Note left about parking then keyed...
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Is there a car that is consistently parking in the same spot now?Dog Star said:
Leptons said:
Hire a skip, Write HA HA on the side facing the houses. VBRJ, smash there back doors in with a can of redbull e.t.c.
He lives in a little cottage in the pennines. Bloke in the house next door is a proper whinging busybody - arguments have got a bit out of hand in the past and have involved the police being called.
There's a field behind the houses which is where the living rooms look out onto, these are owned by another mutual friend who keeps sheep on them. All in all it's a lovely view out towards Saddleworth moor. Except it isn't for my mates neighbour, as there is a big f
k off steel container unit in the way, strategically placed in the field right outside his patio windows. It's luminous, day-glo orange. Blokey can complain all he wants, as said box can remain there for a certain number of months before needing to be moved. Unfortunately it doesn't say how far it has to move. Consequently it hasn't moved very far at all. I'd forgotten all about it til I walked past the other day. Perhaps a bit harsh..... 
Op, i would go to the police with it, i would also be knocking on the 2 likely people to see thier reaction when you say that the police will be looking into the matter.
Can you catch your nail in the scratch, if not then it should mostly polish out, either by hand or with a machine.
Likes Fast Cars said:
y2blade said:
as is the case with these sort of people, they will deny it point blank when confronted face to face
spineless, barefaced liars
They're all the same, but they usually turn noticeably red when asked the hard question.spineless, barefaced liars
these are the real pissboilers
Of course you could always take the law into your own hands.
Hire some police uniforms, knock on the doors of the culprits accompanied by a few mates (also dressed in uniforms) and start getting heavy with them.
This works ONLY if they don't you by sight as being a neighbour and it does come with its own risks
Hire some police uniforms, knock on the doors of the culprits accompanied by a few mates (also dressed in uniforms) and start getting heavy with them.
This works ONLY if they don't you by sight as being a neighbour and it does come with its own risks
Dog Star said:
You may be writing that in jest but a mate of mine has done almost exactly this.
He lives in a little cottage in the pennines. Bloke in the house next door is a proper whinging busybody - arguments have got a bit out of hand in the past and have involved the police being called.
There's a field behind the houses which is where the living rooms look out onto, these are owned by another mutual friend who keeps sheep on them. All in all it's a lovely view out towards Saddleworth moor. Except it isn't for my mates neighbour, as there is a big fk off steel container unit in the way, strategically placed in the field right outside his patio windows. It's luminous, day-glo orange. Blokey can complain all he wants, as said box can remain there for a certain number of months before needing to be moved. Unfortunately it doesn't say how far it has to move. Consequently it hasn't moved very far at all. I'd forgotten all about it til I walked past the other day. Perhaps a bit harsh.....
Moving it more hassle than it is worth? Want to stay whiter than white? He should look at "permitted development" in the planning regs. He lives in a little cottage in the pennines. Bloke in the house next door is a proper whinging busybody - arguments have got a bit out of hand in the past and have involved the police being called.
There's a field behind the houses which is where the living rooms look out onto, these are owned by another mutual friend who keeps sheep on them. All in all it's a lovely view out towards Saddleworth moor. Except it isn't for my mates neighbour, as there is a big f
k off steel container unit in the way, strategically placed in the field right outside his patio windows. It's luminous, day-glo orange. Blokey can complain all he wants, as said box can remain there for a certain number of months before needing to be moved. Unfortunately it doesn't say how far it has to move. Consequently it hasn't moved very far at all. I'd forgotten all about it til I walked past the other day. Perhaps a bit harsh..... 
Friends of ours had a similar situation as a result, their neighbour now overlooks a very large Dutch barn. Which would have been smaller and at the opposite end of the field, out of their line of sight, if they had been reasonable initially.
thinfourth2 said:
Jasandjules said:
hornetrider said:
Knock on every door.
This. Ask each person if they keyed the car parked outside.
When you find the ranty old bloke you have your suspect
Knock on every door, and go around warning the occupants of the houses of the criminal damage that has been caused to your car, and give them the contact name of the officer which you have been dealing with in relation to your vandalism.
Pass on the Police contact details for them to use in case their vehicle is damaged by whoever it was, and encourage them to be vigilant about where they park, and who is around their cars or acting suspiciously.
It'll be a help to all your neighbourhood, and it will be interesting to see / hear their responses ... The culprit wont make a very good job of hiding their identity.
mat205125 said:
Neither.
Knock on every door, and go around warning the occupants of the houses of the criminal damage that has been caused to your car, and give them the contact name of the officer which you have been dealing with in relation to your vandalism.
