What if I told you that these bent parking bollards were spotted at a liquor store

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro) 02/22/2018 at 18:00 • Filed to: parking, parking bollards, bollards, convenience stores, dallas

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Would that make you feel better or worse about this image?

Spotted at a small convenience store in Dallas TX by Imgur user HulkHogansNutSack, these posts are a sobering reminder of the drivers we share our roads with.

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You’ve probably spotted more than a few parking bollards like this in your own town. It’s not all that unusual too see a randomly damaged post or two, sticking out from an otherwise orderly row like a sore thumb.

But this isn’t your average everyday stupid. This is advanced stupid . Rather than a single monument to an embarrassing mistake, we see here bludgeoned bollard after bludgeoned bollard, a testament to what surely must be multiple drivers who don’t seem to care about damaging their car, or about damaging others’ property, and probably couldn’t care less about the dangers of drunk driving, either.

Note how not even the one in the foreground escaped this cruel fate. It’s not even close to where anybody’s bumper should ever be when parking. It’s almost as if people are going out of their way to hit these things...

Photo: Google Maps

Just imagine, if these posts could talk, the stories they’d tell between their screams of agony. They’ve done so much to protect that store, and have borne witness to so many horrors. Let us salute their silent bravery.

E90M3 > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:05

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This is why I always park in the back of the lot of the liquor store.

Taken at a Spec’s in Corpus Christi.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:06

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How the.... What the.... WhuuuUUuuuUUHHH

I’m praying for those posts.

Party-vi > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:09

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Hell those just make a ramp if you’re going fast enough.

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > Party-vi 02/22/2018 at 18:12

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Hold my beer and watch this!

RPM esq. > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:14

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Yikes.

OPPOsaurus WRX > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 02/22/2018 at 18:16

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With enough thoughts and prayers maybe they will go up right again

OPPOsaurus WRX > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor 02/22/2018 at 18:17

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I think that’s what got them like that to begin with

Spanfeller is a twat > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:19

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I spy with my little eyes an SRT jeep!

Chariotoflove > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:26

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I live in Dallas, and I’m just here to confirm that what you see has nothing to do with liquor in those patrons’ systems. That’s just how people roll here. FML.

XJDano > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:26

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Those look more like electrical conduit painted yellow, or fence posts and not filled with concrete.

I also imagine this kind of truck smashing every one of them.

Jayvincent > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:31

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I cant speak for Dallas, but in Houston, everyone’s brainwashed to back into parking spaces supposedly to prevent cross-traffic accidents when pulling back out. The result of this curious behavior is a lot of bent bollards and signposts as people back up their full-size pickups into a parking spot until they hear a crunch because they have no idea where that bumper is back there... just my 2c, but it’s plausible. |Anyone else live somewhere where backing into parking spaces is the rule?

benjrblant > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:39

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Wondering if it was a series of tappy-tap-taps or a few big whams!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:39

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That’s why I park in the store. Those parking lots are dangerous.

AntiSpeed > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 18:56

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This is why I’m afraid to ride a motorcycle.

Urambo Tauro > Jayvincent 02/22/2018 at 19:01

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I haven’t encountered them myself, but back-in only spaces do exist. I just do it voluntarily... without hitting things.

Urambo Tauro > Chariotoflove 02/22/2018 at 19:01

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I’m so sorry.

404 - User No Longer Available > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 19:26

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See this is why we need to get rid of crossovers. Everybody can’t see them.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Jayvincent 02/22/2018 at 20:27

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Can confirm, I did that with my brother’s truck. Although in my defense, the light pole had a super wide concrete base that couldn’t be seen from the rear view mirror.

wafflesnfalafel > E90M3 02/22/2018 at 21:13

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d@mn straight - I can walk and extra 50 yards thank you

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 21:15

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Must be these guys. The profile fits:

Scary__goongala! > Urambo Tauro 02/22/2018 at 21:54

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Damn were they giving the liquor away for free one day?

Crotchety Curmudgeon > Urambo Tauro 02/24/2018 at 17:42

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I’m unsurprised that is a liquor store in Texas. After all, Texas at one time had drive-through liquor stores. No idea if they still do.