[Closed] Residents possessive of public roads

Cycle to work? Stuff all that for a carry on.

Dialogue then Rozzers then CCTV in your parked car.

from experience, there are a lot of street parkers who do block driveways, Where the SO works they need 24hr ambulance access and the entrance is regularly blocked by idiots. Where i live getting a parking place is a nightmare because people park to walk into town. One of the major local employers regularly gets complaints because its staff block the residential streets, block bus routes, and generally do themselves no favours.

In your case, what you do is almost irrelevant, enough idiots exist that your parking there is only going to end badly. Just find somewhere else to park.

Cycle to work not an option as I'm 18 miles away school bus picks up at 0845hrs and I need to be in work by 0915hrs. Public transport also not an option as only bus through our village is at 0640hrs.

One of our neighbours has a major problem with people parking outside his house. He shouts and swears at them, and I had my tyre slashed after parking outside his house, same has happened to a few other people though we can't prove it was him.

We have no drive and regularly get people parking outside our house. It's a bit frustrating when you have to take in three kids, two of whom are sleeping. That being said you've just got to accept that it's a public road and people have as much "right" to park there as you. We chose to buy the house and new what the score was.

They don't own the road so as long as you are not parking illegally/blocking a gate etc. then you are fine. Except you are leaving your car in front of a nutter's house all day where you can't see it.

I live next to a park, which is used for local football league matches, and also has a school next to it.

The school runners are pretty bad for parking, but the footballists almost without fail park across my drive, which has obvious gates and a white 'H' line across it.

Boils my piss it does.

For the record, I have no problem with people parking outside my house. Just leave the sodding drive clear!

Petty crap from people with too much spare time. Option & D Jeremy kyle and bombers

Empty wheelie bins precluding parking? You do realise they can be moved don't you? I'd have a merry time spending 10 minutes swapping them all around the street. That would really wind the residents up a treat. Either that or borrow an old banger or better still a Landrover and smash a few of them into bits......

Black bumpers were made for moving wheelie bins.

Not such a stupid request of mine now 🙂

Drive ways are no fair game anything else is a parking space. Put a note on your car when yu leave - "if you must leave notes" ( do it on a car that gives a shit )

Cheap bike lock and thread though wheel of car owned by the person complaining, best done late at night.

Wheelie bin dodgems is quite fun, see how far you can ram them up the street.

You're getting notes telling you not to take pictures?

I'd turn up the next day with a dSLR and photograph all the houses.

Trail rat.....please take your black bumpers and move those wheelie bins for me mate. West end of Abz not far from Rubislaw Quarry....

As long as you are not infringing any legal restrictions you have very right to park there. Being a resident has no special rights (subject to above) . Its fair game. The argument that "I live here and have to park somewhere" is fair enough but equally fair is my fathers comment. If you don't have a field, don't keep a cow"

Happened to me, I gave in when someone put bricks under my car and let all my tyres down 🙁

Not enough room in the marathon/chevron compound benz 😉

I used to have a peugeot205 with black plactic bumpers in which i took great pleasure im seening how far i could punt wheelie bins.

Whilst that little disc is in your window park it wherever. Never in front of a dropped kerb though. My sister got two cats lifted from her house as they blocked her gates. One particular incident involved missing an urgent hospital appointment as she couldn't get her car out.
The street where I built se houses recently is a ****ing nightmare. People actually use traffic cones. Hence the reason we put bollards in at the top of the street to stop access onto our land.
Had some very interesting incidents with the neighbours in the past...

My sister got two cats lifted from her house as they blocked her gates.

Big ass cats 😯

I live near a local primary school (50m away) to my street is full with parents cars twice a day. Also I am 150m from train station, so lots of commuter cars too!
I am generaly fairly chilled over the parking situation. Provided no one blocks my drive or parks for days outside my house then I consider it being a small price to pay for the joy of living central to the edge of Leeds. My neighbour however hates it and would happily eviscerate any slightly unwelcome parkers.
So park away, but be wary of those less tolerant.

Take the cones or wheel the bins a couple of streets away.

Trail rat....also include BOL, ConocoPhilips, Amec and I think still BG to your list.

Happy to avoid confrontation with these folks but have kept their various notes (one which they kindly advised me of their house number...thanks!) for future reference lest any damage to cars, etc does occur. One nice resident was surprised one day when colleague went back to car to find said resident sprinkling bird seed on the roof of their car.

Actually I think I'm going to local car auction for an mot'd and barely taxed heap, insure it third party and simply park it and leave it.

benz - take it from trail_rats comments your in the 'deen. Recently Mrs Sparks convinced herself that she really really needed a defender. Wouldn't describe it as being in mint condition but it does have a black bumper at the front and could be made available to clear streets around the Rubislaw area of town.

