AIBU to remove the CF cones?

[Ohdoleavemealone]

Pre-covid, we parked our car both in front of the house (blue on diagram), and down the side opposite neighbours house (who has a drive further down.) Occasionally we would get a note asking us not to. No good reason for it as we never parked close enough to the junction to obstruct the view coming out. We ignored it. Other neighbours parked their too and also had notes.

During lockdown some cones appeared (red circles). We weren't going out to work and my car battery died so sat where it was parked in front of our house and so we weren't bothered.
Now most people are back at work we are getting back to the situation on most streets whereby people park where they can get a space and sometimes that is outside our house. Not a problem, but the cones are still there which means that about 3 car spaces are out of use because one anonymous neighbour has decided to cone the area off for their convenience.
If it was the neighbours whose house is opposite the cones, I would kind of get it, but it isn't as we speak to them and they are baffled by it too.
So far, I have not needed to park there. If I do in the coming weeks, would it be unreasonable to move the ones?

[Frappuccinofan]

Go out now and move the cones to catch which one of your neighbours are fuming in the morning

[ColleagueFromMars]

Stick googly eyes to the cones. Use whiteboard markers to give them a different facial expression every day.

[Jojobythesea]

@Happyotamus

I would crash into the cones, get whiplash and then sue them.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[Bowerbird5]

Some areas have toad crossings LadyFlumpalot Does yours Biscuit 🤣

Seasickpenguin That is hilarious 🤣

[Bowerbird5]

Ask the local community police to pop around he might just take them with him. Local schools would be happy as they can pop them on the zig zags to remind visually impaired parents not to park.


I live very near two junctions and a primary school...can you see where this is going. I have a great view from the sofa over the village green to one of them. We watch the parking chaos with a mug of tea. One day several cars parked on the furthest junction. The school road that feeds into it had cars parked both sides near the corner and across the junction. Wagon delivering feed to the chicken farm didn’t quite fit cue ( and I do understand being upset) a scrap right along a car parked on the t junction. Well I could see she was going mental, then I could see her complaining to the driver who was shrugging his shoulders. Next thing the daughter from house there which has a driveway off the t junction comes along to pick her kids up ( staggered time) so parent starts telling her. Later her brother comes out so I wandered over as I wanted to see him ( and I was being nosy) he explains wagon has scraped her brand new top of the range Mercedes. He knows because he sells vans and his dad sells cars. We’ve bought a dozen or so over the years. He says she has been onto the solicitor already but he says “She hasn’t got a chance as she is parked on the junction.” He has been fed up with it because some of the parents park across their drive and some of the CF actually park on their drive so they can’t get in or out. The drive is about three car lengths before you go through the gates. He said he wouldn’t like to be her when she tells her hubby. The car was less than a week old.
Loads of letters sent out to ask parents to be courteous but still they park everywhere. The Secondary school bus can’t get around the corner near us half the time.

[SeasickPenguin]

Suggestion:
Make three life size Papier-mâché bums.
(Tape two balloons together, some toilet roll, some watered down PVA and a tin of pink spray paint...nice and cheap)

Shove one on each cone.

Really ram them down.

The cone owner can hopefully take a hint.

[LadyFlumpalot]

@Biscuitsdisappear

Bring the cones to the attention of the police. You must be authorised to section off the toad.

I mean, if you've got amphibians hopping around that are big enough to need coning off then I'd suggest CF neighbours are the least of your worries...

(Sorry @Biscuitsdisappear, couldn't resist )

[Biscuitsdisappear]

Bring the cones to the attention of the police. You must be authorised to section off the toad.

[LadyFlumpalot]

Cones are acceptable in some circumstances (the people who live near the station in my village come off the areas in front of their drives and dropped kerbs as commuters will park all along the road rather than using the HUGE car park) but in this case, YANBU. Move the cones onto the pavement in an out of the way area and tape a note to them that says "you left these in the road so I've moved them before they get damaged "

[breatheinskipthegym]

Ostentatious litter-picking post on local forum - FB, NextDoor, leaflet drop through doors. Pic of you in high vis and protective clothing, putting the cones into a bin bag with a grabber thingy. Along with some words about how antisocial littering is.

[RedToothBrush]

Steal the cones at 3am whilst wearing black and a balaclava and deposit them in a student area where they will soon find a new loving home.

[12309845653ghydrvj]

@SchadenfreudePersonified exactly! To be honest I’m sure there’s at least one serious incident in Texas resulting from a similar situation...

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

@12309845653ghydrvj

Kind of wish this was Texas, I’d say let loose a few rounds on them until they’re more bullet hole than cone, then leave them on the doorstep.

This is why we don't keep guns in the house.

[MitziK]

Wait until the dead of night, sneak out and put the cones in a neat line up their garden path. The next night, put them in a line under their window. The next, if it's bin day, put them on top of the wheelie bins.

As your campaign continues, mix it up a little. Try ornamenting the front hedge with them inserted pointy side down into it. On a particularly nice day, put some poundshop plastic flowers in them like the sort that usually get put on graves or old ladies' mantlepieces. Decorate them with tinsel, brightly coloured tape, pound shop wheelie bin stickers.

Eventually, they'll be so weirded out by what keeps on happening to them and stop putting them out.

[lottiegarbanzo]

Of course you should move the cones. The cones are illegal. Obstructing the highway is illegal. They deserve positive disrespect.

I never understand why anyone pays any attention at all to unofficial cones. Resident-placed cones are a request - if you're moving house or expecting a large delivery - in which case they should be accompanied by a note, or a prior conversation, spelling out the nature and timing of the specific request.

Cones with no commmunication are the act of cheeky, selfish people, who would rather their neighbours be inconvenienced than themsleves. They should never be respected.

[Hopoindown31]

Move them and place the back on the neighbours property. Using cones of other items to block of parking spaces is an offence under the highways act and is punishable by a fine. Cones should only be used on the highway as part of a permitted activity.

[12309845653ghydrvj]

Actually that might come across a bit threatening

[12309845653ghydrvj]

Kind of wish this was Texas, I’d say let loose a few rounds on them until they’re more bullet hole than cone, then leave them on the doorstep.

[PoodleMoth]

Brilliant @pogmella reminds me of the twits and their walking sticks!

[DeliciouslyFemale]

@Pogmella

Buy several sets of identical, but progressively smaller, cones. Each week replace them to give the impression the cones are shrinking- perhaps after each rain shower?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Redcups64]

Really?? Minimalism....! Minimalism would at least include arrows and descriptions of what the blue and red things are,

Any poster worth their salt knows that! 😂

[Heffalooomia]

I would write notes too, but in an ancient runic script

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

I also think people are being unnecessarily harsh re: diagram.

Have none of you ever heard of minimalism?

[cabbageking]

Are the cones marking out 32 foot from the junction? Is someone highlighting the no parking area?

[Redcups64]

I have to agree about the diagram being a bit poor.

It could have been a lot better and had real potential to be magnificent.....but it kind of isn’t.

Shame really, was looking forward to a good bun fight, nothing warms thee old cockles like a good olde parking thread