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This is my current pet peeve, always feel like I should move 'em but a bit scared of getting into a confrontation about it.
What do other folks think/do ?
On public roads, on obviously ...
Deserve to have them run over .
Perhaps they have booked a skip.
My elderly neighbour does it. She puts a cone behind her car to "prevent" other people from running into it......
She's old - so I don't care.
Much more effective to paint a fake disabled parking bay!
A former neighbour of mine did this. I just stole the cone and they didn't do it again.
I put cones outside my house. Does my head in having to park down the road, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than getting the kerb lowered to pretend I have a drive.
Come and move mine...
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I blame this lot.
i see it as someone reserving the spot for me. If my car was then scratched i'd know where to knock.
Next door does it .Funny how easy they are to 'not see' in the morning .I think I'm into double figures now :0)
I have a drive and a garage, but no car; takes all sorts.
Come and move mine...
Where do you live?
Only dicks do this
Is the Cone a nod to passers by that a secret sexual society is available inside the property?
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Abandoning stuff on a public highway? Report them for fly tipping.
They might be dicks for putting cones out, but you are conspiring with them if you obey the cones.
+1 Cougar. It's fly tipping...and they should be fined.
We put some cones out as we were waiting for an ambulance, some gimp came, moved the cones and parked denying access for the ambulance. Fortunately no-one got too hacked off that the ambulance blocked the road for 1 hour+, the queue was was very patient and understood what was happening.
But hey, get out there and move them.
Here I am...
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don simon thats a very unusual situation, and if that is the case they would do well to speak with their neighbours. 99.9% of the time it is people being dicks and wanting to bag their own space.
I live opposite a primary school, if I time it wrong the road is littered with squiffily parked 1 wheel on the pavement Honda CRVs. Who need at least two car lengths to park as they can only go in forwards, I think it's a special licence category, like folk who can only drive automatics. I might consider putting cones out, but I doubt this lot would even see them, let alone obey them.
Report them to the Highways for stealing cones.
They might be dicks for putting cones out, but you are conspiring with them if you obey the cones.
Dude, that is totally what Desmond Tutu said.
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Right on ! And all it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. And all that.
Don Simon, I'm worried we might have met now!
I got really angry arriving at a job one night, having to do a 20 point turn to get the ambulance into a tiny spot because "some t**t has put cones out to "reserve" their spot! Then the neighbour pops out and tells me that the coned off area was for me and he assumed I'd move them! Doh!
[i]We put some cones out as we were waiting for an ambulance[/i]
Maybe standing outside till the ambulance arrived would have been a better approach. You just happened to have road cones available?
Anyone under the age of 70 who does this is a fanny.
But it doesn't bother me in the slightest and I can't see a situation where it would.
Don Simon, I'm worried we might have met now!
Why "worried"? š„
Anyone under the age of 70 who does this is a fanny.
This ^^^
People "that"?????
Stick a sign up at the local College/Uni on a Friday or Saturday evening saying free cones.
People that put cones outside their houses
...they're almost as bad as people who have drives and somewhere to park but they still park on the road just to stop other people parking outside their houses!
Maybe standing outside till the ambulance arrived would have been a better approach. You just happened to have road cones available?
I actually preferred spending the time with the patient, just to make sure they were alright, know what I mean?
Cones , no? Triangles from the back of the car, yes.
Are people so incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of others? If I see cones blocking a space I drive on and find another space, or pay or...
Having lived in areas of limited parking, I'm aware of the problems and the compromises that peope have to make and live with it. Double parking is something else that the small minded selfish idiots don't seem to be able to comprehend either. But hey...
If you have two cars that seems fairly logical. If you parked two cars on the driveway and someone parks across it then you're stuck. If you park one car in the drive and one in the road then whats the issue?
[i]I actually preferred spending the time with the patient, just to make sure they were alright, know what I mean?[/i]
I assumed one person could stay with the patient and the other watch for the ambulance. Makes sense to me.
