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?

So they said. I don’t think the police announce raids 🤨

Concerned about what? If he wanted to murder you, you’d be dead already.

but just in case take a pic of his car and send it to your group chat and say “if im
dead in the morning, it was the guy in this car.”

seriously though, do not call the non emergency number it’s really not a police level issue. It’s just a bloke in a car on your street.
annoying yes, a murderer / burglar highly unlikely or if they are. A very crappy one.

It sounds like you and all the neighbours are hoping for some sort of excitement, but I don’t think it’s illegal to sit in a parked car so doubt it’s worth taking police time to report it. I would assume he’s either waiting for something or has a problem with his car

Do you live in Brighton? Does he look a bit like John Simm and answer to the name of Roy Grace?

Doubt I'd give it a second thought tbh! What do you think he's going to do to you?

It's weird behaviour. He could easily be casing the joint or watching a person or property. Take a photo and number plate, and report to non-emergency if he comes back and does the same.

He’s running the engine while the car is stationary. That’ll do for a start.

And a fraud investigator would be more discreet.

And the pollution!

Haven’t you got a password on it?

In my village it’s hard enough to get the police out for a burglary. They’re hardly going to come for ‘running the engine while the car is stationary’.

I assume you asked for their IDs?

I have a job where I regularly have a lot of time to kill between clients. I'll find somewhere random to park.

Police, private investigator could be many innocuous things.

Jesus have you nothing better to do. There was a van parked in our actual drive for a bit this morning (it’s the whole width of the house, 4 vehicles wide, and opens straight onto a lane that has no other safe parking). I was pottering about in the house with DS. Whoever it was caused me no inconvenience or harm and went on their way after whatever reason they’d been parked there for was done, I assume they had some business with a neighbour. It genuinely wouldn’t have entered my head to call the police, I hadn’t given it a second thought until reading this thread.

I'm interested how you would deduce someone's occupation from their hot drink preference? Although, engaging in conversation seems like an obvious way to clear up the mystery.

Could be a private investigator, could be undercover police, could be someone trying to case a house, could just be a weirdo.

What seems to work in my town is take a picture of the car with the reg and put a post on the local Facebook page. 9 times out of 10 there’s a explanation and if there isn’t report it to the non emergency police line as a suspicious vehicle. Our local police all have a Facebook page and I see them post things like this all the time.

I read that as you "kill clients"!!!

Near to us, the local FB blew up with something similar. It turned out the man was a carer between morning and afternoon calls - it wasn't worth going home.
Now he parks on a road and people pop out and give him a drink and some people bake cakes for him!
😍

Electric car??

He’s free to sit in his car but it’s completely irresponsible of him to keep the car idling. Appreciate you might not want to approach a man though.

Oh, I didn’t see that bit.

The OPs…

Log it with the police, OP. And then cancel the cheque.

if you say so.
A random MN poster says it, so it must be true 😂

They do where I live. We are opposite a secondary school and after complaints to 101 they monitor regularly.