Petty Neighbours

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:21

Slightly pointless thread but I need to vent.

I'm currently sat here waiting for the police to come and get a neighbor to move one of their cars so I can go out because they've decided to park their two cars 3 inches from my front and rear bumpers, after theyve ignored my repeated attempts to knock on their door to politely move their car.

Has anyone else experienced something so childish and immature

paradigm · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:23

You do realise when you come home there will be nowhere to park, right?

danza · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:23

Nope. What have you done to upset them?

paradigm · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:25

danza said:
Nope. What have you done to upset them?

Called the police

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:27

paradigm said:
You do realise when you come home there will be nowhere to park, right?

the 10ft gap in infront of one of their cars

danza said:
Nope. What have you done to upset them?

Parked my Taxed, MOTed and Insured car outside their house as it was the only available space yesterday evening

wasc · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:27

Ouch. We have an issue with our neighbours two Sons. The two sons (both under 25, fit and healthy) are seemingly physically incapable of parking anywhere other than directly outside their parents house. Even when there is a space 5 meters away, they will still park directly outside their parents house on the opposite side of the road to everyone else's parking.

As a result of their parking on the opposite side of the road to everyone else, it becomes difficult for other cars to get past.

Normally only one son visits at a time, but the one time they both visited, one parked where they usually did (restricting the road), the other parked across our driveway. Cue us banging on their door to get them to move it

There is absolutely no other parking issue - there are always spaces they can go in, but they park like muppets.

cheesyboy · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:28

We've had these sorts of threads before; basically people with a (sometimes metaphorical, often literal) small penis get really obsessed about proving their manhood by defending a parking space they believe to be theirs.

They're ****ing losers, basically.

Scuzi · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:29

Delivery the letter post through poop.

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:33

I did contemplate jacking one of the cars up on two trolley jacks and wheeling away briefly but thought I'd do it the right way and prove a bit more of a point in the process

kaptainmarc · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:37

Has this at a previous address, Next door had a caravan which took up all their driveway which can easily fit 3-4 cars on instead they parked all 4 of their cars right outside their house and infront of my drive blocking both of our cars in.

I had to go out once and asked them to move so I could get out, The reply I got was "you don't own the ****** road do you think you are special?" this happened multiple times safe to say I moved house as soon as I could after being late multiple times to work.

danza · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:40

People are such knobs.

I hope the police give them a right telling off, such a stupid waste of their time (but you did the right thing calling them IMO).

Havana_UK · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:50

Might be helpful Frozennova.

Under highway law, it is illegal to park a vehicle so that it obstructs other people wanting to use a road or path.

Source: http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/...t/parking/Pages/obstruction-of-driveways.aspx

shauncr91 · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:54

Do you have a friend with a decent tow car?

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 20:58

Havana_UK said:
Might be helpful Frozennova.

Source: http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/...t/parking/Pages/obstruction-of-driveways.aspx

Nobody is obstructing a driveway or anyones use of the pavement.

The road is wide enough for a car to get down with cars parked either side

shauncr91 said:
Do you have a friend with a decent tow car?

Theres a transit and an Impreza STI in the house that would both be pretty good at towing.

Doing that would leave me with similar consequences as moving it with trolley jacks, with the added hassle of them potentially reporting it to my employer

Sirrel Squirrel · 16 Mar 2015 at 21:05

Scuzi said:
Delivery the letter post through poop.

My father in law has some absolute psycho neighbours, he posted a letter through their door and they tried to get him done for trespassing

Dogbreath · 16 Mar 2015 at 22:03

Scuzi said:
Delivery the letter post through poop.

Are we supposed to rearrange the words to form a sentence?

Havana_UK · 16 Mar 2015 at 22:09

Frozennova said:
Nobody is obstructing a driveway or anyones use of the pavement.

Read the bit I quoted again.

They have parked their cars in such a way as to obstruct your using the road.

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 22:14

Havana_UK said:
Read the bit I quoted again.

They have parked their cars in such a way as to obstruct your using the road.

Facepalm moment.

No sure if the police came out or visited but the car has been moved and I'm free.

Either way a result and hopefully it goes to prove a point too

Havana_UK · 16 Mar 2015 at 22:18

Frozennova said:
Facepalm moment.

No sure if the police came out or visited but the car has been moved and I'm free.

Either way a result and hopefully it goes to prove a point too

Yeah, some people are just idiots.

I used to live in a terraced street in Abington and there was one house, just ONE, who were SO anal about their parking spot directly outside the house. They even had one of the very few garages, so when he used to leave for work in the morning she'd get her car out of the garage and park in his spot, then put it back when he got home.

Frozennova · 16 Mar 2015 at 22:23

Havana_UK said:
Yeah, some people are just idiots.

I used to live in a terraced street in Abington and there was one house, just ONE, who were SO anal about their parking spot directly outside the house. They even had one of the very few garages, so when he used to leave for work in the morning she'd get her car out of the garage and park in his spot, then put it back when he got home.

Terraced street in kingsthorpe here.

We have similar problems at my missus house in Abington too, the current flavour of the month is the moron who insists in parking his A3 on the double yellows on the corner outside her house