Where my parents live it's a sign that you are slipping down the social ladder if you park on the street. It's very frowned on and the neighbours get very very sniffy. They are moving as they can no longer garage my dads car collection, so started to park the modern cars on the street, the horror. I think the neighbours got up a petition.
When I was growing up we had 5 cars at one stage (I had two) this is NZ by the way so quite normal. All kinds of shuffling had to go on in the mornings to get everybody out of the L shaped garage.
My mum used to make me park the Falcon on a different street some days ! Not outside our house. It was kind of the opposite problem.
I assumed one person could stay with the patient and the other watch for the ambulance. Makes sense to me.
You assumed a lot, perhaps too much.
Not really, you said 'we put cones out', this suggests more than one person put the cones out. Crazy assumption I know.
People "that"?????
People [b]what[/b]. Get it right, ffs, guys!
Crazy assumption I know.
I know, but not your fault. I think that this is the problem, people see something and have difficulty in understanding the reasons behind it, then jump to, often incorrect, conclusions.
We could equally apply to me and patient, or the royal we, or... š
FFS if the patient was well enough to put cones out I would suggest they could have got the bus to the hospital or at least waited outside for the ambulance - saving the need for the whole cone scenario. Drama queen.
FFS if the patient was well enough to put cones out I would suggest they could have got the bus to the hospital or at least waited outside for the ambulance - saving the need for the whole cone scenario.
Suggest all you want. Did I say that the patient was well enough to carry emergency triangles?
You weren't there, were you?
Change "we" for "I" if you're having difficulties understanding. You sound like the typical selfish [swear filter avoidance] that creates more problems than they solve. I bet you'd have stopped and given the ambulance driver an earful preventing them from doing their job instead of minding your business, it's got nothing to do with you!!
Don Pisspot, you're coming across as a bit of a Benny. OP was talking about those sad old ****ers who cone off "their" parking space on the public highway. Your example is pretty unique/fictional. Do you regularly cone off "your" space and are trying to justify it?
Don Pisspot, you're coming across as a bit of a Benny.
Thanks for that ****banger you're the milk of human kindness.
I'm enjoying this thread š
Carry on....
I'm enjoying this thread
Me too! Don Pisspot, Benny(?) and ****banger all in 2 posts.
Things can only get better.
What about putting cones out to stop people parking across a drive? We have a little car park area behind our flats (only 2 flats in a building) with a big gate and people always block it. I've thought about getting cones to stop people parking there.
Although the current issue is people letting animals shit on our drive, or across it- there's been 4 dogs turds that just won't die there since the heatwave in March and a couple of days ago some inconsiderate beggar let their horse leave a smear of shite 7 feet long across the from of our home. Which is not very nice.
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Don Pisspot, you're coming across as a bit of a Benny.
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Thought it best to put my cones around that post. I think you came across well fourbanger, you can park in my space.
Read the small-print in your cone-tract
And I used the correct "they're and everything.
Park in my space - oo-er phnarr phnarr. Sorry, have been rstraining myself all thread from making lame cone jokes, but wasn't going to let that pass.
P.S and it's "People wot put them cones out"
You'll have to excuse me, but are we talking [i]conos[/i] or [i]coƱos[/i]. There seem to be a few of the latter in this thread.
Uh-oh, thin end of the wedge, I feelDuggan - Member
Read the small-print in your cone-tract
Putting cones in the road is illegal (unless you have a notice from the council temporarily reserving the space e.g. for a skip or removal lorry, in which case photocopy of said notice should be displayed with cones), selfish, inconsiderate, and only shows that the cone placer thinks their convenience in life overrides everyone else's legal right to park there.
As has been said, cone placers should be charged with fly tipping, and Obstructing the Queens Highway, and possibly theft unless they can provide receipts for the purchase of the cones. Oh, and any damaged caused to your motor vehicle or cycle caused by hitting said obstruction.
The lower echelons of society on a par with grass verge parkers (probably one and the same on different days).
Worked in one house and the neighbour had cones out, managed to reverse into the gap left, just as the owner of the house i was working at came out and asked if i had hit the cones, no says me, thats good says the chap, because the miserable old git next door has filled them full of concrete.
