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Saturday, May 11, 2024

Bad Parking: So long Snowbirds!

April has arrived, Easter has come and gone and many of the Snowbirds who have swelled the population of The Villages over the past few months are taking flight and heading north.

During the past few months when parking has been scarce, drivers have come up with some creative ways to park their vehicles. Others have been blatantly “entitled.”

Prepare to laugh along as you scroll through the latest gallery of photos from the Parking Patrol.

Three cars in a handicapped space for one.
“Some day I will grow up to be a motorcycle.”
A winner at Colony Plaza
Are the rules different in Canada?
Backwards parking at MVP
Bad brakes?
Bad parking at Lake Sumter Landing during St. Patrick’s Day celebration
Beer run
Bonifay Country Club
Brings new meaning to handicapped parking.
Buggy buddies
Can’t steal my cart
Cody’s in Brownwood
Colony Cottage Recreation Center
Colony Plaza
Craft show at Laurel Manor
Customer service parking at District Office
Elan Spanish Springs
Entitled?
Gator’s Dockside at Brownwood
Golf Cart parking at Evans Prairie
Golf cart parking at Lake Sumter Landing
Havana Country Club
I can’t get out!
Just move the cones
March 27 Brownwood
Mulberry Grove Plaza
MVP Spanish Springs
Oh, here’s a spot
Parked in the entrance lane at the Sharon Rose Wiechens Preserve
Publix at Mulberry Grove
Straddling the line
Sumter Grand
Sumter Library at Pinellas Plaza
Wal-Mart at Buffalo Ridge
Wal-Mart at Sarasota Plaza
Winn-Dixie at Pinellas Plaza
Wrong way parking
Winn-Dixie store at Pinellas Plaza
Not quite handicapped?
Close … maybe next time.
Easter Saturday Fresh Market
Publix at Colony Plaza
Winn-Dixie at Spanish Springs
Charlotte Postal Station
Southern Trace Plaza

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