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AIBU?

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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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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:39

There should have been a after the first para.

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HeadFairy · 25/02/2015 11:43

I'm usually pretty relaxed about people parking in our road, as I said we're near a station and a town centre and people tend to park at 8am until 6pm. The problem is that by 8am every available space has gone, so if I take the kids to school in the car because it's chucking it down for example (as it was this morning here) I literally have nowhere to put my car when I get back. I have ended up having to pay to park my car in the station car park ten minutes walk away (which is incidentally where I'd prefer the commuters to park) which costs me £5 for the day because I have nowhere to put the car. The upshot is that my kids have to walk to school (it's a half hour walk for them) regardless of the weather, hail, snow, horizontal rain. Ok it won't kill them, and they're pretty tough as a result, but sometimes it feels a bit unfair to be forced in to that just so someone doesn't have to pay £5 to park their car.

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:45

I never said you did.

SweetValentine · 25/02/2015 11:45

Op - YADNBU. Just boggled that people are saying yabu

keepitsimple0 · 25/02/2015 11:50

Just because parking there isn't illegal doesn't mean parking there is a right.

really? What does it mean then?

keepitsimple0 · 25/02/2015 11:51

By that i mean, if it's legal to park there, then that means it's legal to park there!

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:51

HeadFairy, I can see how that must be annoying. These people don't all have cars though, and the ones that do seem to be away all day anyway. It's maybe just the extent of it that makes it so noticeable - 2 entire streets of cones that don't get parked on all day.

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PlumpingUpPartridge · 25/02/2015 11:53

Let me see if I've got this right.

The OP should start getting the bus to work so that she doesn't inconvenience those people who put cones out. They don't have cars, there are no parking restrictions and they are evidently the sort of people who are not above causing malicious damage. But still, OP is being massively unreasonable for wanting to park in these screened-off spaces in her crowded area.

have I fallen down a rabbithole or something?

NotPennysBoat · 25/02/2015 11:54

I have lived on streets like this, I have been that person with carrying a baby and shopping halfway down the street in the rain - but I still agree with the OP!

Who owns the streets? Anyone who pays road tax and therefore is contributing to their upkeep! Therefore anyone who owns a car should be able to park wherever they like (legally of course, and not causing obstruction to others).

People who put out cones without a real reason (and 'wanting to park outside my house' doesn't count!), are selfish pure and simple!

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:55

I wondered the same Plumping! :)

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 11:56

Or I should quit my job...

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sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:56

There is no such thing as road tax. It is called car tax and it is not ringfenced for the up keep of the roads.

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 11:57

Park in a car park.

SoupDragon · 25/02/2015 11:58

There is no such thing as road tax. It is called car tax

There is no such thing as car tax. It's called vehicle tax.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 12:00

There aren't any nearby or I would.

I guess I could park in the town centre and get a bus back to where I work. What's an extra few pounds every day and having to leave 30 minutes earlier in the morning so they have somewhere to park their cones for the day...

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sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 12:00

There is no such thing as car tax. It's called vehicle tax.

The general point still stands.

Sallyingforth · 25/02/2015 12:02

There is no such thing as car tax. It's called vehicle tax.

There is no such thing as vehicle tax. It's called vehicle excise duty.

CakeEqualsCurves · 25/02/2015 12:02

I think the people that don't own cars (if you're sure they don't, they may pop in and out during day or are out in morning doing school run say, then afternoon could be picking up from school/clubs etc..) are being unreasonable. As they don't need the space.
But I'm not sure how you'd know for sure.

And the whole not right thing up thread, Yes it's legal, but isn't it a bit dicky to do, knowing you're going to inconvenience somebody. So yes legal but I dunno, not nice.

And I live in a council property as I can't afford to privately rent or buy so I literally have no say in where I live. So currently 3rd floor flat, with a child, 1 bedroom. It's not easy to just move.

SoupDragon · 25/02/2015 12:03

There is no such thing as vehicle tax. It's called vehicle excise duty.

Best tell the government then.

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

SillyPops · 25/02/2015 12:03

We had a crazy neighbour who never put a cone outside his house, but if you dated to park there he would shove a cone under your car so that it causes damage when you drive off! Absolute nutcase! He got arrested in the end for criminal damage

sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 12:04

Oh poor you.

You don't know the cones are there all day, they could be part time workers, out shopping, anything.

Anyway, my point isn't specifically about the cones, I have seen cones outside peoples houses before, and I have thought its a bit of a twattish thing to do. My point is having common courtesy for the residents of a street and that you are not entitled to park anywhere you like just because it isn't illegal. Your view seems very selfish to me. That is all.

CakeEqualsCurves · 25/02/2015 12:04

But I must add, I don't put out cones. :)

SoupDragon · 25/02/2015 12:05

It's just so bloody pointless saying "oh it's not road tax blah blah blah". Everybody knows what it means.

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bumbleymummy · 25/02/2015 12:10

Nope soup- they're there all day. I work different hours and I see them in the same place morning, evening and night. Some of them don't move for days.

And I am allowed to park on the street even of they don't like it. That's the point.

silly pops - he was creative! Setting car traps...

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sliceofsoup · 25/02/2015 12:10

The first poster that brought it up didn't know what it means Soup. Its a common misconception that paying vehicle tax somehow gives you extra say over the roads. It doesn't.

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