Car parked outside my house
Discussion
walm said:
scarble said:
I can't say I agree with what singlecoil did but I at least have some sympathy...
He didn't do it.He just said that the ironically named Lawbags' actions were "entirely reasonable".
ETA - that's what I meant by "ok". "Entirely reasonable."
There are other situations in which breaking the law would be entirely reasonable, and plenty more where it would not.
walm said:
He didn't do it.
He just said that the ironically named Lawbags' actions were "entirely reasonable".
ETA - that's what I meant by "ok". "Entirely reasonable."
Sorry, read the thread too quickly obviously.He just said that the ironically named Lawbags' actions were "entirely reasonable".
ETA - that's what I meant by "ok". "Entirely reasonable."
Apologies for accusing you of that singlecoil, even though you think it's entirely reasonable
Still stand by the second point that to watch a recovery driver, recovering your dumped wreck, wreck someone else's shiny new car, which cost them lots of money and do nothing about it? To do that I think you would have to literally not care about anyone but yourself. Not as bad as the recovery driver of course, but stil pretty bad.
Edited by scarble on Thursday 30th October 10:23
walm said:
singlecoil said:
Well then, in the case under discussion, it was ok ,or entirely reasonable, to move the car at six months. I hope that answers your question.
No it doesn't.You already said it was reasonable at six months.
The essence of these things is that they vary from one case to another, and I can't give you a general answer to cover every situation. Nor should you expect me to.
singlecoil said:
Fittster said:
singlecoil said:
photosnob said:
Hackney said:
No, I don't. What's amazing is, some people think it's abhorrent that someone would like to park in front of their own house. Yet it's ok for a car to be abandoned in the same place.
It's a public road. Anyone can park there. First come first served. If there are no restrictions they can park there for as long as they like.What is offensive is people calling the police to get cars removed or trying to hassle people because they perceive it their space.
People who do that are cocks. The police should be going around and doing people for wasting police time rather than annoying and harassing legally parked members of the public.
Fittster said:
The car was legally parked for 6 months. There's no time limit no how long a car can be parked in one place, assuming the paperwork is correct.
'Can'?In what sense do you mean that? Legally? Morally? Reasonableness? They are not necessarily the same no matter how much it might suit your own circumstances to think that they are.
Here's a question for you. What's the minimum speed limit on a motorway?
singlecoil said:
Fittster said:
The car was legally parked for 6 months. There's no time limit no how long a car can be parked in one place, assuming the paperwork is correct.
'Can'?In what sense do you mean that? Legally? Morally? Reasonableness? They are not necessarily the same no matter how much it might suit your own circumstances to think that they are.
Here's a question for you. What's the minimum speed limit on a motorway?
Every neighbourhood is different, I guess.
In some, the neighbours will all get on, look after each others houses when neighbours are on hloliday and even buy each other presents at Xmas, but in others I guess they like to try and score points over each other.
If you are playing the points game, I assume you have to know the written rules.
I will be honest. I much prefer living in a road with 'extra unwritten rules' that allow neighbours try to consider other peoples parking habits whenever possible - when they park their own car.
Hol said:
Every neighbourhood is different, I guess.
In some, the neighbours will all get on, look after each others houses when neighbours are on hloliday and even buy each other presents at Xmas, but in others I guess they like to try and score points over each other.
If you are playing the points game, I assume you have to know the written rules.
I will be honest. I much prefer living in a road with 'extra unwritten rules' that allow neighbours try to consider other peoples parking habits whenever possible - when they park their own car.
Good post. There are some very cross people on this thread and I wonder if some nerves have been touched.In some, the neighbours will all get on, look after each others houses when neighbours are on hloliday and even buy each other presents at Xmas, but in others I guess they like to try and score points over each other.
If you are playing the points game, I assume you have to know the written rules.
I will be honest. I much prefer living in a road with 'extra unwritten rules' that allow neighbours try to consider other peoples parking habits whenever possible - when they park their own car.
So... you like your neighbours to be neighbourly? Fair enough. I think we all do.
Where I differ though is that I prefer my neighbours not to break the law.
Also I am not sure I have seen anyone particularly cross on the thread.
Other than the guy who decided his selfishness trumped someone else's and used that to justify breaking the law.
Where I differ though is that I prefer my neighbours not to break the law.
Also I am not sure I have seen anyone particularly cross on the thread.
Other than the guy who decided his selfishness trumped someone else's and used that to justify breaking the law.
singlecoil said:
I accept that occasionally it might be reasonable to break the law. Not often, but occasionally.
I agree.But this is not one of those occasions.
Speeding your in-labour wife to hospital? - Yes.
Breaking a window to escape a fire? - Yes.
Sitting your tired black bottom down on a "whites only" bus seat? - Yes.
Hunting down and murdering people who stay in lane 2 too long? - Yes.
Forcing a stranger to pay hundreds in fines because you want his parking spot? - No.
Well I'm sorry but if someone unknown 'abandoned' (ie left for six months, albeit legally) their car outside my house causing me to park in a dodgy public car park down the road EVERY night, I would be pissed off about it .. I envy those of you who wouldn't give it another thought the level of enlightenment that you've reached!
SS2. said:
Lawbags said:
So all you antis- you'd happily pay to park your car for 6 months, which is about 500m from your house, in a dingy car park?
I'm sure you'd happily oblige.
Happy or not, there's absolutely no way that I would have done what you did.. I'm sure you'd happily oblige.
When I lived in SE London we had issues with parking - 2 cars (one the daily and my old RX7) - typical 3-bed terraced street where you could, on average fit around 4 cars per 3 houses. We ended up paying to have the front garden paved and a drop kerb installed for our convenience and also to be less of a pain for our neighbours - elderly couple one side, young family the other.
In that sense we tried to minimise our impact on the other people in our street and I can see why people who are inconvenienced by others non-thinking or selfishness get pissed off.
Bill and Ted had it right - be excellent to one another.
johnvthe2nd said:
Well I'm sorry but if someone unknown 'abandoned' their car outside my house causing me to park in a dodgy public car park down the road EVERY night, I would be pissed off about it ..
I would be pissed off too.I would do everything to find the owner.
I would be arguing with the council to have that 1-2pm restriction put back in place (even if it cost me £100 a year for a residents' permit).
I would be considering dropping my kerb.
I would be looking for more distant but cheaper parking.
I would possibly be thinking about moving house.
I wouldn't be forcing the owner of a legally parked car to be fined hundreds of pounds.
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