Note left about parking then keyed...
Discussion
750turbo said:
dirkgently said:
Thankyou4calling said:
It's illegal to park on any public highway unless in a designated parking area. Parking on a road with no yellow lines is normally breaking the law if you want to get picky.
Are you on drugs?I am sure someone will be along shortly to advise us plebs though
I had a problem with a neighbour a few doors up before, same story park where you can so I was parked in "his" space. So I get the chap at my door one day demanding I move my car. I refuse his demands he starts to mouth off that he will break my legs. Ive had enough at this point so tell him f*#k off and shut the door in his face. Come back from work and notice my car has been damaged. Thought about going round to the chaps door and having a word but decided to phone the police instead. When to court and he paid 250 in damages. about six months later he leathered his wife got arrested,divorced and moved house.
Edited by huffysteve on Monday 5th September 22:12
Don't park there but make a note of who does for the next couple of weeks.
Dvla the registration number, get the address then tell them to stop parking in your space.
If they argue that it's their space you have your culprit then tell them their car is on fire. When they run down stairs torch their flat and walk back to yours safe in the knowledge of a job well done. They won't be living there anymore so you can park in that space from then on.
Dvla the registration number, get the address then tell them to stop parking in your space.
If they argue that it's their space you have your culprit then tell them their car is on fire. When they run down stairs torch their flat and walk back to yours safe in the knowledge of a job well done. They won't be living there anymore so you can park in that space from then on.
EDLT said:
750turbo said:
dirkgently said:
Thankyou4calling said:
It's illegal to park on any public highway unless in a designated parking area. Parking on a road with no yellow lines is normally breaking the law if you want to get picky.
Are you on drugs?I am sure someone will be along shortly to advise us plebs though
dirkgently said:
Thankyou4calling said:
It's illegal to park on any public highway unless in a designated parking area. Parking on a road with no yellow lines is normally breaking the law if you want to get picky.
Are you on drugs?The bottom line really is that it is just a given that parking happens. A bit like sh*t happens only slightly more useful.
Where I live the housing is leasehold. A lot of the housing is in the area. It is in the leasehold agreement that people shouldn't leave their cars parked on the road. My mother struggles to walk long distances and does find it a problem if people park outside her house. There are some people on our road who leave several cars and vans all over the road, usually obstructing driveways, footpaths and the road itself. I've had lorry drivers having a go at me about cars outside my house that they couldn't get past and a woman with a pushchair complaining that a car that wasn't mine was blocking the footpath and forcing her to walk in the road with a baby.
When the girl nextdoor but one kept parking her car outside our house it was always right up to the edge of the driveway so I couldn't get round it. It blocked the footpath and, as it's a narrow road, combined with the car that's always parked opposite it obstructed the road as well. I'd already spoken to her father about the problems mentioned above as he was frequently a culprit to be told that, as he paid his road tax, he could park where he wanted. One morning this girl managed to reverse her car into my bin that was on the footpath, nowhere near her car, waiting to be emptied. She then told me I shouldn't put my bin outside my house on bin morning as that was "her" parking space. Her father then told me he would have me in court for criminal damage.
I know the OP's car wasn't causing an obstruction and the first act of the person damaging his car shouldn't have been to key it. It should have been to speak to him in a civil matter about the situation. People shouldn't assume that they own the space outside their house but they should also consider that always parking outside someone else's house might cause them a problem if, for example, they aren't fully able bodied and you're preventing them from parking near thier house. I think what's needed is a little bit of consideration rather than one side saying they can park where they want and anyone who says they can't is a whinging old bat and the other keying people's cars. If people thought about others and weren't so aggressive something as trivial as car parking wouldn't cause people to fall out.
When the girl nextdoor but one kept parking her car outside our house it was always right up to the edge of the driveway so I couldn't get round it. It blocked the footpath and, as it's a narrow road, combined with the car that's always parked opposite it obstructed the road as well. I'd already spoken to her father about the problems mentioned above as he was frequently a culprit to be told that, as he paid his road tax, he could park where he wanted. One morning this girl managed to reverse her car into my bin that was on the footpath, nowhere near her car, waiting to be emptied. She then told me I shouldn't put my bin outside my house on bin morning as that was "her" parking space. Her father then told me he would have me in court for criminal damage.
