Is it suspicious and should I report? Not Covid!

[pipsqueakbollock]

I say report - I mean the police but it is only suspicious to me - I moved here from London and have street cred awareness of surroundings.

I live in a super Naice Area. A stepford wives type housing estate. Well heeled, well to do, polite people, fashionable dogs and very quiet blah blah.

It's a complete dead end but has two roads in and out. It's quite large and has a supermarket in the middle so the main road at one end is busy but the rest is quiet.

I first saw this car maybe in November lockdown whilst walking with kids. Again in December twice. And again today. 4 times.

A man parked up. Windows open. (It's cold!). A 15 plate sporty Merc - nothing to note.

First time - parked up
Second time I saw him when I was driving home from work and he was driving out the estate (wiping his nose) right near where he parks.
Third time parked up - same place
Fourth time today - parked up same place.

Time always between 3-4pm.

When I saw him drive out he was alone so not picking someone up.

There is nothing to do on the road. It doesn't go anywhere. No schools are open.
He just sits there. Not on phone. Not talking. Just staring ahead.

Today I took a pretend photo of DC but actually was taking his number plate.

AIBU to be suspicious?
What do you think he's up to?

If there were other people there that were approaching the car then I'd say it was drugs. Even if only one person approached the car, I would find that suspicious.

However, if he is literally just sitting in his car, all alone, I can't see what crime he could be committing.

The disrespect to the OP on this thread is outrageous! She has London street cred awareness, LONDON STREET CRED AWARENESS - give her the respect that deserves for crying out loud!

WTF is going on with MN tonight..

Please tell me you're taking the piss..

He wouldn’t last 2 minutes where I live. We’d have spotted him blowing his nose and the sniffer dogs would have been in before he could sneeze . Don’t report op, there’s some funny goings on outside the big city.

Its a convenient place to wait before picking someone up?

@Hadjab

The disrespect to the OP on this thread is outrageous! She has London street cred awareness, LONDON STREET CRED AWARENESS - give her the respect that deserves for crying out loud!

Sorry *Other cities are available

What are you up to? You sound dubious in the extreme, prowling the neighbourhood, spying on people and photographing them. Maybe you should stop before somebody posts on here about you. Or reports you.

@Sapho47 He looks exactly like he's waiting to pick someone up but he isn't - I saw him drive out alone. Plus it's not a through route to anywhere, no station, bus stop, offices.

Just sitting there with the windows open.

@usedandabusedx1000

I’m dying at the fact you have noted that one of these times he was wiping his nose. Fucking hell.

I thought everyone knew it was illegal to wipe your nose in a built up area, @usedandabusedx1000.

Sleeping baby in the back?

I need to add at this point, the nose wiping took place on a roundabout so low speeds were involved. It was excessive.

@WishIWasAsGoodAsBlueysMum no baby, even the back windows are half open.

Maybe he is one of those people who is secretly sexually attracted to inanimate objects and he is in an adulterous relationship with his car. He parks down a quiet street to get alone time with it? Have you gotten close enough to observe if he is rubbing his cock on the steering wheel or shoving the gear stick up his jacket.

Not up his jacket

FFS...

Up his jacksy.

Pissing autocorrect ruined my ha ha.

He could probably just be having a wee spliff to himself down a quiet cul de sac

The posh people around here always seem to park up before or after work in a quiet cul de sac doing some sort of recreational drugs so they aren’t on a main high street or car park

I wouldn’t bother reporting it

@pipsqueakbollock

There's nothing on this but of road. No houses - all the cul-de-sacs lead off from the road he is on. So he's not overlooked as such and ERGO he isn't private investigating anyone by watching them. - there's nothing to watch.

That’s why he’s choosing to park there then. He won’t be in front of anyone’s house so not bothering them. It doesn’t matter what he’s doing, he could have dropped his wife off for shopping and not fancy sitting in a busy car park or he could have finished work early and be waiting for her to finish her shift at the supermarket and just want some fresh air while sitting waiting to pick her up. I’d rather not sit in a supermarket car park for an hour.

Hello is that the police?
I just saw a man wiping his nose!

Thing is, this is a tell that people who are doing crap surveillance and think they've been spotted do - they hide their face - it is a common way for noticing a tail / casing the joint. Surveillance isn't necessarily harmful, and crap surveillance could be a private detective, a husband who thinks is wife having an affair, or it could be a criminal, although less likely here as the OP says nothing is really overlooked.

But there are of course lots of completely innocent reasons why someone chooses to park up there, particularly if it's somewhere there's nothing to overlook, so no-one to bother, whilst still being a bit out of the way.

Estate agent between appointments and doesn't want to loiter outside the house he's doing a viewing on. EA's ofter allow too much time between appointments so they don't have to rush people, and viewings are probably quite quick at the moment.

I often sit for a few minutes on a side street near home on my way back from work, just to decompress before walking into the house and people needing stuff from me. I sometimes even open the car windows. Wonder if the curtain twitching neighbours have reported me?

What crime do you think has been / is being committed here...?

Maybe he likes sniffing marker pens and has to find a discreet spot to do it because he pilfered them from the office stationary cupboard.

Wiping his nose?!! Call 999.

Maybe he is waiting for his bit on side. Mistress,etc

Or
He could be into swinging op (into grown up fun times.?

It's a complete dead end but has two roads in and out.

Well that’s a fine oxymoron for a Thursday evening.

I (semi-frequently) go to a car park near home. I sit and read Mumsnet. Sometimes I get a takeaway coffee. Sometimes I don't. I usually do it round about when I go to the supermarket. It's the only bit of peace I get and I love it.