AIBU to be a tad [hmm] about my neighbours new car?

[DairyleaAndPickleOnAStick]

First off, this is absolutely NOT a benefits bashing thread.

I am probably BVU and this will show me up to be a nasty, mean spirited and bitter aul crone, BUT my neighbours just took delivery of a brand new car today- (think 3 letter, premium marque) - which they receive AFAIK through the motibility scheme. (Where I live this is very common practice.) Neither of them work and presumably receive benefits and HB. They definitely rent their house as we know the owner.

My DH and I were both high earning professionals before the recession hit and paid a very considerable sum for our own house, unfortunately we were both made redundant (within weeks of each other) several years ago and have fought tooth and nail to keep our home (both working very low paid unskilled jobs, taking in lodgers and DH moving away for a year to retrain.)

Obviously we are very fortunate to have been able to hold on to our home but it has been an incredibly tough few years- the pressures of redundancy, unemployment, and being on the breadline have taken a massive toll on our mental health, wellbeing and relationships- both with each other and family/friends.
My DH came home today soaked through after being out all afternoon in the pouring rain selling electricity door to door.

As I said upthread this is not a benefits bashing thread- I am fully aware that being on benefits is no picnic- DH and I spent 6 months on the dole and it was beyond grim, however AIBU to want to weep out of frustration seeing my neighbours new beemer parked in the driveway??

or maybe you train your goat to cart it...

sorry to hear that selwon :(

Oh look here's one for the curtain twitchers. Even though I follow the rules (ds1 lives here, the car is used for his benefit etc etc) according to the Mail I'm one of the scroungers breaking the rules and abusing the system

Except I'm not breaking any rules. Oh well, never let a fact get in the way of collective hysteria.

'Despite the initiative aiming to provide a lifeline for the country's most disabled, it has been claimed that friends and family of the disabled recipient drive their Motability car every day.'

Oh feck, so J is supposed to drive it?? I better sign him up for his provisional. He'll love it, if he can reach the pedals

Don't know if it has been mentioned, but there are now rules to say that the holder of the car can't be more than so many miles from the DLA recipient. So the holders free BMWs would really have to move in next door!

My mums neighbours motatbility car gets vandalised loads shite.

We could train the goats to pull little carts that the disabled have to sit in, we would have to design a little stand for the blue badge though.
Is it animal cruelty if i weld a Porsche logo onto the goats chest?

Don't talk to me about envy.

When I see people strolling to school with their kids or going for a lovely family walk on the weekend, when I see people digging their allotments or showing off some fabulous fiddly bit of craft they've done, when I see people running around with their kids on the beach and playing in the sea.....
Sometimes I think I could actually burst with envy. I could die of it.

But I don't. I just smile and shrug and pretend its all okay.
And some people are actually envious of a bloody car.

Sorry just had to say that.

op you ARE jealous of the BMW, you have mentioned the car in nearly all your posts!!!!!!
You apologised for your thread then STILL posted about the BEEMER.
The thing is BMWs arent the big status symbol they once were, you are going to have to raise your game to say a Porsche or a Rolls Royce perhaps.
A lot of men do jobs far harder and more physically taxing than your oh.
You are looking for sympathy and you are in no way getting it.

Stready on MrsJay it's only largely self financed the only funding the Department for Work and Pensions gives the scheme relates to the Specialised Vehicles Fund

glad you cleared that up ! we should go back to the days where disabled drivers had blue 3 wheelers then at least we would all know they were 'properly' disabled and 'properly' entitled nobody could dispute the deservability of said disabled person

did someone say Motability is largely self financed?

personally i would like to see a Bently on the mobility scheme

I am awarding you a green badge op

ds1 (disabled) really wanted another citroen, not a nasty strange new car.

dt2 would like a ferrari when he gets his adhd dx, please!

Our notability car has been keyed four times. We'll be getting a new one soon. It'll be bigger and shinier than the current one because that's the cheapest one that suits our needs. How long do you reckon it'll be before it gets keyed? Our current one lasted 3 days...

Bloody iPad! Motability!

It is some sort of twisted and bitter envy mrsdv and it is sickening

Thanks Mrs DeVere.
(Stiffens upper lip, plasters on smile, adjusts brave-but-cheery-disabled-mum mask and carries on).

mynotfinkso That's awful :( What is wrong with some people?!

Our Motability car is vandalised too. Another flat tyre on Tuesday. Covered in deep scratches, I KNOW were not thete the day before. Sad sick jealous twisted bastards.

Going to save for camera. Knew it wasn.t my imagination. Only ever had damage with the Motability cars, never my other cars I owned. This has happened at same address, same people.

at all these attacks on motability vehicles.

This is what the jealousy comes to, isn't it?

It shows the extend that some people are bitter and twisted. Awful.

Yep. I'd give it all back in an instant (as I know everyone here would) if ds2 could have a normal life. Yes, of course it makes life easier but the rest of our day to day life can be so mind numbingly hard, do people honestly think that a bloody shiny new car is all we care about?

SoleSource, depending where you are it's possible either your local police or a local neighbourhood scheme may do cameras on loan, possibly under anti-social behaviour initiatives (though your problem's actual criminal damage, I'd have thought).