Unroadworthy car - How to approach

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Hey all.
Following this thread:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...47&highlight=glass+username_opentosuggestions

My next door neighbour (house 100% uncared for) has had a smashed back window and a flat rear tyre now for at least 8 months.
Bar the thread on here, I have ignored it for many months because I deemed it not to be my business.
I suppose now I am annoyed at his 2ft high grass, collapsed fence, weeds, mangling my lawn by cutting corner of drive or driving to far to the lawn up it and general unsightliness of a car with the rear window smashed in.

My question is:
How would you approach said person? Looking at the state of the car I would be amazed if it had an MOT.
I have no idea how a car can be used 7 days per week with no rear window and a pumped up tyre every few days.
 
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Is said neighbour actually committing any offence by having a smashed rear window??

As long as his tyres are inflated while he is on the public highway, is any offence actually being committed??

(I know that driving with a slow leak is questionable (For many reasons), but is it actually "illegal" as long as you keep on top of it?? :/ )

Or are you just ****ed off about the grass?? ;)
 
If the window is completely gone ie. no sharp edges then I don't think it would be illegal. No different to just leaving it wound down all the time (I've seen some 4x4s where the rear windscreen will also wind down just like a side window). Also the AA probably wouldn't let you drive away with a missing window after smashing one to gain entry after you've locked your keys in your car if it were illegal.
 
There is a Landrover near me that has flat tyres for 8 months of the year, it's never washed, it has cobwebs all over it, it looks abandoned. It's always taxed, it's always MOTd, it's never any of my business.

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Lopéz said:
*snip* -- it's never any of my business.

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There's your answer OP. You sound like a moaning old goat.

Go and have a word with the chap, if you're overly concerned. Otherwise, tis time to mind yer business.

Edit: Actually tbf, looking through your posts, your house is laid out in a very peculiar way, and so his driveway basically runs up to your front door; and his shed of a knacker parked right outside.. The layout's rather askew; which is a shame. I'd suggest, as you asked about in another thread, a fence. Simple stuff.
 
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Fences are for pansies.

Grab a shovel and start digging. What you want is a trench around your house, approx 6ft wide and varying depths of between 6" and 3". Make sure to keep some rocks in it as the creatures you'll be housing prefer them. It might be worth adding a small 1ft fence around the trench in case you don't want humans getting eaten alive on your conscience. You will also need a bridge of sorts to get over it without getting wet. I suggest adding small fences on the sides of said bridge and a tar coating for grip. Last thing you want is to fall in the water.

Now you have a choice between alligators and crocodiles. Alligators tend to be more vicious but you can extract the same levels of enthusiasm from crocs by starving them a bit. Alligators are generally smaller unless you go for certain breeds, but those are very expensive and when fully grown will probably be too big. A regular sized alligator will grow to about 4" allowing you to keep multiple. Crocs are also good, much more intimidating but very lazy. A satisfied croc won't even look twice unless it's breeding or territorial. Alligators on the other hand will almost kill anything that moves. Alligators are also opportunists, they will never let a nice piece of meat go to waste.

With that in mind, a nice juicy steak on your neighbour's car from time to time will ensure that it has enough attention from your alligators, which might deprive him from using his car, depending on how keen he is. Just make sure you always have bigger steaks than your neighbour, otherwise he might get smart and use your tactics against you.

Also buy a shotgun un case they step out of line. Alligators are tough *******s but on the bright side they do make cracking shoes should it ever come to that.

Let us know how you get on.
 
Diddums said:
Fences are for pansies.
Also buy a shotgun un case they step out of line. Alligators are tough *******s but on the bright side they do make cracking shoes should it ever come to that.

Let us know how you get on.
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Not right waterproof shoes if said alligator been peppered with the shotgun :D Also I suspect these alligators will snack on small dogs and children which will not show you in a good light with other neighbours :rolleyes:
 
Diddums said:
Fences are for pansies.

Grab a shovel and start digging. What you want is a trench around your house, approx 6ft wide and varying depths of between 6" and 3". Make sure to keep some rocks in it as the creatures you'll be housing prefer them. It might be worth adding a small 1ft fence around the trench in case you don't want humans getting eaten alive on your conscience. You will also need a bridge of sorts to get over it without getting wet. I suggest adding small fences on the sides of said bridge and a tar coating for grip. Last thing you want is to fall in the water.

