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For wanting revenge?

23 replies

grabagran · 07/06/2010 09:52

My sister had a night out with a female friend last week and parked her car at 7pm in her friend's cul-de-sac, full of detached houses costing 600k+. She parked legally in front of a neighbouring garden as there were no other spaces in the street, and picked up her car at 10 am the following morning to see a nasty gouge along the side ending under the back door handle. It was so obviously deliberate she burst into tears. An elderly man mowing his lawn next to her asked her what was wrong and she explained. He replied "What do you expect parking there?" to which she answered, baffled "What do you mean?". He then sais "Well I don't want to see a car there every time I look out of my window!". My sister was speechless, reported him to the police and was told there was nothing they could do without proof.Her friend then told her he is an awkward old man who hates anyone parking outside his house. What can she do in return??(that is within the law of course!)

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jenroy29 · 07/06/2010 09:57

She should do nothing, rise above it, what a disgusting little man.
I personally would park there again and film it, hopefully he would do it again and then I would have proof.

thesecondcoming · 07/06/2010 09:59

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Chandra · 07/06/2010 10:01

Put herbicide in his freshly mowed lawn?

Just kidding, I think she should do nothing. Although he is a bad person who can sleep well after doing that, your sister is not. She would feel worse in the aftermath of taking revenge.

mistressploppy · 07/06/2010 10:02

Good god, what an evil git. Agree with jenroy29 - do not retaliate but try to get him hauled up for it

OrmRenewed · 07/06/2010 10:04

Horrible man!

Gouge his lawnmower

haoshiji · 07/06/2010 10:08

Dog shit + Letterbox =

catinthehat2 · 07/06/2010 10:29

I dunno.

You need a taxed & insured car, very cheap, so very unsightly.

Park.

Leave.

comewhinewithme · 07/06/2010 10:33

Weedkiller on lawn.

I do like catinthehats idea though.

TheFruitWhisperer · 07/06/2010 10:35

How are we sure it was this old man? He could just be expressing the views of the whole cul de sac?

Cul de sacs are very strange places in my view...

ZacharyQuack · 07/06/2010 10:39

Can you order a skip to be left outside his house for a month or two?

Or a very large and unslightly camper van?

BessieBoots · 07/06/2010 10:40

Stand outside his garden for a good hour, staring in.

Should freak him out.

lamplighter · 07/06/2010 10:44

Yep - Catinthehat's idea - a knackered Ford Escort - taxed and insured, drive up and leave it there. Make sure there is a working alarm that is very sensitive.

Gay40 · 07/06/2010 10:47

Weedkiller that you can pour precisely, and write "Miserable Old C**t" on his lawn. No amount of mowing will get rid of it.

DinahRod · 07/06/2010 10:50

Book an undertaker to come and measure him up

Or do nothing and move on knowing that she is so much better than that; such malicious people generally don't live happy or good lives.

Ladyanonymous · 07/06/2010 10:52

Put England flags/stickers/magnetic banners on the Escort

jenroy29 · 07/06/2010 10:52

I love these threads, they release the inner bitch!

lamplighter · 07/06/2010 10:57

Put him on every mailing list known to man!

slug · 07/06/2010 10:59

Send him a series of jiffy bags with raw prawns in it. At least one of them will get held up in the post so will be very smelly when he eventually gets it.

Wrap a brick or an empty box up and send it to him, but deliberately put the wrong postage on it. He will get a card saying there is a parcel with insufficient postage (make sure it's only something small like 50p). He will have to toddle down to the Post Office, pay up the cash, only to discover a brick.

Post leaflets in all the houses in his Cul De Sac about the uhnsightly garden at No: twat man's house. Suggest a meeting to discuss the eyesore.

noyoucant · 07/06/2010 11:04

Does he like pizza? Get one delivered to him. Every thirty minutes, after 10pm...

uggmum · 07/06/2010 11:04

I have a nutty neighbour who places notes on cars everytime they park outside his house. He gets up at 6am to move his car from his drive to outside the house every morning and puts it back at night. I live on a really quiet residential street.

I would buy a cheap 'spare or repair' car, you can prob get one for £100 (they are usually taxed for a few months. I would park it outside his house and leave it there. It would eventually be removed but would piss him off for ages. I fully intend to do this if my neighbour annoys me.

lets have a whip round!

HerBeatitude · 07/06/2010 11:06

What is wrong with these mad people who think they own the public highway?

Just what is wrong with them?

Am loving some of these revenge ideas.

Ladyanonymous · 07/06/2010 11:14

Parking is an issue in my road - not many of us have ORP.

My next door neighbours house resembles something you might see on "Life of Grime" and they are a rather eccentric couple. They also have parking for about 4 cars on their large driveway if it wasn't so full of shit. They also have 3 cars (being a couple there are only two of them) .

Sometimes he will move all 3 of his cars out of his driveway, peppering them around the road, leaving his driveway empty and others having to park in neighbouring roads with kids/shopping etc.

If anyone parks slightly over his drop kerb he chalks around the car like a dead body and writes the reg - in chalk - on the road and proceeds to take a photo

I decided - as I am most affected living next door if I can't beat him to befriend them - they love me and I am now "allowed" to park over his driveway if I need to while everyone else is still getting chalked

lamplighter · 07/06/2010 11:51

I once lived in a tiny little street that was a dead end and parking was just random - you parked where there was a space and it worked. Everyone who lived there just accepted it.

A new couple moved in both with large cars and insisted on parking outside their house AND in front of our neighbour's house. The whole street ended up in chaos with them knocking on doors late at night asking people to move from their space. The bloke once spent two hours walking up and down in front of our neighbour's window staring in trying to get her to move. She had arrived home with her four month old baby and a boot full of shopping and he asked her to park at the end of the road!

They lasted there less than a year - rule number one; Get on with your neighbours because we found a thousand ways of winding them up (all legal). They were really nasty people though!

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