This could be a Raspberry Pi project though - camera, motion sensor, usb flash memory. Add a speaker to play warning message in case anyone gets too close. Educational programming project for the kids. Sorted.

Sparks, might just take you up on that....let me see if I can get a (just) legal piece of junk and park it first - if that does not take attention away from my car then I'll give you a shout.

Ooooooo sparks what she get ?

One road up from us- every car keyed that parked in a 20metre stretch. Last week I popped home at lunchtime and decided to leave the car there literally for 20mins... keyed.

Its one house. Im guessing its the old couple/bloke behind it. Luckily mine was only lightly keyed- rubbed out with finger pressure.

Outside a localish primary school on the access road is nortorious for bin placement. Idiots. You chose to live next to a school.

Sadly some residents seem intent in protecting stretches of road outside their homes by placing empty wheelie bins on the road, etc precluding parking.

Yeah distraction sounds like a good plan. Quite like the idea of a banger, slowly being covered in birdseed by a stream of Rubislaw residents while wheelie bins congregate menacingly around it.

Actually I think I'm going to local car auction for an mot'd and barely taxed heap, insure it third party and simply park it and leave it.

Leave the car parked with your own note tucked under the wiper: "Smile for the camera!"

just as a matter of interest

"If you must insist in parking here then..."

"Don't take photos" ffs, probably never going to win against this mindset

What @hora says, move the obstructions. I got in quite a row once as I put some cones I found in the back of my car, guy came out of the property and accused me of theft, I said I was going to return the cones to their rightful owners, I can't recall what was stamped on the cones but it wasn't that guys name and address !

There is a phantom note poster in Wescott who puts notes in cars legally parked on the public road complete with a map of various car parks where in his view mountain bikers should park. Have had a few in my time as I always park there on Wednesday LBS rides.

My brother used to have a collection of traffic cones he'd acquired after people had carelessly left them lying in the road outside their houses.

trail_rat - 1992 diesel defender 110. Plenty of rusty bits - characterful. Chassis good/sound. Engine is lovely. Think I'm the only person in Culter that uses the whole stretch of that road going from Malcolm road up onto School Hill - at least in a motor. She'd been going on about getting one for two years, and found this one down in St Albans and drove it up.

Nice work tom. Hows the bulkhead ? Good job on buying down south - much better nick than the local stuff

Get friendly with caldwell an dempster lr out in banchory. Indy landy specialists.

Let me know when the rebuild starts 😉 -

Park considerately and ignore. We live in a road next to a commuter rail station into London. We have residents restrictions from 8-11 am to prevent the obvious commuter car park chaos. Of course cars park in the road afternoons and at weekends to go into town, but it's not a big problem. I only own the space on my drive, not in front of the house.

We're house hunting at the moment and at one house the neighbour had traffic cones in the road and a laminated printed sign on the tree out the front saying 'do not park'.

Nice house, but we didn't put in an offer.

Didn't want to risk living next to a ****.

Its a difficult one, you have every right to park on the public road so long as you do so considerately, but you are also leaving you car out of sight all day long

There is some aggro in the streets near my office too. Big office building not quite in Glasgow city centre so few parking restrictions during the day on the streets around it.

People have had their tyres let down and their windscreen wiper blades stolen. In the end the belligerent resident with time on their hand will probably win.

I once experimented with driving to Leamington, parking in the streets and riding to the train station - on day two I came back to find notes sellotaped to three windows asking me to be considerate to the residents - car was left in front of a house, but not blocking or opposite anybody's drive. Did think about just cracking on anyway, but decided leaving my car at the mercy of some tool with a grudge wasn't worth the hassle. It wasn't that far from Warwick Castle, so i did wonder whether they have a rough time of it in tourist season.

People have had their tyres let down and their windscreen wiper blades stolen. In the end the belligerent resident with time on their hand will probably win.

so i did wonder whether they have a rough time of it in tourist season.

i park on local streets at work. a parking pass is expensive and doesn't guarantee a space, on top of that the 'big' car park is as far away as the free street parking.

Saw a colleague (wearing a uniform) pull half into a marked bay and block someones drive! if he'd pulled forward another 2 feet (which there was plenty of room to do it would have been no issue.

No surprise the residents get pissy.

People have had their tyres let down and their windscreen wiper blades stolen. In the end the belligerent resident with time on their hand will probably win.

I'm absolutely no hardman or keyboard warrior but I am a person of principle. If anything near that happened to me I would be knocking on the door outside the house where I parked.

The key scratch on my car buffed out whilst I was there. If it wasn't regardless of a persons age I'd politely knock, ask (if a denial) I'd tell them thats my new parking spot from now on.

If it was damaged as the above quote I don't think I'd be calm, I'd put the bloody wind of god into them.

I'm absolutely no hardman or keyboard warrior

I'd tell them thats my new parking spot from now on and they better look out for my car.

