Local resident wants me to park elsewhere. What can he actually do?
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One day he'll wind up the wrong person and end up in hospital.
Indeed, i was not present so cant honestly comment on if i would have got wound up or not, but from your description it seems a very trivial matter to get in any way worked up over.
Soldato
Get out your 18" MTX sub and play a bass tester when you park, that will annoy him 
Soldato
I hate this so much. People can be absolute &*"&s. A group of locals once acosted my wife and her friends and blocked her car in with their cars, for "parking on their street".
My advice to someone on the internet, would be to chat to the local police about it and carry on - he obviously doesnt have a legal leg to stand on.
My advice to myself would be to park somewhere else
It's not worth the agro and risk to your car.
My advice to someone on the internet, would be to chat to the local police about it and carry on - he obviously doesnt have a legal leg to stand on.
My advice to myself would be to park somewhere else
It's not worth the agro and risk to your car.
Soldato
Yeah hate this kind of **** myself. Happens in my street and we have had both cars keyed.
Wish I had the money, I'd buy and tax,insure some cheap cars with test on them and leave them parked up.
When others park outside my house I just park else where.
Wish I had the money, I'd buy and tax,insure some cheap cars with test on them and leave them parked up.
When others park outside my house I just park else where.
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Personally all I want to do is avoid £4 a day to park a bit closer to work!
Where I park is pretty much bang on a ten minute walk to work. I just can't afford to pay £20 a week to park on top of my petrol, I only run a shop and I don't earn big money.
I really think the best option is to just rotate my parking. If I look around a bit there's probably 5 or 6 roads I can park down in the area - that way no one will really notice and even if they do I can honestly I say I only park there once a week, and they can hardly complain at that.
Soldato
This.
If you are as you say, parking in a considerate manner and not causing any issues at all then there's no reason for matey-boy to act as he appears to be doing.
Did he actually threaten to damage your car when he began to get more 'heated'?.
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I would park in the same street again and wait to see if you approaches get the phone out a record him. Then post it here 
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No - he looks like a typical family man to me but he's obviously not happy. I don't know why he's got such a bee in his bonnet. When I come back after work the street typically looks like it could park literally 60-70 more cars!
It's got no grass verges and everybody except me parks with two wheels on the bit of the pavement where the verge was or would be.
Since I got the snotty note left on my car (which was on a day when I was parked outside what I now realise is his house or close to it) I no longer do what everyone else does and put two wheels on the pavement because I don't want to get a ticket for it, and because of that I go out of my way to make sure I'm not even parked directly opposite someone else.
I'm 100% courteous in my parking - the only genuine peeve I could imagine anyone having is that my car is decatted and quite loud when I put my foot down.
I must stress though that I absolutely do not put my foot down when driving down a residential street to park at 8:40am! My car isn't offensively loud at idle or low revs.
I'm seriously considering putting my standard centre pipe back on just in case. I've actually been thinking about putting the entire exhaust system back to standard because it gets on my nerves a bit at dual carriageway speeds and I drive 15 miles down the A130 to get to work in the mornings, so maybe I will do that just in case he does manage to get the police down to ogle my car.
My car is a 106 GTI, not some big turbo japanese beast or similar. There's a fairly loud Focus that lives on the street and my car is definitely no louder. None of my neighbours have ever complained and I've been pulled over by police at random before and they've never mentioned the noise either.
Sounds like the best solution, As you yourself said in your first post, you dont want trouble or aggravation.
Your entitled to park were you like on the street, however if it can be avoided, which from your comments above it seems it easily can, then why get drawn into some battle of wills with a random stranger ?? For a guy who just wants to park and go to work, such hassles are the last thing you need IMO.
Others on here might suggest getting all tough guy about it, but these things can easily get out of hand, more so when the other party clearly has too much time on there hands, and a petty minded dispostion
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If there's nothing wrong with your noise levels, I'm talking seriously LOL loud, then why 'just in case'. You don't answer to him, so don't let his attitude influence you change back to a standard pipe.
On another note, I have pre-laminated A4 notes that I occassionally use on people's cars, but that's if the ****ers decide to overhang my drive blocking me in/out
Caporegime
Report you to your employers ?
We have this situation at work. More cars than their are spaces for mean a permit system. Those without a permit have to find parking off site.
There are a number of side streets we are told not to park in, as doing so results in the residents of those streets complaining - to everybody. The council, the police, our company, anybody and everybody that will listen.
