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Locked parking thread 2

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BlueEyesWhiteDragon · 01/08/2021 07:38

Sorry everyone I didn't post a new thread last night but I was a bit freaked out by the comment about finding me online at the end.

Anyway as the world's most boring update it is still here but someone is coming round about lunchtime to pick it up.

I rang 101 and reported it and that I was concerned they'd essentially vanished. They said there wasn't anything they could do about the car as its on private land but I could be liable for any damage if I moved it and that they would check on the registered owner.

I posted it on a couple of the local Facebook groups last night saying
"Anyone know whose cat this is? Please get them to contact me urgently on xxxx as itll be being towed tomorrow"

I had a response from the guys DS and she said she'd contact him and get him ring me. He hasn't rang me but she messaged me back to say he'd collect it at lunchtime if that was OK. I've said fine but we going out at at 2 so if he's not here before then he won't be able to get it till we get back later.

And that's it really.

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alibongo5 · 01/08/2021 12:08

[quote GilbertsLuckySock]@PricklesAndSpikes your comments to me were the deleted ones, not mine, that’s clear from the other thread.

I don’t have to reveal my location or background or life story in order to be empathetic to an OP. I still maintain OP was wrong not to let the man’s car be released when he returned, doesn’t mean Im not sympathetic to the whole parking situation for rural residents.[/quote]
Erm. I think you were the first to have a post deleted. And the second I think. And then others were deleted because they quoted your deleted thread.

Billybagpuss · 01/08/2021 12:08

Checking the updates whilst cooking my chicken 😊

Hurry up cf it’s lunch time

GilbertsLuckySock · 01/08/2021 12:10

@SoupDragon Oh yes I called the OP ‘polite old lady’ and it was considered ageist after being reported. No idea what the others were.

All along I've said OP was wrong not to release the car when the man returned, but instead she sat there watching him and his kids.

His kid climbed over the OP garden fence to avoid her dogs she’d let out to run loose in the garden, meaning nobody could actually walk up to her door and knock and ask for the gate release. No wonder he abandoned the car and cycled home.

In my situation, I gave up, you can’t fight the FC. And now I actually encourage families to use the track. Or rather, I don’t mind. I’d much rather see people enjoying the countryside than trying to restrict them from parking by my property. To my knowledge, no hiker has ever walked off with our Manitou

TipseyTorvey · 01/08/2021 12:12

I'm on holiday, you'd think I'd be doing nice holiday things and "making memories with my DC" but no, I'm constantly checking back here desperate to find out what happens at 'lunchtime'. Hurry up CF.

DancesWithTortoises · 01/08/2021 12:13

Please go away, Gilbert, you've bored us long enough. You seem unable to read the room as advised.

SnoopyLights · 01/08/2021 12:14

What time is 'around lunchtime' though?

It means different things to different people, and it being Sunday can make lunchtime a lot later than a weekday lunchtime.

On a weekday, I'd be expecting him between 12pm - 1pm and I'd want him to turn up closer to the 12 than the 1.

On a Sunday, like you, people have a later lunch so if his idea of lunchtime is 2pm I'd still expect him / his sister (because he's a coward as well as a CF) to have said mid-afternoon. Sunday lunch with my parents is 4pm because they used to have work commitments and have kept to the schedule since retiring. But if he means 4pm the word lunchtime should never have been mentioned.

And what about your lunch? Even if you both have the exact same 'lunchtime' in mind, the clue is in the name, he should know you might want to actually be able to sit down and eat your lunch without him and his car messing with your day.

Franklydear · 01/08/2021 12:14

@GilbertsLuckySock really? You let people park inside your property? Even if that would stop you from securing it? I definitely wouldn't

bluebeck · 01/08/2021 12:16

I wonder why GilbertsLuckySocks has changed their username to GilbertsLuckySock for this second thread?

ButYouGottaHaveASkillJeff · 01/08/2021 12:17

[quote Franklydear]@GilbertsLuckySock really? You let people park inside your property? Even if that would stop you from securing it? I definitely wouldn't[/quote]

Please don't give it oxygen. They know what they're doing.

Summersun2020 · 01/08/2021 12:18

“Let the dogs out to run loose” wow, woman let’s own dogs freely roam own property, phone the police

SnoopyLights · 01/08/2021 12:18

My post reads like I'm saying you should fit in with their schedule of lunchtime as well, and I didn't mean it that way.

What he / his sister should have done was apologise profusely and ask you what time you wanted him there to collect the car. If you'd said 4:30am or 11:15pm, that's the time they should have arrived, not one minute earlier or later, and bringing something generous by way of an apology for the inconvenience he has caused you.

They should not be telling you what time he will drag his entitled backside to your gate.

