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Report this arseholes or just leave it?

107 replies

JustVent · 24/03/2018 17:08

I live opposite a football stadium. Purpose built flat. When there’s a match, people always use our shared drive. They can be fined but the private company (not council) who issue the penalties are never here.

I don’t care too much if the odd car nicks a space for a match but what pisses me off is when a brand new Audi or BMW (same culprits I think) take up two spaces, leaving residents with no where to park.
Or today there was a merc parked out there and they filled a bag with rubbish from their car and chucked it on our shared front lawn.
One of the neighbours picked it up and taped it to the windscreen. When the match was over i took a picture of them take it off and throw it back on the lawn. Arseholes.
Then they flipped me the bird as they drove away.

I’ve got their faces and number plates and photos of them throwing the rubbish away.

Will the police care at all about this? Is it too petty? I just hate rich aresholes who think they own the world.
Last week a brand new BMW pulled off their fine (opposite, council owned) and threw it into our front lawn.

It just really fucks me off.

Should I just get over it and drink some wine instead?

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SandyDenny · 24/03/2018 19:14

I can't believe that people suggest criminal damage on these type of threads.

Would you really in real life take a knife to someone's tyres or put sharp objects underneath them?

Reporting to the police, the club and naming and shaming on social media are all reasonable actions.

Why don't you park on your space on match days?

Daifuku9 · 24/03/2018 19:15

Lay down a spike strip on match days?

All joking aside about damage, letting out air from tyres, is there some way you and neighbors could just block people from parking there?

bobstersmum · 24/03/2018 19:16

Whilst I'm not a vandal I would get great satisfaction out of doing some kind of damage to these arseholes cars! Definitely let tyres down or slather Sudocrem over windscreen, or pay local thug to pretend to be your dh and have a word, might be all it takes and local thug will probably enjoy the drama too.

Twickerhun · 24/03/2018 19:18

Can you buy clamps online? And charge a release fee? Probably illegal but I’d do that

GrandTheftWalrus · 24/03/2018 19:19

@mornings parkhead or ibrox lol

TheBrilliantMistake · 24/03/2018 19:23

It's illegal, you can't clamp in such circumstances.
These suggestions will land you in far more trouble than the driver.

Even if you do resolve the issue with one or two drivers, the chances are the issue will happen again with different fans next week. You could potentially install collapsible posts but this would be at your expense, other than that, just keep nagging the police / authority about it.

I am pretty sure this is an issue up and down the country near football stadia.

morningconstitutional2017 · 24/03/2018 19:25

It's tempting but I'd avoid vandalism if I were you. Getting friends to park in all the available spaces much better. Then a chain link across the entrance to really deter them and make sure this happens every match day and hopefully they'll move on elsewhere.

GruffaloPants · 24/03/2018 19:26

Cover every inch of the car in post it notes. They won't do any damage but will take forever to peel off individually. You'll have to be ready to start applying as soon as they go - maybe a group neighbour activity?

bookgirl1982 · 24/03/2018 19:33

Can you get together with other residents and arrange for a couple of people to be 'on duty' on match days?

Hi viz jackets and turn away anyone who isn't a resident. After a few weeks they'll have found somewhere else.

Or charge £20 for using your visitors bays.

SecretNutellaFix · 24/03/2018 19:34

Order a huge roll of pallet wrap. Wrap said car in what basically amounts to extra large cling film.

Daisymay2 · 24/03/2018 19:38

As PP have said. Speak to the managing agents and get the parking managment company in on match days.
Be careful about renting out parking spaces- some flats have restrictions on this in the lease which prevent you doing this. I know of a local development next to the station where residents parking permits have been cancelled due to renting out spaces, which the lease allows!
And definately contact the Football club - using their twitter etc.

Tara336 · 24/03/2018 19:46

Report it to the club and make it impossible for them to park there on match days by blocking the drive with your car. What they are doing is really out of order but some of the suggestions of letting tyre pressures down is damm well dangerous! Vandalising the cars is just twattish and makes you as bad as them.

As a footnote does it matter what make the car is that’s on your drive?

Rachie1973 · 24/03/2018 19:48

lol Not Roots Hall is it?

Some people had problems round there recently, the club dealt with it quite efficiently.

Liara · 24/03/2018 19:53

Letting down tyres in posh cars that are likely to have run flat tyres (and will definitely have a warning system for tyre pressure loss) is not actually a very effective thing to do...

Bastardingcough · 24/03/2018 19:53

Penguin bollards?

GrannyGrissle · 24/03/2018 19:54

Paintstripper the cars or slash the tyres.

Situp · 24/03/2018 19:57

I used to work for a professional sports club and this was a similar problem for residents around the stadium.

The club will have to meet with local police before every game to discuss safety issues as well as access to the stadium. If you take as much information as possible to the club or stadium offices if the club don't own the stadium, they can bring it up in their pre-match meetings with their stewards and police representatives.

It is a common problem and they should seek to resolve it.

muttmad · 24/03/2018 19:59

Can you get a neighbour to help and each park so close to either side of his car that the only way in is through the boot?

Chanelprincess · 24/03/2018 20:08

I would inconvenience them by letting down their tyres but I wouldn’t cause damage.

They will have onboard cameras which will film you carrying out any acts of vandalism, including letting down their tyres, when the car's parked.

AnneElliott · 24/03/2018 20:16

Definitely phone the council re the flytipper. My brother reported the same thing and the owner got £450 fine.

Agree that blocking them in is probably the way to go. And Sun cream on your hands causes annoying marks on metallic paint - just saying.

BennyTheBall · 24/03/2018 20:23

Paintstripper the cars or slash the tyres.

Drink some wine then smash the glass under their wheels.

knife their tyres

Scratch their cars!

Good grief. How were you lot brought up that you think this an OK thing to do?

Huntinginthedark · 24/03/2018 20:23

Jeez! I don’t think anyone was actually being serious. It’s just nice to fantasise

choseausername1 · 24/03/2018 20:29

I’d report them. Take pictures.

Then I’d think of any diy project in my home that needed metal tacks. I’d buy a shedload (to make sure you had enough). Then if you spilled the box whilst removing it from the car to the house and despite best efforts to clean up, some remained... well that would be very sad for anyone parking in that area.

Jux · 24/03/2018 21:14

Live that post-it note idea. Film them taking them all off and post that on FB, with sped up film and captions like "20 minutes later.... " and "an hour and a half later..." and so on.

You and your neighbours could offer to help, take the remived post-it notes from them and then quietly stick them on somewhere else.

It could go on forever Grin

Alabama3 · 24/03/2018 22:20

just block them in