Reporting neighbours for reserving a parking space with cones

[YodaBabe]

Fully happy to admit I Abu, obviously too much time on my hands.

We live on street where it's all street parking for terraced housing. The couple opposite everyday the lady leaves the house, man runs out with parking cones to save the parking space. They have upgraded to parking cones it used to be the wheelie bins.

Aibu to report them to the council? Parking ban be limited but you can usually park a few houses up or down and most times outside your own home.

It just really riles me and to be honest it's dangerous.

Dh thinks I'm being a busy body

@ApolloandDaphne

I would move the cones and park there. I would want to see what the reaction would be. I can't believe no-one in the street has done this yet.

Perhaps because they’re not small minded arseholes with too much time on their hands.

My Mum had neighbours who did this. My sister wanted to leave her car outside Mums house (where she also was living) whilst she went travelling and not 2 roads away as usual so she moved the cones from outside the neighbours house and parked there for 6 months 🤣

I wouldn’t do anything but if I wanted to park there I would move the bins/cones and do so

If you are struggling to park yourself, I can see why this would piss you off. If that is the case, then take photos every day, submit to council with a date stamp as proof they are keeping that part of the road for themselves.

If you are not struggling to park, then leave these people alone.

@YodaBabe

I'd probably just move the cones, but feel free to report them if you want. You're correct that they have no right to reserve the space, and they're cheeky fuckers.

Reminds me of the type of twats in the swimming baths, who leave their stuff in one of the family changing rooms for the hour/hour and a half they are in the pool, so no-one else can have it. (There's only 4 of them too, in our local swimming baths.)

On several occasions, (when the other 3 family changing rooms were taken,) we have gone and removed their stuff so we can use the remaining family changing room.

The people have come back and knocked on the door, as if they think it's THEIR changing room. But we ignore them. They don't own the bloody changing room, so as far as I'm concerned, they can fuck right off.

We put the stuff in a normal (small) changing room, just 5 or 6 feet away from the family ones by the way!

They're rude and entitled. Just park there.

I work as a representations officer in council parking and unless it’s a double yellow lines, dropped kerbs, or other restrictions it’s unenforceable and nothing we can do.

We would send you a polite generic email and file away.

@Letshavesometea

Mr mucker you don't think placing cones and effectively reserving themselves a space on a public road is a sense of entitlement? Imagine if everyone on the street did this!

You've got to be joking

They might have good reason eg disability. It is not a given as a disabled person that you can achieve all the adaptive stuff you need, as anybody who has had their blue pass revoked in the last few years can tell you. Having a demarcation as disabled on the road is very hard to get And getting a dropped kerb is both prohibitively expensive and sometimes impossible because of drainage restrictions. So no. I don't automatically assume. I'd prefer to go and talk to them and find out, rather than talk about their supposed entitlement with venom.

@Chasingsquirrels

I couldn't get excited by this, especially if there are no real parking issues. But if I wanted to park there I'd move the cones.

This.

'Move the cones and park there yourself' is becoming the new 'cancel the cheque'

Another annoyance of people doing this is that it reduces the tolerance and credulity of everyone in the street so that if someone does it for exceptional circumstances like saving space for a removal van or aggregate delivery, everyone assumes it’s just another cunt and ignores it.

I wouldn’t report them but I’d move them back into their drive ever time I passed and explain why if challenged.

Should only be done for funerals, house moves and when you're waiting for a skip. Maybe short term disability when you can't get a bay put in, long term get a disabled bay if you have a genuine need. There may be the odd other thing, but doing it routinely is CF territory. I've happily parked in conned places even when there are other places available. I'll try and push the cones with the car, but if they get squashed so be it.

It's crap. They don't own a public road. Move them if you need to park there.

Our neighour did this and they don't even want the space. They just don't want anyone to park there. I moved the cones!

@TheYearOfSmallThings

My neighbours used to do this. I never considered reporting them, I just moved the cones and parked in the lovely space they had saved for me. I would stack the cones neatly on their page so they could reserve it for me again the next day.

They stopped doing it eventually.

Oh that would annoy me!

Don't report - just park in the space!

This is such dickish behaviour, unless there is a genuine hidden disability somewhere. I would ask him why he does it.

This has made me smile because the level of batshittery that would occur in my area would be hilarious if someone did this.

It's bloody awful for parking here. We are near the beach , the town centre and the DWP. Its permit only but according to next door people are selling their visitors ticket books causing 10 or 20 extra cars (she's probably right to be fair ).

This has led to

My neighbour not recognising DP (he had shaved all of his hair off the day before to be fair...he did look very different but was in the same car) and loudly berating him before he finally go a word in edgeways to say "Err NDN it's me Shinys partner , I've lived next door to you for a year" made my day that one...poor NDN was mortified.

Dp and I killing ourselves laughing behind the window as another neighbour berated an admittedly CF for parking where he shouldn't and sitting there waiting for someone in the DWP meaning two neihhbours had driven around and not been able to park in that time before eventually he went quiet and the CF pointed out he would happily move and he was very sorry but the neighbour was stood in front of his bonnet.

A particularly entertaining day when the local parking warden ticketed a resident for having half a wheel over the line of the bay and ignored the two cars behind without permits and brought the wrath of two secondary school heads of years , an accountant , a care worker and two security guards on him (we were trying not to laugh at somehow all their professions got brought into the argument and we have no idea why...interesting to find out what all our neighbours did though).

Not to mention the deep abiding hatred that brought the entire street together for the landlord who kept a skip in a bay for 6 months to the surprise of the poor tenant whonloved in later and got berated by half the street when it happened before he had even signed the tenancy.

Cones? Blimey that would mean war.

I'd move them OP and park where I needed to but probably worth checking there isn't a genuine reason first.

If they want their own parking space right outside their house they need to buy a house with a drive.

They can’t reserve a space, just move the cones.

I have merrily moved bins to park. Never occurred to me to report. If anyone says anything either innocently say you thought you were helping them get their bins back or boldly say they don't own the street in front of their house

@Chanandlerbong01

A lady in my street has put a no parking sign on her fence. It’s brilliant for me because I get home from work before her so I see it as my reserved spot. It’s quite a big space so easier for parking.

😂

@MessAllOver

Steal and "re-purpose" the cones. Hopefully, they will replace them and you will be able to fill many happy hours with producing cone-art. You could even start your own business selling traffic-cone products on Etsy and get rich off the back of your neighbours' anti-social habits.

Before I opened the image I thought the third one was a KKK hat

I can’t tell you how much it would annoy me. And I bet if for whatever reason if their space isn’t there, they’d be the first to park outside your house.
In this, I wouldn’t do anything. However, if I came home, and there were no other parking spots, I’d have no qualms in moving the wheelie bins/cones whatsoever. (And I’m not generally a confrontational person)

Ps whether she works for the NHS is for me, irrelevant.
And if he has a disability, I’m sure she’d have a blue badge.
Now if for example her husband broke his leg and they popped in to my house and asked if we minded that they were saving the spot outside their house until it was mended so he wouldn’t have to walk too far, I’d have no problem whatsoever. Again, communication is important here.