More of a WWYD
So - I've just moved into a house share. We have 2 cars between us, on a quiet road where every house has a driveway. It's a public road with no parking restrictions.
There's only me and one housemate in the house this week. At just after 9pm tonight I heard frantic knocking on the front door. They then started ringing the bell before coming round the side of the house into the garden and banging on the windows. My room is on the ground floor so this was very scary, and, as I wasn't expecting anyone (especially not at this time!), I chose not to answer.
My housemate, who has her boyfriend staying, decided to answer it after a few minutes of knocking/ringing. It was a huge guy who turned out to be one of our neighbours. He was shouting at her to move the car (her boyfriend's) because he wanted to park outside his house. Her boyfriend obliged and ended up having to move his car about a metre (!) so that this guy could park in his special spot. He was NOT parked over a drive/dropped kerb or in anyone's way.
We spoke to the other housemates (who have lived here for a while but are away at the mo) and they said they've had issues with neighbours both sides going mental about their 'spaces' (I.e. the road outside their houses). I can understand it might be mildly inconvenient, but they would literally have to walk an extra few metres - there's loads of space. They apparently get very very angry and have made one of the other girls cry over it before.
This was really scary and my housemate is quite shaken - she wants to write a note asking him not to come round like that again. I'm worried about exacerbating the situation, and the others have said he has anger issues and we won't get through to him.
Sorry for the long post, didn't want to drip feed! Essentially my question is - what (if anything) can we do about this?