One of the major selling points of the SMART car is that you can park it like that. It's why its a great car for a city, so she is probably not very daft.
(Pete_G, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 8:57, 1 reply)

and this story illustrates the inherant compatability issue with these cars.
so she probably is very daft for accepting the manufacturer's assumptions and not using her own brain a bit.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 4 Feb 2011, 9:32, closed)

Why?
It's perfectly legal and feasible to park smart cars like that, why does that make them incompatible with anything? If you parallel park next to a normal car you leave them a foot or more so that they can drive out; if you park next to a smart car you leave a foot or so so they can open their doors, what's the difference? From the sound of the OP the only problem was that the two normal cars were driven by a couple of cunts who decided, for no apparent reason, to make the parking space unusable for the woman. The fact that they could fit their cars in shows that she didn't actually take the spaces that they wanted so they were just doing it to be wankers.

Also, why does the OP suggest that she would be stuck there for the night? If she was still in the car she could just reverse out into the street. If she had already got out of the car she could just climb in though the boot and then reverse out into the street.
(flimflam_machine, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 10:10, closed)

They weigh nowt anyway and a couple of decent upstanding gentlemen could have moved it out into the street for her,
so she could get back in. If I had been the lady I'd have keyed both their boots and fucked off somewhere else to park. What goes around comes around.

There used to be a Smart watch shop (The Smart was in part designed by Swatch) in Manchester on the Royal Exchange and they had a Smart car as a runabout. At nights they used to park the car in the shop. Which was nice.
( Smallbrainfield, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 10:37, closed)

Keyed their boots...albeit if the guys were intelligent enough to park her in
They'd have noted her rego plate just in case the above happened.
(lemonadegame, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 15:29, closed)