Tailgating at Westfield Car Park Exit

kyle on 24/03/2025 - 22:53
Last edited 25/03/2025 - 11:13 by 1 other user

Has the cost of living crisis gotten so bad that ppl have to tailgate to exit the car park?

So I was at Westfield Doncaster and this Subaru with custom plate YUEN*8 was in front of me. As the car in front of it exited, it tailgated it without waiting for the boom gate to come down.

Then the annoying thing was, when I got to the machine, the display showed outstanding amount $35, which is the max daily rate. And embarrassingly I had to hold up the queue to wait for the intercom response. They didn't even ask me what happened, so they must have known.

I mean, you've got a custom plate which is not cheap, but you can't afford to pay for parking???

Whinge over.

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Comments

    • JimmyF on 24/03/2025 - 23:22
      +11

      A; why do you give a shit?

      Why did you reply then?

  • Clear on 24/03/2025 - 23:29
    +8

    I had a banana earlier. Get that rear dashcam footage onto DCOA.

  • Sye on 25/03/2025 - 00:07
    +23

    This is another forum post that should be posted as a Targetted Deal: "Free Parking at Westfield Doncaster"

    • AustriaBargain on 25/03/2025 - 06:15

      I wish the admins could be elected on OZB so we can try things like that out every now and then and all bask in the drama.

    • Ryanek on 25/03/2025 - 09:45
      +11

      You don't care if other people are dodgy because you're in the same company.

      • Seraphin7 on 25/03/2025 - 10:30
        +3

        It's only a rort if you're not in on it.

      • Euphemistic on 25/03/2025 - 11:26
        +2

        Paying for parking at a business place that also takes your money and where there is no other practical option for parking is a rort.

        • Ryanek on 25/03/2025 - 12:03
          +11

          You can justify theft all you want mate.

          • Euphemistic on 25/03/2025 - 13:06
            -4

            @Ryanek: I prefer to think of it as civil disobedience.

          • outlander on 25/03/2025 - 15:26
            +1

            @Ryanek:

            You can justify theft all you want mate.

            You are a thief of joy

        • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 12:13
          +5

          As a regional citizen it blows my mind that people pay for parking to go shopping.

          • Euphemistic on 25/03/2025 - 13:06

            @MS Paint: Same. Weve got a couple of local centres that have 3hr free and some on street parking in town that is paid but largely parking is free.

        • smartazz104 on 25/03/2025 - 13:21
          +3

          Probably because people have ruined it in the past by leaving their car parked all day whilst not actually going into the shopping centre.

  • Fredfloresjr on 25/03/2025 - 07:01
    +14

    Bro what do you expect from someone at Melbourne 🤣🤣

    They are top rated now with most crimes, and numbers just getting better.

    • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:14
      +2

      Yeah crime is way up in Melbourne. At a recent council meeting I think they said home invasions were up by over 30% and store related crime up more than that with offenders carrying weapons.

      Machete attacks are so bad that the government and the Karens want to ban machetes, despite being a common land rehabilitation tool. The fact that kitchen knives and steel flat bar exist means that the ban won’t do anything except impact the law abiding citizens.

      • OzBarAnon on 25/03/2025 - 12:37
        +6
        • Ban weapons
        • Quickly and repeatedly release offenders

        Surely this tactic will work

        • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 13:21
          +1

          LMFT

          • Ban law abiding citizens from owning tools
          • “Inadvertently” create a black market of homemade “choppers” and other weapons
          • Quickly and repeatedly release offenders
    • boomramada on 25/03/2025 - 11:02
      +1

      Bring back Dan ?

    • Thrift on 25/03/2025 - 17:24
      +1

      I heard some guy got killed in Melbourne and they never solved the case. But you wouldn't know anything about that now, would you, kyle?

  • JIMB0 on 25/03/2025 - 07:30
    +4

    Could be a stolen car.

  • Wiadro on 25/03/2025 - 07:35
    +3

    My local shopping centres have free parking.
    Maybe next time follow them home as suggest they goto one with a free car park

    • Hydrool on 25/03/2025 - 14:12
      +1

      Most shopping centres have free parking only for the first 2-3hrs.

  • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:22

    custom plate YUEN*8

    What is the *? YEUN8 doesn’t come back as anything and YUEN88 is registered to a white Honda

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 25/03/2025 - 08:29
      +1

      I had assumed the * was the ops attempt at leaving some anonymity to the car he’s complaining about

      • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:40
        +3

        It shouldn’t take long to figure out. There’s less than 30 combinations left for me to try.

        • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 08:44
          +1

          And the answer is?

          Don't keep us hanging man!

          • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:47

            @MS Paint: Sorry, just about to start work so I won’t be able to figure it out until smoko.

            • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 08:48
              +1

              @mapax: With your consent I'm happy to continue the task while I eat breakfast.

              • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:52
                +1

                @MS Paint: I’d be grateful.

                • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 09:12
                  +52

                  @mapax:

                  Rego Make Is this it?
                  YUEN08 DNE ❌
                  YUEN18 DNE ❌
                  YUEN28 Subaru ✔️
                  YUEN38 DNE ❌
                  YUEN48 DNE ❌
                  YUEN58 DNE ❌
                  YUEN68 DNE ❌
                  YUEN78 DNE ❌
                  YUEN88 DNE ❌
                  YUEN98 DNE ❌
                  YUENA8 DNE ❌
                  YUENB8 DNE ❌
                  YUENC8 DNE ❌
                  YUEND8 DNE ❌
                  YUENE8 DNE ❌
                  YUENF8 DNE ❌
                  YUENG8 DNE ❌
                  YUENH8 DNE ❌
                  YUENI8 DNE ❌
                  YUENJ8 DNE ❌
                  YUENK8 DNE ❌
                  YUENL8 DNE ❌
                  YUENM8 DNE ❌
                  YUENN8 DNE ❌
                  YUENO8 DNE ❌
                  YUENP8 DNE ❌
                  YUENQ8 DNE ❌
                  YUENR8 DNE ❌
                  YUENS8 DNE ❌
                  YUENT8 DNE ❌
                  YUENU8 DNE ❌
                  YUENV8 DNE ❌
                  YUENW8 DNE ❌
                  YUENX8 DNE ❌
                  YUENY8 DNE ❌
                  YUENZ8 DNE ❌

                  DNE = Does Not Exist

                  • Maki on 25/03/2025 - 09:30

                    @MS Paint: Thought someone said YUEN88 is registered to a white Honda?!

