AIBU to be fuming at this CF and my lack of rights?! (Parking thread)

[jessebuni]

OK so I come home from taking the kids to school and when I arrive home someone is parked in my space. Not just anyone but the little black car that had 3 students in it I had seen driving in on my way out. Now normally student park in our residents only visitors bay which is annoying enough but this time they have parked in my privately owned and numbered parking space. So I cannot use it!

The council won’t do anything the police won’t do anything and even the college won’t do anything!

I honestly can’t believe the lack of rights people have on their own properties! This car is going to be in my space for at least 6 hours!

Why can’t there be some new system where people can call and report vehicles to be towed from their property at a smallish fee and then the owners of said cars have to pay the remaining fee to retrieve their cars?

At this stage I would move the car that's blocking them in and leave a note on their windscreen telling them not to park there again.

Hopefully they'll return, take their cat and that will be the last you see of them.

Instead of dragging this out you could have shouted down to them from your window and then gone down and bollocked them - and make them move their car so you could park yours............

Has he actually seen your note? Although I guess that's a bit irrelevant if your neighbours might have already told him what number you live at.

Noooo NOT THE CAT! Don't take the cat. :-P

We don’t need to use our van until 7am tomorrow so unless they plan on actually knocking and asking us to move They’ll be a bit stuck. We are more than happy to move it if someone actually knocks and asks us to do so. Since they’ve gone now I guess I should get in with my housework until something else happens.

*Hopefully they'll return, take their cat and that will be the last you see of them

Meeoww...

I definitely wouldn't move and leave a note. They've made a dick move and need to have some kind of embarrassment as a result. It's making it far too easy for them if they don't have to actually ask you.

There's no need for any aggressive confrontation but I would certainly let them know it's completely unacceptable and extremely inconsiderate on their part. I don't think you'll have to ask them not to do it again though! Haha

Noooo NOT THE CAT! Don't take the cat. :-P

Also I'm completely in favour of the (possibly pretend) wine sipping at this stage. Can't believe they just ran off!

Even if I wanted to take pity on them We can’t move anywhere because they are in our space. There is nowhere else to park.

This is the best thread ever

Same as others, I’d make them actually knock- they need to feel the embarrassment of actually apologising and inconveniencing you, otherwise they won’t learn.
If they do knock, I’d be sure to tell them I’ve reported it to the police, council and their college with photographs- you don’t need to tell them they’re not interested, let them feel the fear a bit!

Can you see who is at the front door, OP? My only worry is if they get some bullying thug to go to your door.

I would like to start a new rule on mumsnet....as well as no parking thread without a picture, no parking threads without the op having the balls to take action! Unlike op, too many dwindle into boringness when op is too chicken shit to DO something!
Bravo op.

Sorry if I missed it, but how do they know which flat the space belongs to? Is it definitely obvious?

Shameless placemarking

I love this. I am impressed by you OP. You've done what I would always have wanted to do but not had the balls.

Am surprised they're being so daft. I expect when they came back it was because they had a free period and were planning on popping to McDonald's or something and just gave up on that idea and went back for their next class. what morons.

I wonder how long they’ll leave it there? Is number 9 onboard or still at work?

And what if the OP is ill or disabled Swing, or has a disabled relative or small children? Where's she supposed to park? Stop making excuses for shitty behaviour.
And so have I, at work, regularly, when I have to leave urgently to pick kids up, but can't because someone is blocking me, someone who is supposed to let me know if they are so I have time to contact them so they can come out and move their car, except that on a number of occasions, they have been unable to be found and these are professional adults. I just swallowed my frustration, explained why it had inconvenienced me and they apologised (some not coming out too genuinely but hey ho) and I moved on.

So yes, I do get that it is very annoying, but as said, it's obvious OP is loving the whole drama of it and I find this really pathetic for a grown up. They knocked on a few doors, not the right one, big deal. It would have been so easy to go out and resolve it there and then.

I guess that why reality programmes are so popular now, people love this kind of things.

Epic op! Enjoy your day, they created the problem, they can solve it by chapping your door! It's not like they don't know where you live!
Awaiting parental outrage that you blocked precious Tarquin in.

There is a number painted on the space for a start. And the note said it and all our neighbours know which number we are. I’m not trying to be a complete ass to them or anything but I think considering they had the balls to park in a clearly privately owned space without permission not just to make a quick phone call but to get out and bugger off then they should have the balls to knock the door and ask us to move. My husband looks rather thug like so if need be I shall wake him if they show up with a bully at the door but I’m not trying to start a massive confrontation and don’t plan to shout full on abuse at them I just feel them should have to apologise and say please can I move. Then I will.

I can't believe they didn't knock!

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All these people saying OP should now move her car: where is she going to put it? There is no other space for OP to put her car!!

Good on you OP, hopefully this teaches them a lesson. We have had the same done to us, and also blocked them in. Then left the car where it was while they sat in their car beeping their horn like rude fuckers, trying to get the attention of who had blocked them in, instead of actually knocking on our door as my note requested.

The CF eventually turned up at my door, irate and gobby, so I explained he should be careful parking in my private space again, it seems to be littered with nails regularly, wouldn't want him to get a few punctures ;)