Man in a car parked outside my house all afternoon

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Since at least 2 pm. Terraces with on street parked so directly outside the house. He is has just been sat there all the time, engine on for half an hour then off again, presumably to stop the battery draining if he is using something electrical.

There are plenty of car parks in the area so no reason to be here. He saw my come back and go in the house so presumably its nothing to do with me, but its freaking me out a bit (and pissed me off as I had to park on another road!).

We are not on a road with shops or a school or doctors etc so no reason to be waiting there for someone for such a long time!

Worth taking the reg in case he comes back tomorrow do we think?

Have you not heard of books?

Why isn't your internet password protected?

I get why you might look twice but unless the guy was on the road for a few days, I wouldn’t really think about it. When you first started talking about taking his plate for the police, he’d only been there three hours! I’ve sat in my car doing puzzles and taking some time out on random streets for longer than that.

So do I however the police were watching a house of a suspected ‘escort’ on a tip off!

Apparently they choose inconspicuous locations to operate from!

Behave. Of course they were police.

It happened outside our house some years ago. I asked and the guy was police watching the home of a jury member. He was very relaxed.

I was even asked myself once when waiting for a friend on what was a mainly Army patch.

Op, I would have been a bit anxious about that too.
As usual most of the mumsnet brigade like to make you out to be everything they are, and you’re not.

Sorry. I was trying to be reassuring.

I didn’t mean you!

Did you find out who he was/why he was there?

But to be reasonable, that's what people would say to someone obviously freaking out about it. People ant work aren't going to say 'get a grip love' are they?!

Oh! Good.

We had this years ago, turned out to be a reporter from a newspaper, neighbours father had been involved in a serious crime and he was looking to speak to her about it. We had no clue and only found out when we mentioned the odd man hanging around to another neighbour they had also thought it was strange and had actually asked him what he was doing there.

Check that front and back number plates are the same and then check car tax and mot on the gov website. At least you’ll know if the car is legitimately on the road even if it’s annoying.

I cannot imagine being ‘freaked out’ by this! I’m sorry you feel like this but it’s highly unlikely to be anything concerning.
I sit in my car on residential streets frequently to work on my iPad, sometimes for a few hours . I’m in Care work . I often have client meetings to prep for, plans to write, emails, phone calls, all sorts to do and it’s not worth driving back to the office which is miles away. My car is my office! I hope I do hope I’m not scaring people.

It would have bothered me too, OP.
i hope he doesn’t come back.
You are right to be watchful.
Take no notice of the insults on here xx

Police , journo PI or maybe a fella trying to catch his partner out if he thinks they are having an affair ? Id be intrigued to know tho 😂😂

The drug dealers on my street do this, but after dark. Sometimes it wakes me up at around 11pm, the music, the thumping base and one time I saw someone dropping rock after rock of crack onto their pipe as they sat in their car. I'm on a side street so they are very unlikely to be caught Not someone I would be approaching to ask them what they were doing!

It's bonkers not to be suspicious. What the hell is he doing?

Whatever it is, unless you catch him in the act of committing an obvious crime, it's none of your bloody business.

I doubt very much the police will send someone to check idling outside of a house when victims of crimes need to wait days for a police visit.

I did that on Sunday and wondered if any nosy locals would be watching me and wondering why I was there! DD was attending dance training in a small town all day, and it’s too far from our home to go back home in between drop off and pick up, so I had to wait in the area. I’d been there all day and by early afternoon, I’d exhausted all the shops in town and had a lovely walk around the park. So I just parked my car on a random residential street halfway between the town centre and the dance studio, and sat in my car for 90 minutes.

My auntie did this once when she saw a couple of men looking suspicious in a car. A while later she got a call back from a very amused police officer - she had spotted a couple of their CID officers on surveillance!

YANBU though OP, it's not the car there - it's the person inside and concern about their intentions.

Dad wasn't really a book person - I'm sure he had a newspaper with him.

Books would be a terrible idea for me though because I get fully submerged when reading a book and would miss everything I was supposed to be surveilling. Phone scrolling wouldn't be as engrossing.

I don't think those who wouldn't be freaked out are insulting you. They just feel differently. I feel differently because I have had reason to be the one parked, so I understand why people might do it.

Usually is something is 'up' and dodgy, you can get a vibe from the behaviour of the person in the car. I'd wonder what they heck they were doing all that time, but unless there was something 'off' going on or they were constantly staring at my house, or staring at my house and taking notes or something, I wouldn't have a problem with it (because I've done the sitting in the car for very innocent reasons thing). If the vibe is something is off, call the police to check it out.

How do you know they were to the Police? It's the best excuse if you were up to something dodgy.