Page 8 | Man in a car parked outside my house all afternoon

OneThreadOnlybyN · 09/06/2026 20:14

PyongyangKipperbang · 09/06/2026 17:13

Since at least 2 pm. Terraces with on street parked so directly outside the house. He is has just been sat there all the time, engine on for half an hour then off again, presumably to stop the battery draining if he is using something electrical.

There are plenty of car parks in the area so no reason to be here. He saw my come back and go in the house so presumably its nothing to do with me, but its freaking me out a bit (and pissed me off as I had to park on another road!).

We are not on a road with shops or a school or doctors etc so no reason to be waiting there for someone for such a long time!

Worth taking the reg in case he comes back tomorrow do we think?

id have taken note of his reg if he was still there after an hour then rung the non emergency line after the second hour. Our local police are keen to have any weird behaviour reported.

EmailsaysOOO · 09/06/2026 20:12

24Dogcuddler · 09/06/2026 17:30

There was once a car parked on the cul de sac where we used to live. Three men inside.
Nobody really came in the close unless they lived there or were visiting.
DH walked past a couple of times with the dog.
They wound the window down and said “ don’t worry mate, Police. Doing a raid round the corner”
Just never know.

sorry I havent read the whole thread. Would the police want to give that sort of info away? feels a little bit unlikley but happy if it's been agreed as normal.

user1476613140 · 09/06/2026 20:08

NameChangeMay2026 · 09/06/2026 19:31

It's weird behaviour. He could easily be casing the joint or watching a person or property. Take a photo and number plate, and report to non-emergency if he comes back and does the same.

Definitely. Unless it's happening or happened to you, it's hard for others to grasp how much anxiety it causes. Fear also. Especially if it becomes regular.

user1476613140 · 09/06/2026 20:05

Private hire taxi does this opposite the junction into my street. I pull my blind down in the morning now so he has nothing to see. F*cking creepy. No need to sir for fifteen to twenty minutes regularly opposite a junction. There's a shopping precinct a short walk away with loads of parking spaces! No need.

shuddacuddadidnt · 09/06/2026 20:04

ClaredeBear · 09/06/2026 19:56

Oh, I didn’t see that bit.

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lol, I was speculating that it could have been an electric car, as the OP didn't say what it was in the feverish rush to be outraged. Could even have been a hybrid!😂

ThreadGuardDog · 09/06/2026 20:01

TheWineoftheChicken · 09/06/2026 19:38

In my village it’s hard enough to get the police out for a burglary. They’re hardly going to come for ‘running the engine while the car is stationary’.

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They do where I live. We are opposite a secondary school and after complaints to 101 they monitor regularly.

JollyGreenWatermelon · 09/06/2026 20:00

Dolphinsarejerks · 09/06/2026 18:42

Undercover police are not remotely subtle.

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if you say so.
A random MN poster says it, so it must be true 😂

Gleba · 09/06/2026 19:57

Log it with the police, OP. And then cancel the cheque.

DeLaLune2022 · 09/06/2026 19:56

LilyBunch25 · 09/06/2026 19:00

Surveillance of someone's house?

The OPs…

ClaredeBear · 09/06/2026 19:56

shuddacuddadidnt · 09/06/2026 19:53

Electric car??

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Oh, I didn’t see that bit.

ClaredeBear · 09/06/2026 19:56

He’s free to sit in his car but it’s completely irresponsible of him to keep the car idling. Appreciate you might not want to approach a man though.

shuddacuddadidnt · 09/06/2026 19:53

GreenCandleWax · 09/06/2026 19:35

And the pollution!

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Electric car??

Charmatt · 09/06/2026 19:50

Near to us, the local FB blew up with something similar. It turned out the man was a carer between morning and afternoon calls - it wasn't worth going home.
Now he parks on a road and people pop out and give him a drink and some people bake cakes for him!
😍

Delphiniumandlupins · 09/06/2026 19:50

TheDenimPoet · 09/06/2026 19:43

I assume you asked for their IDs?

I have a job where I regularly have a lot of time to kill between clients. I'll find somewhere random to park.

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I read that as you "kill clients"!!!

Bookbears · 09/06/2026 19:48

Could be a private investigator, could be undercover police, could be someone trying to case a house, could just be a weirdo.

What seems to work in my town is take a picture of the car with the reg and put a post on the local Facebook page. 9 times out of 10 there’s a explanation and if there isn’t report it to the non emergency police line as a suspicious vehicle. Our local police all have a Facebook page and I see them post things like this all the time.

Delphiniumandlupins · 09/06/2026 19:48

Larrythecatforpm · 09/06/2026 17:38

Knock on the window and ask if he’d like a cuppa then you’ll know if he’s mi6, undercover police officer, dwp officer or some random axe murdering stalker.

I'm interested how you would deduce someone's occupation from their hot drink preference? Although, engaging in conversation seems like an obvious way to clear up the mystery.

CheeseWisely · 09/06/2026 19:45

Jesus have you nothing better to do. There was a van parked in our actual drive for a bit this morning (it’s the whole width of the house, 4 vehicles wide, and opens straight onto a lane that has no other safe parking). I was pottering about in the house with DS. Whoever it was caused me no inconvenience or harm and went on their way after whatever reason they’d been parked there for was done, I assume they had some business with a neighbour. It genuinely wouldn’t have entered my head to call the police, I hadn’t given it a second thought until reading this thread.

Chenecinquantecinq · 09/06/2026 19:43

Police, private investigator could be many innocuous things.

TheDenimPoet · 09/06/2026 19:43

24Dogcuddler · 09/06/2026 17:30

There was once a car parked on the cul de sac where we used to live. Three men inside.
Nobody really came in the close unless they lived there or were visiting.
DH walked past a couple of times with the dog.
They wound the window down and said “ don’t worry mate, Police. Doing a raid round the corner”
Just never know.

I assume you asked for their IDs?

I have a job where I regularly have a lot of time to kill between clients. I'll find somewhere random to park.

TheWineoftheChicken · 09/06/2026 19:38

ThreadGuardDog · 09/06/2026 19:33

He’s running the engine while the car is stationary. That’ll do for a start.

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In my village it’s hard enough to get the police out for a burglary. They’re hardly going to come for ‘running the engine while the car is stationary’.

TheWineoftheChicken · 09/06/2026 19:37

MissMoneyFairy · 09/06/2026 17:55

I do if I think they're piggy backing my internet

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Haven’t you got a password on it?

GreenCandleWax · 09/06/2026 19:35

roseymoira · 09/06/2026 17:28

He is, he isn’t parked. Idling is against the law. I live round the corner from a school and it drives me crazy. Park there all you want but why they think it’s acceptable to sit and idle the engine for an hour, vibrating peoples houses is beyond me

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And the pollution!

ThreadGuardDog · 09/06/2026 19:34

Alittlefrustrated · 09/06/2026 18:43

That fraud investigator shouldn't be telling you what he does, unless it's your DH.

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And a fraud investigator would be more discreet.

ThreadGuardDog · 09/06/2026 19:33

Howyoudoings · 09/06/2026 17:24

Public road police will not do anything because his not committing any crime.

He’s running the engine while the car is stationary. That’ll do for a start.

NameChangeMay2026 · 09/06/2026 19:31

It's weird behaviour. He could easily be casing the joint or watching a person or property. Take a photo and number plate, and report to non-emergency if he comes back and does the same.