Now you have a choice between alligators and crocodiles. Alligators tend to be more vicious but you can extract the same levels of enthusiasm from crocs by starving them a bit. Alligators are generally smaller unless you go for certain breeds, but those are very expensive and when fully grown will probably be too big. A regular sized alligator will grow to about 4" allowing you to keep multiple. Crocs are also good, much more intimidating but very lazy. A satisfied croc won't even look twice unless it's breeding or territorial. Alligators on the other hand will almost kill anything that moves. Alligators are also opportunists, they will never let a nice piece of meat go to waste.

With that in mind, a nice juicy steak on your neighbour's car from time to time will ensure that it has enough attention from your alligators, which might deprive him from using his car, depending on how keen he is. Just make sure you always have bigger steaks than your neighbour, otherwise he might get smart and use your tactics against you.

Also buy a shotgun un case they step out of line. Alligators are tough *******s but on the bright side they do make cracking shoes should it ever come to that.

Let us know how you get on.
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You sound like you've done this before.
 
Diddums said:
Fences are for pansies.

Grab a shovel and start digging. What you want is a trench around your house, approx 6ft wide and varying depths of between 6" and 3". Make sure to keep some rocks in it as the creatures you'll be housing prefer them. It might be worth adding a small 1ft fence around the trench in case you don't want humans getting eaten alive on your conscience. You will also need a bridge of sorts to get over it without getting wet. I suggest adding small fences on the sides of said bridge and a tar coating for grip. Last thing you want is to fall in the water.

Now you have a choice between alligators and crocodiles. Alligators tend to be more vicious but you can extract the same levels of enthusiasm from crocs by starving them a bit. Alligators are generally smaller unless you go for certain breeds, but those are very expensive and when fully grown will probably be too big. A regular sized alligator will grow to about 4" allowing you to keep multiple. Crocs are also good, much more intimidating but very lazy. A satisfied croc won't even look twice unless it's breeding or territorial. Alligators on the other hand will almost kill anything that moves. Alligators are also opportunists, they will never let a nice piece of meat go to waste.

With that in mind, a nice juicy steak on your neighbour's car from time to time will ensure that it has enough attention from your alligators, which might deprive him from using his car, depending on how keen he is. Just make sure you always have bigger steaks than your neighbour, otherwise he might get smart and use your tactics against you.

Also buy a shotgun un case they step out of line. Alligators are tough *******s but on the bright side they do make cracking shoes should it ever come to that.

Let us know how you get on.
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Extremely detailed, can we get some pics of your home defense system in the home and garden section please? :p LOL cracker


Talk to him OP, if his car is on his own land he could slowly let it rot, as long as theres no sharp edges I dont think anything could be done about it.
 
Diddums said:
Fences are for pansies.

Grab a shovel and start digging. What you want is a trench around your house, approx 6ft wide and varying depths of between 6" and 3". Make sure to keep some rocks in it as the creatures you'll be housing prefer them. It might be worth adding a small 1ft fence around the trench in case you don't want humans getting eaten alive on your conscience. You will also need a bridge of sorts to get over it without getting wet. I suggest adding small fences on the sides of said bridge and a tar coating for grip. Last thing you want is to fall in the water.

Now you have a choice between alligators and crocodiles. Alligators tend to be more vicious but you can extract the same levels of enthusiasm from crocs by starving them a bit. Alligators are generally smaller unless you go for certain breeds, but those are very expensive and when fully grown will probably be too big. A regular sized alligator will grow to about 4" allowing you to keep multiple. Crocs are also good, much more intimidating but very lazy. A satisfied croc won't even look twice unless it's breeding or territorial. Alligators on the other hand will almost kill anything that moves. Alligators are also opportunists, they will never let a nice piece of meat go to waste.

With that in mind, a nice juicy steak on your neighbour's car from time to time will ensure that it has enough attention from your alligators, which might deprive him from using his car, depending on how keen he is. Just make sure you always have bigger steaks than your neighbour, otherwise he might get smart and use your tactics against you.

Also buy a shotgun un case they step out of line. Alligators are tough *******s but on the bright side they do make cracking shoes should it ever come to that.

Let us know how you get on.
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And if all else fails, you can just kill the neighbour. But you're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a ****head. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig ****, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."
 
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