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AIBU?

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Original poster

to be annoyed about cars parked on my street?

39 replies

frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:21

I live in a quiet cul de sac a short walk from our local train station. The station has a paying car park, so a lot of people tend to park on our street and walk to the station.

This morning someone has parked with their front wheels on my lawn, and I am so irratated.

Dh seems to think I am becoming a curtain twitching moaner, and in truth I am not sure why it gets on my nerves so much.
So am I BU and turning into my Nan, or would you be cross?

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flowerybeanbag · 12/06/2008 10:23

YABU being annoyed about people parking on your street if there are no restrictions. YANBU about people parking on your lawn, that's definitely not on.

Have you and your neighbours considered asking for parking restrictions, permits and suchlike, if the current situation means you struggle to park your own cars?

Bumdiddley · 12/06/2008 10:26

YANBU. Cars are allowed to park on the kerb on my road. Try manouevering a buggy 'round a 4x4 half on the pavement...We are also near a tube station.
I'm tempted to give ds my keys let him run them along all the badly parked cars!!

charliecat · 12/06/2008 10:26

YANBU about the lawn parking.

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:27

I suppose I feel cross because we moved here so dd could play out in a quiet environment, and since the introduction of the paying system at the station it is not quiet anymore.

It is the car parked on my lawn that is really annoying me tbh, not the cars parked elsewhere.
Other streets in our area had the same problem and now have permit systems, but parking for their visitors is limited now.

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Chequers · 12/06/2008 10:28

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CarGirl · 12/06/2008 10:30

Take a note of the registration number - I wonder if the police would supply you with their address as they've damaged your property - take photos too. Write up a bill to have that part of your lurn returfed and slip it under their windscreen wiper? Does the lay out of the garden mean it is not obvious that it's your front lawn rather than communual land?

CarGirl · 12/06/2008 10:31

lurn = lawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:31

I have that problem too, Bumdiddley, this car is completely covering the pavement, and last week the binmen couldn't collect rubbish as they could not get their truck down the street.

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PinkChick · 12/06/2008 10:32

take a photo and put note on windscreen saying you have alerted police to the fact a car has been 'dumped' in your garden

claricebeansmum · 12/06/2008 10:32

Isn't parking on your lawn trespass?

I would be tempted to call your local police station and your local council parking enforcement.

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:32

No, tis obvious is my garden.

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MONKEYMONKEY · 12/06/2008 10:33

AAHH we get this allsortsof people park outside our house. We don't have room for our car and its like a bloody war. We get a big bus park down here which takes up 2 parking spaces and people who park over a ramped drive. oooohhh I could go on for ever.

CarGirl · 12/06/2008 10:34

yes ring your local community police. I would be fuming. Buy a clamp & put up a clamping notice?????

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:34

It is only front wheels on the lawn, though.

Not left in the garden!

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pregnantpopcornprincess · 12/06/2008 10:35

I'm not sure if tis will work for you but a road near me as a similar problem and they put a couple of cones along the edge of their grass so that people can't park on their lawn. Not very pleasing to the eye for the homeowner but it works.

OrmIrian · 12/06/2008 10:35

We have the same problem. In fact parking generally is a nightmare. There is a paying car park and as in your area, everyone prefers the free parking in the streets . At nights it's just residents though and the situation is even worse.

We are getting parking permits soon but as they don't restrict the number they give out I can envisage the problem being just as bad.

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:36

Haha to clamping.
I would enjoy that, I could get myself a flourescent jacket and security guard cap

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WilyWombat · 12/06/2008 10:40

take a photo and put note on windscreen saying you have alerted police to the fact a car has been 'dumped' in your garden

I second that one!!

WorzselMummage · 12/06/2008 10:41

My Nan went and got some bit rocks and put them along the front edge of her lawn, it worked and the do lok a lot nicer than cones !

Freckle · 12/06/2008 10:42

Can't you treat your lawn with some substance which is fatal to rubber?? Or results in tyres going down?

TheHedgeWitch · 12/06/2008 10:43

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nickytwotimes · 12/06/2008 10:45

I don't care if people park outside my house, but the lawn thing is not on.

WilyWombat · 12/06/2008 10:45

I do live in a quite rural area but the community police have a word with people who park on the pavements here. A lot of areas have made it illegal under local bylaws so it might be worth checking it out on your local councils website.

PinkChick · 12/06/2008 10:57

can you get hold of a police stinger and make some lovely decorative lawn edging with it?

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frankiesbestfriend · 12/06/2008 10:59

Thanks ladies.
Feel reassured I have not become miserable prematurely aging housewife
Have left note on windscreen, am going out now, don't fancy a confrontation with the driver.

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