Brilliant 😆

The bloody wind of God into them?

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😆

My next door neighbour used to put dogs shit under the handles of cars parked legally outside her house.
Eggs on the windscreen seem to be her favourite now!

"If you don't have a field, don't keep a cow"

Brilliant

thing is even if there are some people parking like dicks outside their house at other times of day do they have a right to get pissed at people who are parked legitimately/considerately?

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Right **** it!!!!

Say hello to my lee'tle friend

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At my old place the mad old woman near us used to stare at me from her window if I parked outside her house even though she had a space of her own at the back (that she always used - she never parked at the front). If I didn't park there no-one did - simply because she had already moaned at everyone else enough to make them stop.

She eventually confronted me about it, demanding to know who my employer was (I have no idea why and I am self employed anyway), going on to say that it spoiled her view (of the house opposite). I very politely explained to her that it was a public road, that I was not blocking any access, I was doing no harm and I was parked perfectly legally.

Her retort? She told me to *&%^ off and die. She was in her 80s.

😯

Ever since then I just gave her a big smily face, a cheery hello and a wave as I parked up. I think that just made her madder though 🙂

Fantastic. 😀

at wife's old place of work (St Columbas Hospice), old woman nearby would put her bins out days early, clatter the bins into cars, scatter glass and tacks on the road, and generally get very antsy. The police were called, and it all remained on a tense but manageable level.

She eventually died, and the house (big place) was sold - to the hospice for expansion, education centre, the lot. Justice!!

I had a bloke tell me once "You cant park a commercial vehicle on the avenue" when I was in St Albans, he even phoned the company I was working for to complain. The road in question is about 20 metres wide with about 20 metres of front garden. I explained that it was taxed MOT'd and legally parked. Stupid sod went and phoned plod who came along and gave him a right telling off for wasting their time.

someone who lived near me used to put cones outside their house to mark out their spot when they left, i used to delight in driving my ratty mark 1 clio over the cones and leaving it there (normally for weeks at a time as I cycle to work and only used the car occasionally). I'm not sure anyone who lives in Bristol could actually survive if people parking outside their house upset them...

where i live now is used for parking by people who work locally during the day and to be honest I couldn't give a monkey's

Seems to happen far too often, mostly by small minded people with little else to do or worry about.

Lifes too short to get would up by stuff like that, flinging dog poo is far more effective 😉

Just don't get why people don't understand that the Public Highway is just that for the public, whatever mode of transport you use. Why do people think that just because they bought a house, big expensive car, private number plate etc etc think they have anymore rights to it's use than anyone else. Did these people not learn to share their toy's when they were young 😯

Too add abit of balance, we live on a tiny close (and I mean narrow and tiny). I'd really like a Toyota Hi-Ace van but I'll never buy one as its too tall/big really for the road/not fair on neighbours. If a commercial van was regularly parked on our road I'd ask if it could be parted at the entrance/top.

Are there any other hypothetical local parking situations you've given much thought too? Maybe one involving a tractor?

Stupid sod went and phoned plod who came along and gave him a right telling off for wasting their time.

Interesting. I had a few aggressive notes on my car (in Edinburgh) that threatened to inform the police for parking in "residents' parking" (i.e. a normal public road with no restrictions).

Joke was on them though because parking became such a problem that Edinburgh council rolled out [i]proper[/i] residents' parking with one-car-per-house permits and annual fees. 😀

Are there any other hypothetical local parking situations you've given much thought too? Maybe one involving a tractor?

With muck spreader in tow 😆

"I'd ask if it could be parted at the entrance/top."

And as i told a previous neighbour when he pulled similar - its my private vehicle for use of taking my bikes cycling - its no bigger than an estate car or a pick up truck that i could park there. - worse than that it was parked infront of MY door/window.

trail_rat our road (inc small kerb) is 2 widths of a car and about 30metres long with 10 houses on. If you park a car (on the small kerb) you can squeeze a car down. Thats it. So if a van was permanently there it'd dominate the small close(?).

If someone did want to pay silly buggers all one would have to do is park outside there house (and not even anywhere near obscuring the entrance of the drive) and that'd be enough to stop anyone J-turning/swinging in/using their drive. They couldn't claim obstruction either. Its that difficult parking there!

I used to live next door to a nursery school, just round the corner from a primary school, opposite a couple of shops, just up the road from a massively popular commuter station and just down the road from a popular park. Unsurprisingly it was occasionally hard for us to park outside our house so we had to park outside someone elses. We used to get the full gamut of snotty notes, whinging old ladies and carefully positioned wheely bins to make it clear we weren't welcome there.

One time a woman came out and shouted at my housemate to park outside our own house, he pointed out that this was the only parking space on the whole street so she told him that wasn't her problem. He locked the car said "It is now" and walked away.

