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So, TLDR - I have a neighbour who has put up signs outside his house saying no parking, and threatens people who park there. I want to mess with him (legally) as I am moving house soon, and have had enough of his nonsense.
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We have a neighbour, who we shall call "Angry Man". He lives across the street from me, and seems to spend most of his life trying to make other people's lives a misery in any way he can. He is frequently involved in boundary disputes (none with me!!), claims to own a shared walkway to many gardens. frequently shouts at people for daring to go near or on "his property". He has decided that he owns up to the centre line of the road (the deeds of the properties in this area all show this, mine included), and as such thinks he can enforce parking restrictions outside his house.
He even signed up to become a member of a parking enforcement company so he can issue "fines" to cars parked in that area. I am not sure if this is even a thing anymore, but it does show the lengths he will go to. I have seen many a car "ticketed" when left in the spaces.
The road is a fully adopted and council maintained road, not a private road or anything like that.
People have complained about his behaviour, and he has even been visited by the council (who actually parked in the disputed spaces, much to my hilarity) to explain that he is not allowed to clamp/fine people for parking there, but seemingly he just got all naked and loud at the guy who drew the short straw to visit, and I am not sure any real progress was made...
I have witnessed him harass everyone from estate agents, station parkers, and visitors to surrounding houses. Usually this is done shouting obscenities whilst in his pants and barefoot whilst wielding a wheel clamp, or some other threatening weapon/gestures. Mostly these people are so shocked by his approach they get out of the space pretty sharpish and go find somewhere else. His next door neighbour, who happens to be a mate of mine, had an estate agent around (he is moving partly because he is so fed up of his nonsense). After the visit, the agent was chased down the road by Angry Man, (with some clothes on this time, but not fully dressed) with questions like "are you a solicitor" "why were you visiting my neighbour" etc etc.
He first became touchy about parking (to my knowledge) when he installed a brick wall on his property line, which made access to his driveway very narrow. He was then unhappy as any car parked (legally) on the opposite side of the road made access to this drive-way difficult. I would often see one of his cars being revved and 20 point turned out of his driveway, as if trying to make a point loudly to anyone nearby how "inconsiderate" these parkers were...
He did actually climb down on this eventually, and knocked down a part of the wall to make access wider...
At one point he was actually parking his family vehicles there in an attempt to block anyone else parking there, but I think his Kids moved out (and took their cars with them) and this stopped soon enough.
ANYWAY..... Seeing as I am also moving out soon, and I wanted to see what I can do to prove his parking claims are ridiculous. I want to keep the idea of a face to face confrontation to a minimum, as my Wife is not keen on it escalating too far, at least until we are confirmed as out of here. Getting him caught in the act breaking the law (which I believe his threatening actions are) would be fantastic, but any way I can legally rubbish his claims anonymously is also top of my list
Some ideas so far:
Buy a banger, tax, insure and MOT it, park it there one night, and just leave it there for a year or so..
Paste "Free Parking" over his existing signs
Buy a caravan/trailer, and have it delivered to this spot, clamp it myself (for security!), and just leave it there.
Put up adverts in the village, or local paper/magazine exposing his nonsense, and that anyone can park there if they fancy telling him what's what
So, what say you OCUK... All ideas are being considered. Looks like I have until January to get any plans sorted, as that is when I move about 200 miles away.
Full story.
We have a neighbour, who we shall call "Angry Man". He lives across the street from me, and seems to spend most of his life trying to make other people's lives a misery in any way he can. He is frequently involved in boundary disputes (none with me!!), claims to own a shared walkway to many gardens. frequently shouts at people for daring to go near or on "his property". He has decided that he owns up to the centre line of the road (the deeds of the properties in this area all show this, mine included), and as such thinks he can enforce parking restrictions outside his house.
He even signed up to become a member of a parking enforcement company so he can issue "fines" to cars parked in that area. I am not sure if this is even a thing anymore, but it does show the lengths he will go to. I have seen many a car "ticketed" when left in the spaces.
The road is a fully adopted and council maintained road, not a private road or anything like that.
People have complained about his behaviour, and he has even been visited by the council (who actually parked in the disputed spaces, much to my hilarity) to explain that he is not allowed to clamp/fine people for parking there, but seemingly he just got all naked and loud at the guy who drew the short straw to visit, and I am not sure any real progress was made...
I have witnessed him harass everyone from estate agents, station parkers, and visitors to surrounding houses. Usually this is done shouting obscenities whilst in his pants and barefoot whilst wielding a wheel clamp, or some other threatening weapon/gestures. Mostly these people are so shocked by his approach they get out of the space pretty sharpish and go find somewhere else. His next door neighbour, who happens to be a mate of mine, had an estate agent around (he is moving partly because he is so fed up of his nonsense). After the visit, the agent was chased down the road by Angry Man, (with some clothes on this time, but not fully dressed) with questions like "are you a solicitor" "why were you visiting my neighbour" etc etc.
He first became touchy about parking (to my knowledge) when he installed a brick wall on his property line, which made access to his driveway very narrow. He was then unhappy as any car parked (legally) on the opposite side of the road made access to this drive-way difficult. I would often see one of his cars being revved and 20 point turned out of his driveway, as if trying to make a point loudly to anyone nearby how "inconsiderate" these parkers were...
He did actually climb down on this eventually, and knocked down a part of the wall to make access wider...
At one point he was actually parking his family vehicles there in an attempt to block anyone else parking there, but I think his Kids moved out (and took their cars with them) and this stopped soon enough.
ANYWAY..... Seeing as I am also moving out soon, and I wanted to see what I can do to prove his parking claims are ridiculous. I want to keep the idea of a face to face confrontation to a minimum, as my Wife is not keen on it escalating too far, at least until we are confirmed as out of here. Getting him caught in the act breaking the law (which I believe his threatening actions are) would be fantastic, but any way I can legally rubbish his claims anonymously is also top of my list
Some ideas so far:
Buy a banger, tax, insure and MOT it, park it there one night, and just leave it there for a year or so..
Paste "Free Parking" over his existing signs
Buy a caravan/trailer, and have it delivered to this spot, clamp it myself (for security!), and just leave it there.
Put up adverts in the village, or local paper/magazine exposing his nonsense, and that anyone can park there if they fancy telling him what's what
So, what say you OCUK... All ideas are being considered. Looks like I have until January to get any plans sorted, as that is when I move about 200 miles away.
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