Ahh, double parking. The mark of latte-grabbing jerks the world over. (No offense to the latte-grabbers who may administer this blog, of course.) And in that vein...
It has long struck me as odd that we largely decline to regulate one of the transgressions with the most consquences for the most people: late merging. I'm talking about those who race up to the front of a slow traffic line to cut in, apparently oblivious -- or indifferent -- to the fact that it's the likes of they who make the whole thing long and slow to begin with.