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

I don't think I'd actually report but the thought has filled my morning. I'm seriously thinking of taking up crochet so the cones can have little hats.

In other news the lady next door has moved the cones closer together so it should good watching a Toyota Prius fitting into a space for a fiat 500

I reported Cunty Coners on my road. Moving the cones would be fine except you had to stop in the middle of a main road, get out, and move the cones, holding up everybody behind you. Parking is limited.

The council did nothing, so good luck!

@HeyDemonsItsYaGirl

I reported Cunty Coners on my road. Moving the cones would be fine except you had to stop in the middle of a main road, get out, and move the cones, holding up everybody behind you. Parking is limited.

The council did nothing, so good luck!

Cunty coners.

“I'd just park and run over the cones in the process”

Haha me too.

For those saying to “just move them”. It’s pretty annoying to have to get out your car to pick up someone’s property every time you come home.

I’d report it! They absolutely kill me these people. They’re everywhere 🙄

I would just try and work out when she was leaving the house and be ready to go wheel spinning into the space before he got there with the cones beeping at him if he was trying to place them!

My friend lives in a flat with non allocated parking and one of the residents painted around their car with emulsion and added the number of their flat.
It was freehand so all wonky!

I think YWBU to report it but as someone who also lives in a street of terraces with no off street parking this would really piss me off.

Everyone can park close to their house. There is literally no problem

@ScarfaceCwaw if there's no shortage of parking, then it's unlikely the neighbour would bother to put cones out. The fact they're doing so would suggest that everyone can't park close to their house

It's a public highway. No one has any more right to park on it. OP quite entitled to move the cones. Best it everyone else does it too. Possibly worth reporting to police / local authority, although I doubt they'll treat it as a priority. Bigger fish to fry

@YodaBabe

I don't think I'd actually report but the thought has filled my morning. I'm seriously thinking of taking up crochet so the cones can have little hats.

In other news the lady next door has moved the cones closer together so it should good watching a Toyota Prius fitting into a space for a fiat 500

Please update about this later then!

I think moving the cones is the only solution.

[quote YodaBabe]@ChonkyChook he sprints! There is a real danger some days of a flash from under his dressing gown the speed he moves [/quote]
This is such a hilarious image.
Race him tomorrow.

One of my former neighbours (I didn't kill them, we have relocated since) used to put cones in the road to save a space for his horsebox. Unfortunately for him, someone did report him and he got done for nicking council property, because he'd liberated the cones from some nearby roadworks. He stopped after that.

Why is it dangerous? It would annoy me too. Squash the cones or put them in their wheelie bins in the dead of night.

My neighbour did and it riled me as parking is quite hard anyway. I took the cones to the tip each time a new set appeared. Id report them, they don't own the street entitled arse holes.

Years ago, someone put cones in front of my house. Not us. I was wondering what was happening, but wasn't bothered. Then someone stuck them up in front of my house. Maybe it was someone like you.
Turned out it was something to do with work that was done on the road in the end.

I feel your irritation OP and commiserate.
I too have a conniving, cone shuffling character as a neighbour except my obsessive neighbour puts cones outside his own house and several other houses either side of his - whether we want them or not.
And, though we are a terraced house street, we have garages at the rear.
One neighbour regularly gets coned off and she doesn't even own a car.😂😂
It is a source of great amusement to the rest of us as we collect them up and fling them over his wall.
He gets up early, every morning, hail or shine, to move his car out of his garage to park it at the front of the house so no-one else can park there.
It sits there all day, goes nowhere until he moves it back to the garage in the evening.
I view it as a sort of animal scent marking.
As my old Mum used to say, "he's more to be pitied than blamed".

@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.

We had same! Neighbour three doors up used to put two cones in his space, which we promptly moved if we needed the space, popping them on his front path. Thanks for the space.

It didn’t cross our minds to obey the cones. He had no more right to the space than the rest of us. What a tit.

I would like to put myself forward as the person ppl can report neighbours to for putting parking cones out.
Or other MN parking infractions.
I will just and fair but firm.
I think my job title will be Chief Parking Dispute Adjudicator.
I will always post diagrams!!!

I should say ‘his’ space because of course it wasn’t his space.

Conversely we have an annoying neighbour who parks right outside our house even though there is space in front of hers on the other side...she just cba turning her car around to get into it. We end up parked outside hers while she parks outside ours. Stupid.
I’d never say anything to her about it, she can park where she likes...even if it defies common sense.

Ppl like this are entitled

I would mention it to the council. What would happen if everybody did this? Somebody with two cars wouldn't be able to park

Loving some of the passive aggressive digs to op by people justifying the local bully reserving a part of the public highway. Particularly the ones telling her she had too much time on her hands (the irony).

Someone near to me does this and he is a thug with a penchant for shouting and swearing at people who move the cones.

Hardly any parking in that road and he thinks he should not be inconvenienced but everyone else should.

The hell I would report it, my local council are good at dealing with things like this.

He gets up early, every morning, hail or shine, to move his car out of his garage to park it at the front of the house so no-one else can park there

This is such tragic behaviour, my friend has neighbours who do this, they have drives and don’t like people parking near their house.
They have had fake parking tickets glued on to their windscreens too if they move the cones.

This has reminded me of a road near me that has invented its own parking scheme. They all have little typed cards in their windscreens saying x Road Community Parking Scheme and there are homemade signs zip tied to gates saying permit parking only. It means absolutely nothing. I have no idea how it started but I have a feeling any newcomers are heavily persuaded into joining. Madness.

@TitusPullo that is bonkers!

www.bristol.gov.uk/parking/dispensations-and-coning-requests

These local parking vigilantes are saving a fortune in cone permission costs.

I would report as I’m a busy body with too much time and this would wind me up if I needed to park away with grocery shopping to carry back. Or maybe just join in and start putting cones outside your house.

Parking sucks and I live on a new build estate and there is not enough parking as houses make more money than building with parking.