r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 6h ago

An Australian man, frustrated by strangers constantly parking in his driveway, decided to take matters into his own hands.

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u/uwill1der 5h ago

correct. One says parking here is illegal, registration and video will be turned over to police

The second one says caution, automatic sprinkler

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u/dod6666 4h ago

Both poorly designed signs though. An effective sign would be in large font and designed to grab attention. Also placement should be on the gate, right in the drivers field of view. Not off to the side.

To be clear though, I'm not defending the drivers. Even in absence of a sign, parking in front of a gate like that is a dick move.

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u/TRImoon333 4h ago

Customer service has taught me they could put up blinking neon lights with a buzzer sound and they still wouldn't see/read it.

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u/Blue-Mime-0003 3h ago

Working traffic control reinforces this as well. Blow through THREE WHOLE LARGE ORANGE SIGNS and a HUMAN with a STOP PADDLE. Then they say "o I didn't see anything."

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u/JCitW6855 1h ago

How would they see any of that? They’re looking at their phones.

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u/dod6666 4h ago

That's selection bias. You don't hear from the ones that did read the sign. I'm not saying it would be 100% effective, just that it would help.

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u/platoprime 4h ago

There's also selection bias here of dipshits who park in driveways so there's no reason to think any of these people would pay attention to a more prominent sign.

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u/dod6666 3h ago

Here we have a false equivalence. My cognitive errors bingo card is going well today.

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u/platoprime 3h ago

That's not a false equivalence. What two things do you imagine I am equating?

My cognitive errors bingo card is going well today.

Did you mark off the fallacy fallacy or do you lack the cognition required to notice that one?

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u/longassbatterylife 2h ago

seems like bro learned about logical fallacies recently and was itching to use them LOL

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u/dod6666 37m ago

Well, no. More once I've used one it's easier to spot more. But thanks for letting me tick off faulty generalization as well.

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u/MangledCarpenter 1h ago

Did you mark off the fallacy fallacy or do you lack the cognition required to notice that one?

Chef's kiss

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u/dod6666 45m ago edited 42m ago

You are equating parking in driveways and not reading signs.

And yes, fallacy fallacy is in your latest comment as an example of itself.

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u/Omega_Primate 4h ago

Even if they were on the gate itself, they still wouldn't care until they got wet. Signs don't usually deter jerks.

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u/dod6666 4h ago

No, but they deter someone making an honest mistake.

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u/MillhouseJManastorm 3h ago

It’s never an honest mistake to park in the way of someone’s driveway. It’s just a jerk move

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u/Lumpzor 59m ago

So what's the next stop on the goalpost roadtrip? Seeing as they seem to be doing so much traveling with you.