Many years ago, in 1981, I worked for one of the big 4 supermarkets, our store had a narrow public road along one side of the store used to access the delivery bays of several shops.
Because the lane was narrow, it had a wall on the one side and a narrow footpath on the other, and due to people parking there, the landowner had installed a row of concrete bollards along the path side.
One day an artic delivery arrives and can't get past a car parked tight against the wall. Driver couldn't be bothered to park in a council car park and walk a bit.
so the back door manager, calls foe help, and also rounds up a bunch of people from the other shops, to move it and 15 or so of us bounce the suspension a few centimeters at a time, across the road and right in between two bollards. The car being around 30 cm shorter than the gap between those two bollards.
Despite several of us keeping an eye on the car, unfortunately nobody saw it leave. No rear of front sensors to rely on in those days, and very unlikely to be an automatic gearbox too.
If social media had been around, both the bouncing and subsequent driver getting it out would have made a great short video, but hey we didn't even have mobile phones in those days, and cameras had film in them.
My friends and I were trying to find a parking spot for a concert when we stumble across a Honda Civic parked diagonally across two spots.
The other guy and I looked at each other, nodded and then got out and where able to lift the back of the car enough to scoot it into the standard space and park adjacently.
A few years ago I had a 76 MG Midget - less than 12 feet long, 5.5 feet wide. Living in MN, not a winter car. When it came time to put it away I would drive the front into the corner of my almost 2 car garage, then bounce the rear end snug with the wall. Gave me plenty of room for one other vehicle.
In high school, a friend drove an MG midget and the football team thought it would be fun to roll it into the small road next to the parking lot during weight class. It was apparently easy enough to just lift the drive wheels off the ground with a few strong guys and roll it. My friend had to be called over the intercom to come out and move his car that was now blocking a road (sideways I believe). It was a public road, but it just looped around the back of the school with no other houses or driveways off of it, so no one was really inconvenienced.
In my late teens a bunch of us worked at a mall mcds and one guy had bought this absolutely tiny Toyota truck. As a joke one night about 8 of us picked it up and walked it to a completely different parking spot a row away.
Dad said his football team did that to a small car... except it was straddling an irrigation ditch and they'd just get stuck if they left W/O calling for a tow truck.
At university, our residential college had a dining hall with built-in shelving along the entryway for thirty feet. Some athletes apparently rolled in a VW Bug and then turned it sideways.
Back in the late 60s a bunch of 6th formers (UK ages 17-19) lifted a teachers mini from the car park and put it in the long jump sand pit. This was an end of term prank.
When my dad was in college in the States he and some others lifted a professor’s car and stuck it up about 10’ between two trees where it fit perfectly.
Mum told me when she was at uni (Reading I think) someone put a mini belonging to one of the lecturers on top of one of the buildings.
I've also heard stories of cars being picked up and turned round - particularly good on a one way street, or walked up a few steps.
Yes heard of similar pranks. Cars seemed a lot lighter back then.
The university I graduated from in 2000 was the same one my old pastor had attended in the 1970’s and he told me about the time some students put a professor’s little car on the roof of the business building. I guess it was small enough that they literally just picked it up and walked up the stairwell with it?
Literally lift? Awesome
Naw, I'm not built. Just pulled it off the pavement enough to ease the friction so it could be slid.
A girl in my high school class had a Geo Metro that her parents gave her.
One time some guys on the football team moved it horizontally in the parking space.
Unfortunately, she was parked between two teachers and had to wait for one of them to leave to move her car.
A family I went to church camp with had an old W Bug that got passed down to all 5 kids. That little car got wedged into some very creative situations by the other campers!
One of our teachers had a metro. 3 of us picked the back end up and swung it over on to the curb it was parked along side. We watched from a distance when the teacher came out and found it. They walked all around it confusedly and took several minutes to slowly drive it off the curb.
In high school, we took one girl's Honda Civic and carried it about 30' and jammed it in between two trees. Just for fun, she was a sweet girl, the kind who was friendly to everyone.
We laughed when she came out of school to drive home, and moved it back out from between the trees.
I had an old Fiat X 1/9. Got stuck in mud. I was trying to flag someone down (pre car phones) when a football team came jogging by. They picked it up and put it on solid ground without breaking a sweat. College team
I went to school with a guy who owned an MG Midget. Only took four of us not super big guys to pick it up and move it.
MG's weighed between 1620 and 1850 lbs. Unless you "not super big guys" could dead lift at least 405 lbs each, well need I say more. Maybe bounced it over.
