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AIBU?

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Original poster

to call someone about the car parked outside my house?

89 replies

DuelingFanjo · 22/05/2015 09:51

A car has been parked outside my house for over three weeks, one of the tyres is looking a bit soft now and it hasn't moved an inch. I'm starting to wonder if it's been abandoned.

I want to report it but presume IABU to call the police.

WWYD?

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 23/05/2015 18:43

I live in Cardiff and we had a car outside our house for almost a month. In the end it had several parking tickets in the windscreen.
I rang the council to report it and it was treated as an "abandoned vehicle" and towed away.

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DuelingFanjo · 23/05/2015 19:03

I wonder if it's possible to bump a parked car into a resident's parking place Wink?

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BoneyBackJefferson · 23/05/2015 19:03

NeedsAsockamnesty
"If parking right outside your house is that important to you then buy a house with a driveway or one on a private road that you can also buy."

Unfortunately due to the entitlement of fuckwits, not even buying/renting a place with parking, allocated parking or a private road stops them.

Welshmaenad · 23/05/2015 19:08

Sadly not sock, individuals with even greater needs than my dd have tried and failed. Long term plan is to move, to a property with off street parking or a LA that gives a crap and would grant a bb space. DH bought this house as a singleton and the parking wasn't an issue then. We do have a very polite notice in the window asking people to leave the space free if at all possible and most folk are good - our neighbours are fabulously accommodating - but as with so many areas of life, there's no legislating for the rogue cunts.

IsItMeOr · 23/05/2015 19:08

Welsh That doesn't sound right.

Have you tried writing to your MP to ask for their advice? I am unsure of the legal position, but your MP will be able to ask Ministers at the Department for Transport about that on your behalf. And maybe lean on the council.

I'd ask how the council are fulfilling their duties under the Equalities Act 2010. A blanket policy is unlikely to stand up to a legal challenge, as public bodies are expected to exercise their powers, including discretionary ones, reasonably and on a case by case basis.

Welshmaenad · 23/05/2015 19:22

My recently departed MP was a useless sack of shit.

I'm not entirely sure their stance is legal, but if they won't back down for a child with multiple and profound diaablities on 24/7 oxygen, they won't back down for a little girl with CP and I hineatly need to channel my energies into fights I can win. They're very slick with their reasoning - and as I say, we are planning to move in the next 1-2 years so it hardly seems worth fighting it.

Fatmomma99 · 23/05/2015 19:50

I like your manners, MissDuke. If I bring my car round and park it outside your house, please would you hoover and wash it for me when you do yours? I consider life too short, but my car looks like a skip!

MiaowTheCat · 23/05/2015 19:58

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balletnotlacrosse · 23/05/2015 21:27

My father's house is opposite a wall. Some woman still decided that, rather than park beside the wall she would park right outside my dad's house every morning in order to catch her bus.
Someone opined that she probably felt her car was more secure directly outside someone's house. My elderly father had no intention of rushing out and intervening if someone tampered with her car!
She was a nuisance and a PITA and should have parked at the wall where she was bothering no one. Residents are not going to act as watchdogs for her car.

maddening · 23/05/2015 22:45

If it is permit parking then does it have a permit?

IsItMeOr · 24/05/2015 09:17

Welsh yes, I am trying to get better at picking my battles. Budget cuts seem to be prompting some strange behaviour our way - we had to go to mediation to get the council to change it's mind on giving 6yo DS, who has ASD, an assessment for an EHCP. An assessment. He has been receiving full-time 1:1 care funded by the school for a year now, and we got the news that council would assess after all this week. I suspect we have more battles to come...

May be worth a quick letter to the new MP though, as they may be a great constituency MP, and be delighted to take this on if they know about it. They will be looking for ways to make a (positive!) difference locally, if they have any sense.

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DuelingFanjo · 24/05/2015 16:56

It's gone, it's gone. Woo hoo. I wonder if my talking about it very loudly in the street had some effect or maybe it's a coincidence that it disappeared the day after the people across the road came back.

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icelollycraving · 24/05/2015 19:15

Maybe they are amongst us

toptecus3 · 27/09/2017 18:29

thanks for this. i have a large white van been left for 4 weeks its so anoying

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