Neighbour reported my cousin’s car as abandoned

I don't doubt your post at all OP I'm just wondering why the neighbour would do this because all that has happened is you have had 5 minutes of your time wasted by someone coming out to check and seeing it's not an abandoned car and then leaving again and that only makes the neighbour look like a right twat. If it was abandoned though I'm struggling to see what impact it would have on you anyway because you wouldn't personally get any shit for someone abandoning a car that has got nothing to do with you. As I said I don't doubt that you experience racism and I'm not saying this didn't happen, I'm just wondering what the neighbour was hoping to achieve because it seems like a pretty pointless thing to do especially as it was on your property. Unless it was someone else who genuinely thought it was an abandoned vehicle and reported it then went about their day but why would anyone just assume it was abandoned when it's on someone's property.

Exactly. And accusing someone of sock puppetry is not on.

If the car is legally parked and MOT and tax are up to date, I'm amazed that the local council came out, are you in the UK? I doubt they will tell you who reported it.

It certainly sounds like your neighbour is a nasty racist. But I doubt the council will tell you who reported the car. If you have any more trouble with the neighbour, do report it though.

This one!

I always see MN as a place where posts are largely taken at face value and OPs are advised based on their experiences, as expressed in the OP...

But mention racism and a different set of fuckers appear 😢. Every damn time.

@M2BANTRIM , you can make a request as advised above.
As for the insinuations about your family, you can confront those head on if you ever get a chance to speak to the ignorant ass. Or you could ignore and let the twats stew in their own bitterness.

Ugh quote function didn't work. And now I can't find it.

This is one of very few sensible posts on this thread. And i agree, you can try but probably won't get very far. Keep a record it for yourself. Don't act for now, but if anything similar happens with neighbour(s) (and it may be others, who are also racist, but less overt) monitoring or reporting you and your family, I would start to look into malicious complaints.

The efforts to deny your experience here are bizarre - why would you make it up, have multiple accounts, dare to write in a way that doesn't conform to how people should write (I can't work out if the accusation or being american is worse than being black and experienceing racism or worse than making things up on Mumsnet - but apparently it's alllll wrong)?

I am sorry this happended to you in life and on here. It's exhausting, vexing and boring to have to deal with the insideous and persistent crap when you are just trying to live your life. As a PP said mentioning (justifiable) experience of racism is somehow more awful than actually being racist. But the repeat deniers show us exactly who they are.

Surely anyone can report a car as abandoned, most people do not know if a car is taxed nowadays as there is no tax disc. Usually the council put a note on it giving the owner a month (or whatever) to get in touch or it will be towed.

That said a neighbour reporting a car that has only been outside a few days is a bit OTT at the very least.

That is shocking! I would definitely be ringing the council to ask why they sent someone out to ask about a car on your own driveway! That is weird. Tell them that you think whoever made the vexatious complaint may have had racially motivated reasons for doing so. They likely can’t and won’t tell you who made it but you will have a record of reporting it.

Why are some people on here so determined to pretend racist things aren't racist?

It's like a weird twilight zone sometimes!

Saying OPs husband must be doing something illegal if they can afford a house is obviously racist.

The person who came in had a uniform with the logo of the borough and same on the van she came in with . So I know for sure she came in from the borough .

No lanyard?

Presumably you could if you have two different accounts with different email addresses.

Ring up the council and say you’ve seen vermin on her property - rat on a rat and all that!

OK then

No you’re not

You can’t do that now. You can only use one username per thread.

I wasn't going to comment until I saw this, I'm in NI and I agree it's likely racially motivated sadly. You can call but I highly doubt they will tell you anything and if you mention you suspect it's been prompted by racism they will shut you down fast and definitely not give you any information. Call and see how far you get, if they tell you or it becomes obvious they are not going to tell you who called then explain why you want to know and get them to register that a "suspected" malicious complaint has been lodged against you/your house so if anything else happens it's recorded and can be shown to be part of a pattern given at this stage you've zero proof it's this neighbour and the neighbour has plausible deniability that they were being a good citizen not a malicious racist arsehole

Mine did.

I used to drive to a lay by. Got there at 7.30 am. Got bike out of the back and cycle the rest of the way to work. Left work at 5.00, cycle back to car.

To 9-5 council workers it looked like car was abandoned. (Car in more or less the same spot every day.)

Found official note on car threatening to have it towed.

Called council all sorted and I left an explanatory not in window every day.