Parking in someone elses road.

trinidadone

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

when we were students a bloke who lived down our road would put cones out side his house and challenge anyone who tried to park there, everynight when we would come home we did our bit for the community and collected them up, at the end of the term we filled his garden up with them 87 in total. Turned out the moron worked at the council and got the cones from there.

Whats even funnier is he parked his car in a garage round the back!

he could of got done for obstruction as defined in the highway code

dacouch

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

when we were students a bloke who lived down our road would put cones out side his house and challenge anyone who tried to park there, everynight when we would come home we did our bit for the community and collected them up, at the end of the term we filled his garden up with them 87 in total. Turned out the moron worked at the council and got the cones from there.

Whats even funnier is he parked his car in a garage round the back!

That must be the world record for cones collected by Students...

You might have given the OP and idea

sickofusernames

Oh come one, those complaining that i'm moaning - if someone from another road parks outside your home where it's parked all weekend then tell me you wouldn't feel a little annoyed. Let me know when you've bought a normal semi-detached in a busy road before you reply...

I know it's not illegal but it's just about respect, even my 65 yr old neighbour said he'd probably let down the tyres if it kept happening to him.

savemoney

There is nothing you can do assuming the cars are legally insured, taxed and not causing a obstruction

For the record, 3 years ago I had my car vandalised by a busy body old witch who took exception to me parking on her street. Previous day I had some dipstick (put it nicely) smash into my car because they were unable to drive properly and mustn't have seen my car outside my house despite it being stationary and in a line of other stationary cars, and they didn't stop, how nice of them

Yes its annoying people using other streets, but nothing you can do about it

elisebutt65

Hahahaha - You don't live round the corner from me do you cos my BF can never find a space outside my house. There are just 2 streets round our way that aren't covered by residents permits and mine is one of them and the street round the corner is the other one - so we get a humongous amount of people trying to park for free in these 2 streets - esp first thing in the morning - they park up and then walk into town for work or whatever. So when BF comes round he ususally has to park around the corner - it's a free country mate and if you've got car tax, then you can park on a free road - suck it up and live with it. If you're not happy then call council and petition the road planning deopartment to have residential parking assigned.

If I ended up with rubbish outside my house - I'd phone council and they'd just go through bags to find any proof of address and then give you a huge fine - we can't put bins out round here until the night before or we get fined £50!

sickofusernames

anewman wrote: »

Why not go park in their street? I'm guessing the reason you wouldn't is much the same reason they don't.

Can I take a dump in your toilet, I don't fancy the smell in my house?

savemoney

I wonder if his employer would be happy they used public property for there own ends. I bet they wouldn't and certainly a letter in the local rag might raise a few eyebrows

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

when we were students a bloke who lived down our road would put cones out side his house and challenge anyone who tried to park there, everynight when we would come home we did our bit for the community and collected them up, at the end of the term we filled his garden up with them 87 in total. Turned out the moron worked at the council and got the cones from there.

Whats even funnier is he parked his car in a garage round the back!

sickofusernames

elisebutt65 wrote: »

If I ended up with rubbish outside my house - I'd phone council and they'd just go through bags to find any proof of address and then give you a huge fine - we can't put bins out round here until the night before or we get fined £50!

I shread all my evidence to stop it from prying council scum...

DON79

Hi sickofusernames, have had a similar issue lately so know how you feel. We have a neighbour with a driveway who refuses to use it and parks instead outside of our house when she has no need to! It is annoying but there is not a lot you can do really unfortunately. It just makes it really awkward to get two babies from the car to the house when its just me there and the car is parked about six houses away, all because this person won't use their driveway. :mad:

hewhoisnotintheknow

sickofusernames wrote: »

Oh come one, those complaining that i'm moaning - if someone from another road parks outside your home where it's parked all weekend then tell me you wouldn't feel a little annoyed. Let me know when you've bought a normal semi-detached in a busy road before you reply...

I know it's not illegal but it's just about respect, even my 65 yr old neighbour said he'd probably let down the tyres if it kept happening to him.

so what would you do if you lived in the terraced houses?