To think it's embarrassing to put cones outside your house?

I’d be removing the cones every time

Those cones would be gathered up and put back near her house.

I'd do it again the next day too. And again and again.

Have you checked online if his car is taxed/mot'd while parked on a public highway? If its not, get him reported

Was fully geared up for a thread about pinecone eccentricity and now I'm disappointed

I've never said anything because really it doesn't make much of a difference to me except occasionally when the road is full and I could potentially have parked closer to my house if her cones weren't in the way but it's not worth moving them and falling out over!

I voted YABU because of this ^^

Stop encouraging her and just move them and park your car.

Or at least report her for obstruction.

I've got a drive but the other side of the road don't. The musical cars and parking rage, entertain me and drive me nuts in equal measure.

Wow, I'd only do this for a skip or a funeral not just for every day parking! That's so cringey!

We had a neighbour who'd do this when we lived in our first house,the cones would come out if he was expecting a delivery or a visit from one of his daughters.
Neither of his daughters could drive and delivery drivers would see the cones and park on the other side of the road.

The couple who were next door to us back then had a hell of a thing about parking too; being outside their house wasn't enough,the driver's door had to be perfectly in line with their front gate.

I did get a few cones to put in the road when we moved house years ago, because I knew the removal van wouldn't get close else, as it was a busy street for parking.

Look on the brightside. Our not so lovely neighbours took over half the on street parking for 6 houses by applying for a dropped kerb and putting a white line there
They now have room for 6 cars whilst we all struggle to park

Some people only think of themselves

(Yes move the cones unless a specific event eg a skip coming as suggested)

Did the neighbour steal the cones?! My DH would mince them in the back of a bin lorry as it would be seen as obstructing a public highway.

The one and only time I’ve ever thought it was OK for someone to do this was when my FIL died, and MIL was worried about the hearse and funeral cars being able to park on her very busy city road. The cones were there just until the hearse arrived mid-morning and we asked a neighbour if he’d mind taking them away again once we’d left for the crematorium.

It’s not OK to do it every day just because you fancy parking near your house. It isn’t ‘her’ space and she isn’t entitled to stop anyone else from using it.

....oo loudly like a cow outside your neighbours door in the early hours of the morning

I'd probably move them and park if that was the only space. They don't own the road and that's the risk you take by choosing a house without off-road parking.

People only get away with this because lots of other people let them.

If it was the closest space to my house I would definitely move them and park there.

Do you know or speak to her? Is she otherwise 'normal'?

Id hide them me just to wind her up. Or put them in obvious places in odd positions just to fuck with her. But I'm easily amused.

Someone near a family member has a little camera and a sign in the window saying nobody was allowed to park there. I have at times because she doesn't own the road. I've came out to her sitting in her car in the middle of the road waiting for me to come back. She's never said anything apart from with her facial expressions like.

But then if someone's parked on my drive I've no issue in blocking them in.

There is something about parking the car that just brings out the demons in people. There should be a study done.

We had a neighbour at a former house that did this, I deliberately moved them, road was hard enough for parking as it was. Before ring doorbells existed and she either never released I loved them or didn't let on.

My neighbour does this. He stole them from a works site up the road a few years ago.

We like to mess with them and put faces on them. Occasionally we've given them speech bubbles asking why Kev has taken them out of their natural environment and why it's cruel they can't be with their own kind. He still doesn't know it's us doing it.

They are screaming out for someone to pop comedy glases and a moustache on them overnight.

I did. I had a neighbour who did it. I moved them every single time. She got tired of it first.

i do admit that my sister used to do this... she acquited a road cone (i assume stole it from some road works or other), she lives in a terraced house on a very busy street within a city where parking is a big issue.

as soon as hubby went to work, out she would go and place the cone and as soon as he came back from work he would move the cone and park.

my sister has some pretty serious MH issues, and part of this was her OCD.. and she needed to see his car from the lounge window!

as i've said and most have said its petty, they don't own the road and its not an excuse for doing it, and no amount of telling her not to do it convinced her she couldnt do it.

just a thought that there may be underlyine issues at play

I’m petty so I’d move them.

I wonder if you live near me lol someone just round the corner from me has suddenly started putting 2 cones in front of their house to keep the parking space. It is an end terrace, the road is a public road and they've got no right to do it. Gets my back up every time I go past. Parking and visibility is a nightmare round there, so these bloody cones don't help. So selfish.

I'd take them! Just for a laugh.

People usually get sick of this and move the cones to the nearest road works/tip/pavement 10 streets away. After a couple of times the twatty neighbour gives up.