A few of my neighbours have had their cars badly keyed when parked outside a certain house down the road from me. Parking's a bit of a free for all so I often have to park quite a way from my house.

Now it's my turn, although the culprit seems to have adopted a new tactic: removing the driver's side wiper blade rubber.

Of course it was wet today so turning on the wipers was met with a horrible scraping noise of metal claws across glass. Luckily I don't seem to have ended up with a scratched screen, although the next sunny day may prove otherwise. Even more luckily, I was able to get across the other side of town to the nearest dealer for a genuine replacement part before it tipped down with rain again.

This seems to be a more common problem that people assume that the space outside there house is theirs.

a few years ago my mum parked outside this guys house to which he told her to move it, and to park it in our driveway and started shouting at her, at which point I pulled up in the drive. Got out heard what he was saying, to which I replied "Talk to my mum like that again and I'll f**king smash your face in with my tire iron" and started to walk around to the boot. The guy was very very sorry and ever did speak to my mum like that again.

Ok maybe I was out of order but it was a bad day at work for me.

Anyway sorry to hear that it's been done to you maybe you should report this to the police

This seems to be a more common problem that people assume that the space outside there house is theirs.

Anyway sorry to hear that it's been done to you maybe you should report this to the police

Thanks - some other neighbours used to put their dustbin and a plank in the road when they went out :(

Not sure how interested the police would be, even with the experiences of various neighbours. Tempting to get some old shed, wire it up with some webcams and leave it there and catch the b

one of our neighbours is like that, screw em. she even threatened to phone up my work and moan at them and tell on me for having the van at the weekend. i wrote down the number for her and gave her my name and fleet number, funnily enough i never got into trouble at work

Outside my house, we have a carport. Enough for 6 cars across, but 4 of the spaces are big enough to fit a car behind another, if that makes sense. I have a car, my stepdad, neighbour nextdoor has her Ka, next one over has a Corsa, next has a Kia and very often has a Mondeo too. Trouble is, the woman with the Corsa's ex has a Punto and he likes to visit. Except he won't park down the road and when he did live here, he was always telling me where to park as he reckoned I was getting in his way. He asked me to go to a different space and I did. Now there is not enough room for his car, he just parks behind anyone elses. He parked behind my stepdad once, I caught him, shot out of the house and told him to move his car, he didnt, so out came the tow bar on the back of my Fabia, I pulled it out of the way. He wasn't happy. Keeps trying to do it again and again though. I've told him that if ever he parks in my space while I'm out, I'll block him in and leave my Fabia there until he pays me

it isn't amuzing that people think they can do this sort of thing and get away with it. Bring back hanging i say !

Andy maybe a little OTT, maybe just cutting off a hand would be better :P

Lately I've been staying at my nans flat (she had an operation on her eye so she couldn't see too well) just to keep an eye on her. The people tht live across the way seem to think they own all the land on that side. I had to park on "their" side came over to the car in the morning to find the neighbour in his 206 had parked on my front bumper. not a happy bunny at all, didn't have time to make a big deal about it, but I'll get my own back at a later date!

Now where is my autotrader, must phone up about that old Landrover

We have horrendous problems parking, as my road is a dead end, and virtually everyone has a car, some have 2.

Afraid to say every 1 in our house has a car ( 4 cars ) :( .

A discussion with our local friendly PC, concluded with If you are paying your Road Tax and displaying a valid disc you are entitled to park anywhere LEGALY ( proviso being the usual double yellows, Disabled bays etc).

So yah booo sucks to those who think they own the road outside thier house. :P

Party down the road from me a couple of weeks ago (probably a rented house), a line of cars up on the green area on one side of the roads.

I happened to look out my window (theres no houses directly across from me) and seen this guy parking directly outside the house, that I wouldn't have minded but the f**king muppet parked up on the grass and so close to the bloody tree that he couldn't get out of the car. It really annoyed me as I had levelled the grass and re-seeded it last year.

