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

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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…

OP - rather than getting into silly 'move the cone' games, why not just see what can be done to address the real issue, ie the commuters using the area as a park and ride?

Move the cone but make a game of accessorising it. Add wigs and glasses and a wrap, try to accost rise in accordance with the weather.

I would definitely move the cone. Selfish things like this really wind me up!

You had best not come and move my 2 cones - the Police gave them to us because we are always having the access to our drive blocked by pillocks who should use the bus !!

The night before you move (under cover if darkness) put loads of "crime scene do not cross" tape around her house/garden or car - or all if them!!

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SirChenjin you are right I should let it go, I am being petty but we all live here and all have a right to park if possible.

We have approached the council to implement a parking permit scheme but they said they had no plans to at the moment. This is regularly brought up with councillors and generally fobbed off.

allmycats fair enough but there are no driveways in this street and your cones are obviously serving a purpose. Unlike this neighbour who feels her parking needs supersede everyone else who lives here. Ultimately she is being very selfish.

I do like the idea of the cone going to Paris. May take up this option. I could post the photos here so you could follow his travels.

Our ndn from hell has just moved out done a moonlight flit from the landlord and I am sooo happy
He used to have 3 cars, one of them a camper type van and would stand at his front door and glare at anyone who dared to park in his space,
He once stood in the front garden with just a towel round his nether regions as I had parked outside his house, not a pretty sight as he had the body of captain pugwash and the face
I said "I hope you are wearing undies under that towel" and he gave me the death stare, he used to sometimes put a wheelie bin on the road and I would just move it onto the pavement,
I was late going out that night at it didn't want to move my car as I knew it annoyed him sooo much
What am I gonna do to pass the time now pugwash has gone??
Hide the cone OP, life's too short!

Take it with you when you move.

Yes, send her postcards from the cone

I love that!

Yes, you do all have a right to park there - but she's probably feeling utterly fed up with not being able to get a space as a result of the commuters. Maybe her tolerance levels are just a bit lower than yours? Either way, I admire her balls

Keep at the Council - if enough of you complain, and complain, and then complain some more eventually they will do something. Can you take it up with your MP?

I had a neighbour who would do this. We kept moving his cone and parking there, he used to ring our doorbell and give use grief, we told him to naff off and carried on parking there. One day we came home to find a load of gravel, cones and fluorescent tape preventing us from parking there. We went to the local council (we're not in the UK, but the laws for this are the same) and he got a written warning from them and a police caution. We've not had any trouble parking there since (forgot to say he has a double garage and space for three cars off road, so reallllly doesn't need the space close to his house).

If all else fails....

Sparkling that is the very cone! You'd think it could just bugger off by itself!

May get a few s into me this evening and go decorate the cone.

I thought our neighbours had started doing this early in the week. She is not allowed to park on her own drive as He has to, she has to park on another neighbour's drive - neither car must be on the road ever or the world will end But this week the double parking bay outside their house was coned off even though his car was on their drive and hers was next door. I figured they were getting even more precious and didn't want to look at anyone parked outside their house. As did the rest of the road who have spent all week moving the cones around to park in the bay

All backfired when some workmen showed up to dig up the bay to repair something and had to knock on doors at some ungodly hour to get everyone to move their cars - "We did put cones out..."

Plant it (upside down) in her flowerbed, top up with soil and add a nice geranium. It will be a lovely surprise for her when she comes home.

Decorate it!

If the cone was out when you get home and you need to park it move it onto the pavement and park. There's no way on earth I'd park a distance from my house when there was a space nearby. You've as much right to park as she has enjoy your reserved space

Trump her cone by raising her to a Penguin Bollard

Op, do you live in Horten?

Super glue it to the road.

Granted, you won't be able to move it to park, but neither will she!

Hehe i would so stand there in that cone costume, that would be hilarious!

the postcard idea and the breeding cones idea...awesome!

No just plain old London Quint.
at the photo Wolf