This was on a part of the street where almost all of the houses had drives round the front, garages round the back and back lanes with parking. People are weird.

had an amusing moment with an irate home owner after i had the cheek to park on the public highway outside her living room window..

'' is this your van?''

'' yes''

''move it or i ll call your boss''

'' feel free the numbers on the side of the van''

she runs inside gets mobile carefully dials number

my phone rings..

'' sorry love its staying where it is all day..''

she called coppers.. turned up.. they told me i was causing an obstruction..

''like all the cars parked in front and behind me?..''

''are there parking restrictions on this housing estate? am i parked inconsideratly? if the answers no i m off to work next door.. cheeerio''

never heard another word.

OP why not contact the 5 0 and your councillor or better still get your work to do so. I worked in Falkirk and there was a problem with workers cars parked on street and in a free car park being vandalised.My employers contacted the council and police problem was solved within a couple of weeks.

My favourite passive aggressive note:

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This was on a part of the street where almost all of the houses had drives round the front, garages round the back and back lanes with parking. People are weird.

Indeed. All the streets around us are old stone terraces, so nobody has any parking spaces, and there aren't any drives or garages anywhere, so everyones in the same boat. You just have to just park wherever you can. I have never, ever heard of anyone having an issue with this. I don't think its that people are weird generally. Its just this sense of entitlement thing with certain people, who think they're Vladimir Putin and can effectively annexe the land around their house, including the road

Ian Walker has an interesting take on this:

"..car parking is a nice illustration of the bizarre level of freedom given to motorists..

..here's the question: why should I be allowed to own a car if I have nowhere to store it? I am not permitted the same freedom to store anything else on the road. If I own a caravan, or a speedboat on a trailer, I am obliged to have off-road storage facilities for it. If I want to place a skip outside my house when doing building work I have to take great care that this hazard is brightly lit and removed as soon as possible."

-- Source: [url= http://bamboobadger.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/car-parking-ill-just-leave-this.html ]"Car parking: I'll just leave this speedboat here" (Ian Walker's blog, 2008)[/url]

you can legally park there and its up to the residents to approach the council to change the parking if they wish.

the dilema here is how much you care for your car's safety.

I had a similar argument when I lived in chester and parked my car around the corner from my house, I had no choice as there was no parking at the house. I ended up with a black bag of rubbish over my car one night - - I duely posted it back through her post box. I also ended up with eggs on my car another night. duely ignored and washed off. The worst time was when i walked back around to see the old deer trying to bash my wing mirror off - at that point I scared the hell out of her and she was finally stopped. Eventually she had so many complaints the local council moved her into a different old folks bungalow. Good ridence.

Some people really do need to get a life.

i'm slowly turning into a crazy old person that moans about people parking outside my house.

specifically that sodding green VW Bora!

there's loads of space to park on our/my road, so why does mr Bora park outside my house?

it's become nearly as annoying as the shouty couple who scream at everyone all day long.

As I understand it no one has any legal right to park on the public highway. You should start putting notes under the residents windscreens to remind them of the fact. Or tell them you'll start a petition for residents parking and hope they'll be happy paying £500 a year for the privilege of keeping out riff raff such as yourself. 🙂

at that point I scared the hell out of her and she was finally stopped. Eventually she had so many complaints the local council moved her into a different old folks bungalow.

You evil man. That was my Gran.

[i]Why do people think that just because they bought a house, big expensive car, private number plate etc etc think they have anymore rights to it's use than anyone else.[/i]

I don't think the problem is restricted to people who have [i]bought a house, big expensive car, private number plate[/i] - bit of a childish comment that.

Interesting hora that if a vehicle was parking in front of your house that you weren't happy with then you would expect it to be moved. maybe the owner of the house you parked your car in front of had a slightly lower tolerance level than you.

I'd just park elsewhere to be honest as its not worth the hassle of coming back to your car to find it keyed.

That was my Gran.

I pitty you if it really was.

.. I had my tyre slashed after parking outside his house
.. resident sprinkling bird seed on the roof of their car.
.. decided to leave the car there literally for 20mins... keyed.
.. tyres let down and their windscreen wiper blades stolen
.. dogs shit under the handles of cars parked legally
.. i walked back around to see the old deer trying to bash my wing mirror off
.. its not worth the hassle of coming back to your car to find it keyed.

That is all just astounding! 😯

Blatant vandalism, bullying and and intimidation, committed by people directly outside their own homes.

I bet those very same people would be the first to complain and do an [url= http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/ ]angy-face pose in the local paper[/url] if there were "yoofs" intimidating people and causing vandalism.

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i'm slowly turning into a crazy old person that moans about people parking outside my house.

specifically that sodding green VW Bora!

there's loads of space to park on our/my road, so why does mr Bora park outside my house?

it's become nearly as annoying as the shouty couple who scream at everyone all day long.

you should put some cones out the front to stop people parking there... 🙂