what are my rights pls. dont want to get the police involved

interstellaflyer

Aretnap wrote: »

With some exceptions it is indeed illegal to leave your engine running while stationary.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/98/made

Fair enough, but diffecult to enforce, I can see it now, complaining couple phone police to report a noisy vehicle outside their house, the police in their usual efficient manner respond either.

1) "Not our problem, it's a civil matter".
or
2) Send an officer round 2 days later.

1886

I've had a few instances where I've been taking a break at work in the van and an old OAP retired type has came outside and started having a moan. On one occasion I put the window down, pointed out that there was no yellow lines etc. and put the window back up


LMAO

motorguy

I would ring the police, make them aware of the situation, and ask their advice.

Personally, i would be making notes of any threatening behaviour, and if someone comes out to threaten you, then record them via a phone HOWEVER this is likely to enflame the situation, so be careful.

The problem will be if this escalates to you coming back to flat tyres or them blocking you in. You'll struggle to get proof its them doing the tyres, etc.

motorguy

Strider590 wrote: »

Ok, let's put it this way....

If the Police pay them a visit, they'll soon realise they don't own the street and there's no way they'd try anything afterwards.

If the abuse persists i would DEFINITELY make a formal complaint to the police. As you say, they may well pull their horns in after that.

Mojisola

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

It sort of depends on whether you want to do what is "right" or what is right for you.

If you just want to do what is right for you then I would park somewhere else rather than risk things getting worse.

If you want to do what is "right" then you need to decide which is more anti-social - you parking outside someone else's house all day or their behaviour. If you decide it is their behaviour which is worse then carry on parking there and risk the damage that your car receives.

Good advice.

This couple might be a pair of curmudgeons or they might be at the end of their tether, having put up with inconsiderate people blocking driveways and making their lives difficult for years.

Although you're not inconveniencing them, they could be seeing you as just the latest in a long run of problems.

While you're not doing anything wrong by parking where you do, I don't think I'd risk damage to my car by going back.

paddedjohn

I'd just park there and use taxis for a week, that would really p155 the nimby off.

TrickyWicky

Coupon-mad wrote: »

So you leave the car there all day? Have to say that I live in a street plagued by idiots like that too. I can't stand it and although I know it means nothing I have been known to leave sarky notes on the car windscreens telling them to clear off.

You have no idea how annoying it is to see people arriving in your road and swanning off elsewhere all day like your road is their personal car park.

Why can't you park where you are at college? Does it have no car park?

So where would you have these people park then Coupon? In a PPC car park perhaps? - You are the one who frequently complains how expensive they are right?

You're such a hypocrit sometimes coupon you really are. If there are no restrictions, people can park where they want regardless of it being outside your house. You have no right to interfere with someones vehicle and leave your sarky notes. You're harrassing an innocent and law abiding motorist and I thought more of you than that.

Now i have to question your righteousness in the parking forum where you continue to give people so called correct advice. This is the problem when amateurs take the law into their own hands, they'll tell others what to do as it doesn't affect them and yet often they'll have no understanding of it themselves other than being 'wound up' by it.

Exile_geordie

If you are parked legally and this is getting to you then check to see if your mobile has a record function, park as normally and then start recording , if they start bothering you again and making veiled threats then take it to the police immediatly. This is terrible behaviour and must be stopped now before they do something to either you or your car.

RuthnJasper

motorguy wrote: »

If the abuse persists i would DEFINITELY make a formal complaint to the police. As you say, they may well pull their horns in after that.

I agree. There is a chap who lives in the same road as my parents - when my brother and I were children he would put drawing pins on the (public) road so that our bicycle tyres would be punctured, and come over and take away our footballs even when we were playing in our own front garden. He was the same with all the children, and we were all pretty well-behaved, as kids go.

He met his match when he started swearing at one of our friends, Jamie, though - Jamie's dad was a massive Glaswegian taxi-driver and had come outside to wash his car and heard the filth the man was shouting at his son, for the "crime" of retrieving a tennis ball that had rolled down the street past his house. Jamie's dad was not impressed, to put it mildly...

But the OP shouldn't have to put up with this - if it's a public road, with no parking restrictions, they have no right to humiliate and intimidate her. Good luck OP. x

SevenOfNine

Interesting how some posters refer to parking in my/our street, parking outside my/our house!

As has been said numerous times, it's the public highway. Presumably OP has a tax disc, and although he/she should park considerately if they are not causing an actual obstruction then homeowners in those streets will have to lump it.

I used to park in a residential street close to a town centre. Didn't park blocking driveways but a guy had put doors on the rear of his garden shed with 'no parking' sign above. No driveway, just the grass verge, & no dropped kerb.

He gave me 'verbals' a few times when I parked there, even had crayon scribbled on my car. I asked the Police to intervene - & they did. Went and explained to him the error of his ways, & that sticking a 'no parking' sign above his back shed gave him no rights to access from the highway.

Job done.