Parallel Parking is Overrated

This is the street I live on and ride my bike on every day to go to class. This week, on my way home, I saw this:

Here's a closer look:

I thought at first that maybe the driver had crashed into the tree, but a closer look revealed that he/she probably just felt like the car wouldn't fit in the parallel parking space along the street, and that it was easier to park like this than to try and find another place to park. I haven't driven a car much in the last two years, and I'm afraid some of the Chinese driving "rules" will rub off, but I don't think you'll ever see my car parked like that!