                    • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 09:34
                      +3

                      @Maki: I never claimed the data was accurate. This was my data source

                      • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 15:35
                        +1

                        @MS Paint: I went through the list and surprisingly only YUEN28 and YUEN88 are currently taken.

                  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 25/03/2025 - 11:16
                    +1

                    @MS Paint: This is extremely aesthetic

                  • Wiadro on 25/03/2025 - 15:32

                    @MS Paint: how did you do this

                  • kyle on 26/03/2025 - 08:07

                    @MS Paint: Would have saved a bit of time without the letters given what I wrote in the deleted "inappropriate" comment.

          • pegaxs on 25/03/2025 - 08:59

            @MS Paint: YEUN28 is a Grey Suby wagon…

            • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 09:16
              +3

              @pegaxs: Mapax wanted the data presented in table format or CSV but thanks for your contribution. I believe it's required in this format so he can easily create a GANTT chart with the data during smoko.

              • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 09:32

                @MS Paint: Haha, I don’t even know what a GANTT chart looks like. I’m a field researcher, I just collect the data and hand it to someone else to take care of.

                • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 09:33
                  +4

                  @mapax: So on this occasion you want me to collate the data and create the visual representations? Geez. Some people. I don't know.

        • cloudy on 25/03/2025 - 09:32

          Where do you do number plate searches???

      • LFO on 25/03/2025 - 11:10
        -2

        the car he’s complaining

        He ? ? ? or she ? ? ?

        • pegaxs on 25/03/2025 - 12:25

          "they/they're"

    • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 08:30
      +4

      I assumed it was YUENM8 short for

      You and Mate

      • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 08:38

        No matches found for 'Yuenm8'. Please try again.

      • Jimothy Wongingtons on 25/03/2025 - 08:40
        +6

        You and me? 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

      • Maki on 25/03/2025 - 09:31
        +1

        Yuen is indeed a Chinese surname, assuming the driver got the plate when he was 28yo.

        • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 09:36
          +5

          I was secretly hoping YUENL8 was the plate because clearly Yuen was running late.

        • Qazxswec on 25/03/2025 - 10:16
          +13

          I like to believe he was born in 1928 and is a 97 year old Chinese man just running a muck everywhere he goes

    • StalkingIbis on 25/03/2025 - 19:11

      He was typing in caps, presumably holding shift and held shift while pressing 8.

  • djones145 on 25/03/2025 - 11:33
    +13

    saw a clip on facebook with a driver in singapore driving through a toll booth and a tailgater.
    he let the guy follow close. just as he got past the gate he stopped.
    tailgater got angry, and was getting out of the car
    the first guy sped away and the gate closed in front of the tail gater.
    legend

    • subwoofer on 25/03/2025 - 13:53
      +2

      Malaysia

    • kyle on 26/03/2025 - 08:01

      Except I was the car behind the tailgater

  • netjock on 25/03/2025 - 11:44
    -1

    I mean, you've got a custom plate which is not cheap, but you can't afford to pay for parking???

    Think about property prices. Mortgage. Private school fees. it all adds up. "Behind every great fortune is a crime committed but conveniently forgotten" Google the saying.

  • letsgetquizzical on 25/03/2025 - 12:24
    +1

    For future reference, while the exits at Westfield car parks have booms, most of them do NOT have them at their entries.

    • snappy1234 on 25/03/2025 - 12:35
      +2

      Great -a head on smash will be cheaper than parking fee 😉

      • Sye on 25/03/2025 - 12:50
        +1

        With this one simple trick you can save on parking fees
        /$

        • MS Paint on 25/03/2025 - 13:20
          +1

          I'm trying to follow you for more money savings tips but my request has been rejected 3 times so far.

  • churningNburning on 25/03/2025 - 13:26

    Standard Westfield car park behavior.

  • ol mate on 25/03/2025 - 13:39

    you've got a custom plate which is not cheap

    Aren’t they only like $600 in Vic? I’ve seen some people with $2.5k QLD plates do some real dero stuff. When the dealer will let you also put them onto the finance, guess anyone can own custom plates.

    you can't afford to pay for parking

    To be fair, $35 is pretty expensive for parking in a suburban area.

  • mrvaluepack on 25/03/2025 - 16:07

    Which carpark was this? I'm guessing the small red multi-level one near coles?

    • kyle on 26/03/2025 - 07:58

      The one closer to Fish Pier

    • mapax on 25/03/2025 - 16:43
      +3

      What are you on about? OP got charged the amount that YUEN was meant to pay and had to use the intercom to get past the boom.

      • TightAl on 25/03/2025 - 17:13
        -2

        Highly doubt the cameras/sensors are fast enough to pick up the numberplate of a car tailgating.

        • airzone on 25/03/2025 - 17:47
          +1

          They usually have cameras to catch the front and rear plate

  • SuperMid on 25/03/2025 - 17:10

    Shopping center owner is poor aussie battler, charging small business $40k or more monthly rent. They need more money, help them via parking fees.

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