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Emma Gill

Driver branded 'entitled t**t' after parking over TWO parent and child bays

A driver has been branded an 'entitled t**t' after parking over two parent and child bays.

The Ford Focus was taking up two wide spaces inside a multi-storey car park near Asda in Wythenshawe, south Manchester, at roughly 10am on Saturday.

It is not clear whether the owner of the car had any children with them.

Tom, 43, took a picture of the grey vehicle and captioned it: "No comment."

The dad-of-two said: "It didn’t really bother me as the car park was empty, but it's just to show how selfish some people are."

Others commented on his post mocking the 'disgusting' parking and branding the driver 'selfish' and 'an entitled t**t'.

Another visitor said: "Yeah I saw this car too, disgusting, no regard for others."

Have you been the victim of bad parking? Let us know at webnews@mirror.co.uk

A mum also slammed a moped rider for a similar offence earlier this month (stokesentinel.co.uk)

A third person added: "They should have been issued with a ticket make them think before they do it next time."

Unless signage says otherwise, parents are free to use the bays if they are accompanied by a child aged under 12 or in a car or booster seat.

Pregnant women using the spaces is considered a grey area because the signs specifically refer to parents with children.

It comes after a furious mum earlier this month slammed another 'selfish' moped rider for parking in a parent-and-child bay.

The 34-year-old was furious after a motorbike occupied a parking area at her local Aldi supermarket when she went to pick up supplies.

Becze Imre had visited Aldi in Stoke-on-Trent, but she was angry after a delivery rider had taken up one of the special parent spaces which offers extra space to take young children in and out of their car seats.

She claims the rider took up the limited bay for at least an hour as she visited the supermarket and went for food.

Research shows one in four parent and child parking bays are used by people who are ineligible.

The most common reason given by people who misused parent and child parking bays was that there were plenty of the spaces available, with 31% of those questioned using that excuse.

A further 31% said they used the bays because they were unable to find another space in the supermarket car park.

Just over a quarter (26%) said they broke the rules because it was late at night and they did not think there would be any parents with children around.

And 22% of drivers tried to justify their actions by saying they were only using the space for a few minutes.

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