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[SueEllen]

This is why we need Women's parking spaces. I've actually seen them before, in Amsterdam.

The space is actually very tight which is why I'm puzzled why someone would park in it instead of parking 5 metres away where they are less likely to be involved in an accident either getting in or out of their car or when they reversing out.

[shaunbhoy]

Can't you just block them in? Then wait for them to come back and have one **** off almighty row with them to whit you can then say 'You blocked me in and now you can stay here until the end of eternity without any hope of ever moving your car you f**king useless geriatic ****.

Bleeding conciliatory pansy!!!

[SueEllen]

A few hours later I get a phone call from the police saying:

“Er, Mr hyperD, we’ve had a phone call from a Mr xxxxx to say that that is his car you have, um possibly blocked in. Is there any chance you could move it soon as he has to now take the train to pick his car up back from Birmingham…”

I sent the note he attached to my windscreen to my solicitors for safe keeping.

[AtW]

“Er, Mr hyperD, we’ve had a phone call from a Mr xxxxx to say that that is his car you have, um possibly blocked in. Is there any chance you could move it soon as he has to now take the train to pick his car up back from Birmingham…”

So it was you then!!!

[hyperD]

I’ve often found out, in the past, that phoning the police to say there’s a car in my space or blocking me in normally responds with a “not our problem, phone the council” and phoning the council responds in a diametric “not our problem, phone the police”.

Well, this one time, at band camp, I came home one Friday to my flat in Surrey to find yet another car parked in my parking space. At this point you get frustrated at the dawning realisation it’s not the multitude of signs declaring this a private parking space, but at the fact that other drivers know they can get away with parking there and not having to pay for the town’s public car park.

Tired and beyond the point of caring, I simply dumped my wreck of an Escort behind his car, and went away for the weekend.

I came back Sunday evening to find the car still there so I phoned the police to say someone had dumped a car for several days in my private parking spot.

A few hours later I get a phone call from the police saying:

“Er, Mr hyperD, we’ve had a phone call from a Mr xxxxx to say that that is his car you have, um possibly blocked in. Is there any chance you could move it soon as he has to now take the train to pick his car up back from Birmingham…”

I sent the note he attached to my windscreen to my solicitors for safe keeping.

[wim121]

You don't need a white H - parking across a dropped kerb is illegal anyway.

Yes it is, but you can have a H painted well beyond the dropped curb to give you room to manoeuvre, lets say, if you have to drive through an access at an angle for instance or have a narrow width street and need to have extra room to do a 90* turn.

[Freamon]

Ce?

Anyway, my point is, it is criminal damage.






Yes but you stop that idiot permanently. After a car impound, they wont shrug that off like a parking ticket. Eventually you'll get there.

If you dont have keep clear lines or a white H painted on the road, the council will do it for a couple of hundred. That will mean that traffic wardens will automatically ticket cars straight away instead of using their own judgement. Councils are also more inclined to clamp when markings and notices are clearly displayed as they are a massive money spinner.

If you wanted, you could make money off it by clamping people, but that really isn't technically legal on a public highway.

You don't need a white H - parking across a dropped kerb is illegal anyway.

[wim121]

Hard != impossible.

Ce?

Anyway, my point is, it is criminal damage.

There is more than one person doing this so while it will remove one idiot the next week there will be another idiot doing it.

I'm working on a permanent solution.

Yes but you stop that idiot permanently. After a car impound, they wont shrug that off like a parking ticket. Eventually you'll get there.

If you dont have keep clear lines or a white H painted on the road, the council will do it for a couple of hundred. That will mean that traffic wardens will automatically ticket cars straight away instead of using their own judgement. Councils are also more inclined to clamp when markings and notices are clearly displayed as they are a massive money spinner.

If you wanted, you could make money off it by clamping people, but that really isn't technically legal on a public highway.

[Freamon]

I suspect it's a woman with children or an old man.

This is why we need Women's parking spaces. I've actually seen them before, in Amsterdam.

[SueEllen]

Bit silly for you to do this. Technically, you are the criminal here. Using something to deface their car like a sticky substance can be classified as criminal damage.

Hard != impossible.

Not to mention you are being even more inconsiderate than a careless parker.

Not really as they will still be able to see out of their windows.

Just go through the correct channels, all you do is dial your local fuzz station and say "There is a car blocking my driveway/access road, could you tell the owner to move it or tow it away please as I need access now". The police will then attempt to contact the owner and if they can't, send out a flat-bed and tow the car away, billing the owner tow and impound fees. Far more effective way of dealing with it as they wont be doing that a second time.

There is more than one person doing this so while it will remove one idiot the next week there will be another idiot doing it.

I'm working on a permanent solution.

I've used one before with the help of the local parking wardens.

Council parking wardens in London are evil so after £400 of parking tickets the offender decided to obey the law especially when they lost their parking appeal.

[wobbegong]

What is the stuff you can get to stick notices to people's car windows who stupidly and illegally park in a place?

Ah yes, that would be a little something we like to call "a brick".

HTH.

[wim121]

Can't you just block them in? Then wait for them to come back and have one **** off almighty row with them to whit you can then say 'You blocked me in and now you can stay here until the end of eternity without any hope of ever moving your car you f**king useless geriatic ****.

Showdowns are never good especially outside your own home. That is a bad method even if it makes you feel better at the time as you can end up in a punch up and spending the night in a cell or even bricks through your windows in the future.

[wim121]

Some people are just stupid. Anyway I'm dealing with it legally.

I just wanted to stick a piece of paper to their windscreen with some sort of sticky substance which is hard to get off.

Bit silly for you to do this. Technically, you are the criminal here. Using something to deface their car like a sticky substance can be classified as criminal damage. Not to mention you are being even more inconsiderate than a careless parker.

Just go through the correct channels, all you do is dial your local fuzz station and say "There is a car blocking my driveway/access road, could you tell the owner to move it or tow it away please as I need access now". The police will then attempt to contact the owner and if they can't, send out a flat-bed and tow the car away, billing the owner tow and impound fees. Far more effective way of dealing with it as they wont be doing that a second time.

[MarillionFan]

Well in my case there were at least 3 empty bays which they could parked in all within about 10 metres of each other, but they decided to park in front of an entrance and block it.

When they reversed out they would have been reversing into a junction, there as if they parked in one of the bays it's easier to reverse out. In fact in one of the bays that was free they could have reversed in and driven out.

Some people are just stupid. Anyway I'm dealing with it legally.

I just wanted to stick a piece of paper to their windscreen with some sort of sticky substance which is hard to get off.

Then do it every week until they get the message or get caught by the council.

Can't you just block them in? Then wait for them to come back and have one **** off almighty row with them to whit you can then say 'You blocked me in and now you can stay here until the end of eternity without any hope of ever moving your car you f**king useless geriatic ****.

[wim121]

I want them to move their f***ing car not call out the AA or whatever (and the police) because they can't drive it.

If they are blocking a driveway or something, you have every right to call the police. I have done that before and the police contacted them and told them to move their car or be towed.