Scared to post this parking.

[Imsuchamess]

I am perfectly willing to be told I am being unreasonable but please do so gently I am recovering from a psychotic episode and I am delicate. Normally I wouldn't post when I feel like this but I really need to know if I am being unreasonable.

I live on a main high street there is no parking. I am on low rate mobility as is my eldest child and I am currently attempting to get high rate mobility for my middle dd. I also have a baby. I often end up carrying both my two year old and 5 year old from the car to the house.

The only place to park are residential streets. There is no where else. So I park in the street behind my house in a perfectly legal place. I know one car there has a blue badge so I never park in that space.

However I have been verbally attacked by two different residents for parking outside their house they were aggressively shouting at me while I was trying to get my two disabled dc In the car and my two year old.

Today I have had a note put on my car saying I am very inconsiderate for parking outside someone's house and that they now have to park halfway down the street (it's a small street) and that it's inconvenient for them as they have 5 children to drag up the street.

Please be gentle.

Came on to say report to the police, but see you have done that. I hope these angry residents get educated.

To be honest I have a tiny bit of sympathy with the people who own the house you are parked outside, but I don't think they have any right to intimidate you with heckling and notes.

We are in a cul-de-sac where each detached house has off-road parking for two cars. My neighbours have five so regularly use the pavement outside our house as their driveway. I find it irritating as they could solve the issue faily quickly by getting rid of the clapped out SORN registered Range Rover that takes one driveway place. However I go the very English thing of seething quietly. I would never harass my neighbours about it.

Seb, parking on the pavement is a different issue, and illegal. Report it if it bothers you and your neighbours will get ticketed.

To add to it I took my child to the corner shop to find the woman slagging me off to the shop keeper. She saw me and pointed me out to the shop keeper. All I heard her say was "it's ridiculous that I have to park on the opposite side of the road and get a ticket when people who don't even live here are taking the spaces" there was a bloody parking space right behind me for her car.

Write a massive sign, windscreen size saying "if I could park outside my own house I would, but tough shit, I can't!"

Leave it on the inside of your car, to keep the sun off your seats, no-one likes hot seats.

^^^

Parking is clearly a real flashpoint on this road. But you need somewhere to park and it's a legal. They shouldn't be harassing you over it :(

Update just been down the police station (I was surprised at how quick they were) they are treating it as a racist attack. They said they will arrest the man and depending on cps I may need to go to court.

Well done for reporting. There are some vile scumbags out there

Gosh OP it's good the police are taking this so seriously. Hopefully the nasty residents will leave you alone now. You have enough on your plate without this behaviour.

Glad the police are taking you seriouslybut racist attack? I always thought that was an attack due to your race. This is a parking argument .the twats would behave the same whatever your race , origin, co.our

Racist attack? Did he say something racist to you?

Yes, adsy, except that while he was attacking OP for parking somewhere he didn't approve of, he did racially abuse her.

Excellent news. Are police going to talk to the rest of the neighbours - I don't think this is the only one you've had trouble with?

He mistook my ethnic origins and made a racist comment. Police said it doesn't matter that I'm not a ethnic minority only that he thought I was.

Police are not going to speak to the rest of the neighbours but I am hoping that as we live in a small neighbourhood this will get out and make others scared of attacking people over parking spaces.

Yanbu at all.

Parking obsessed Twats.

Racist attack it a bit over the top, but I'm glad they're taking care of it and taking you seriously. Over here in the US you are allowed to make racial slurs towards a person, but the second you make a threat or touch them it is classed as a hate crime.

People get very protective of parking their car in 'their' spot. It's fascinating and horrifying. Am very glad you are being supported by police.

The most easy YANBU EVER! :)

I can't control what the police decide to charge him with. I gave him my statement as truthfully as I saw it from my perspective. Which is all I can do. The police and cps decide what to charge with and whether to prosecute based on my statement.

Have they told you it's likely to result in prosecution? With the only witness being his wife, I wonder how there can be enough evidence? Or were there other witnesses?

There were no other witnesses so I doubt it will go to court.

I imagine they just want to "scare" him and make him think twice about doing anything like that again. Hopefully he won't be such a bully in future.

It's very common to have one on one allegations. People don't generally make up racial abuse perpetrated by strangers.

A "racist incident" is defined as being perceived as any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person. So the police officer investigating it could class it as racist because of the foreigners insult. I know I would be treating that as a racially aggravated crime.

I would imagine matey will get charged with a racially aggravated public order offence. Then he may like to reflect on his views although from experience i doubt it

OP, I wouldn't bank on it. Robustly prosecuting racial/religiously aggravated crime is a high priority for all police forces/CPS

I am fully prepared to see this through however far it goes.

It is not over the top at all.

In the uk it is a criminal offence to verbally abuse a person and use racist insults. And quite bloody right to.

It's not acceptable conduct

YANBU