Car parked outside my house

[singlecoil]

LucreLout said:

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 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.

That's quite a distortion of what he said. You've missed some bits out too. Why?

[LucreLout]

singlecoil said:

That's quite a distortion of what he said. You've missed some bits out too. Why?

What bits do you imagine I missed?

His having to park elsewhere is irrelevant. As is his inability to afford a house with allocated parking. You buy what you buy and it has what it has. You don't get to claim a bit of public road to offset the deficiencies in the house you chose to buy/rent.

[SS2.]

LucreLout said:

That isn't the right question for what you did.
"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.

Completely agree..

[singlecoil]

LucreLout said:

singlecoil said:

That's quite a distortion of what he said. You've missed some bits out too. Why?

What bits do you imagine I missed?

I imagine it will be all the bits which he mentioned, and which you didn't. You spun his story in the manner of an opposition politician.

[silverfoxcc]

The only time i would get annoyed is if i could not get in and out of my drive. Otherwise..who gives a st?

[LucreLout]

singlecoil said:

I imagine it will be all the bits which he mentioned, and which you didn't. You spun his story in the manner of an opposition politician.

Now you're just trolling. It hasn't taken me long to learn that you have a reputation for this. Goodbye.

[singlecoil]

LucreLout said:

singlecoil said:

I imagine it will be all the bits which he mentioned, and which you didn't. You spun his story in the manner of an opposition politician.

Now you're just trolling. It hasn't taken me long to learn that you have a reputation for this. Goodbye.

[4rephill]

singlecoil said:

LucreLout said:

singlecoil said:

I imagine it will be all the bits which he mentioned, and which you didn't. You spun his story in the manner of an opposition politician.

Now you're just trolling. It hasn't taken me long to learn that you have a reputation for this. Goodbye.

Go on then! - Which part of the tale is missing?:

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.

The car was parked legally, MOT'd, taxed and insured.

Lawbags didn't like the fact that it was parked outside his house (apparently he seems to believe that the section of public highway outside his house is reserved for parking his car only! ), and the fact that the car was parked in a position that was preventing a second car parking on that stretch of road.

Whilst the car may have been inconsiderately parked, it was still perfectly legally parked and Lawbags had no right to move it just so he could park his car there instead!

TBH, Lawbags sounds like a complete tt! (And you sound like you're running him a very close second! )

[Lawbags]

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.

[SS2.]

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..

[LucreLout]

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.

Nope. I'd not have bought your house, with its entirely predictable and seemingly insoluble parking problems.
If there's nowhere to park, then there's nowhere to park. You can't just have everyone else towed away because you have a parking problem.

[Lawbags]

LucreLout 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.

Nope. I'd not have bought your house, with its entirely predictable and seemingly insoluble parking problems.
If there's nowhere to park, then there's nowhere to park. You can't just have everyone else towed away because you have a parking problem.

Of course not. It happens everywhere all the time. There is countless threads of people complaining about cars parked obscurely on this forum.
You expect a car to be parked there the odd day or so- that's life.
But not for 6 months solid without moving.

[SS2.]

People complain, sure. But not everyone takes the law into their own hands simply because they can't park on the 15 feet of [public] road right outside their front door.

[Lawbags]

So what would you all do then?
Continue to pay for parking till the tax on it ran out?
Keep complaining to the police and council, knowing there is nothing they would do?

I spent nearly £400 on parking all the time the car was there.
I just wish I had your money that I could just chuck away like that.

[EskimoArapaho]

Lawbags, give it up. You've managed to get singlecoil leaping to your defence, and you'll soon realise that's rarely A Good Sign.

(The problem is that you didn't do enough research before choosing your home.)

[Lawbags]

EskimoArapaho said:

Lawbags, give it up. You've managed to get singlecoil leaping to your defence, and you'll soon realise that's rarely A Good Sign.

(The problem is that you didn't do enough research before choosing your home.)

Didn't I?
Because of course you're so familiar with the situation right?

[SS2.]

Lawbags said:

So what would you all do then?

I wouldn't take the law into my own hands and do what you did. No way, not ever.

Lawbags said:

Keep complaining to the police and council, knowing there is nothing they would do?

What were they supposed to 'do' ? The vehicle was parked lawfully - you said so yourself. You wanting to park closer to your own front door doesn't alter that fact.

Lawbags said:

I just wish I had your money that I could just chuck away like that.

You have concerns about money yet you clearly have no problem manipulating a situation which sees a guy who parked his vehicle perfectly lawfully getting [wrongly] clobbered for fines and / or recovery costs.

Nice.

[Riley Blue]

Lawbags said:

So what would you all do then?
Continue to pay for parking till the tax on it ran out?
Keep complaining to the police and council, knowing there is nothing they would do?

I spent nearly £400 on parking all the time the car was there.
I just wish I had your money that I could just chuck away like that.

You could have done what I did and rent a lock up garage from your council for around a tenner a week.

[Lawbags]

Riley Blue said:

You could have done what I did and rent a lock up garage from your council for around a tenner a week.

I was on the waiting list for 2 years for a council garage. Id moved out by the time I was offered one.

[4rephill]

Lawbags said:

So what would you all do then?
Continue to pay for parking till the tax on it ran out?

If that was the only option then yes!

What I wouldn't do is take the Law into My own hands and interfere with a legally parked car just to suit Myself!

Lawbags said:

Keep complaining to the police and council, knowing there is nothing they would do?

No! - Because I'm intelligent enough to understand that no Laws are being broken so there's nothing to complain about!

Lawbags said:

I spent nearly £400 on parking all the time the car was there.
I just wish I had your money that I could just chuck away like that.

You bought a house with no off-road parking, in a crowded road - You need to realise that you have no legal right to the space outside your house, and no legal right to move any car, parked legally for any length of time, just because it suits you!

If there's a car parked legally outside you house (considerately or not) - That's just tough st!

If you don't like it then you need to move!