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There's always one who thinks their wants overrides everyone else

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FairfaxAikman · 28/02/2017 08:35

Sick of drivers bumping their cars up onto our garden, over new year I installed big fuck off rocks and painted them white.
Apparently this is not a big enough clue that it's private property and CorsaCunt has chucked them about to do what suits HIM, leaving a sodding great hole in the grass where the rock used to sit.
Sadly I had to leave for work otherwise I would have been staking the car out to confront the tosser.
Absolutely livid!

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IfNotNowThenWhenever · 28/02/2017 10:31

Why haven't you grown a hedge? Don't put up a nasty fence. Cultivate a hedgerow, much nicer.
People shouldn't park anywhere but on the road though, very naughty.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 28/02/2017 10:32

Alternatively steel posts driven into the ground, painted white and a sign saying no parking. Private land

With a picture of a penguin.

You could potentially cost a fence, even for a few yards near the problematic bit. If it is cheap, you could ask for donations rather than formal cost splitting? Also, someone in the residences might be good at painting penguins ...

Jaxhog · 28/02/2017 10:34

I doubt anything short of an actual barrier will stop this sort of idiot.

In our town, they park on the pavement. All over it. Buggies have to go in the road to get past.There is other parking, but it isn't as 'convenient' as parking on the pavement. There are selfish b*ds everywhere unfortunately.

MoonfaceAndSilky · 28/02/2017 10:40

You need a bigger rock Grin

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unlucky83 · 28/02/2017 10:44

I second a flower bed ...might put people off...(I know someone who part owns some land near garages - looked like council owned/scrub land and their problem was people letting their dogs use it as a toilet - so they stuck a load of low maintenance cuttings/plants in - made it look owned and more garden like and the problem more or less stopped (although obviously people should be picking up after their dog everywhere!)
Or I was told (when trying to stop someone tampering with my property) that vaseline mixed with permanent ink is a good way of stopping someone touching things they shouldn't...they will only do it once
You have to put signs up for anti-vandal paint...but not (apparently - might be good to seek more advice) for ink and vaseline...

MadisonAvenue · 28/02/2017 10:45

Dig a ditch!

barefoofdoctor · 28/02/2017 10:49

Get Jenny and Miss Jolley on the case?

BurningBridges · 28/02/2017 10:50

What was the attraction for him to park there OP - he seems pretty determined to get out and move rock then reverse in - does he live there too, or is it near a station? Where is your house (or flat?) in this schematic? Have I used that word correctly?

No further questions (at this stage).

NeverEverAnythingEver · 28/02/2017 10:50

Moonface Shock Grin

FairfaxAikman · 28/02/2017 10:53

Bridges we live not far from the city centre. Parking is at a premium and residents need permits for most of it. However this access road is an anomaly- when the flats were built they didn't include the access road in the permits scheme area like all the surrounding streets so people who won't pay don't have a permit all try to squeeze in there.

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thenightsky · 28/02/2017 10:55

I had a similar issue at a previous house. Solved it by planting a laural hedge. Laurel is cheap and fast growing. You just have to keep trimming it regularly to stop it getting too big. Mine was waist height and within a year was very robust and solid (probably due to the hard pruning).

ScrambledSmegs · 28/02/2017 11:02

A ha-ha is basically a ditch or hidden wall with pretensions. They were often used at stately homes to allow views over the land without pesky livestock ambling into your drawing room.

ScrambledSmegs · 28/02/2017 11:04

And I only really know about them thanks to Discworld and BS Johnson's much more dangerous version, the ho-ho.

cjt110 · 28/02/2017 11:04

Block CorsaCunt in by parking across him. And go out for the day.

PeachyImpeachment · 28/02/2017 11:06

PLEASE put the URL of this thread under CorsaCunt's windscreen wipers (or on a signpost if he's gone when you get home). (Hi CorsaCunt, if you're reading).

PeachyImpeachment · 28/02/2017 11:07

Oh and don't forget the old anchovy paste under the door handle.

Evilstepmum01 · 28/02/2017 11:10

So its jointly owned by all the flats?
Then theres nothing/no-one stopping you and your trusty spade from digging a nice pointless trench right where his rear wheels are and then replacing the rocks in front of it.
If you're sly, you can liberate a few traffic cones and some marking tape and make it look 'official'. Done under cover of darkness, your neighbours would likely not bother if they thought BT was digging up cables or something?
Traffic cones are rarely questioned.

RainbowPastel · 28/02/2017 11:11

By parking there haven't they blocked the car in who is parked up to their passenger side?

I would put a note under their windscreen.

JustEatYourDinner · 28/02/2017 11:13

GREAT diagram! ⭐️

Love the bigly rock too on the red car Grin

icy121 · 28/02/2017 11:15

@evilstepmum01 - or don a hi vis and dig the trench in the daytime. People don't question a hi vis.

brasty · 28/02/2017 11:16

This is a jointly owned piece of land then, and not your garden?
I think YABU then. It is not a big deal

WateryTart · 28/02/2017 11:19

Most excellent diagram.

FairfaxAikman · 28/02/2017 11:24

Beastly it is a garden - albeit a jointly owned one. I pay in part for it's maintenance there fore I am well within my rights to be annoyed.
The rocks however are technically mine. After getting permission from the factor I got them off a farmer friend, transported them, installed them and painted them at my own cost. I did this for the benefit of the "estate" as a whole and the move was approved of at the AGM.

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FairfaxAikman · 28/02/2017 11:27

Also beastly CorsaCunt is NOT one of the owners/residents so has no right to park on it

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SleepFreeZone · 28/02/2017 11:27

Cement the rocks in place, sorted.

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