to hide neighbours traffic cone? (On street parking thread)

[HortenMarket]

Ok I don't want to get into a discussion about commuters parking in our road, which although annoying, is part of living where we do.

However parking in our road has become harder and harder as we are around the corner from a station and have no parking restrictions. Yes it can be frustrating but its a free country and people who pay car tax can park on public roads. A neighbour in our street has started putting a traffic cone out when she leaves so she can park there again on her return. She mainly works from home but goes out several times a day. Other neighbours and I often have to park quite a distance and trail our kids/shopping bags etc to our front door. It can be a pain especially if its raining etc.

WIBU to move her cone and park in 'her space' next time? I think its taking a massive liberty doing what she is and is probably not legal anyway (its a stolen police cone too…). If I move it should I put it in front of her door or hide it somewhere silly? I'm not generally into pissing neighbours off but we are moving soon…

Id take it back to a police station.

Or ram it up her arse.

Definitely move it and park there.

For the sake of an peaceful life with your neighbours, I'd say leave it, but seeing you're moving soon anyway then move it.

I assume she does not have permission from the highways agency to use the cone? In which case, you're actually saving her from getting into trouble. smiles sweetly

I would call the police (non emergency) and ask them why they have a cone in your road and when they intend to move it...acting all innocent and concerned!

I'd move it and park there, even when there are other spaces available. I like playing selfish people at their own game.

Order a skip and put it outside her house.

I would move it, there is a woman who lives down my dads road who does this, my brother can rarely get a parking spot and next door have 3 cars, I told my DH if she does it again I'm putting them in the boot of our car and taking them home with us! Its a real cheek and if their police cones she shouldn't have them at all

Nice idea Claimed but she hides it in her car covered in a blanket when she is home.

As much as I would probably enjoy ramming it up her posterior I will move it next time if there is no other space. Will let you know the fallout!

Get a cone yourself? if you can't beat them.....

Sorry they're

Park in the space the day before you move and then put it on the roof of your car

We recently moved and I put the bins out in the road to save us a BIG space right outside the house.

2 people spoke to me about it... one asked if we were moving in and when was the lorry due, he offered to park his car oddly so we could have a bit more room.

The second started screaming at me.... then the lorry turned up and I just pointed.

Strangely it is this woman who parks her car in the middle of what could be 2 spaces then leaves her car there (right outside my house) for days. She moves it at the weekend for her son to park behind her.

DH has taken to parking a millimetre of her bumper.... she just glares. Her son has taken to parking way up the road. But her car is still there, inconveniently taking 2 spaces all week long. She never did it before we moved in, nice neighbour told us. She just started as we moved in.

Weird what people will do for parking!

Well obviously Nomama the day we move we will have to do that too.

Perhaps she will lend me her cone?

Maybe, if you ask nicely

she has no legal right to do this...so you could report it to your local council...(non-emergency police are unlikely to be that concerned)

as an aside...it's not about people who pay "car tax" (vehicle excise duty)...it is more about anyone who pays council tax...it's that the pay for maintenance...

Seriously- is it illegal to put a cone out in the road?

I think you should move it, especially if you are moving on. Do it as a favour for your other neighbours.

invite some students round and provide free beer. Cone gone

We had this a while ago, we just kept moving the cones next to the on-street bins and parking there ourselves

He gave up eventually after sending a few hard stares through our living room window.

Calculators students and beer could most definitely be the way forward here. Then it is out of my hands…

Ok update, I moved the aforementioned cone when I went out to collect kids and put it outside her front door. When I returned she had apparently had a go at some workmen about them taking it!

This could become an entertaining sport…

I challenge you to move the cone somewhere different everyday before you move!

I would leave it - I'm guessing she's pissed off with not being able to park in her street because of the commuters who are using the area as a free park and ride (yeah, yeah, free world, no parking restrictions, they pay their road tax, blah blah...) so has used a bit of initiative. Good on her, I say.

Unless she is a complete caaah, leave her be.

Hide it in the boot of your car but don't park in her space. Do this every time she buys a new one. She will get fed up of replacing them as they don't work.

Steal the cone.

Take a picture of it and photoshop it next to the Eiffel Tower. Note to say "got fed up of moonlighting minding your gap, so am taking a gap year before re-joining the police force where I belong'"

Print in post card form and pop through the door.

Send a new post card each week from different locations.

I had a neighbour who moved in and started doing this. If that was the only space available, I moved the cone back into his front garden and parked there. Took a couple of goes and he gave up. I (and my neighbours) had as much right to park there as he did.

Eventually we got residents' parking permit scheme and (despite the cost) it was much better as the commuters disappeared.