Did I done wrong?
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Sunday afternoon, about 5 o'clock and I'm wending my weary way to Norfolk with my kids in the car. I pulled over on a single carriage-way a-road in the country, back-wheels on someones drive-way, knowing I could move forward if anyone wanted to get in or out, front wheels on the verge. The house was about 300 yds back from the road, the only one for about a mile in either direction and I was half-on, half off the road while I attended to the kids laptop, trying to get a DVD to play.
About 3 mins after I stopped (had to re-start the laptop), a bloke comes wandering down from the house, so I wind down the side window and he starts in with "You're on my drive, bugger off"
I says, smiling, "I'll only be a minute or so, just getting sorted here"
He says" Move it now or I'll get a hammer and dent your f@*king panels"
(getting angry now cos of his hostility) "Its public property pal, I'll park where I like"
"It's my f@*king drive, move it or I'll move wreck it"
"You'd best go get your hammer then" says I, knowing I'd be done and gone before he got back.
Off he went, I got the laptop started and gunned it - 7000 rpm and a dumped clutch with one wheel one his verge for about 100 yds must've made a bit of a groove.
What was his problem?
About 3 mins after I stopped (had to re-start the laptop), a bloke comes wandering down from the house, so I wind down the side window and he starts in with "You're on my drive, bugger off"
I says, smiling, "I'll only be a minute or so, just getting sorted here"
He says" Move it now or I'll get a hammer and dent your f@*king panels"
(getting angry now cos of his hostility) "Its public property pal, I'll park where I like"
"It's my f@*king drive, move it or I'll move wreck it"
"You'd best go get your hammer then" says I, knowing I'd be done and gone before he got back.
Off he went, I got the laptop started and gunned it - 7000 rpm and a dumped clutch with one wheel one his verge for about 100 yds must've made a bit of a groove.
What was his problem?
Maybe he was sick and fed up of everyone using his driveway as a public layby / turning place if his driveway was the only one for miles?
I'll agree that his belligerant attitude sounds out of order though.
Mind you, your deliberate vandalism of the verge isn't much better, I'm afraid.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 25th January 11:36
I'll agree that his belligerant attitude sounds out of order though.
Mind you, your deliberate vandalism of the verge isn't much better, I'm afraid.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 25th January 11:36
JonRB said:
Maybe he was sick and fed up of everyone using his driveway as a public layby / turning place if his driveway was the only one for miles?
I'll agree that his belligerant attitude sounds out of order though.
Maybe he should have thought about that when he brought the place!
Personally i would probably have gone back with a packet of nails and scattered them liberally around his 'entrance' (phnaar)..but then i am like that when someone pisses me off
hedders said:
Personally i would probably have gone back with a packet of nails and scattered them liberally around his 'entrance' (phnaar)..but then i am like that when someone pisses me off
Of the same opinion... if someone narks me for no reason, I can't let it lie!
I'll be back at some point to lay my revenge, although usually in a comical way... Just anything to embarrass the dork really, Minimal Violence or Intimidation.
If he's the only house for miles, just get some Brickies to go build a wall accross his precious driveway when he's out, see how he's inconvenienced then
Where I used to live, I had people park infront of my drive. I even had someone turn around in the entrance. Did it bother me - well a little, but nothing to even bother getting up from my chair for example.
There are much worse things that people can do and its just not worth bothering with.
What was his problem?
Dont know just someone who needs to prove his "manhood"....
>> Edited by off_again on Tuesday 25th January 11:47
There are much worse things that people can do and its just not worth bothering with.
What was his problem?
Dont know just someone who needs to prove his "manhood"....
>> Edited by off_again on Tuesday 25th January 11:47
Bit O/T but funny all the same.
Someone I know who is in the building game, went down to his new building site with all his builders and JCB's etc.
There was a Pikey site in the middle of the field.
Said Pikeys demanded £20,000 to get off and out of the way.
Now, this guy is not someone you
about with... But the Gypo's didn't know this, with hilarious results.
Basically, Radio'd all his Earth moving equipment (fnarr) to dig a trench around their site...
Pikeys ended up paying him to fill in the trench so they could get out
Never let the Bastards grind you down
Someone I know who is in the building game, went down to his new building site with all his builders and JCB's etc.
There was a Pikey site in the middle of the field.
Said Pikeys demanded £20,000 to get off and out of the way.
Now, this guy is not someone you
about with... But the Gypo's didn't know this, with hilarious results. Basically, Radio'd all his Earth moving equipment (fnarr) to dig a trench around their site...
Pikeys ended up paying him to fill in the trench so they could get out
Never let the Bastards grind you down
Years ago when I was staying at my parents, whose house is also in the middle of nowhere, a coach pulled up outside the house and a load of blokes got out, came into the front garden and started pissing into the hedge.
I didn't go out, but perhaps if I had and complained that they were tresspassing on my parent's property they would have come back and scattered nails in the driveway or bricked up the entrance.
Look, I'm not defending the homeowner. His attitude sucked. But so does the attitude that you can park across someone's driveway and, if the homeowner isn't polite enough in asking you to move, if is perfectly ok to tell him you'll move when you're ready, tear up his verge and then possibly come back later for further revenge.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 25th January 11:52
I didn't go out, but perhaps if I had and complained that they were tresspassing on my parent's property they would have come back and scattered nails in the driveway or bricked up the entrance.
