Neighbour sits in her car in road for hours with engine running

[rumblefish23]

As title says, neighbour sits in her car on the road for hours with engine running, smoking fags, flicking buts out of her car onto pavement. Hours as in 3/4 hours. Can MN give me the balls to man up, can you give me words of wisdom to confront her (while she is sitting in her car)

I can hear my next door neighbour goto work and come home every day.
I wouldn’t be happy as the air pollution increases.

bloke down near us did this.turns out he couldnt heat his home and so when the kids werent at his he would live in his car.he later killed himself.was very sad.

Hours as in 3/4 hours

Just to clarify, you mean 3-4 hours at a time rather than 3/4 of an hour? That is odd. Is this daily? Is it a certain day a week? Is she on her phone? Does she just come out the house and sit in the car or is this on her return from going out somewhere?

Do you know the neighbour at all and her domestic situation (married/kids etc)?

If 3/4 hours mean 3 or 4 hours then I would actually be a little concerned. Sounds odd. Maybe something is going on. It might be worth tapping on the car window and asking her if she's ok.

Perhaps she doesn't want her house to smell of smoke and it is too cold to stand outside and smoke. I would ask her not to flick cigarette butts because that is littering. Years ago our neighbour's son used to hang out of his bedroom window smoking and then flick his cigarette butt into our bush. After watching him doing this for several days I went to my neighbour and told her I was concerned he might set our bush on fire. She was fuming and made him come round to our house and clear up all the butts in the bush. This never happened again.

Isn’t petrol more expensive than heating your home?

A car idling in suburbia isn't a problem ffs. China is a problem, your primark throw away clothes are a problem. MN is so pompous it's hilarious. This is a hoot, should be in classics as long as the poor woman is safe. Nobody chooses to sit in a car with pearl clutches reporting them.

Maybe she isn't actually a neighbour but is an undercover spy surveilling you OP?

Haha, yep totally this OP

but seriously, id assume its not safe inside or she has issues with heating, either cant afford it or has none at all.
No way id confront her to get angry, id be asking if she ok

Id prefer a person safe and warm in their car over putting the environment above them.

Confront her seems highly aggressive. Personally I'd be concerned if my neighbour was doing this, it's not normal behaviour, so I'd be worried about why she sits in her car.

my local borough issues fixed penalty notices for idling. They are really hot on it and have run several awareness campaigns as it's a big issue in terms of pollution. You report via environmental health.

Our neighbour used to do this as he wasn't allowed in the house.

Sorry - clicked too quickly - Wasn't allowed in the house to smoke.....

There was a thread where the op was confronted by a householder after she had been idling for 2 or 3 minutes waiting for her friend to get in the car. It was winter and she wanted the heating on. She got her arse handed to her very quickly. Yet 3 or 4 hours is no problem on this thread

I think I would be tempted to call 101 and ask for a welfare check on her. Sounds like she might need help.

Or given it's her neighbour, she could go and ask her if she's OK, without calling 101.

@onioncrumble go and tell that to an asthmatic !!! Last time I checked, jumpers didn't make it worse!

@rumblefish23 so she's sat in her car, that's not on your property and you want to confront her?

Why would you want to do this, what business is it if yours what she is doing?

@PhiCornwall1

Our next door neighbour used to leave his diesel van running for half an hour every morning to warm it up before going to work. In the end I just had to tell to stop doing it because it was waking everyone up in my house. Her then used to drive it around the corner and wake everyone up in the next road instead lol.

tell him to stop typo yawn! very tired at the moment

All of the above could be reasons.
However it could be a dealing drugs situ

I’m having the same problem with my neighbor, every night around 10pm she comes home and just sits in her car with engine running for up to an hour, I live in a small cul de sac and it’s very annoying when your trying to sleep all you can hear is rumbling I know she has mental health issues so left it a while but couldn’t take no more so went out and asked very politely why she’s sat in her car with engine running, I was told she was charging her phone 🤷‍♀️ With that I gave her one of my spare chargers and it done the trick. But only for her to start doing it again a week later it’s driving me nuts , do I talk to her again or just report it?

This would drive me to murder. Absolutely can't bear it.

A car idling in suburbia isn't a problem ffs

No.

An idling car produces 150 balloons worth of harmful chemicals a minute. It is absolutely a problem, which is why councils issue on-the-spot fines for idlers. The U.K. has a huge air pollution problem. Idling is selfish and wasteful.

Err, and so? Ask her if she's ok, or report her if the pollution bothers you, but I don't know why you would confront her.