the pavement, in either case its causing an obstruction or using a parking space.
 
AtreuS said:
Where would the car lift be though. Surely the base of the lift would be either in the space or on the pavement, in either case its causing an obstruction or using a parking space.
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It would be on the road - there are a number of "slimline" car lifts out there that have a very small footprint, and still leave plenty of space for a (small) car to parallel park in
 
and if you've got a car doing 50mph on a rolling road on top of the car hoist would you get done for speeding as well ???


:p
 
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