It's a parking one...

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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

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!

So if thats their bins, wheres their rubbish? A cheeky chat with environmental health may help?

Otherwise, what cheeky bastards! Entitled much?
I await the note from outraged-next-door

That's the weird thing - they usually stand them up, but they were empty today. How can they have no rubbish?!

It also meant I nearly ran them over. Missed a trick there, damn.

Obviously, there are other people who live in your street who won't move the space-reserving bins to park there. But you will.

So while your neighbours keep doing this, they are effectively reserving a space for YOU.

It's a pain to have to move a bin but not as annoying as parking 2 streets away.

So you get a parking space AND you get to be annoyed at your neighbours.

Qwerty
Genius idea!

Jelly, I like your thinking!

That's another reason to contact highways-they're an obstruction. They could cause an accident. Your neighbours are idiots.

You're not in the Bournemouth/Poole area by chance? I'd happily pop over and have a word

I'm with EvilStepMum01 - where do they put their rubbish?

They're at it again. First time they've moved their car since they baggsied it, and they dragged the bins out into the vacated spot.

why do they think they should have the right to their own space when no one else does?! The lids had fallen open into the road so it's definitely dangerous now.

I think I'll complain to the council, but am also tempted by amusing but PA note on the bins. Any suggestions?

That is a hazard
Is there a PCSO around to tell?

RE notes, I thought, rather than stick loads of little eyes on, you could paint one really big eye on each bin during the night.

So while your neighbours keep doing this, they are effectively reserving a space for YOU.

Love this thinking!

Tell them their bins have gone away to a bin convention.

Sorry about the dark photo, it was quite early in the morning when I took this !

I suspect they have other bins in the garden with rubbish in. They will have pinched these bins from somewhere with the sole purpose of being parking space markers.

Take them walkies whilst they are out!!

DO it!

Move the bins, and leave a murder-scene style white tape outline.

Fill them with water upright in the space. Then they won't be able to move them properly without spilling it and water weighs a lot.

Or place them outside their front door and tape them in place.

I've reported them, and apparently they will be 'prevented' from doing it again. Sounds a bit ominous...I was not the first to call in either.

Woh, hang on, back up a bit. They left a mirror out one week and then the following week left a note to the bin men asking for it back?! This makes saving a parking space sound positively rational!

What did they expect to happen: the following week the bin men return, saying "we got your note, obviously we wrapped the mirror carefully and filed it under 'heirlooms' at the tip, so no problem, we've brought it back. Sorry for the inconvenience."

I know! It was completely bonkers! The note was bordering on arsey, as if how dare these bin men have the temerity to er...collect the bins.

Steal their bins each time they do it. Not sure about your area but it's £30 to replace a stolen bin round here. They'll soon stop.

Mol, how do you store all the stolen bins?

OP they might try cones next.

I am so tempted to do the glitter bomb thing for our useless dustmen.

They not only leave rubbish all over the street, but they leave the bins in the middle of the fucking road.

I might try not putting them back outside their house next time. A little walk to the adjoining street, show them the sights.

This reminds me of ' bread' on the BBC and they used to put out traffic cones outside their house and the passenger jumped out and moved them every time they parked.... and that was a bad situation comedy then....