Another place i used to work, a neighbour if you parked under his window in the car park you would find a scene like Alfred Hitchcocks , The Birds film going on as he would shower your vehicle with bread and bird seed.
Unrelated i know put i once got a puncture so stopped to fix it outside a house and a bloke came out and tried to get me to move on. I didnt really get what he was on about to start with as he banged on his ktchen window and waved his arms about, then he came out and started ranting at me. Really odd although it was Sonning and they are very posh their (thats for Teamhurtmore).
I always think that someone who puts cones out has issues tbh, I feel a bit sorry for them that they have to park in the same spot each time and imagine that it's some sort of OCD. I'll always just drive up the road a bit and park somewhere else, being perfectly capable of walking.
I was going to put a smiley after my last post but I forgot. So glad I did as it appears to have caused don simon some sort of hissy fit.
Has someone put your toys back in the pram yet?
As a student I lived for a year next to a guy who asked us not to park in front of his house. Apparently he was friends with Patrick Moore who driving past his house one time saw a car outside it and assumed he had visitors so didn't stop to visit. Whenever anyone did park outside we received a letter sent through the post. Old people - gotta love 'em.
I take mine with me
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slalom that bitch
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I worked in a terraced house in Chester, long street, half empty, ample space to park, parked outside the customers house,worked there all morning, neighbour comes back and parks within an inch of back bumper, (road still empty)so i just move 3 foot down road,start putting tools in van, she comes out and starts reving the engine, put tools in van, she then closes the 3 foot gap.
I go back in house and the elderley couple have made a few butties for me, so sitting ther, and loud revving ,horn tooting etc,look out of window and see 40 year neurotic woman with hand clamped on horn, go out thinking she is hurt etc, she screams a torrent of abuse about me parking in her space,and she had rung her boyfreind to beatme up.
Absolute total nutter she was.
I was going to put a smiley after my last post but I forgot. So glad I did as it appears to have caused don simon some sort of hissy fit.
I can happily say that you've come nowhere near causing me a hissy fit in any way shape or form. š I'd also take a good long look at yourself if you get pleasure out of trying to cause others to have hissy fits. You're a bit of a sad sack, aren't you?
I worked in a terraced house in Chester, long street,
Garden Lane?? Lots of nutters around there.
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Hmm......
I can happily say that you've come nowhere near causing me a hissy fit in any way shape or form.
Yeah, but that's [i][u]exactly[/i][/u] what people who've had hissy fits always say.
You sure, bit of name calling looked like you'd got yourself in a bit of a tizzy.
[i]Change "we" for "I" if you're having difficulties understanding. You sound like the typical selfish [swear filter avoidance] that creates more problems than they solve. I bet you'd have stopped and given the ambulance driver an earful preventing them from doing their job instead of minding your business, it's got nothing to do with you!![/i]
Sounds a bit angry to me. Anyway I bet I wouldn't have.
I can happily say that you've come nowhere near causing me a hissy fit in any way shape or form.Ā Ā
well that wil be something to look forward to.
People beside us put a bike out against the kerb when they go out so nobody parks outside their house, even though they have a driveway for their free car they get through invalidity.
Garden lane is a nightmare to park in, but parked just off it last year, on a single yellow line, traffic warden came round, i apologised for parking there but was attending to a breakin at a house, result i didnt get a a prking ticket but the other 4 cars did.
I now get a parking permit when working there.
[i]for their free car they get through invalidity[/i]
I didn't know disabled people got free cars.
Yeah, but that's exactly what people who've had hissy fits always say.
What? Word for word? I must be freaking awesome or something.
Bring it on a_a, I look forward to your floundering. The world owes me a house, mwah ha ha! Where's my pension? Mwah ha ha!
Garden lane is a nightmare to park in,
Pfft! Lived there for 10 years, nightmare +1.
Cones.. pffft.. this is how it is done:
Bring it on a_a, I look forward to your floundering. The world owes me a house, mwah ha ha! Where's my pension? Mwah ha ha!
calm down love, do you want a dummy or are you overtired?