Look, I'm not defending the homeowner. His attitude sucked. But so does the attitude that you can park across someone's driveway and, if the homeowner isn't polite enough in asking you to move, if is perfectly ok to tell him you'll move when you're ready, tear up his verge and then possibly come back later for further revenge.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 25th January 11:52
JonRB said:
Maybe he was sick and fed up of everyone using his driveway as a public layby / turning place if his driveway was the only one for miles?
I'll agree that his belligerant attitude sounds out of order though.
Mind you, your deliberate vandalism of the verge isn't much better, I'm afraid.
>> Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 25th January 11:36
I am sick and tired of people just being arsey and aggressive for no reason - he swore at me in front of my kids ffs, and if he'd come at me with a hammer he'd've ended up in hospital. If he'd've just listened I'd've been gone in a minute and everyone would've been happy.
Sorry John, I thought about it afterwards, and he got what he deserved.
mondeoman said:I'm not disagreeing with that at all. I agree that his attitude was completely out of order.
I am sick and tired of people just being arsey and aggressive for no reason - he swore at me in front of my kids ffs [...]. If he'd've just listened I'd've been gone in a minute and everyone would've been happy.
Mondeoman
How would you feel if I came and fixed my computer in your porch ??
And if you said "WTF do you think you're doing" I came back with "I'll only be a minute"
If it's not your land, hanging about on it is trespass. How was he to know you weren't the advance party for for 25 caravans
How would you feel if I came and fixed my computer in your porch ??
And if you said "WTF do you think you're doing" I came back with "I'll only be a minute"
If it's not your land, hanging about on it is trespass. How was he to know you weren't the advance party for for 25 caravans
Incorrigible said:
Mondeoman
How would you feel if I came and fixed my computer in your porch ??
And if you said "WTF do you think you're doing" I came back with "I'll only be a minute"
If it's not your land, hanging about on it is trespass. How was he to know you weren't the advance party for for 25 caravans
Would you have gone out effing and blinding at the bloke in front of his kids though?
wolves_wanderer said:I wouldn't, but the question was, did MondeoMan do wrong
Would you have gone out effing and blinding at the bloke in front of his kids though?
If you've ever had to deal with real trespassers, you'll find softly softly doesn't work. All I'm saying was the landowner in this case doesn't know MM and his refusal to move from the property is unlikely to endear him
If it was me I'd have been out there with the 12-bore, I probably wouldn't have said a word. OTOH I have had people park up and immediatly get out and explain their bussiness, I'm usually much more polite to them
Incorrigible said:
Would you have gone out effing and blinding at the bloke in front of his kids though?
I wouldn't, but the question was, did MondeoMan do wrong
If you've ever had to deal with real trespassers, you'll find softly softly doesn't work. All I'm saying was the landowner in this case doesn't know MM and his refusal to move from the property is unlikely to endear him
Fair point, but if he had spoken to MM in a civil manner in the first place I doubt he would have wheelspun off up the verge. I would have thought it was obvious he was not planning on staying long.
Having said that, I would have probably just parked up further down the verge rather than leaving my wheels on the chap's drive.
wolves_wanderer said:We live near a shop and constantly get people parking in front of our drive. It's a pain in the *rse when we can't get out but a major inconvenience when we can't get into our drive and have to hold up traffic on the main road or drive around until we can get in our drive. It really p*sses me off that people haven't got the brains or don't give a t*ss enough about other people to think for a second how their actions affect others. MM may well think he'd done nothing wrong but for all we know this guy had the same sort of problem as we do and I can assure you that when you ask people to move politely and they look blankly back at you or actually get hostile or wheel spin of spraying gravel everywhere the propensity just to tell the selfish b*stards to
Fair point, but if he had spoken to MM in a civil manner in the first place I doubt he would have wheelspun off up the verge. I would have thought it was obvious he was not planning on staying long.
off and use their brains for a second becomes very strong very quickly. I speak in a civil manner to people I respect and who respect me.
Mark
dern said:
Fair point, but if he had spoken to MM in a civil manner in the first place I doubt he would have wheelspun off up the verge. I would have thought it was obvious he was not planning on staying long.
We live near a shop and constantly get people parking in front of our drive. It's a pain in the *rse when we can't get out but a major inconvenience when we can't get into our drive and have to hold up traffic on the main road or drive around until we can get in our drive. It really p*sses me off that people haven't got the brains or don't give a t*ss enough about other people to think for a second how their actions affect others. MM may well think he'd done nothing wrong but for all we know this guy had the same sort of problem as we do and I can assure you that when you ask people to move politely and they look blankly back at you or actually get hostile or wheel spin of spraying gravel everywhere the propensity just to tell the selfish b*stards to
I speak in a civil manner to people I respect and who respect me.
Mark
Whoa, I'm not defending parking across somebody's drive, I used to live near a school and suffered exactly the same problem with people taking the mick and it really wound me up. All I'm saying is that I always treated people courteously, rather than winding them up by shouting the odds (I did, however, used to shout at repeat offenders and blocked them in more than once)
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