Neighbours & parking

Tadpole

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Well, they're not neighbours as such. I live in a village which is basically one long wide one-track road. There is a family (mum, dad, and 20-odd year old daughter) who live further down and on the other side of the road, so technically they are my landlords neighbours. Anyway, they are all a bit nuts (many people have had issues of one sort or another with them), and they think that 'their' parking space for his car, (they have 3), is right under my bedroom window. (I live on the ground floor of a barn conversion). Many people who have parked there have discovered scratches etc to their cars the next day - the friend of the lady who lives upstairs, who is in his 60s and so NOT a troublemaker, found screws in his tyres which the mechanic said must have been put there deliberately. Anyhoo, the point is, M left his car there last night as he was unloading stuff and forgot to move it and this morning there is a MASSIVE scratch in it. And it is really deep as well, not the sort if thing that could happen by accident. He is absolutely fuming.

There have been a few other things as well, we KNOW it is them but unless we get a cctv camera have no proof. Also, I don't want M to retaliate because as I said, they are all a bit nuts, and I have 2 cats and they are the sort to do something.

And then, sigh, I would have to kill them. I don't really know what we can do. I don't know why the effing perv insists on parking under my window in the first place. I feel like slashing their tyres and I am usually VERY placid. (Must be the hormones). And also - if they can put screws in the tyres of an old man then they can certainly do something to the car of a pregnant lady.

I know this sounds bad - but my village is more like the vicar of dibley usually. They aren't out-and-out rough so we would look paranoid to people who haven't experienced them. And like I said, we haven't any actual proof it is them - we just know it is.


Sorry this is long - just need a rant. Stops me kneecapping the b**tards.
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Report it to the police. It's criminal damage. Start logging all these incidents as there is obviously a problem with cars where you live. No one needs to be named or accused but the fact that it's getting reported and the sight of a police car might deter them. The only other option is move.
 
Yeah - we should get people to log it - it is only in that ONE spot where things happen and there is a good 50 foot of space so if it were accidents then it would happen all along there. Normally we aren't affected as we park round the back, it just so happened that M forgot to move his car, as it was too far to cart stuff round to the door from the back.

Actually - we have a community police officer. Next time I see him I will mention it so he can keep an eye out or others may have already said something to him.
 
It's a bit frickin' obvious it's them when their cars park there and are undamaged.

Report it to the police, or I wonder wether your landlord can help, with regards to the boundries?

Or, *someone* might just scratch their car, not that I would ever suggest that. I know I could never ever do, but I know I'd want to!
 
My next door neighbour is the same. We live in a cul de sac and the corner is next to my house. We paid to put a security light up and since he fights for the corner. We gave up parking there in the end coz everytime we parked there we got a new scratch. I recently sold a car with a scratch on every panel! Another neighbour went on holiday for 2 weeks and left her car in this particular corner and when she came back all 4 tyres had been slashed!
And like you say, with no cctv there's no proof. But we knew it was him coz the 3.5years he was in prison nothing happened!!!
 
You should def log everything that has happened and take pics of any criminal damage and go to the police.

I know on our street the woman over the road always has a house full, to be honest we cant work out who lives in the house and who doesn't. There is always about 4 cars at the house at any given time and we have asked and asked them to leave space outside our house for us to park but they never do, making us have to park at the bottom of the street under some trees which inst the safest option.

I dont know where ppl get off with things like this, I mean dont they want an nice quiet easy life when they get home??
 
MrsBrightside said:
I dont know where ppl get off with things like this, I mean dont they want an nice quiet easy life when they get home??

I was just wondering this. Why do people care that much about a car parking space? I'm into cars, we spend more time and money on our cars than anything else but even I don't care that much about the parking to go to those lengths.

We had a little problem with our neighbour parking where he chooses to, it was a bit of a joke when it came to a head. So we told him to write to us as we wouldn't discuss it anymore and it's sort of sorted itself out now, perhaps he feels a bit silly now?

Annnnyway, the point is, he annoyed me SOOOOO much, but I still wouldn't want to go scratch his car or slash his tyres. What makes other people go there?
 
I'm the same. We love our cars. I'd spent good money getting mine sprayed, and he damaged it! My OH has a very nice car, yet doesn't get touched. This man is sooo friendly to Shaun, yet he has a real problem with me! We started parking right out the way, as he'd have to make a special effort to walk to the cars which he won''t do. But he's a sod for blocking you in too, which bothers me when i have a tiny baby! And for any kind of emergency. Luckily we hate our latest car so he can do what he likes to it now. Just wish he'd grow up! He's a man in his 50's.
 
its beyond me why ppl dont just wanna come home from work and relax rather then start a world war over car parking spaces!!! its utter madness, I know me and my oh have spent a lot of cash on our cars as well and have worked hard for what we have why should some gangster wanna be ruin that?? :lol: arhhh they make me mad!!!

I just wanna easy life at home which im sure most "normal" ppl do without having to fight with ppl on the street about whos parking where, just be nice to fair to your neighbours... not alot to ask is it


growl.... rant over I feel better already :rotfl:
 
I bought a house with a drive, I'm very lucky :D . We are looking for our next place to buy and top of my list is having a drive. Used to do the shared parking in a block of flates and I hated it.
 
I think if its defo them and they have damaged other cars I might have a accident with some paint stripper over their cars.....opsy. But then Im quite evil. The sensible thing would be to write it all down.
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The worst part is that parking in itself isn't a problem. There is a fair bit of space. They just like/want that particular spot. :think: She came out ranting at M one time not long after we moved in and there were TWO spaces behind him!!! And if they had bothered to just knock on the door and asked us to move, like the adults they are apparently meant to be, we would have!!!

But y'know - they're a bit loopy. I'll mention it to the police officer when I see him next and ask the lady upstairs to log any problems she has as well.
 
Hey Tadpole,

You should chat to Urchin about this - her neighbour goes bonkers about parking.

Valentine Xxx
 

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