To think you can't reserve a space?

[katiehuy]

We live in a popular area where usually people park on our road to access a vibrant socialising spot. We are new to the road and bought because of location.

We do not have a parking space and almost all residents park on the road (no permits).

Our neighbour always puts a cone in his space when he goes out so that people will avoid parking in it and he can park again outside his house. I once went to park in that space and he shouted at me. He says he needs it as he is disabled, although there are allocated disabled spaces down the road.

AIBU to think that this is just outrageous and he's a CF? Just so you're aware he is physically fine enough to walk a few metres from a different space and I have a visitor often who is physically disabled (paralysis) who doesn't even try this excuse.

I can't even park outside my house - I just walk. There's more cars than spaces available so it's a free for all.

Diagram for fun.

In London your dining table would be deposited through your front windows on your front lawn the minute you'd turned your back, VoteforPayton.

I'm only half joking. London streets are crazy.

I commute by train and the CFs who live on the road leading up to the station have tried this stunt. They all have drives and garages but nonetheless, they want to reserve the road too.

The cones just get put on the pavement. They also try the ‘block the commuters in and pretend not to know who owns the car when they come back’ strategy. Unfortunately one night I caught one of them actively blocking in my car. I knew which house she lived in (the door was open) and what her car looked like, and told her to move it.

It’s part of living in a busy popular area. Your neighbour will have to suck it up.

Yay!!!!! A parking thread with diagram whoop whoop. Thank you so much, I've missed them

hangs bunting round thread

Yes yes to dressing up the cone!

Not everyone can get a disabled parking spot outside their house. If the council seem there enough disabled parking spaces on that road, they won't paint any more on it.
You also don't know how disabled he is, just because he can walk in fine to his house, does not make him any less disabled than a person in a wheelchair.

I'd leave the cone and be thankful that you don't need a blue badge.

Quarantine the cone - leave an anonymous note advising of such

@Thisismytimetoshine it's a hell of a show when the anti-dibs vigilantes come 'round collecting the goods they 'found', then someone else gets their tires slashed... it's a magical time of year.

OP, chuck the cone, it's a public road.

am enjoying the chicago dibs pics

Definitely hide the cone. Probably stolen anyway.

Surely Cone at least needs a high viz vest?

I have someone on my road that puts a cone out, stupid cow! I absolutely love moving her stupid cone and parking there and I purposely park outside her house if I can just to piss her off now as 😂

Wait until he's out and you're already parked somewhere else. Then hide the damn cone. And every subsequent item he replaces it with.

She used to live up round the corner from me and apparently she was the same with her cone there to except it was all elderly people who she tried to bully into leaving her space.

I live in a village and it has been passed to the elderly people that live round the corner that I park there to annoy her and I had one women bring me a bottle of wine as apparently she made peoples life’s hell up there

Stick a big ‘D’ on it.

He's a CF if he's disabled he should get the council to get him a disabled space in front of his house. If he has one, then he won't need a cone and you shouldn't park there.

It's not as simple as that. Even if the council were to oblige (and there are many circles of hell to descend through before they would actually do it), the space then becomes available for anyone with a blue badge. Not just him.

DW had a friend in a similar situation, who after about 3 years begging, got a space painted. Almost immediately a relative of someone in teh next street started parking there with a BB correctly used, and there was all that could be done.

Oooh love this thread. We had one like that and just always put it in random garden, I rarely parked there myself , figured more annoying for him to have a variety of cars there than just one he knew. We moved firm there but have been tempted to pop back one day to see if he's still at it

He’s a CF. I had a neighbour who did this once. He called the police when I moved his cone and their faces were a picture

I agree with goatygoaty

Your neighbour may be unable to get a blue badge op. The qualifying criteria is stringent. Would he be able to park close to his house without a badge?

Sorry but I think you should be more tolerant of people with disability. If he were able bodied then he’s a cf.

DGRossetti
Christ that’s rude and entitled. A BB holder Visitor prevented a home owner from accessing their home.

Calmly, the next time he starts shouting, take out your phone. "Why don't we call the police so they can confirm whether or not you own the public road in front of your house."

In London your dining table would be deposited through your front windows on your front lawn the minute you'd turned your back

More likely acquired for new ownership...wouldn't last 5 minutes before being put in the back of a passing van!

IS he disabled OP? If he is, it isn't 'an excuse'.

However our 'disabled neighbour' was frequently seen using his Blue Badge space to unload bags of cement and other DIY equipment into the house, before setting off on long walks with his baby granddaughter in her buggy, in all weathers, so no it wasn't one of those reactions to cold or sunlight, and it wasn't a condition that had flare-ups - it was a chronic bad back that kept him from his job ...where he had claimed compensation for his back injury. Full sacks of cement. And garden compost, sand, everything.

People do all sorts when parking is very tight in London.

Why do you want to upset your neighbour?
Why do you begrudge him parking outside his house?
Why would you want to make life more difficult for a disabled person?

What happened to “be kind”?

YABVU

Be kind? There are more cars than parking spaces ... OP has a right to park her car, too.

Who’s car is that parked in front of your house?

If I needed the space, I’d just move the cones onto the path and park there.

I do this quite often when I’m out and about for work.

If he’s disabled, he needs a disabled bay.

Why do you think you have a right to store your car on the public road in the first place?