Afternoon peeps,
My gf lives in a block of 13 flats. She gets on with all her neighbours fine apart from a foreign family that live on the top floor in flat 13. This family have a problem with the fact they live in a flat numbered 13. They've changed the number on their front door to 14 and because of their superstition they very rarely park in their allocated parking space which a big 13 painted on it. Instead they typically park in one of the 3 visitor spaces.
These visitor spaces are difficult enough to park in at the best of times, but when residents take the mickey and use these spaces it becomes almost impossible and so many visitors have to park out on the street.
As irritiating as it is we generally just put up with the fact that some people are un-neighbourly and think they can do what they want, but on Christmas Day last year somebody put a note on my girlfriends car saying "Park straight, or else". Her car was parked slightly off-centre in her space but nothing that would cause anyone else any problems. She noticed that the youngest member of the family from number 13 was hanging around the general vicinity of her car at the time, clearly waiting for the moment when she read the note. She approached the guy and asked if he was responsible and he just laughed at her. A few words were exchanged, she told him to park in his own space and to never touch her car again and that was that.
What she said to him must have sunk in because up until a week ago he's been behaving himself and parking in his own space, but now he's back to his old tricks. She pulled into the car park just after him today and as she got out her car he muttered "******* English" to her. Obviously surprised, she asked him to repeat himself but he just grinned and laughed. She told him that if he had anything to say then she should say it to her face. He told her to "park straight, or you'll regret it"!
Obviously she's a woman living on her own and this threatening behaviour is starting to worry her. She's a strong woman and can hold her own when she needs to, but she's starting to feel unsafe in her own home and worries that damage may be done to her car or even worse, herself.
I've told her I'm going round there to have words but she's begged me not to as she doesn't want the situation to get out of control. We've reported it to the agent she's renting from and they're not interested at all, and the company that manage the block never answer their phones or emails.
She's at a loss as to what to do next..I've suggested going to the police but we're not sure what they could do about it?
What do you lot think..how would you handle things?
