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COMPETITION: Malta’s Parking Hall Of Shame Is Here To Raise Awareness And Award The Keenest Eyes

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Illegally parking in a convenient spot and creating endless hassles to everyone around you is unfortunately very common in Malta. We’ve all seen photos and videos uploaded onto Facebook of various contraventions around the islands, all receiving public criticism and nationwide derision. Now, in an effort to raise awareness on the problematic trend of not giving a fuck on Maltese roads, we’ve teamed up with Malta Public Transport to bring you The Hall of Shame, a collection of some of the worst parking contraventions out there.

We’ll be looking for some priceless public contributions (more on that very soon), but in the meantime, here are 13 honorary mentions to help get you started. We’re focusing on violations on bus routes because those always end up creating an even larger inconvenience to everyone’s day.

1. This van driver who decided a bus stop was actually the best parking spot ever

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“Listen to me. I am the bus now.”

2. This guy who seems to have accidentally read Car Stop written on the Airport ring-road

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“Uwijja ajma mhux għall ftit?!”

3. This entire row of cars that all stopped giving a fuck about buses and yellow boxes

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“Bus? What bus?”

4. This car casually parked in the middle of the road, poetically enough right under a bus stop sign

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Hey, um, that’s a red Punto, not a King Long

5. All these people who failed to read a huge sign specifically saying they can’t enter

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“Maybe if they squint hard enough they’ll think my Mercedes is actually a bus?”

6. This self-assessed King of the Road

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“Shut up, my wheels are bigger than yours.”

7. This interesting choice for a kiosk extension

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The latest model from B-M-double-no-fucks

8. This pickup on a bus lane

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“Your United is here.”

9. When shops become more important than public transport…

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“Ejja nħottu malajr, mhux xorta?”

10. … and bars trump them too

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Melita > Malta

11. Speaking of bars

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The boldest eagle of them all is the one who went and parked right here

12. Some people buy dark grey cars thinking that makes them a ninja

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We can still see you bro…

13. But others don’t really care about how obvious their contraventions are

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As visible as the Bus Stop sign it’s parked right on top of

We’re looking for more entries into Malta’s Parking Hall of Shame, and Malta Public Transport have a prize in store for the keenest eye.

To really up the ante and help raise awareness in style, Malta Public Transport are offering a brand new GoPro to the weirdest and worst photos of parking contraventions around the island.

What’s even better is how easy it is to be eligible for this competition.

Step 1: Spot a parking contravention

As you might’ve realised, we’re looking for photos taken in roads which have bus routes passing through them.

There’s a valid reason for this; if you park in front of a garage, you’re being an inconvenience to one person. Park on a bus stop, and you’re suddenly increasing that number to about 50, and that’s without mentioning any potential safety risks, especially to the elderly and those less able or unable to walk.

After all, we’re talking about the Hall of Shame here, so only the most inconvenient will do.

Step 2: Make sure you can safely take a photo

Definitely the most important part of the whole process.

You know what we mean; don’t try to take a photo of a contravention while driving or in the middle of the road. That’s a high level of irony that none of us want or need.

Step 3: Snap the shot and send it to us at [email protected]

And that’s it really. Just like that, you’re on your way to potentially winning a GoPro!

Tag someone who has what it takes to win this competition!

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Lovin Malta's Head of Content, Dave has been in journalism for the better half of the last decade. Prefers Instagram, but has been known to doomscroll on TikTok. Loves chicken, women's clothes and Kanye West (most of the time).
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