In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours…
These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!
I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car…
That’s a bullshit bolt-on charge that cops use to enforce driving-while-black and everyone knows it.
Found one of the bastards that leaves the knee killer 9000 on his lifted princess truck that’s never seen actual work.
And yet here we are with the hitch actively blocking even more of the sidewalk preventing someone with mobility issues from getting through. Seems like it’s a pretty necessary thing that needs to be enforced more.
Both of these things can be true though.
Also in this case that hitch isn’t effectively blocking any space the truck wasn’t already ( with the trash can there, so much if the sidewalk is impassable due to the truck the hitch is practically a non-factor).
Generally the bigger concern about them is increased damage in a rear end collision.