Car parked outside my house

Car parked outside my house

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Hackney

6,811 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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v12Legs said:
What's amazing is that some people seem to think they have rights over the piece of public road that happens to be outside their house.
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.


photosnob

1,339 posts

117 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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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.

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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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.
What is offensive is people calling other people names just because they disagree with them, and what's even more offensive is people who, having a car they need to park up for 6 months, feel it's ok to leave it in a street that they have no connection with. In other words, making their long-term parking problem into someone else's problem.

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.

LucreLout

908 posts

117 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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singlecoil said:
What is offensive is people calling other people names just because they disagree with them, and what's even more offensive is people who, having a car they need to park up for 6 months, feel it's ok to leave it in a street that they have no connection with. In other words, making their long-term parking problem into someone else's problem.
Like the man said, people that illegally have others cars towed for the temerity if parking outside a house they don't own, are cocks. As are people that don't leave details after an accident or permit others to do so.

egor110

16,818 posts

202 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Monkeylegend said:
I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.
So get resident parking sorted for your area then.

We lived pretty much across the road from a main line station and people would park outside our house ( terraced street with no driveways/garages) we got resident parking sorted and within a week the commuters had moved elsewhere.

Fittster

20,120 posts

212 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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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.
If you want to park outside your house, buy a house with drive. If you won't/can't do that, tough.

Fittster

20,120 posts

212 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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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.
What is offensive is people calling other people names just because they disagree with them, and what's even more offensive is people who, having a car they need to park up for 6 months, feel it's ok to leave it in a street that they have no connection with. In other words, making their long-term parking problem into someone else's problem.
Why do you think that residents have priority to park on the street outside their house?

Fittster

20,120 posts

212 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Monkeylegend said:
I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.
If you find a law inconvenient then it's fine to break it?

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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egor110 said:
Monkeylegend said:
I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.
So get resident parking sorted for your area then.
Me, I don't need to. I live in a very small village with more than adequate parking space for all residents. Between hard standing in my back garden and driveway, I have space for at least 5 cars, plus ample parking space and a large green area within the close. It's all very civilised, like living back in the 60's.

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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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.
What is offensive is people calling other people names just because they disagree with them, and what's even more offensive is people who, having a car they need to park up for 6 months, feel it's ok to leave it in a street that they have no connection with. In other words, making their long-term parking problem into someone else's problem.
Why do you think that residents have priority to park on the street outside their house?
But that's not what I said, as you very well know. The car was there for six months!

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Fittster said:
Monkeylegend said:
I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.
If you find a law inconvenient then it's fine to break it?
No.

StottyEvo

6,860 posts

162 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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SS2. said:
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.
hehe He didn't ask what you wouldn't do.

Lawbags, as wrong as you were (in theory) to move the car I can't blame you!

Where I lived previously neighbors/visitors were constantly parking outside my house and I theirs, I never put much thought into it or cared really. But if a car was left for 6months non stop outside my house, parked in an awkward position, whilst I had to pay & display and walk I'd have done something about it.

Its taking the piss really. I'm not sure what I'd do because I've never been in the situation but I would have probably put a trolly jack under the rear and moved it out of the way (this wouldn't damage the car)

I also don't think that it would be acceptable for me to leave my car outside someone else' house for months at a time. But I'm not an inconsiderate tt... could explain why.

egor110

16,818 posts

202 months

Wednesday 29th October 2014
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Monkeylegend said:
egor110 said:
Monkeylegend said:
I suspect a lot of posters who are saying it's ok never experience parking issues like this, and would feel differently if it happened to them.

NOMFG's the lot of you.
So get resident parking sorted for your area then.
Me, I don't need to. I live in a very small village with more than adequate parking space for all residents. Between hard standing in my back garden and driveway, I have space for at least 5 cars, plus ample parking space and a large green area within the close. It's all very civilised, like living back in the 60's.
Are you mad, the large green area is not for parking on.

Hol

8,364 posts

199 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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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.
Perhaps.............

'Somebody' is really-really upset because the Police contacted them and asked them to move the car they had parked a few streets away from their house - because it was blocking ambulance access.

After all, its sooo much easier to call people names than it is to have a good long look at yourself in the mirror!



photosnob said:
A couple years ago I had a second car that broke down so I parked it on a road with no restrictions. I was busy so decided to leave it for a few days. A couple of days later I started getting calls from the police saying residents had called them saying they were worried ambulances couldn't get down the road.

So I had to move it.

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. The metal in the door was ripped open, and the light was hanging out. I didn't think it was anything to do with me, and he decided he didn't want to leave details. My car was towed to a scrap yard.

So if you want to be a dick you can. But it might come back to bite you.




Edited by Hol on Thursday 30th October 08:58

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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singlecoil said:
The car was there for six months!
So at what point is it ok to break the law in order to avoid a £2 daily parking charge? (£400/(6*30))

When he has left it one week? A month? Three months?

I think it would be perfectly acceptable to have moved the car very carefully to free up one space since it was taking two.

But getting it towed (which could cause a HUGE fine for the owner) is utterly deplorable and FAR more selfish than parking a car perfectly legally.
(We don't know whether he took two spaces accidentally because of badly parked cars around him the day he left it, for example.)

To me this is crystal clear - one action is legal one isn't.

singlecoil

33,317 posts

245 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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walm said:
So at what point is it ok to break the law in order to avoid a £2 daily parking charge? (£400/(6*30))
I depends on what you mean by 'ok'.

scarble

5,277 posts

156 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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Mark Benson said:
I'm particularly loving the way the guy who abandons a wreck, then ignores the fact the tow truck trashes a brand new car extracting it is mildly rebuked, while some poor sap who dares to bump a car into the road after 6 months is pummeled into submission.

Way to go, PH.
Agreed. I can't say I agree with what singlecoil did but I at least have some sympathy, although of course I have an allocated space tongue out (which ocassionally other people park in but there we go), I did when moving, deliberately pick a place with allocated parking.

But witnessing someone's new car get trashed and doing nothing about it? Grade A c**tery right there.

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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singlecoil said:
walm said:
So at what point is it ok to break the law in order to avoid a £2 daily parking charge? (£400/(6*30))
I depends on what you mean by 'ok'.
What does "ok" usually mean?

EskimoArapaho

5,135 posts

134 months

Thursday 30th October 2014
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walm said:
So at what point is it ok to break the law in order to avoid a £2 daily parking charge? (£400/(6*30))

When he has left it one week? A month? Three months?

I think it would be perfectly acceptable to have moved the car very carefully to free up one space since it was taking two.

But getting it towed (which could cause a HUGE fine for the owner) is utterly deplorable and FAR more selfish than parking a car perfectly legally.
(We don't know whether he took two spaces accidentally because of badly parked cars around him the day he left it, for example.)

To me this is crystal clear - one action is legal one isn't.
Agreed, and not forgetting that in order to get the guy's car towed away, the residents had to position it so as to create a hazard for everyone else. Nice... frown