I went out and asked him to park it on the road and he virtually ignored me, then I told him to put it on the road and after a while he headed off down the road.

Some people have no brains at all. I think one of the other neighbours is afraid to park outside my house now as I really lost the head with the other guy .

I don't know if this happens anywhere else, but around the centre of Belfast, in the built up housing areas, comuters will pay the locals for a space. It has got so bad that certain residents will have 10 to 15 spaces which they charge for. These residents live in housing exec houses and don't have jobs, let alone cars. They treat the spaces in front of their houses as their own, and don't let anyone park there unless they have paid.

These spaces are on the public highway and available to all, but if someone was to park in one of these areas without "permission", it would be highly likely that their car would not be in the same condition when they got back.

JD

we have a school down the end of our road and sometimes the mothers block my driveway!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

A discussion with our local friendly PC, concluded with If you are paying your Road Tax and displaying a valid disc you are entitled to park anywhere LEGALY ( proviso being the usual double yellows, Disabled bays etc).

Near where I live though is quite a large area for parking (say 2 minutes walk?), but it's right next to a roundabout. The area is meant for parking and so people park there. Except given it's location, it's great to advertise cars for sale. I noticed yesterday the police were out phoning people up who had their cars there. Sadly, the people who don't pick their cars up within a certain time get it crushed :eek: . The local scrappy comes out with the grabber and goes straight through the roof and picks the car up. Saw a nice BMW last time, such a waste. All the cars there always have tax on but yet they can't park on public road.

I got asked to move my old Renault 5 ages ago as that was for sale, thing was, where can I move it to? Nowhere, so it had to stay still.

we have a school down the end of our road and sometimes the mothers block my driveway!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I know that feeling, they also turn around using the drive. Ive had my old car hit whilst parked in the drive and our neighbour had a hole knock through in the front of their house!! :eek:

IIRC there's a peculiar anomaly in the law (update anyone?) i.e. that anyone can use a public road - erm, full stop - so can park across someone's driveway :eeK: as long as their car is not there at the time (IOW one is legally entitled to get out but not back in).

Most neighbour problems can usually be resolved in a friendly manner by advance agreement re mutual give and take when visitors are expected and volunteering to move if blocking someone in.

IIRC pavements and certainly one's own driveway are definitely off limits to all stray cars.

Cul-de-sacs being a free-for-all for even well respected Driving Tuition companies is definitely out of order IMO (though not illegal, I guess) since kiddies are usually around and continuous C02 emissions is not why one bought such a cul-de-sac house...

Regards

Mo

Most neighbour problems can usually be resolved in a friendly manner by advance agreement re mutual give and take when visitors are expected and volunteering to move if blocking someone in.

but if you did that then you would only be doing the neighbourly thing, trouble is most people now days just dont give a to** about the person who lives next door. Gone are the good old days where your door was open to your neighbours

but if you did that then you would only be doing the neighbourly thing, trouble is most people now days just dont give a to** about the person who lives next door. Gone are the good old days where your door was open to your neighbours

Agreed we're not living in the war days of "talking over the fence" quite so much (or not at all). But, I just go and knock a door, explain that we all have the same problem and take it from there. It's a risk/ reward calculation IMO and most people are in the same position and only too pleased to come to an amicable arrangement. After all, you are neighbours and if your house or theirs is on fire or being burgled etc it's good to know that you are on the same side. If they close the door, then probably best to leave them alone (parking space-wise). Just because we never see our neighbours, all being out at work all day, doesn't mean we can't make the effort to talk to them.

But I guess it's a matter of choice as to how much effort to put into an easy life or a "curtain-peeping" rifle-by-the-door life. Do people try both options?

Mo

I'm thinking about suggesting to the neighbours whose cars have been similarly attacked that we buy a couple of old sheds and dump them outside the relevant houses. And maybe even rig up a laptop and some webcams. I wonder how long a car battery can power a laptop for?