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It's a parking one...

83 replies

CommunistLegoOoOoBloc · 30/11/2016 20:01

Permitted parking round here, very few off-street spaces as it's mostly terraces. Sometimes impossible to park and I end up a few streets away. Fine, I can walk easily and I just accept that sometimes I will have to do so.

But our neighbours are just taking the piss! This is their solution to not being able to park outside their house all the time - obviously they think it's their right Hmm

WIBU to melt their bins down and remould them into car shapes? Any other ideas?! I've just moved them as I actually needed to park, but it keeps happening!

It's a parking one...
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Wookiecookies · 30/11/2016 20:19

Of course you could always do this....sorry its the fail Blush

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3458548/British-inventor-designs-remote-control-wheelie-bin-drives-streets-viral-prank-video.html

Wookiecookies · 30/11/2016 20:21

Or this....

It's a parking one...
Wookiecookies · 30/11/2016 20:23

Or even. THIS 😂😂

It's a parking one...
PossumInAPearTree · 30/11/2016 20:25

I would start dumping my bin bags in them. Always running out of space in my bin. I reckon a bin in the street is fair game to be filled up! Grin

GlitteryFluff · 30/11/2016 20:30

Cheeky fuckers.

bikingintherain · 30/11/2016 20:32

How about moving their bins a few streets away and then leaving them a set of clue to find them? That way you're not actually stealing them. Just playing a friendly neighborhood game. After a few times they might get bored of the game and stop.

CommunistLegoOoOoBloc · 30/11/2016 20:35

I just heard the familiar sound of bin-dragging, but it stopped abruptly. All the spaces are taken. Ha!

There's an unfamiliar car there now though, so it might have been space-saving for a visitor of theirs, who has still managed to squeeze in behind me somehow. I'm like Sherlock bloody Holmes.

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londonrach · 30/11/2016 20:40

Report to council as illegal..

RichardBucket · 30/11/2016 20:42

Send your kids out to decorate the bins with an assortment of stickers and glitter glue. Make sure to get glitter glue on the handles.

DailyMailJournosSmell · 30/11/2016 20:43

I'd keep a record with photos and send a note to the council if it continues.

Zaphodsotherhead · 30/11/2016 20:46

Is there any way you can make a reverse glitter bomb? So when they open their bin they get covered in glitter? A couple of those should sort it out...

WankersHacksandThieves · 30/11/2016 20:47

Move the bins to the next street and leave the neighbours a note saying you saw the bin lorry eat their bin.

Bin lorry genuinely ate my bin one day, the machine tipped it up to empty it and the whole bin fell into the lorry :(

RocketPockets · 30/11/2016 20:47

These suggestions 😂 Please please decorate them and post pictures 😬

Note3 · 30/11/2016 20:53

I sniggered to myself and woke my baby over the 'googly eyes at 3 am post' Grin

ChuffMuffin · 30/11/2016 20:54

I work right next to a HUGE football stadium and a train station, and the house owners in the residential street I park in to go to work (I don't have a choice, there's nowhere else near where I can park) all seem to own those big orange traffic cones, which they use to reserve "their spaces" outside their houses.

On one hand I do totally sympathise that it's an absolute nightmare parking wise round there when the football's on, but on the other hand it's a public road, as annoying as it is though you can't do that. :(.

QwertyKeyboard · 30/11/2016 20:58

Brilliant bin ideas!

QwertyKeyboard · 30/11/2016 21:01

Zaphod - there is! You cut a bin bag in half lengthwise then again across. Tape one edge to the inside front of the bin. Hang it down and tape the other edge to the front of the lid, so it hangs inside the bin. Fill the resulting 'U' with glitter. When the lid opens the bin bag straightens out, throwing the glitter over the opener, depending on how hard they open it...

sleepyMe12 · 30/11/2016 21:04

I love the glitter one!
I'd super glue the lids shut.

WyldFyre · 30/11/2016 21:07

Fill the bins with concrete

bikingintherain · 30/11/2016 21:11

How about returning their bins with a letter from Santa declaring them currently to be on the naughty list, but that there is still chance to redeem themselves if they can stop their selfish bin ways.

CommunistLegoOoOoBloc · 30/11/2016 21:11

So my shopping list seems to consist of concrete, googly eyes, glitter, balloons and a skip.

Sounds like a hell of a party.

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RB68 · 30/11/2016 21:23

just report them to the council - if its not bin day they shouldn't be out and I believe they could be fined!!!

CommunistLegoOoOoBloc · 30/11/2016 21:33

If I report them to the council then I'll have to get net curtains and loads of cats.

I would much rather bitch about it anonymously on the internet and get ludicrously amazing ideas for revenge.

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YouTheCat · 30/11/2016 21:37

If they get fined though, they'll stop doing it.

Andrewofgg · 30/11/2016 21:42

Just move them, park, move them, park, move them, park, till they get the idea that you are more persistent than they are.

Oh, and give them the address of the nearest grip-shop.