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To be so fed up with this parked car?

36 replies

IloveChristmasandsodoesmydog · 17/12/2012 12:10

This car turned up in the layby outside our house absolutely months ago. It hasn't moved an inch and my neighbours began asking about it. I happened to see a girl outside near it as I left one day so asked her if it was hers. She said yes and she was selling it. As far as I can see nobody has been anywhere near it and it still sits there. I see this girl regularly as her kids walk to the same school as my kids. They live down on the main road. I don't know why she can't park it outside her house with her other car. There's no restrictions or yellow lines or anything.

Anyway, the council came round asking about it. Someone's reported it as being dumped. I saw her again on the school run this morning and politely asked her if she was going to move it as people were starting to ask. She started to say that she would be using it instead of her own car, then she said someone was coming to look at it (again) and then she finished off by telling me that it wasn't my road and it's just a car and that she can leave it outside my house if she wants to, it's not my driveway.

Now am I being unreasonable or is she? My road is not some public scrapyard. We get enough people using our layby to turn their cars round in without dumping them there as well. When they can't turn round because there are cars parked there they turn round in my driveway. I know it's not the end of the world but its been going on for months and its just bloody annoying now!

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hellhasnofurylikeahungrywoman · 17/12/2012 13:03

Is it insured? If not it cannot be on a public road. Check with askMID

takataka · 17/12/2012 13:06

in what way is she being cheeky? he car is taxed. It is parked on the road Confused

How often she uses her car, is not your business

LRDtheFeministDude · 17/12/2012 13:13

I do think it is slightly anti-social to park for a long period of time in a cul-de-sac, but she's not doing anything wrong. Maybe she feels it is more secure there than outside her house?

IloveChristmasandsodoesmydog · 17/12/2012 13:47

I know she's not doing anything technically wrong. I was just asking if I am being unreasonable in being fed up with it. Lots of people said no, I'm not. If absolutely nobody agreed with me then fair enough but several did and said she was being cheeky so I wasn't on my own there.

Bizarrely, she's out there now with a mechanic fixing the car. I popped out to collect dd and she apologised for leaving the car there for so long! I apologised for having a go at her about it and I think it's all kind of resolved now. I needn't have troubled you all!

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giveitago · 17/12/2012 13:51

No difference that's it a cul de sac (aka tiny road) if it's legally parked then it is. Very annoying though. We have that where we live. Not much you can do unless the car has become a complete wreck from neglect and attracts trouble.

lljkk · 17/12/2012 13:55

yabu, though I don't like to be so mean as to say that.

I am very grumpy but it's not your cul-de-sac or road, she has every right to park it there. You can park your car outside her house if you like.

It doesn't take months & months to sell a car, though. That part is very strange.

My car battery would go dead if I left it somewhere that long.

mayorquimby · 17/12/2012 14:48

I'm with the yabu crowd on this one

LRDtheFeministDude · 17/12/2012 14:53

Grin Clearly karma was watching out for you! Glad it's sorted so amicably.

Everyone needs a moan every now and again.

maisiejoe123 · 17/12/2012 16:42

Many years ago my father who was a very difficult entitled man told our neighbour to stop parking outside our house (and we didnt even have a car!).

If the road is public then people can park where they like. Annoying if it is an eyesore but we live in a quiet lane narrow line and sometimes people who need to turn around do so using our drive. We have a roundabout in the middle of the driveway and someone once even came right onto the drive, around the roundabout and then off again. Very irritating but realsitically what was I going to do. Report them to the police.....

flowerytaleofNewYork · 17/12/2012 17:01

When we lived in a bit of a dodgy ish area we had a completely burnt out car abandoned in our cul de sac.

DH phoned the council to get it towed. He was asked to give a detailed description including colour and number plate. When he was unable to do so due to the car being completely burnt out the lady was flummoxed as her procedure required the details.

She said "how will we know which car to take?" Hmm Grin

DH replied "well it stands out a bit, as it's burnt out so I think your tow people will probably get it right, but if they find two burnt out cars they should feel free to remove them both..." Grin

Sabriel · 17/12/2012 17:35

DH had an RTA a couple of weeks ago. They recovered the car to our home while the insurance companies argued over who was going to pay, and told DH it wasn't driveable. When they got here, one of the neighbour-across-the-road's many visitors was parked in front of our house as usual so the recovery van left our car in front of their neighbours house.

Although the front of the car was smashed in it was the pavement side, so didn't look like someone had hit it while it was parked.

Anyway it came home on the Saturday. On the Tuesday at about 8pm 2 PCOs came to the door to ask about the car, asking DH "are you DHname?". So although it is taxed, insured, with a valid MOT and the people over the road know damn well whose car it is they phoned the police after 4 days Angry Shock.

Unfortunately we had already had the call from the garage to say they would collect it the next day so it probably looked to them like calling the police worked. I was sorely tempted to call the garage and tell them to leave it there for another week. They are all quite happy to park in front of our house all the time. I can't believe the police actually came round TBH and wonder what they would have said if the garage hadn't been due to collect the next day?

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