To ask the woman who parks outside my house every day

[CharlieSierra]

To please not sit in her car on the phone for 20-30 mins every single afternoon with her noisy smelly Diesel engine running filling my house with stinky fumes. Oh and also to get her alarm sorted so to doesn't keep going off several times a day while I'm trying to work.

Well if you re going. To mention about her alarm supposedly going off you better make sure she has one first!

This would appear to be the law...

Under existing law a person may be regarded as "driving" a vehicle while the engine is running and the vehicle is stationary. The offence applies to all motor vehicles, including motorcycles, but not apply to pedal cycles.

She clearly has an alarm. CharlieSierra mentions it going off in her first post.

Oops, by the time I got to the end of the threading had forgotten all the details!!

I just didn't want the OP coming out with an excuse and the lady having a ' what are you talking about' look on her face!

Tell her. You are not being unreasonable.

limited I hadn't mentioned it to her no. I got properly pissed off with it today when her alarm went off twice whilst I was on a conference call and then she did her daily 20 mins on the phone with the engine running. I thought I wanted to tell her and decided to canvass opinion rant on the new and improved aibu first. I plan to 'interact' with her at the next opportunity.

I didn't realise that about police cars btw, that's awful they need to keep them running for the computers to stay booted up. We had an 'incident' in our street a few months ago and I ended up sitting in a police car giving a witness statement at 4 in the morning. At the time I mentioned to DH how bad it was that the policeman wouldn't turn the engine off even though it was noisy and must have been keeping everyone up, I thought he was just an arse (I still think he was, he kept his shiny blue lights flashing too).

If you are going to phone someone every time it goes off, and I don't see why you shouldn't, please make it the estate agents and not the police - feels like too trivial a reason to regularly call them, even though it is annoying to you.

I was wrong - happy to admit it
I love the fact that I learn stuff reading these threads.

I always assumed that a parked car with the engine running was parked
and the talking on mobile phone law is
^"110. (1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road if he is using—
(a)a hand-held mobile telephone;...."^

But "drive" is defined by wide ranging case law and can include being parked with engine running.

I never knew that and I know I sometimes pull over to use my phone but I'm not sure I turn the engine off.