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Parking one

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WheresWallyNow · 01/03/2015 16:44

So neighbour across the road, since Friday has marked out the space outside his house with all 3 bins and today appears to have commandeered some sort of road barrier thing and added that to the blockade.
All the while his own car is parked further up the road! No building work is going on so is just bizarre.

Would I be unreasonable to drive my car into said blockade sending the whole thing flying?

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Staywithme · 01/03/2015 18:28

Are you sure you want to start having problems with your neighbours, just because you want to have a bit of fun? Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with what he's doing, but I really don't see how it's affecting you.

Fairenuff · 01/03/2015 19:32

I think we need to see the photo.

Andrewofgg · 01/03/2015 20:03

Ask him why. If it is not something reasonable just move his bits of bobs onto the pavement and park. Can you enlist some neighbours to join you?

Andrewofgg · 01/03/2015 20:04

Regular bin-leavers and cone-posters are another issue. Don't ask; move the bin and the cone. It's your road too.

ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 20:18

Just....ask him...

Staywithme · 01/03/2015 20:19

I'm lucky enough to have good parking as I have a driveway. I also agree that you can park anywhere on the road but there are many posters on other parking threads that complain about others parking outside their houses. Usually people complain that these 'parkers' are selfish and why don't they park in front of their own houses, I find this determination to start an issue with your neighbour puzzling. I don't see how the fact that you can't park outside your own house enough reason to cause the same inconvenience to your neighbour.
I'm honestly not trying to have an arguement with you OP just, as I said earlier, wondering why you'd want to start a fight with your neighbour. My neighbours are scumbags but I can't be bothered deliberately fighting with them, especially when I know how these things can escalate. Maybe my issues with my neighbours are affecting my opinion.

TheReluctantCountess · 01/03/2015 20:34

Have you asked him?

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WheresWallyNow · 01/03/2015 20:36

Sorry, determination to start an issue with my neighbour? How? I've moved his bin once and parked there for a weekend after months of him leaving his bin out to save his space. And that was about 4 months ago.

I pointed out that I can't remember the last time I parked in front of my house to show that the road is busy. I couldn't give two hoots about parking in front of my house. In my mind parking should be on a first come first served basis.

I think he's a selfish git but in no way am I going to war with him over it.

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ARoomWithoutAView · 01/03/2015 20:46

OP - Why is he selfish? He may have a good reason to do what he has done and it may only be temporary? But you haven't asked him why he has done it have you?

Why are you so antisocial? You are - don't blame it on your environment.

If he has no good reason, then he is taking public space (and I live some 90 miles away from you but it is just as much my space as his or yours if it is a public street). Then ring the council and get it moved.

If you don't talk to him then you are just running away.

Staywithme · 01/03/2015 21:29

You are asking if you should move his stuff and park there just to prove a point, so yes you seem determined. I don't live in an area with difficult parking, but if I have to park in one I just look at the cones, bins, ect and assume they have their reasons for putting them out. Sorry Wally I don't want to argue with you so I'll leave the thread. Hope you get parking outside your house.

maddening · 01/03/2015 21:35

But the op has stated already that this is something he does all the time - I doubt anyone would mind a one off but to reserve a bit of public road is generally not on.

TheReluctantCountess · 01/03/2015 21:50

And he's not reserving it for his own car - that's parked further down the road.

Lilmissconcerned · 02/03/2015 00:01

If it were me I'd be more peed I couldn't park in front of my own house then being hell bent on parking on front of my neighbours house, which isn't in retaliation to him parking outside your own.

wowfudge · 02/03/2015 07:36

That's a bit strong ARoom, calling the OP antisocial. Sounds very much to me as though it's the neighbour who is antisocial. Come on - on a street where on street parking is the norm and can be tricky no one can expect to park in a specific place and definitely not directly outside their own house. I have lived on such a street and a small number of arses would park directly outside their own houses when possible, but not up to other parked cars. This would then prevent some people from being able to park at all.

If he has a disability he can get a space marked out by the council so he can park outside his house. Otherwise I consider there is no good reason for this kind of space blocking behaviour.

If there's a bona fide reason for the space blocking he could at least stick a note on his construction, 'skip being delivered', etc.

I think the OP doesn't want to ask him about it because there's the risk he just doesn't want anyone parking there and then she has to tell him he's being unreasonable and potentially spark a row.

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