My friend moved onto an estate in March... He lives in a cul-de-sac and doesn't really know any one. His road opening is facing a row of shops. Anyhow, I have stayed the past few nights and I have noticed a car parked outside the local mini supermarket each time, well beyond 8pm when the store shuts. The store is over the road but directly facing my friend's road opening. The first night I noticed it we were giving his dogs a toilet opportunity near to said car as there is a green there too. I had a brief look around the car and there were no signs of life, no damage like a flat tyre that might cause someone to temporarily abandon it, nothing suspicioius-looking etc.
The next moring, very early (I don't sleep well due to ahealth condition) I did see two separate vehicles parked across it (a white van with ladders, then a black hatchack...looked like a man in the van but apart from that I didn't see any people or comings or goings, any signs of activity etc), one after the other around 6.30am. It disppeared shortly after although I didn't see it leave... I thought it was probably an engine issue and the van and car had been to look at it/ attempt to fix it for the owner.
Fast forward to that evening and it was back although neither my friend nor I saw it arrive. It was still there early morning but had disappeared again later on.
It did it again last night/ this morning.
I don't know if I'm just being nosey but it doesn't seem normal. There are no houses nearby (well, there are but it's backs of houses...fences out to road). I have wondered if somehow the car is watching my friend's road... or if someone is casing the supermarket... (there is a cash machine on the other side of the building).
It's three nights this car has been parking there at night and going in the morning (same position, facing shops, all shops in darkness and shuttered and no other vehicles around). I think I'll be going home tonight so I won't know if car will do its usual but I think my friend should report it. There is one of those public-type cameras in that area (looks like a black ball on a tall post) but I don't know if the car is in its sights. I think my friend should report it to some one just in case it's dodgy. It is not a bad area but there was been crime, more so in the past... I told friend he should ask for the manager of the mini supermarket and at least tell him but my friend is reluctant and thinks they'll think he's mad.
AIBU to worry about it and to advise friend to report? And, who to?
Thanks
AIBU?
To advise best friend to report this? Don't know if it's suspicious.
LeoandBoosmum · 28/06/2014 19:45
I'd call MI5 and the police. No, wait sorry just realised you said it's a car parking on a road. My bad. 
Not suspicious at all.
If there was a person in it looking about at people's houses, that might raise an eyebrow. How can a parked car with no one in it be 'watching your friend's road'?
Why do you think that parking a car overnight and driving away again in the morning is suspicious? I can't see anything dodgy or suspicious with what you've posted? 
How did you come to the conclusion that someone might be casing the joint if there isn't actually anybody in the car??
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