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CFNE Parking wars 2

959 replies

AlphaBites · 27/07/2017 11:11

Starting this just in case :-)

Just as well it's quiet at work this week Confused

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EvansOvalPies · 27/07/2017 21:15

I thank you, Cookie theatrical bow
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Nellysmagichat · 27/07/2017 21:15

There's never going to be an answer about the wheels ~ it's been asked about numerous times. No one is expecting the OP to own up to removing them (it was wheel thieves, absolutely definitely ~ it would be really implausible that the OP jacked up the car and removed three of the four wheels when CFN could have spotted her doing so at any point. Especially as she'd already dragged a load of building barricades from another house in the street, then taken them back again when her DH objected. This ain't the Iron Woman championships!)

But unless the wheels mysteriously reappeared, or the car owner spent a small fortune on replacement wheels or arranged for the vehicle to be lifted using some sort of specialist hydraulic recovery vehicle , it's very difficult to understand how the vehicle was moved.

I'm guessing it happened in the window of opportunity that arose while the OP was out with her DD this afternoon, and hence she is unable to fill in that detail. But one of the many anti-CFN neighbours who've waded into the fray must have seen something and will no doubt tell the OP what happened in due course.

And I'm still curious about how they reached a 'mutual point' (after CFN being sweary and aggressive) but the wheel thing didn't come up (despite an intimation of gangland connections from CFNE).

And what about the flat battery?!?!

How did a car with one wheel and a dead battery get moved in the blink of an eye after two days of sweary hoo-hah and no one saw a thing? It's like an episode of Johnathon Creek! Did David Copperfield magic it away like he find the Empire State building?

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Lweji · 27/07/2017 21:16

We've been merrily strung along, and left to flounder in the blackness of bewilderment.

Hopefully the OP came here for advice not to entertain a bunch of people with nothing better to do than to drool over parking threads.

Lweji · 27/07/2017 21:19

I'm finding it really amusing that people sceptical enough to put out conspiracy troll theories believe that the car had a flat battery. It was clearly an excuse.

CookieTramp · 27/07/2017 21:19

..|.. Lweji. You were in the thick of it. Troll, much? We all know these things can be very entertaining, and she got lots of advice and sympathy as well as self-confessed popcorn-munchers.

EvansOvalPies · 27/07/2017 21:19

Lweji - Parking threads are designed to be drooled over. Particularly when an OP voluntarily provides a diagram WITHIN THEIR OPENING POST!!! She knew what she was getting into, and merrily played along.

MsLexicon · 27/07/2017 21:21

1.Ring Council. tell them car was abandoned.

  1. Check car is taxed; woopy do if it is not! ergo ring Police
3.have a lockable thingy put in your drive
  1. Block them in, preferably with Panzer tank
  2. invite some random children to come play on the silly ole toy car using footballs to boing off it
  3. Camera it for regularity and take out a civil action
EvansOvalPies · 27/07/2017 21:23

despite an intimation of gangland connections from CFNE - you're right - I'd forgotten that bit, Nelly Grin

Nellysmagichat · 27/07/2017 21:24

I'm finding it really amusing that people sceptical enough to put out conspiracy troll theories believe that the car had a flat battery. It was clearly an excuse

Yes, the flat battery was clearly an excuse on the part of the neighbour, but once they'd put that lie out there they would presumably have to have come up with an explanation as to how the battery suddenly got undead. If someone told me they couldn't move a car because the battery was flat, and then blithely announced that it would be moved 'later' I'd ask why they lied.

Lweji · 27/07/2017 21:30

Lweji. You were in the thick of it

I know. Wink

Lweji · 27/07/2017 21:31

MsLexicon

Great advice. Sadly, car is no longer there.

QueenOfThorns · 27/07/2017 21:32

OP, I understand why you're being quiet on the subject of the wheels, but can you please tell us whether the car was driven away on its original set, or new ones had to be acquired? For some reason, this is important to me Blush

timis · 27/07/2017 21:41

It's the interweb folks, and I've enjoyed it.

That poor woman and the doors onto her private garden, brilliant, and I believe that as well.

It's been a great day on MN..... Happy sigh.

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck · 27/07/2017 21:42

I love the outcome of this thread, why are so many people so sceptical? Confused

HotelEuphoria · 27/07/2017 21:42

I think this thread is done now, cctv going in and bollards being installed plus complaint to council about CFN and his or her business.

Well done OP, you deserve a break.

Job done, move along people because the door in the listed building directly to a neighbours garden thread is so much more exciting.

MsJolly · 27/07/2017 21:43

Clearly you and your neighbours now need to do a formal complaint about the business and get it moved

Albadross · 27/07/2017 21:47

Does this issue not come up so often that someone in power thinks maybe to bloody do something about it?!

Expellibramus · 27/07/2017 21:52

Does this issue not come up so often that someone in power thinks maybe to bloody do something about it?!

The Ministry of Drive Dickishness? Grin

These threads have averaged about a 1:300 ratio of updates vs repetition.

SecondRow · 27/07/2017 21:55

Presumably the angry exchange on CFN's doorstep did indeed include mention of the missing wheels, with the "mutual point" reached being along the lines of "You agree to move the car NOW and the wheels will miraculously reappear" no admission of liability

I imagine the wheels reappeared next to the car and CFNE had to spend some time fiddling about before vrooming off, though Grin

Articu · 27/07/2017 22:08

Regardless of whether the OP did or didn't remove the three wheels or whether it was done by thieves the cars owners are not going to be happy.
If it was thieves then I suspect the car owner will suspect the OP anyway and if it was the OP and she 'confessed' and returned the wheels then the car owner would be understandably furious especially as the car could have been damaged.

I'd be extremely worried about repercussions either damage or antisocial behaviour or a claim for 'damage' to the car. Sad The car owners have already demonstrated that they don't care what they do and are aggressive.

ChevalierTialys · 27/07/2017 22:14

Has anything further happened OP?

MiddleClassProblem · 27/07/2017 22:32

Glad you and the other neighbours can band together on this. Hope they sort the sod out and make them move the business.

RiversrunWoodville · 27/07/2017 22:33

Hopefully if enough neighbours complain enough times council will have to take action

Meanwhile bollard and cctv should stop CFN in their tracks

somewhereovertherain · 27/07/2017 22:38

Good on you OP

I'd be destroying there Facebook and google listing with lots of shitty reviews.

Deff report to the council and keep reporting.

Good luck.

AlphaBites · 27/07/2017 22:40

Nope, nothing further has happened between us and CFN.

It HAS stirred up the long-term shit between SWN and CFN though as there was words had earlier which the whole close heard

SWN has always been a nice enough neighbour to us though.

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