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

[bumbleymummy]

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?

Road/Car/Vehicle tax/excise duty, whatever you want to call it does not pay for the roads. Council tax pays for the upkeep of local roads, so anyone who pays council tax whether they own a car or not are paying for the roads.

you are not entitled to park anywhere you like just because it isn't illegal.

But you ARE entitled to park wherever you like on the street, as long as it's legal!

Best tell the government then.

Best tell Parliament then.

www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN01482/roads-vehicle-excise-duty-ved

YWBU to steal somebody else's property. Just call the town council and they should sort it out or just move the cones on to the lawns.

We have the opposite problem where I live, the workers from a local business park believe they have the right to park on the pavement. Our PCSO has put some police cones out to prevent parking on the pavement. She has also started ticketing the owners who think they are entitled to block access to housing estates, schools, bus stops, doctor's surgery, community centre, etc.

I meant everybody knows that road tax means car tax, the (invisible) tax disc, vehicle tax... They all know which tax is being talked about.

The tax, soup, which does not pay for roads?

That parliament thing was Sept 2014. The government website is Dec 2014 and you are renewing your vehicle tax.

Who gives a damn? Not me.

I find its the use of the word "road" that is most misleading though. It implies that it is somehow linked to the roads, which it isn't.

At no point have I commented on what it pays for. Mostly because I couldn't give a shit. It gives me the right to have my car on the road without being fined.

No, you just got pedantic about the name.

soup
Parliament trumps Government I think! But yes who cares :)

InAndOf - I think they stole them from somewhere themselves to begin with! I wouldn't really steal them. Maybe just 'park' them in the back of a van for a couple of days

How bitchy is that? There is no law that allows residential proximity to a public highway to bestow powers of twattery-with-impunity. OP yadnbu, and you've as much right as any other bugger to park there.

We have a neighbour who does this but thankfully he is the only one - so far. and he's a twat anyway.

Everyone said Oh the parking is the worst thing here, but actually, we find a space every day except when we come back late at night on a weekend, and then there is always somewhere not too far off.

What bemuses me is next door who are lovely, having their own parking space on their property, yet parking on the road outside anyway. They only have one car. If I had a drive I'd use it every time. They often park in front of it though so as not to take up anyone else's potential free space.

What SweetPeaSoup said

I'm astonished anyone could think YABU OP

Yes it sucks when you live on a street like this. But unless you pay for resident permits so the parking can be restricted by the Council then you have to suck it up.

They don't own the road and they don't own the view from their windows.

I sympathise with them hugely but not when they start mini-dictator behaviour like this

YANBU - what a pain. If they rally have a problem, ask the council to change the street parking to 1hr parking, 2 hours no return with restrictions lifted in the evening or residents only. This kind of its outside my house and therefore my peice of road boils my piss.

YADNBU, how annoying!

I live on a road with unrestricted parking. We have one car which we park on our drive. People park in front of my window every day. So? it's the street fgs.

Of course YANBU. People are so fucking precious about the road outside their home as if by living on that street, it gives them ownership. I always think people who do that are a bit . It's not your road!!

You are entitled to park anywhere it's legal to park, and the ones who think they get a reserved space outside their houses are the twattish ones. It's nice to park outside your home, but it isn't a right, either legally, or ethically.

OP, don't move one spaces cones and park there - you might get your car vandalised. Can't the local police or council do anything about the obstructions in the road?

Otherwise, I'm with the idea of going round with a van and removing all the cones. Or drive over them all and squish them. Or superglue signs on them all saying 'I block the road because I belong to an entitled twat'.

Did I hear once about someone going round, propping them upside down and filling them with quick set cement? So they become too heavy for the residents to keep moving them in and out.

Loving the level of pedantry on here surrounding the name of the little disc of paper you used to put in your windscreen, but now exists on some cloud somewhere

I'm quite baffled by the people who don't want people parking outside their house just because... the only time it's ever really bothered me when the local plumbing company parked their long wheel base van which is double height outside our house over a double bank holiday weekend (easter) so the light in our living room was almost non existent. But the rest of the time I don't really sit gazing out of the front window because my view is of parked cars and the houses opposite, hardly scintillating!

I've done the whole carrying a sleeping baby in a car seat through the rain while screeching at a toddler to avoid the puddles as we make the ten minute walk from where the car is parked to the house.. yes it's annoying and frustrating. Clearly not annoying enough for me to reach for the cones, but I would like to see some kind of parking restrictions where we are. I think lobbying your local council to bring in resident parking schemes is really the only reasonable response to parking issues. Anything else is just fanning flames.

ooh, so tempting to get a cheap arse car and set it up with cameras all around......

Quiet bat -,there are a few elderly people but mainly younger/middle aged.

Right, it seems that Mumsnet had spoken and IANBU! Does anyone have a van I can borrow? I'll provide the masks for added stealthiness

this is annoying u should steal the cones i see there side but they dont own the road they have an issue they can write to the council to get residents permits