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AIBU?

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Original poster

Well yes I am, I know I am. But still am absolutely enraged

67 replies

sweetfall · 27/06/2009 12:59

that some tosser has parked his/her Audi TT outside my house for 10 days straight, and hasn't bothered to move it at all. This means that when I swoop up the road I now have to actually do a reverse parking maneouvre rather than just park in one move to curve manouvre outside my own bloody house which is so conveniently located on a corner.

Move your bloody car and park it outside your own house.

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whereeverIlaymyhat · 27/06/2009 13:01

I feel your pain it used to happen to us all the time.
Make a note of when his road tax runs out and keep an eye in case he forgets

hocuspontas · 27/06/2009 13:04

Do you live near an airport? We have cars outside our house for days on end because we live about 8 miles from Stansted. V. annoying I agree, but, if it's a public road there's not much you can do. Report it as being abandoned?

Original poster
sweetfall · 27/06/2009 13:05

it's tax is up to date believe me I have looked

I am going to send kids out to have a flour and egg fight on the pavement

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GentlyDidIt · 27/06/2009 13:10

YABU

Unless it's actually blocking your drive or a dropped kerb, or is untaxed.

The piece of road outside your house belongs to the public.

GentlyDidIt · 27/06/2009 13:14

hang on though... you say you're on a corner... does that make the car very close to a junction? That might be grounds for ringing the police (non-urgent!) and asking them to contact the registered keeper about it for that reason.

Original poster
sweetfall · 27/06/2009 13:14

well I know that but it still pisses me off I have been parking quite happily for 9 years and now somebody has disrupted my flow man

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Ivykaty44 · 27/06/2009 13:15

Get a drive

whereeverIlaymyhat · 27/06/2009 13:17

Actually that's a good point about it being dangerously parked if it's within a certain distance of a corner.

GentlyDidIt · 27/06/2009 13:21

I know you know , but it is annoying.

Could you spread word among the neighbours that you are rubbish at reverse parking (I'm sure you're not) and keep nearly hitting this Audi outside?

Original poster
sweetfall · 27/06/2009 13:22

I do keep touching its bumper when I reverse park

What do you think of the kids having a flour fight on the pavement?

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TheProfiteroleThief · 27/06/2009 13:25

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moondog · 27/06/2009 13:27

I'd get some mates around to pick it up and move it away.

TheChilliMoose · 27/06/2009 13:33

If it gets accidentally damaged and no-one sees it would be a great shame, no?

Ivykaty44 · 27/06/2009 13:45

Has the car been stolen? Has the owner been rushed to hospital? Why would someone leave a car in a random street miles from the home?

I was parking my car legally on the street a few days in a row as I was looking after my father who had two broken arms at the same time - the guy came out of his house some doors up from where I was parked and told me not to park on the road, I needed to get to my dads house and couldn't walk as I needed to take him for appointments etc and he had an infection.

TBH I thought the guy was a twat with nothing better to do than try to regulate who parked in the street, I was worried he would get his kids to have a flour fight or damage the car - I was stressed enough as it was without the added stupidity

hambler · 27/06/2009 13:48

You are totally unreasonable, but you know that

A bit shocked at the thuggish mentality of some here but maybe I am missing a "joke"

edam · 27/06/2009 13:48

do you have/can you borrow any young children still in a buggy? It would be such a shame if you tried to squeeze past the Audi and accidentally scraped the paintwork...

OK, OK, I know it is legally parked but leaving your car on a residential street away from your own for ten days is a bit odd. Actually, round here the police would come round and check it out - they did when someone left a car in the bays opposite my house for a couple of weeks (even though it's not residents' parking).

thumbwitch · 27/06/2009 13:52

you could always report it as an abandoned vehicle if you don't know who owns it - it might give the owner somethign to think about if the police stick a nice big Police Aware sticker on it!

TheChilliMoose · 27/06/2009 14:37

I guess I am a thug then, but I would be a bit miffed at a car being parked outside for 10 days when I didn't know who it belonged to.
Thinking about it, I would give the local police a call as it is a nice car and maybe has been stolen.

hambler · 27/06/2009 15:24

Yes, call the police because is is definitely odd for a nice car to be left on a street for 10 days but don't damage it just because it is" on your turf"!

Original poster
sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:14

it is still bloody well there and still hasn't be moved once

[rant]

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purepurple · 04/07/2009 09:16

but you don't own the road
or do you?
you have no legal rights over the road in front of your house

Original poster
sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:18

never said I did. Never said I was being reasonable. I am annoyed by it. I'm allowed to be.

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Original poster
sweetfall · 04/07/2009 09:19

it inconveniences me - they could park it round the corner at the side of my house where there is no front door and plenty of space - I had to carry my shopping across the road - took 5 trips

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TheProvincialLady · 04/07/2009 09:21

I don't get it. I never have got it and never will. It's a car and it's in the road. Perhaps not the bit of road where you would prefer it to be, but essentially in the right place for a car to be - the road.

Start a thread when you find a car in your front bedroom and I will have some sympathy.

idranktheteaatwork · 04/07/2009 09:22

If the car hasn't been moved once in ten days then i would report it as abandoned, because it probably is.
I had a rather nice car stolen a couple of years ago, it was found parked on a quiet residential street when an irate homeowner reported it.
It's common, young twats people steal a car, have a bit of fun for the evening and then dump it somewhere inconspicuous.

If however it is being moved during the day then there is n't actually anything you can do.

Some lovely ideas on here about scratching the car etc, oh how much better i would have felt when my car was found if there was additional damage from a pissed off resident as well.

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