Parking my car

HEADRAT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:08

Hi,

So there is a road at the end of my cul-de-sac and I tend to park one of my cars out there, now there is a kitchen shop on the road and I tend to park out the front of that.

Now I pulled up today after getting some lunch and a guy came out of the shop saying "leave us some space mate", I told him there was plenty of space for cars/trucks to get in/out of their yard at the back. So he goes on "why don't you park outside your own house". I explained that as far as I was concerned it was a public road with no parking restrictions.

With this is starts getting annoyed and starts swearing at me, I explained that I paid my road tax and I'd park where I damn well please. With that he said "well don't blame us if your car gets damaged", this was obviously a thinly veiled threat!

To be honest if the guy had been nicer about it I could easily parkfurther up the road, but his attitude makes me think "**** him"!

Thoughts?

HEADRAT

Sirrel Squirrel · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:10

Sounds like you were rude/sarcy to him and he got angry and rude with you.

scorza · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:11

Pfft - I used to live on a road with a greasy spoon cafe nearby. The number of kitchen shop vans and the like parking outside my block of flats and blocking the driveway was enormous. I'd tell him where to go in no uncertain terms

CF93 · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:11

Well if it's a public road with no restrictions like you say, then there's naff all the guy can do about it!

Next time he threatens, just pull out a video camera and show him you've recorded him threatening, so if anything did happen to your car, you'll go straight to the police.

Edit - next time the guy has a go, offer to call the police and get them round to discuss the matter and see who's right about you parking there, basically to see if they ask you to move or not, which of course they won't if you're legally parked.

Dolph · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:12

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Sounds like you were rude/sarcy to him and he got angry and rude with you.

Indeed.

HEADRAT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:13

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Sounds like you were rude/sarcy to him and he got angry and rude with you.

What saying that there was enough space is rude/sarcy.

While it's nice for him if there are no cars parked outside his shop the parking isn't restrited to customers of the shop, it's the road through the village.

HEADRAT

Explicit · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:15

HEADRAT said:
"well don't blame us if your car gets damaged", this was obviously a thinky veiled threat!

Criminal Damage Act 1971 said:
Section 2: A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat, intending that that other would fear it would be carried out -

(a) to destroy or damage any property belonging to that other or a third person

...shall be guilty of an offence.

CF93 · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:16

scorza said:
The number of kitchen shop vans and the like parking outside my block of flats and blocking the driveway was enormous

And that's the difference, cause blocking a driveway is not legal, so you'd be entitled to tell them to move. This shopkeeper isn't being blocked....

Sirrel Squirrel · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:17

HEADRAT said:
What saying that there was enough space is rude/sarcy.

While it's nice for him if there are no cars parked outside his shop the parking isn't restrited to customers of the shop, it's the road through the village.

HEADRAT

Kinda but there was no need to start going on about paying road tax and saying it was a public street etc

HEADRAT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:18

I'm not the only person that parks along this road, in fact it's full of cars, why shouldn't I park outside his shop?

HEADRAT

Dolph · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:20

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Kinda but there was no need to start going on about paying road tax and saying it was a public street etc

Exactly. While you have the same right as anyone else to park there, you do not have more rights than anyone else. Your post comes across as being rather selfish, very much an 'I'm alright jack' mentality, certainly not helped by your closing comments.

Dolph · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:21

HEADRAT said:
I'm not the only person that parks along this road, in fact it's full of cars, why shouldn't I park outside his shop?

HEADRAT

Why shouldn't he be able to ask that you don't?

Sirrel Squirrel · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:21

I'm not saying you can't park there, I'm just saying that it sounds like you were kinda rude in the way you handled it, obviously I wasn't there but that's how it sounds from your post.

jas72 · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:21

CF93 said:
Well if it's a public road with no restrictions like you say, then there's naff all the guy can do about it!

Next time he threatens, just pull out a video camera and show him you've recorded him threatening, so if anything did happen to your car, you'll go straight to the police.

Edit - next time the guy has a go, offer to call the police and get them round to discuss the matter and see who's right about you parking there, basically to see if they ask you to move or not, which of course they won't if you're legally parked.

please don't do that wasting police time.

Just move your car how diffcult is it you'd rather it get damaged to prove a point?

Andri · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:22

to be honest as much as i think he overreacted i have to agree with the shop owner.

there’s people that live across the road from me on an end of terris house, the guy has 2 cars and a van and constantly parks right outside my house causing me to park round the corner (where cars usually get damaged). now as much "right" as he may have to park anywhere where there are no restrictions i hate people with no common decency to park in places and cause inconvenience to others only because there’s no restrictions.

lordrobs · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:25

It depends on the situation and its hard to visualise after just reading a few lines of text. For one "a road at the end of my cul-de-sac" is quite hard to visualise for a start. By definition a cul-de-sac normally has a turning area or hammer head at the end.

Can I ask why you choose to park outside the shop rather than outside your own house?

The "theres no parking restrictions" argument can only go so far in reality. Take the road I live on, people could park on every bit of road that they can legally park on but due to the layout that would block 5 seperate driveways. However no one car would be blocking anyones driveway, they would all simply add up to make the road too tight to manouvre (sp) in and out... but they would all still be legally parked.

TripleT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:29

Bet he goes and parks a big **** off van outside your house now

That's what I'd do

Childish++

HEADRAT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:30

Well our road is private property, his shop is on a public road.

HEADRAT

TripleT · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:32

Fairy nuff then

I wouldn't park your Z4 out there though..

4T5 · 17 Aug 2007 at 15:33

I hate Parking Nazis with a vengeance :mad:

You can't park outside my house/shop = **** Off I park where i please & if my motor gets damaged then it is You i will be coming to look for.
Blocking drives is a No No but legal parking is legal parking & possessive House owners or shop keepers can suck the juice from my ********.
Pop out & ask me politely & i will move & Never park there again but get stroppy & i will buy a cheap taxed motor, park it outside awkwardly let the tyres down laugh my **** off & leave it there till the tax runs out & it gets towed.
I am sick of people who think they own the world.

/ Rant.

Sounds harsher than it is but basically i won't take crap off anyone & nor should anyone else.
A good example is me walking my dog past the local Volvo garage. A mechanic was working on a customers car with the Door opened blocking the path. I said nothing at all but did slightly clip the car squeezing through. Watch out says the Owner, I went mental asking if they wanted both there faces ripped off. You saw me coming & didn't make room, i said nothing & you shout at me, **** you & your customer get the **** out the car & lets have it.
He apologised & told the customer to leave it.
I would have walked past without saying a word but you give it large to me you get Massive back.

Wimps are getting away with to much in this country because people don't speak up. If you are in the right then make a Clear stand & **** 'em.