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Aussies are outraged after a woman’s ‘unfair’ parking act was caught on dashcam.
The footage showed the motorist driving down a street and seeing a woman standing in a car park on a busy Gold Coast street in south-east Queensland.
The dashcam owner then turned onto the street and headed toward the parking lot the woman was standing in.
An argument then ensued after the driver asked the motionless woman if she was indeed ‘reserving’ the seat.
“It’s really unfair, you’re not even a car,” he said.
The footage showed the woman standing in a car park on a busy Gold Coast street
The young woman refused to move, allegedly saying ‘We’re not moving for you, you’ll have to find someone new, sorry’.
She continued to point to her mother’s car, which was behind the man who was trying to park.
Finally, the annoyed driver gave up and drove off.
Almost everyone who saw the exchange shared their disapproval online, saying they would not have ‘given up’.
“Ahhhh the road rage I feel when I see this,” said one person.
‘This makes me so mad!! I would have parked around her half off the road and walked away,’ said another.
‘She has NO RIGHT to do that. You should have parked and filmed her. YOU had a right to that park, added a third.
A few supported the woman, saying they thought it was ‘perfectly okay to reserve a seat’.
The incident follows on the heels of a similar incident in a parking lot in January, where a woman tried to hold a parking spot by standing in place.
Dash cam footage captured the shopper being forced to move as the driver moved his car straight into the car park.
Although it is not illegal for a pedestrian to reserve a car space in Queensland, the move has been criticized as extremely anti-social
She initially held on to the front of the car’s bonnet before realizing the driver had no intention of backing out, causing outrage on social media.
In both cases, social media users flocked to the comments section, saying “standing there and trying to hold the place is unacceptable”.
Although it is not illegal for a pedestrian to reserve a car space in Queensland, the move has been described as extremely anti-social.
However, the Transport Act states that “a pedestrian shall not unreasonably obstruct the path of any driver or another pedestrian”.
The NRMA also said it ‘should go without saying’ that a space cannot be claimed in this way in a blog post on parking etiquette rules.