I think they are rear wheel drive, so you just have to pick up the back end and it will roll. I had a friend with one in high school and the football team did this during weight class one day. He got called out of class to move his car from blocking the road.
I stand corrected. Didn't think of that. We moved a VW Beetle one time in high school. Took 6 or 8 of us. So long ago I can't remember.
Dad said his football team did that to a small car... except it was straddling an irrigation ditch, and they'd just get stuck if they left W/O calling for a tow truck.
Probably wasn't me!
Did he go to FSU?
we did this to my a-hole roommate who left her car parked under the basketball hoop the day we were having a party. Bounced it all the way to the back of the garage, could barely be driven out.
In high school I dated a guy who had an extremely small car. My brothers would carry it over to a spot between 2 trees where it just barely fit lengthwise. Needless to say, that relationship did not last long.
In my first car, a beat up 78 corolla (older than I was), me and 4 mates were heading to a party in a tiny country town I used to call home before heading to uni. I drove off the tarmac road onto a dirt section. There was a deep rut that a rear tyre sunk into. I tried to ease out of the rut and decided it was going to head hard right when it came out, so I steered the nose left again and it popped out. Rear end was heading right, front tyres had just turned to head left. Next minute we're swinging around at 180 degrees. We wound up sunk to the axles in soft dirt by the side of the road where the grader pushed excess soil. About ten minutes later an older fellow and his son showed up in a ute. I asked for a tow out. He said fuck that, there's 5 of us we could carry the car to town if we wanted. Between the 5 of us it took about a minute to get it back onto the graded part of the road after a quick inspection of the sump tank, I did a U turn and we proceeded to the party. That car was a little tank. Showed no signs of damage.
My high school had steps to the gym with a big landing on top. On the last day of school, some guys would carry the PE teachers VW Beatle to the landing. She would just get in and drive it down the stairs.
"Drive it down the stairs" Borne Identity scene, but not be chased by the police.
I work in logistics and get a few 40 foot shipping containers in a week.
Our warehouse was in a multiple unit business park and we had a dedicated area for our shipping containers.
We had this one guy that worked for another business within the complex. Let's call him 'Mr Self-entitled'.
Mr Self-entitled' regularly parked his BMW in the container bay as it was closer to where he worked than the parking area. He was told on numerous occasions not to park there as containers would turn up unannounced. Guy couldn't care less.
The day finally came when we received a Container and Mr Self-entitled's BMW was parked there.
The warehouse next door had a quad-tine 10-ton forklift. We borrowed it and stuck his car up on-top of the container. The look on his face when he came out to go home was priceless.
He cried to the management of the complex and was basically told to suck it up.
He never did park in that spot again.
I used to drive a 1969 Austin America. Cute little car.
My friends used to lift the back end and straddle the curb I parked next to at school.
I got to where I could lift it and move enough to get the wheels on the same side of the curb.
One time in the 70’d we pulled into the parking lot of a bar and just for the hell of it we picked up a Honda Civic and turned it so it was sideways in its space, between two vehicles.
There is a newish car type I saw last year in Holland, Amsterdam?, that is designed to be parked 90° to the road, sideways in a space.
Was driving and saw three in one road, but no idea of make or whether they are EV or ICE.
Back in high school the drama teacher had a Yugo…after a fall where the football team would keep relocating it as they walked back from practice he replaced it with a scout.
Back in 1968, we were in the 6th Form (U.K.). One of our colleagues was quite insufferable. His dad bought him a car so he could drive the 500 yards to school. This was unheard of in those days (it’s still very unusual). The car was a Hillman Imp (qv), one of the smaller cars at the time. He got permission to park it in a sort of open fronted machinery shelter. It was possible for him to drive it in but was not particularly wide.
One day, he did something particularly egregious - I think it was reporting one of us for smoking in a corner of the field.
So a few of us (we were forwards in the rugby team) picked the car up bodily and carried it into the shelter so there were only a couple of inches front and back. Eventually we had to carry it out.
For those who wonder, those of us who had to back the car in climbed over it to get out.
A counselor's Volkswagen Beetle appeared in the foyer to the gymnasium one morning. I have no idea how it was put there because it got damaged when they were trying to remove it. Summer camp - some people are quite amazing.
So the driver of the car got in and just bounced out of there?
Well, we didn't actually see, but the usual solution is going forward and backward whilst moving the steering wheel. Of course you may have to do this 30 or more times with such a short distance between bollards.
I always refer to that as having to Austin Powers your way out