We've all been there. You circle and circle a parking lot only to finally find a spot ... or what you think is a spot. But when you try to pull in, you realize only one-third of it is available because some douche decided he needed one and two-thirds spaces for his Prius. Or, even worse, you come out and find someone parked so close to your door that you have to crawl through the passenger side.
Douche parkers are some of the most inconsiderate, infuriating humans on earth, and beyond risking some serious vandalism charges or your physical well being, there's no effective way to stop their douchery. Until now.
I'm going to go ahead and call it the most brilliant app of all time, because I think it deserves that title. It's called Parking Douche, and it's flat out brilliant. Right now it's just available in Russia, according to Mashable, but the potential for such an app is unbelievable.
Basically, if someone parks like a douche, you just take a picture, which is then streamed to live pop-up advertisements on various sites, including the Moscow-based online newspaper The Village. They're targeted through an IP address so that they're seen by people who live and work close to the offensive parking job. To get the pop-ups to go away, readers then must share them on Facebook so the shaming of parking douches can spread. Amazing.
Here's an awesome video that shows just how it works.
What amazing satisfaction this app could bring so many, and hopefully it will eventually make for kinder more considerate parking and a better world all around. The only problem I see is that it's not available in Florida ... yet.
Would you use the Parking Douche app?
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Comments 8
That doesn't make sense...the only way to get rid of the pop up is to share it on FB?
1) What if you don't have a FB?
2) What if you don't care enough to splash your FB page with a picture of a car, especially several times a day?
3) I'm not really sure how this is shaming anyone. What are the chances that I share the picture with my 143 FB friends, over half of whom are out of state, and the picture is shared enough times to get back to the person who's car is being shown.
Seems pointless to me. I personally would get more pleasure out of keying their car than using this app. Instant gratification and someting they will have to remember me by. =)
Okay.... I just watched the video and I gotta say, the whole pop up thing is 1000x more annoying than some douchebag parker. This app is the stupidest idea!
Douchebag app.
Back when I had a little hatch back beater car, I would park in the remainder of the space that a "douchebag parker" would leave. Don't want anyone near your new mustang so you take up two spots in a crowded garage? To bad, I can squeeze my little car into the rest of the spot on your driver's side and still not cross the line into the next space. Granted, I was 19-20 and didn't care if there were times I had to crawl out my own hatchback, it was worth it.
sucrosemonkey that rocks!
I like the idea of calling out parking jerks, but I really relaly hate the idea of ads that you have to share in order to get them to go away. (Because obviously you can't rig it so just the jerk has to deal with this).