No Parking Space Parking

I work for a big company here in Brazil. We have large parking lots. They are far from being the best parking lots in the world, but they can currently hold the cars from all the company's employees that want to drive their cars to work everyday.

Parking space is not really a problem. There are spaces for everybody. But sometimes you will look for a good parking space and will realize that the best you can find is still a little bit far from your entrance gate, which is also not a problem, because the company provides buses to and from the parking lots, so their valuable, yet lazy employees don't even have to walk to get to their workplaces. Quite convenient, but there is always someone to make us angry...

As I said, the parking lot has problems. It does not have decent pavement. In fact I would say it does not have pavement at all. It doesn't have delimited parking space either. Having parking spaces marked on the ground would really help, but would not solve the problem I am going to describe. The other big parking lot (on the right side of the picture above) has marked parking spaces and still has similar problems.

The little thing that makes me angry is parking where there is no parking space. People have this amazing ability of finding places to park their cars where no one is ever supposed to park. And sometimes it is so obvious that it is a wrong place that I just had to write this post.

We have lanes marked on the parking lot that are designated for pedestrians. They are clearly marked with a "pedestrian" icon all along the path. Everybody knows it is pedestrians' space. But bad parkers insist on parking there. Everyday.

Poor pedestrian, has been just ran over...

Not only on the pedestrian lane, but also in the middle of the street...

On Fridays the problem gets worse because more people drive their cars to work in order to travel to their hometowns right after work. And again, the problem is not that there is no space for them to park. They just want to park closer to the gate. And they will park wherever their car fits. WHEREVER.

For God's sake, this guy parked INSIDE the bus stop!!

The Company has tried to educate irregular drivers by leaving notices on the windshields, but that doesn't seem to help much. Applying monetary fines could help, but I am not sure they are allowed by law to do that. Maybe locking the wheels of the car, forcing them to get back inside the facility and go to a building on the other end of the property just to release the car would help... If they are minimally intelligent, they will realize it would be better to park regularly and walk a few additional hundred meters in the morning than spending more time and walking more in the afternoon when they are in a hurry to hit the road...