Car parked outside my house
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numtumfutunch said:
photosnob said:
I got a recovery very early in the morning. The recovery driver towed it out and managed to completely batter a nearly brand new golf.
So if you want to be a dick you can. But it might come back to bite you.
You watched this happen and didnt give details!So if you want to be a dick you can. But it might come back to bite you.
Lawbags said:
I had similar a few years ago.
This car had been parked outside our house for 6 months. Still had tax, MOT and was insured, yet no-one on the road knew anything about it.
Parking was tight for everyone to park directly outside their own house (no driveways), yet this car was parked in such a way to prevent 2 people.
The next nearest parking was a gloomy local pay and display.
The police weren't interested, so one evening, we bumped the back end into the road, thus causing an obstruction.
One call to the police regarding said obstruction and it was moved within half hour.
What an aThis car had been parked outside our house for 6 months. Still had tax, MOT and was insured, yet no-one on the road knew anything about it.
Parking was tight for everyone to park directly outside their own house (no driveways), yet this car was parked in such a way to prevent 2 people.
The next nearest parking was a gloomy local pay and display.
The police weren't interested, so one evening, we bumped the back end into the road, thus causing an obstruction.
One call to the police regarding said obstruction and it was moved within half hour.
hole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed. 
Lawbags said:
xstian said:
What an ahole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed.
Yup. Damn right.hole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed. Would you want to leave your car in a pay and display overnight where cars regularly get broken into?
xstian said:
Lawbags said:
xstian said:
What an ahole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed.
Yup. Damn right.hole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed. Would you want to leave your car in a pay and display overnight where cars regularly get broken into?
You should try living near a busy railway station, when we did one of the neighbours had a car parked in her drive for 3 weeks while the owner went on holiday, police weren't interested. We often had our driveway blocked by cars, when confronted the drivers would just say they were in a rush and didn't have a choice! Again, the police were never interested.
Lawbags said:
xstian said:
Lawbags said:
xstian said:
What an ahole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed.
Yup. Damn right.hole. Car was parked perfectly legal, but you didn't like it so had it towed. Would you want to leave your car in a pay and display overnight where cars regularly get broken into?
This mentality is why we now live in the middle of nowhere.
Park one inch to far forward so you are in someone's perceived space on a public road and all hell brakes loose even if they have a driveway that can take many cars! Every housing estate seems to be the same... I dread parking in Wimpey type schemes, when visiting, as hell freezes over if you so much as park outside someone's house or across the road from their driveway!
Society seems to have turned into a bunch of moaning intolerant jenny's. It's a public road!!!
Anyway rant over
Park one inch to far forward so you are in someone's perceived space on a public road and all hell brakes loose even if they have a driveway that can take many cars! Every housing estate seems to be the same... I dread parking in Wimpey type schemes, when visiting, as hell freezes over if you so much as park outside someone's house or across the road from their driveway!
Society seems to have turned into a bunch of moaning intolerant jenny's. It's a public road!!!
Anyway rant over
I had a similar experience recently. Have a look on your local Council website or give them a call. My local Council take a lot of interest on the basis that "abandoned" cars can often be used for storing stolen goods or "pool cars" for criminals.
In my case the Council were able to confirm that the registered keeper was local. They would not give out any other details but a Council warden visited the registered keeper and the car was gone a few days later.
In my case the Council were able to confirm that the registered keeper was local. They would not give out any other details but a Council warden visited the registered keeper and the car was gone a few days later.
Sleepers said:
This mentality is why we now live in the middle of nowhere.
Park one inch to far forward so you are in someone's perceived space on a public road and all hell brakes loose even if they have a driveway that can take many cars! Every housing estate seems to be the same... I dread parking in Wimpey type schemes, when visiting, as hell freezes over if you so much as park outside someone's house or across the road from their driveway!
Society seems to have turned into a bunch of moaning intolerant jenny's. It's a public road!!!
Anyway rant over
so you take a couple of 'actual' examples of long-term dumped cars that nobody knows about or owns locally and then complain about people short term parking being critised (when nobody has).Park one inch to far forward so you are in someone's perceived space on a public road and all hell brakes loose even if they have a driveway that can take many cars! Every housing estate seems to be the same... I dread parking in Wimpey type schemes, when visiting, as hell freezes over if you so much as park outside someone's house or across the road from their driveway!
Society seems to have turned into a bunch of moaning intolerant jenny's. It's a public road!!!
Anyway rant over
Good rant.
Lawbags said:
Yup. Damn right.
Would you want to leave your car in a pay and display overnight where cars regularly get broken into?
That isn't the right question for what you did.Would you want to leave your car in a pay and display overnight where cars regularly get broken into?
"Would you want to bump someone's legally parked, taxed, mot'd and insured car into the road, such that it is towed away to who knows where, so you can park right outside your house?"
And the answer any normally sane person would give you, is no.
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