North Herts Toyota - stop parking your car outside my house

oldagetraveller

I too am very annoyed about a Toyota parked regularly outside my house. The neighbours don't seem to mind though.
Oh, hang on a minute, it's my car and the supplying dealer is blatently advertising by placing a sticker in my rear window with their name on also the little tinkers have emblazoned their name on the rear number plate surround. How dare they advertise themselves in such an underhand manner?
Geordie, I know what you meant. The nit picking, clever dicks obviously don't!
" Most of them are retired." So?

Gavin83

nzmegs wrote: »

if a car sits outside your home for three days and you know it doesn't belong to anyone, call the non emergency police line and report it as a possible stolen car. They will identify the owners and ask them why they are parking there. I doubt they will be amused to find it is for advertising purposes and they will be told not to do it in the future. they might even get one of those stickers saying the police know about it and will be recovering it.

Lets be honest, none of that will happen, will it? They'll look it up, see it's not stolen and take it no further.

The police can't comment on them parking the car there anyway, they're doing nothing wrong.

Im also quite surprised by the amount of people suggesting damaging the car. If you went to visit a friend, parked outside someones house and came back to find the car keyed by the house owner, would that be acceptable then?

frivolous_fay

Put a poster in your car window abusing North Herts Toyota and saying they're a bunch of idiots.
Nothing libellous, maybe...

Ziggazee

My god.....I can't believe the amount of people who appear to think they own the road outside their house. If it's a public road and the car isn't causing an obstruction then the driver has the right to park wherever he damn well wants!!!

I have to park on a public road when I go to work and it beggars belief the amount of pettiness that goes on, I've come back to my car to find people parked an inch from my bumper, know people who've been given abuse from the house occupiers, etc. The majority of these people have driveways big enough for two cars anyway. The way I see it is I pay my road tax like everyone else and I'll park where the hell I like!!

I live near a school and people park outside my house at school opening/closing times (and I don't have a drive) but that's just life.

frivolous_fay

Ziggazee wrote: »

I live near a school and people park outside my house at school opening/closing times (and I don't have a drive) but that's just life.

That's awful... you should go out and tell them to go park on double yellows like all the other parents

Gavin83

Ziggazee wrote: »

I have to park on a public road when I go to work and it beggars belief the amount of pettiness that goes on, I've come back to my car to find people parked an inch from my bumper, know people who've been given abuse from the house occupiers, etc. The majority of these people have driveways big enough for two cars anyway. The way I see it is I pay my road tax like everyone else and I'll park where the hell I like!!

I used to park on a public road for work and got into loads of arguments so I think this is why people who complain about such things get to me so much.

Deep_In_Debt

I park in a public road also for work...not much the residents can do about it although they have tried.

Also, living close to the airport I often get car parking companies "dumping" cars outside my house and leaving them there for a couple of weeks...not much I can do as it is a public road...

4743hudsonj

Deep_In_Debt wrote: »

I park in a public road also for work...not much the residents can do about it although they have tried.

Also, living close to the airport I often get car parking companies "dumping" cars outside my house and leaving them there for a couple of weeks...not much I can do as it is a public road...

You could report these as stolen... The police would naturally track the owners and would either not get hold of them or find they should be in a secure car park. So not being in there may well prompt action.

Ziggazee

??? Why should they be in a secure car park? I don't understand that one bit. Perhaps I'm missing some kind of legislation or law which states if you go on holiday you must leave your car in a secure car park.

lincroft1710

Ziggazee wrote: »

??? Why should they be in a secure car park? I don't understand that one bit. Perhaps I'm missing some kind of legislation or law which states if you go on holiday you must leave your car in a secure car park.

Because you are paying the car parking company for a space in a secure car park not a residential street nor side roads on an industrial estate which is where one company was found to be parking its customers' cars.