Bloke uses our road as a Car Park

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I will never understand why certain people believe they have the right to tell other people where they can or can't park...ON A PUBLIC HIGHWAY.

I have had clashes with many a small minded homeowner who left a note on my car and when I told them I could park wherever the hell I like on a public road, they started claiming I was causing an obstruction when I clearly wasn't.

When people park in my private, allocated, numbered space however...
 
If you know he parks there between Monday morning and Thursday afternoon, make sure your car is parked there on Monday morning.

Result - he'll park further up the road instead.
 
We had people parking on our street (none-yellow lines either) before, however where they parked was actually classed as part of a turning circle (i forget the exact term), so technically has to be kept clear. Whilst everyone who lives on the road is generally accepting of each other parking there, when people who don't live there park there to use the trains or walk into town, we have them towed.

They don't come back a second time :)
 
kindai said:
We had people parking on our street (none-yellow lines either) before, however where they parked was actually classed as part of a turning circle (i forget the exact term), so technically has to be kept clear. Whilst everyone who lives on the road is generally accepting of each other parking there, when people who don't live there park there to use the trains or walk into town, we have them towed.
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Under what law is that in anyway legal unless you live on a private road?
 
estebanrey said:
Under what law is that in anyway legal unless you live on a private road?
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Something to do with obstructing a designated free zone. The turning circle has to be kept entirely clear for health and safety, so opportunists see it as a giant parking spot.
 
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Top Tip, place a stick on window and inform him that you have seen a few of the local scumbags look at your car every day over the last week, and it may be best to try and park it somewhere else to be safe.
 
wndzr said:
I'm not entirely sure how you reached that conclusion. It started off me sharing something that, rightly or wrongly annoyed me and my neighbours across the road. I asked if anybody else had similar issues in the past.

It then continued and I made a jokey comment about keying the side of his car - which led to waves of keyboard warriors saying how much of a terrible person I am, despite me explicitly stating three times that I had no intention of keying the car.

As people continued to quote the first post without bothering to read the thread and see I was joking, I went on to post a photo of the sinking car.

If you honestly thought it was a troll thread from the start, then more fool you.
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you don't happen to have a watercooled PC do you?
 
majnu said:
I think you're dumb to believe that terrorists actually exist

Go read what the Government shove down your throat :rolleyes:
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majnu said:
I've had the council remove cars from outisde on our pavement. Seriously just ring the council and say the car has been parked outside for days and none of the neighbours know who it belongs to and you're afraid it might be stolen or used in a robbery or better still use the terrorism cliché which gets people paranoid. It doesn't take rocket science to get an obstruction removed legally or illegally. :rolleyes:
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They won't do anything. If it's taxed, insured and not causing an obstruction, they'll come out, look at it, shrug their shoulders and drive off. That's exactly what happened when someone reported my car as being "dumped" outside my house (this person was visiting someone on the street where I lived, and had taken umbrage with me parking a bit close to his rear bumper - so he called the police and reported a dumped vehicle obstructing him, which it wasn't because he managed to drive off! I heard his telephone conversation with the police through the window from inside my house!)
 
[TW]Fox;25478125 said:
Including, it would see, the residents? Odd.
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The residents of the street use it as such on a basis of mutual understanding, is it actually a heath and saftey risk of people parking there? No, are we going to let random joe public park there, no. Got a problem with that? Come park in our street :)
 
kindai said:
The residents of the street use it as such on a basis of mutual understanding
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If parking is legally prohibited though to such an extent they'll tow you if you park there, it's not up to the residents who does and doesn't. There is no 'mutual understanding', you are illegally parked, full stop? It's not your road, you have zero claim to it?

is it actually a heath and saftey risk of people parking there? No, are we going to let random joe public park there, no.
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Who are you to 'let' somebody park on a road you do not own :confused:

To be honest the story sounds a bit like BS anyway, other than in London where do councils tow anyway?
 
kindai said:
The residents of the street use it as such on a basis of mutual understanding, is it actually a heath and saftey risk of people parking there? No, are we going to let random joe public park there, no. Got a problem with that? Come park in our street :)
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Haha, you sound absolutely awful.
 
[TW]Fox;25478290 said:
To be honest the story sounds a bit like BS anyway, other than in London where do councils tow anyway?
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You're more than welcome to come park up in our street and find out what happens ;)
 
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