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Original poster

To drive round in the middle of the night and steal all their bloody cones?

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 09:53

Parking is an absolute nightmare near where I work - limited on street parking. The residents in two of the streets have started putting traffic cones on the road outside their houses to prevent people parking there. Most of them don't even have cars of their own! They just don't want people parking (legally!) outside their house. WIBU to drive around with a van in the middle of the night and remove them all?

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BitchBags · 25/02/2015 09:58

Ywnbu, it does my head in when people think they can do this! you need to leave your nice big van woth all the cones In outside their house once you have finished though Grin

FenellaFellorick · 25/02/2015 10:00

If you want to park in a particular spot - move the cone and park there.

They aren't enforceable, they're just saying please don't park here.

tiggytape · 25/02/2015 10:09

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 10:42

The problem is it's a bit of 'dodgy' area. I did actually phone up about it in case it was actually residents parking. They said they were aware of the situation but would advise us not to move cones and park ourselves because there had been reports if damage to cars who has done this! Shock I don't know why they're being allowed to get away with it tbh.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 10:43

That's why I was thinking an undercover op might be the best option... Grin

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CakeEqualsCurves · 25/02/2015 10:48

I totally get where you're coming from. It must be really annoying not to be able to park for work.
But. It must also be really annoying for residents to have nowhere to park when they arrive home. Unless there are more spaces but further away but they want to park outside their house?
For example, we have a school down our street, and if I wanted to come home in the car at starting/finishing times, I can't park, because cars park in all parking spaces, along the road, on the grass verges, there's literally nowhere I can park anywhere along my street or neighbouring streets as they are clogged. So that's annoying for me.
So basically, I can see it's annoying for both sides. There needs to be more parking in general.

angelos02 · 25/02/2015 10:51

YABU. Imagine coming home from work, knackered with bags of shopping and/or children in tow and you can't even park outside your own home.

Sallyingforth · 25/02/2015 10:53

Are they your cones angelos ?

HeadFairy · 25/02/2015 10:53

YANBU, I live in a road with no parking restrictions, close to a station so we're blighted by people parking all day in our road, but....but....but.... the neighbours who put cones out are just as bad IMHO! I hate the bloody coners!

getdownshep · 25/02/2015 10:55

My cone is put on the edge of the white line as people seem to think its fine to park with their car hanging three quarters of the way over my driveAngry

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 10:56

I'm sure it's annoying but it is on street parking. It's not like I'm parking in their driveway or something. Also, as I said, many of them don't even have cars! They just don't want someone parking there. In the morning - cones. When you're leaving - cones in the same place. Even if I'm staying late/working different shifts.

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sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:11

I would put money on them being annoyed at workers from nearby offices or shops parking their cars there all day, rather than if their neighbours or visitors did it. Kind of like an us and them mentality.

I can see your point OP but I have always felt uneasy about parking in residential streets for any more than a few minutes, no matter how legal it is. I mean, that's their home and I doubt you would welcome someone coming and parking outside your front window all day, even if it was perfectly legal.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:19

Well if you don't want someone parking outside your front window then don't live in a house with a road right outside your window that people are legally allowed to park on!

If the ones who do have cars have 9-5 jobs then even if someone did park there all day they would arrive after they left in the morning and would leave before they got home. (And they wouldn't be in the house to see that there is someone parked outside their window)

Sorry, if I sound ranty. I'm particularly cranky about it today after having to drive around for ages to find a space when there are all these cone saved spaces everywhere.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:19
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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:20

Smidgen not smidgeon ffs

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sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:23

Yes because people always have a choice about where they live. Hmm

PMT or not, get a grip FFS.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:26

Sure, let's just let everyone who has a house beside a road put cones outside because they don't want people parking outside their window. Completely reasonable.

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LongDistanceLove · 25/02/2015 11:30

Well if you don't want someone parking outside your front window then don't live in a house with a road right outside your window that people are legally allowed to park on!

And if you don't want to drive around for ages looking for a parking spot, use alternative transport, or get a new job. Not so easy is it.

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:32

You could choose to get the bus to work, then you wouldn't have to drive around for ages finding a space.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:32

If you have to live beside a road where people can legally park then you need to get used to people parking outside your house. You can't just take the law into your own hands to stop them.

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keepitsimple0 · 25/02/2015 11:34

that's their home and I doubt you would welcome someone coming and parking outside your front window all day

yup. That's their home, but our streets.

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:35

AIBU?

YABU.

No I am not.

lertgush · 25/02/2015 11:35

Just move the cones and park there.

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:36

yup. That's their home, but our streets.

We don't own the streets. What an entitled opinion. Just because parking there isn't illegal doesn't mean parking there is a right.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:38

I would lert but I've been told that some cars have been damaged when people have done that. I've been very tempted a few times though! Maybe I could set up a camera

slice - in case you didn't pick up on it - I have no intention of driving a van around at night and lifting cones. :)

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