I know the OP's car wasn't causing an obstruction and the first act of the person damaging his car shouldn't have been to key it. It should have been to speak to him in a civil matter about the situation. People shouldn't assume that they own the space outside their house but they should also consider that always parking outside someone else's house might cause them a problem if, for example, they aren't fully able bodied and you're preventing them from parking near thier house. I think what's needed is a little bit of consideration rather than one side saying they can park where they want and anyone who says they can't is a whinging old bat and the other keying people's cars. If people thought about others and weren't so aggressive something as trivial as car parking wouldn't cause people to fall out.
I can fully see your point but I'm not being aggressive or militant about where I park. People DO park on our road and cause an obstruction by parking well onto the pavement on the house+driveway side making passage for large vehicles difficult. There's really only room to park on the maisonette side which is what I always do. Also, near the "offending" area (about 2 or three car lengths up the road) is a marked disabled space which is always kept clear. If we divide the street into 3 sections and I live in the 2nd section then I'm nearly always parked within that section. I'll also point out that we've lived there for 6 years and it's never been an issue with anyone until now. As I said, everyone is in the same boat. I think the note writer is a bit hard of thinking and has seen my car on its own near their flat over a few weekends. It would have been parked then when the road was full of parked cars on a Friday but left on its own when other cars have been driven away and they've become incensed thinking I've done it deliberately. Tempted to pop a note on suspect's car saying "Why do you think?" If it's not her then it's just odd, if it is then it'd maybe give pause for thought. Or I could just follow PH advice and reverse a flaming skip covered in rude words through the wall.
soad said:
goldblum said:
One guy used to get up at 2 am to move his car to a 'better' position when the neighbour left for his shift and vacated a more satisfactory spot.
That's a bit sad!! 
k and stop been so pathetic (I'm talking if I stopped with my rear end infront of his land and I was sitting in the car he would come out!)In the end he paid for a lowered kerb, and transformed his garden into a pebbled driver
where he now parks his City Rover.wijit said:
dirkgently said:
Thankyou4calling said:
It's illegal to park on any public highway unless in a designated parking area. Parking on a road with no yellow lines is normally breaking the law if you want to get picky.
Are you on drugs?The bottom line really is that it is just a given that parking happens. A bit like sh*t happens only slightly more useful.
It's criminal damage already, so you should have reported it to the Police straight away. Given them the note to look at and gone outside to wear your car is parked with the officers and pointed at the flats. The one with the twitching curtains will be the one who did it.
The extent of the Police enquires will be a knock on the doors to ask for witnesses, they'll give you a crime number for your insurance to sort out the scratches and that will be that.
You'll get into a lot more trouble if you take the law into your own hands.
So give some local hoodys £20 for each to do the windows of the flat.
The extent of the Police enquires will be a knock on the doors to ask for witnesses, they'll give you a crime number for your insurance to sort out the scratches and that will be that.
You'll get into a lot more trouble if you take the law into your own hands.
So give some local hoodys £20 for each to do the windows of the flat.
wijit said:
I know how this will sound, but it isn't legal but it isn't illegal. There isn't a specific law to say you can't, but there is also no supporting guidelines either. It does make sense if you put a bit of thought into it, possibly whilst drinking.
The bottom line really is that it is just a given that parking happens. A bit like sh*t happens only slightly more useful.
We're supposed to live in a free society. Just because the law hasn't defined how we should do something, doesn't mean we cannot do it.The bottom line really is that it is just a given that parking happens. A bit like sh*t happens only slightly more useful.
Where are the supporting guidelines for how I walk along the pavement? There must be guidelines otherwise we would all be doing this:
That's a disgrace. I live in a new build estate where every house seems to have 2 or 3 cars and parking is an issue. I have a tarmac area outside my house which is wide and long enough to get two or three cars on (not an official parking space as such). As long as nobody blocks my driveway, I don't care if they park outside my house. My girlfriend gets annoyed if she can't park her car there on a weekend but normally she parks across my drive so it's not a major issue. The space outside my house isn't MINE in the same way the space you use doesn't belong to the idiot who left the note.
It's a real shame you don't know who actually did this, the police wouldn't do a lot about it but I'd still report them anyway.
It's a real shame you don't know who actually did this, the police wouldn't do a lot about it but I'd still report them anyway.
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