Abandoned car outside my house... but!
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The is an 06 BMW 1 series outside my house, its not moved for 5 weeks, no one with in 10 doors either side of street knows who's it is.
So report to Manchester Council?
Except its fully MOT'd, taxed and insured, so the council can't legally do damned thing about it, and the Tax and MOT are good till November.
Ideas?
The front suspension has collapsed, the bumper is almost on the floor.
So report to Manchester Council?
Except its fully MOT'd, taxed and insured, so the council can't legally do damned thing about it, and the Tax and MOT are good till November.
Ideas?
- EDIT
The front suspension has collapsed, the bumper is almost on the floor.
Edited by cirian75 on Friday 5th June 09:08
Mike Legerwood said:
What makes you think the car is abandoned rather than parked?
Ah, the age old conundrum that divides people who park cars on roads, and people who live on roads with cars parked near them.I live near Gatwick so our town facebook is full of this crap (along with bonfires, fireworks, what the police helicopter is doing, and now migrant hotels)
I sympathise, but by way of contrast to other posts, in the 90’s I had a shed of an Innocenti 120L (great wee thing!) in the UK. Parked outside my house.
Whenever I went on hols my neighbour would report the car (taxed, MoT’d, insured) to the council and police as abandoned. After about the third time they told her to stop - her response was ‘it was bringing down the value of the surrounding houses’
Whenever I went on hols my neighbour would report the car (taxed, MoT’d, insured) to the council and police as abandoned. After about the third time they told her to stop - her response was ‘it was bringing down the value of the surrounding houses’
Similar thing for me although its not outside my house but just around the corner. There was a recovery truck with a Ford on the back taking up two spaces in the limited free parking bays where everywhere else is controlled parking. It was there for 6 weeks without moving so I contacted the council and was told it was taxed and had MOT so nothing they could do. I suspected it had cloned plates but eventually after 2 months it got two parking tickets and the plates were mysteriously taped up. Then a couple of weeks later its gone only to be seen moved to a couple of roads away. Surely a commercial vehicle like this not being used is costing money to a legitimate business.
2172cc said:
...Surely a commercial vehicle like this not being used is costing money to a legitimate business.
I've had similar thoughts about a van parked outside my work. It appears to be for a fencing company but it's been there for a couple of months now. Makes no difference to me but does seem odd
ac.cobra said:
It's broken down, the owner has no money or resources to have it moved.
Seen that a few times. Lots of slagging off on Facebook and then a single mum / impoverished student pops up to say it's their car and they are waiting for payday to be able to move it and get it fixed. Terminator X said:
We had a car parked on the main road near us for about 4 weeks. It was causing traffic build up as people had to stop behind it etc. I called the Rozzers and it didn't faze them at all, sorry can't help.
TX.
Sheesh, some people...TX.
I am glad our underfunded police didn't come running when you requested them to, as they have enough on their hands without curtain twitchers summoning them to a random parked car. Whilst I agree that an inconsiderately parked car can sometimes be a minor annoyance for a short amount of time please consider whether your demands warrant pulling scarce resources to something so utterly trivial. A simple Google would tell you this isn't a job for our underfunded police force.
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