Originally Posted by
onepointone
i can see your side, but that doesnt make tipping over a almost $10k bike ok. if you see a parking spot that is blocked by some jackass who parked their bike in the wrong spot, find another spot. or he could of dropped his wife off at the front of the store, and parked after she was already out. point is, you pull up somewhere, and you obviously dont have room to park and do what you need to do, then dont park there..
im usually nice when someone else is in the wrong, like when i got rear ended in my jeep by some girl while i was at a dead stop.. but i would of been a real asshole to that guy. moving a bike out of the way is one thing, but putting it on its side... come on.. thats fucked up. you know it wasnt just set over too, i bet once it got over far enough, it was dropped from being too heavy..
It does require a good portion of room in some cases to get someone out of a vehicle and into a wheel chair, in their defense. Pulling into another space, if that was the only available handicapped space, should not even be an option. Don't you think they have a right to park in the space? Honestly, I'm a rider, and I usually side with other riders.. but the rider was in the wrong, man. It doesn't make what they did right, but I don't think he has any room to be getting angry at someone who NEEDED the spot that he blocked. The other man should not have had to go out of his way to park elsewhere and wheel her up or pull up, unload her chair, get her in it, get her inside, then park. The zone that the motorcycle was parked in was designated basically as a loading and unloading zone for handicapped spots.
I'd be upset too, but he really doesn't have much right to try and push this into anything further. There's a reason why the man was not issued a citation, and there's a reason why the officer was not very sympathetic towards the owner of the motorcycle. He could have helped him more than he did if he was in a designated parking spot, and I don't want to hear someone accuse the cop of being a 'bike hater'