This is all despite the fact there are no permit holder restrictions, no double yellows, and despite the fact that people usually park thoughtfully. People just get a bee in their bonnet about people from our company parking in their street. They also have a number of busy body residents who keep a record of every cars numberplate and ring everybody they can when they spot a car that isn't local. We've had calls from the council before about cars that are nothing to do with us, as the residents automatically assume any car parked there is ours.
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There are some people out there, particularly older people 40+ish, who seem to be incredibly bothered by others parking infront of their house, bordering on mental illness. When I was a student I got it in 2 of the 4 student houses I lived in, the first time the aggression of the accusation took me by surprise to the point where I assumed I must have done something wrong, but after walking away having taken note of the issue, I felt like a right berk for letting someone speak to me like that after realising I had done nothing wrong. I didnt change my parking and nothing more was done.
The second time, now fully clued up, the next guy who got aggressive/annoyed with it was simply met with the same aggression and wilted instantly, started spluttering about how he thought I was someone else and the whole shebang. I think it's a generational thing, old people realising that younger people are now adults as well. Bloody entitled baby boomers, the worst generation of people to have ever lived imo
The second time, now fully clued up, the next guy who got aggressive/annoyed with it was simply met with the same aggression and wilted instantly, started spluttering about how he thought I was someone else and the whole shebang. I think it's a generational thing, old people realising that younger people are now adults as well. Bloody entitled baby boomers, the worst generation of people to have ever lived imo
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I think I'd be annoyed if someone parked in front of our driveway, but anywhere else is fair enough.
Where I live we get a lot of people using the car parks dotted around the area as public free parking.
people in suits that obviously earn a good wage will park here during the day while they are at work.
anytime a football match is on the car parks are full of cars bearing newcastle united stickers/flags etc
whilst there arent any permit holder only spaces IT IS NOT a council owned area, the council do NOT maintain the roads they are not even responsible for the street lights here.
they are clearly supposed to be for residents only but people use them as a free public car park , they dont care if access to my garage is blocked either.
i can understand why some people get so annoyed when it happens on a daily basis, whilst the OP seems to show a bit of consideration for others many car owners do not and this is why you get a lot of grief
people in suits that obviously earn a good wage will park here during the day while they are at work.
anytime a football match is on the car parks are full of cars bearing newcastle united stickers/flags etc
whilst there arent any permit holder only spaces IT IS NOT a council owned area, the council do NOT maintain the roads they are not even responsible for the street lights here.
they are clearly supposed to be for residents only but people use them as a free public car park , they dont care if access to my garage is blocked either.
i can understand why some people get so annoyed when it happens on a daily basis, whilst the OP seems to show a bit of consideration for others many car owners do not and this is why you get a lot of grief
Its unfortunate that if he feels like it he can damage your property and get away with it as it will be very hard to prove, which is most unpleasant as you've done nothing wrong.
Depends how much hassle you want if you continue to park there.
Perhaps produce a flyer and distribute to all the houses on the street explaining that anyone has the right to park on the public highway if done so correctly
That'll irritate him nicely
Either that or if your feeling particulary vindictive argue with him again, provoke him into assaulting you and send the last few seconds of video evidence filmed by a mate to the police
Depends how much hassle you want if you continue to park there.
Perhaps produce a flyer and distribute to all the houses on the street explaining that anyone has the right to park on the public highway if done so correctly
That'll irritate him nicelyEither that or if your feeling particulary vindictive argue with him again, provoke him into assaulting you and send the last few seconds of video evidence filmed by a mate to the police
In all likelyhood you were picked out because you were outside the guys house, just avoid that particular spot and let him harass anyone else that decides to use it, it could well be that his annoyance was built up by others and you were just the lucky one who was in the right place when he decided to rant
If you are still concerned perhaps leave a note in your window saying that you have done your utmost to be considerate in your parking but if you have inadvertently blocked or inconvenienced someone they can reach you at <mobile no>, therefore they have no reason to ever just key your car, even if you are just giving them the option to vent rather than key it's a better one for you
If you are still concerned perhaps leave a note in your window saying that you have done your utmost to be considerate in your parking but if you have inadvertently blocked or inconvenienced someone they can reach you at <mobile no>, therefore they have no reason to ever just key your car, even if you are just giving them the option to vent rather than key it's a better one for you