WetBench · 01/08/2021 12:18

Let your DB deal with him, and I would expect CFer to be absolutely apologetic and sheepish and sorry.

Hathertonhariden · 01/08/2021 12:19

[quote GilbertsLuckySock]@PricklesAndSpikes your comments to me were the deleted ones, not mine, that’s clear from the other thread.

I don’t have to reveal my location or background or life story in order to be empathetic to an OP. I still maintain OP was wrong not to let the man’s car be released when he returned, doesn’t mean Im not sympathetic to the whole parking situation for rural residents.[/quote]
He made no attempt to get his car released either when they collected their lunch or when the dropped stuff off before their afternoon session. Clearly he didn't want the inconvenience of finding somewhere else to park. OP has said that she was just waiting for him to ask.

His lack of balls is hardly OP's fault. If she had done what you wanted and left the gate unlocked do you really think he would have closed it behind him when he left? Let alone letting her know that he was off so that she could secure the property?

I wouldn't release it to anyone without proof of ownership and would leave for lunch at 13.50 at the very latest.

PricklesAndSpikes · 01/08/2021 12:20

[quote GilbertsLuckySock]@HaveringWavering my location is very similar to OPs. We’re robust folk, and a little set to with a tourist parking his car illegally isn’t usually cause for online publication. We’d go out and tow it with the tractor if it was obstructing anything (shrug emoji). A big fuss was made over this by publishing it online, when OP could have just towed it as she said she lives on a farm.[/quote]
Hang on, so the OP was being totally unreasonable to politely advise the man he was on private property, warn him she would be closing her gates and then close her gates for insurance reasons, but you'd suggest she should have just towed the car? Possibly damaging it? And THAT'S okay? Because that's what "robust folk" do?! , oooookay then...

vivainsomnia · 01/08/2021 12:20

OP, I love how you are handling your two threads. You could give lessons on skillful MN posting. You post the issue clearly, you provide a sketch (and add some unwilling humour to it), you provide updates as and when required, there is no bit of valid information filtered with each new post. You dodge those attempts to making you unreasonable or questioning your actions with humour and finesse. You show no frustration and your grammar and use of words is exemplary and can't be questioned.

maybe you could offer some tutoring

tintodeverano2 · 01/08/2021 12:20

I really hope this isn’t a ploy for you to leave gates open and then stuff gets nicked!

Sparklfairy · 01/08/2021 12:20

IT'S LUNCHTIME

Mochudubh · 01/08/2021 12:21

Don't know what the weather's been like where you are OP but it's been tinder dry here for weeks. I'd be asking whoever comes back how the hell the Fire Brigade would get in to fight a forest fire.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 01/08/2021 12:22

@Mountainpika

He is the wicked step-father who took the children to the forest and left them there. The children are now being held prisoner by a weird old woman in a gingerbread house. She is at least feeding them well - and has a large cauldron of water on the fire to which she's adding assorted ingredients as she consults her ancient recipe book..........

You just made me LOL.

GilbertsLuckySock · 01/08/2021 12:23

@Franklydear It’s a similar location sort of backing onto a FC track. My driveway morphs into the FC track. It has a gate like OP, but not secured. The yard however is secure. If people want to park on the ‘drive’ at weekends and it isn’t obstructing anyone I’m fine with it. I take responsibility for the countryside, and also want people to enjoy it.

My comcern is that OP didn’t just tow the car, or let the man out when he returned, but instead published her drama all over Facebook and mumsnet. There was such a simple solution. But posting it on social media begs for snowball effect. The OPs post will probably be forwarded to the Daily Mail and then the location diagram really will be an issue for her. The thread diagram really needs to be deleted. As I said, I’ve been there, slightly different issue mind you as written upthread, and I appreciated the heads up. We’re all different though.

Somethingsnappy · 01/08/2021 12:23

Placemarking!

Biblionerd · 01/08/2021 12:23

Stop feeding the socktroll, she's clearly back pedaling harder than a CF parker with kids and bikes! OP has already said she found socktroll creepy and threatening, socktroll should back away from this thread rather than trying to defend some of the harsh, disgraceful and frankly threatening posts she made last night. We all saw them socktroll, we saw what you said and know exactly what you meant by them. Leave now so we can enjoy the exciting conclusion to the CF parker.

sandragreen · 01/08/2021 12:23

@tintodeverano2

I really hope this isn’t a ploy for you to leave gates open and then stuff gets nicked!

Absolutely!

Perhaps you should go out at around 1:45 OP? After all, this man has no idea of time anyway....

FairFuming · 01/08/2021 12:25

So he still hasn't moved his bloody car? Jesus

GilbertsLuckySock · 01/08/2021 12:25

@PricklesAndSpikes you don’t live rurally, do you.

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