Pass on the Police contact details for them to use in case their vehicle is damaged by whoever it was, and encourage them to be vigilant about where they park, and who is around their cars or acting suspiciously.
It'll be a help to all your neighbourhood, and it will be interesting to see / hear their responses ... The culprit wont make a very good job of hiding their identity.
Also, you could say "did you see anyone acting suspiciously as my car has been damaged". Don't mention the keying. Go onto say something like "Its terrible isn't it..........." Your culprit might just respond with "yeh, keying a car is wrong" or similar. You then say "I didn't mention what damage was done, how do you know it was keyed?" Sounds a but convoluted but it worked for Lt Columbo for 30 years! Knock on every door, and go around warning the occupants of the houses of the criminal damage that has been caused to your car, and give them the contact name of the officer which you have been dealing with in relation to your vandalism.
Pass on the Police contact details for them to use in case their vehicle is damaged by whoever it was, and encourage them to be vigilant about where they park, and who is around their cars or acting suspiciously.
It'll be a help to all your neighbourhood, and it will be interesting to see / hear their responses ... The culprit wont make a very good job of hiding their identity.
What is it with these idiots who think that the road outside their house belongs to them? If there are no lines on it, or something saying 'No.24only' or something, it's just the road.
I lived on a terraced street in Preston and my neighbour banged on my door at 7am to shout and bawl at my wife for parking outside his house - I ran downstairs and totally lost my temper - I frightened myself with what came out.
Idiots
I lived on a terraced street in Preston and my neighbour banged on my door at 7am to shout and bawl at my wife for parking outside his house - I ran downstairs and totally lost my temper - I frightened myself with what came out.
Idiots
mackie1 said:
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.
I know you're not being militant about it. I'm just saying that some people may have a need to keep the space outside their house free and if they do they should ask people nicely not to park there, not key someone's car. In return, people who are asked should understand the problem and try to avoid parking there. The problem you have is that you were trying to park as near to your house as possible and the first you knew there was a problem was your car being vandalised. My problem is that people who live round me think the space outside my house is theirs and that even I don't have any right to park in it because usually I don't and they always do. They once set the recycling boxes up behind my car so that when I set off to work and backed up in the dark I reversed into them. They were close behind the car and below the window line. When I reported it to the police they logged it as vandalism but when a PCSO came round to see me he changed what was logged to accidental damage. They'll do the same with you. They'll say there's no proof the damage was done deliberately by one of the neighbours so they can't do anything about it.
Is it true the government once set a limit on how many off road spaces houses should have allocated to them to try and discourage ownership of several cars? I live on a 15 year old housing estate and even the biggest 4 and 5 bedroom houses have tiny garages and sometimes only one car driveways.
CouponCroc said:
hora said:
Alternatively report criminal damage and mention you suspect the flat and supply note and demand a handwriting test analysis be carried out.
Hahaha. Like the cops have nothing better to do. The note makes no mention of the damage... so even if the cops spend tens of thousands of pounds proving who wrote the note, what exactly has that achieved? They'll still deny damaging the car.mackie1 said:
I'm bloody livid.
Early last week I found a note under my windscreen wiper stating:
"Why do you always park outside our home so we cant!!You dont even live up this end"
No name or address was given but I can narrow it down to maybe 4 flats.
Fast forward to today and there's a nice long key mark along my rear wing just under the filler flap.
Photocopy the note several times.Early last week I found a note under my windscreen wiper stating:
"Why do you always park outside our home so we cant!!You dont even live up this end"
No name or address was given but I can narrow it down to maybe 4 flats.
Fast forward to today and there's a nice long key mark along my rear wing just under the filler flap.
Write your response underneath ie 'To the person who damaged my car..I've paid my road tax,I park wherever possible,everyone in same boat,reported vandalism to police..etc, AND make sure
you them them know you have sent the note to EVERY flat/house so people will be watching/aware.Include your phone number.
Who knows maybe other people's cars have been vandalised ? Someone may already know the culprit..
bqf said:
What is it with these idiots who think that the road outside their house belongs to them?
For me it does, all of it, from the main road to my door, 50m, i am the only person who lives on my road to own their frontage and my neighbours all park along it everyday in front of their houses, it has the potential to be infuriating, but it mostly works nowadays.Funnily enough as i can walk across the field to my mothers house and borrow her car at the weekends i never get blocked in or have parking problems anymore.
One of my newer neighbours has admitted to me that he was warned within a few days of moving in that if i could get all the way to my house then he definitely wouldn't be able to get to work the next day.
If my defence last winter i used the scooby to tow most of them up the lane when it froze and they got stuck in on the ice and i do tend let them turn on my garden if needed.
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