If you use this when shittily blocking any roads or pathes in Germany the fine gets higher because the lights prove that you behaved like an asshole intentionally.

Seriously; fuck the people that just abandon their vehicles in emergency lanes with the hazard lights on.

"I'll only be a minute" Fuck you, you'll be more than a minute, your shit is in the way, and that 'minute' could and has literally been the difference between life and death in an actual emergency.

I hope your shit gets towed and you face a huge fine. Or a fire fighter smashes it up to get to a fire hydrant.

Of course it’s an emergency, I need to park and there aren’t any parking spots!!

I was leaving my neighborhood last week and there was a car just parked right in the middle of the street. No hazard lights, no one in it, not even pulled over. Just parked in the middle of the travel lane. What’s more is that there were plenty of places to park that were closer to where he was delivering whatever the fuck than where he parked his shitmobile.

So what did I do? I stopped behind the parked car, laid on the horn until he came running back where I yelled at him to park his fucking shit and called him a fucking dipshit which felt pretty good.

I know what you’re thinking. “Oh yeah and everyone clapped”

fuck you

On a somewhat related note, I was once driving down a highway, and a guy came up behind me at a frightening speed swerving around all the traffic with his emergency blinkers on. I couldn't help but think that the emergency blinkers look like both turn signals at once, so maybe they just thought if they hit the emergency blinker button, they can switch lanes however they want to.

By the way, if somebody does come up and drive like that, with or without the emergency blinkers, just let them drive past, man. If you block them, you never know, you might be blocking a person with a real emergency. I know it might feel irritating, but with your limited information, the best thing for everybody is if that person gets past you. There have been cases in the past of medical emergencies where the driver was intentionally blocked from passing and a person in their car died.

Leaving this here in hopes it cheers someone up. In Aus, thats the "thank you" button. A lot of times people are trying to change lanes in heavy traffic and no one lets you through. But when someone does, you hit the hazards for 2 seconds to give thanks to the person behind you who just let you through. I always found it wholesome. Sometimes you let someone through and they dont turn the hazards on and I'm like "wheres my thank you??" lol.
Sucks to hear that people are using their hazards to park illegally, that would infuriate me lol.

It's preferable to the people who just stop and don't turn on their hazards so I have no idea what they're doing. Still shit behavior, but at least shit behavior and can navigate around better.

Where does this happen so much that people are making memes about it? I don't think I've ever seen that happen before in my entire life.

When you hit that button, laws stop applying to you

Not a day goes by where there isn't some douche with their hazards on parked in the firelane out in front of my apartment's front office.

If people threw rocks this would be dangerous

I used to own a used Chevy Colorado work truck. It had the big white utility shell over the bed with the ladder rack on top.

If I were less-honest I could've bought a yellow vest and some orange cones and parked anywhere I wanted.

The fuckers out front of the laundry mat that provides carts with wheels on them because they are simply to lazy to walk an extra 200 feet to a parking space. Entitled fucks.

I've used it to "park" and let people out of my car, but never left the vehicle that I can recall. I also don't wait for the person I dropped off to come back. One notable exception for helping my mom get into a wheelchair at the ER, but that was more of a designated drop off zone that I probably stayed in too long than a proper "no parking" zone. Maybe 3-5 minutes instead of the anticipated seconds?