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?

What do you suppose would happen if you did?

This is about as ridiculous as a recent thread discussing whether to report a man for walking past a school.

I genuinely don’t know how some MNers get through the day.

This is literally a non-event.
It would barely even register with me, let alone ‘freak me out’.

I just assume that these women have nothing going on in their lives and so someone parked on their street is a massive event in their lives.

I guess they’re hoping that it’s something untoward so that they get a little excitement in their lives.

Myself and others posters have parked in residential streets before and so have thousands of other people.
It is such a normal thing to do,

he could get out on the pretext of talking to her grab her push her in it happens don’t be so naive

I’ve got to be honest I’d have gone and asked what he was up to. It’s not normal behaviour to sit in a car for that length of time especially turning the engine on and off.

I've often sat parked up for hours if I've arrived to find a face to face meeting cancelled, but have another close by later that day. Engine on and off to keep phone & laptop charged, or to keep car cool or warm depending on time of year. For many of us, our cars are like a mobile office. We work from them in between meetings, park up to log onto MS Teams meetings etc, and don't want to pay to sit in a dingy multi-storey when we can park in a quiet side road.

There are SO many reasons that he could have stopped. It’s a public street! He’s not blocking your drive. He’s clearly waiting for something/someone.
A few weeks ago, I was seeing DF in hospital miles away from my house. On the way home I needed to stop to join a remote work call. I stopped in the nearest street to wait for the call to start.

He might be a drug dealer or burglar that shoots her

If you did that to me I’d tell you to get lost and stop harassing me I’m allowed to park on a public street in peace

This

Its obviously too late now but I had an uncle that had gone missing one afternoon, he was found when a woman had report him to the police for sitting outside her out for a really long period of time. Its turned out his blood sugars with his diabetes had gone off the scale and he didnt know where he was or what he was doing himself. It was that bad he had been starting to loose his eyesight and was scared to move again.
We were very thankful to that lady for reporting him and therefore finding him and he was able to get the medical help he needed.

Who cares about the kind of thing?! It wouldn’t bother me at all

For someone so "Norris Cole" as you've been coming across this was surprisingly funny. Thank you for springing it on us.👍🏻 I like it.

But just because it's not "normal" (🙄) doesn't mean it's concerning behaviour.

I do this as my job, in fact im doing it right now, if I ever get approached I have loads of cover stories ready so even if he was asked I doubt you would get the truth.

I dont sit there with my car idling though, and I also choose places where im less likely to be spotted by neighbours, and often I sit in the back of the car and with the tinted windows no one would ever know theres someone in there.

Im not there for nefarious purposes though, but in a law enforcement kind of way

Well you sound very busy and important. The fact is that much as you don’t want to pay to wait in a car park, the resident of the house you’ve parked outside doesn’t want to listen to your car engine running, or your phone dialling through your radio, or your teams calls, or to be subjected to your engine fumes. And idling your engine is illegal. So don’t be inconsiderate of others.

Without anyone noticing? And that's really likely in a public street on a light afternoon I'm sure.

And how's he getting out of she's blocking the door talking through the window anyway.

I have a variety of reasons why people could be parked outside mine, but someone who stays in their car for that length of time? Nope, can't think of a good reason. I'd have the reg, make, model and colour, arrive and departure time noted down and the road WhatsApp would know about it.

FWIW I too am annoyed when someone else parks in the spot outside my house, even though they are perfectly entitled to. "They've parked in my parking space!" Hahaha.

Yes, as it is not illegal here to do so. Better than a corpse inside a hot car outside their house I would think (which is why it’s not illegal here)🤷‍♀️.

Except lots of people on here have said it's a normal part of their working day for them, myself included. Just because something is outside of your own bubble doesn't mean it's not normal or that there's something wrong with it.

If they don't want people outside their house they need to buy a house with land. Assuming the person in the car is compliant with VED they've got every right to be there.
Of course, courtesy is to vary where you park, and if you can park next to a blank wall or large hedge rather than outside a window then great. But if I came on here and told you I drive back and forth to the office in between visits on the same estate I'd have people complaining that I added to congestion, pollution and were wasting their taxpayers money being inefficient in my job!

That was my first thought.

Id be wondering who on my street was fiddling benefits...

A friend in East Bristol had a car used for drug dealing parked outside their Terraced House for weeks. He was worried if he reported it they would be retribution. A man charging hid phone for a couple of hours is harmless.
Have you tried a hard stare?

Doesn't matter! Much better safe than sorry imo!