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Hi guys,
Long time reader, first time poster. Always browsed these great forums as a guest, but had a problem last week and wanted to get the opinion of others.
I live in west hampstead and work in Mitcham, so I need my car to get to work. I've got a lovely old rover 214 and despite what seems to happen to most of them, the head gasket has never gone on mine.
I park some days on a residential street, perfectly legally and whenever I park there and go to my car after work this guy comes out of his house and starts shouting at me saying that it's his spot for his car and that I can't park there. I think that he must leave in the morning and come back from work before I finish and gets annoyed he cannot park outside his house or something. Every time he is swearing and cursing and I want to loose my cool, but have managed to just tell him that it's free for anyone to park and he can petition the council if he wants it made into a spot just for him (can you even do that?).
Anyway, long story short, I came back to my car from work on friday and my front wheels has been punctured. I don't know if it was a knife or a screwdriver, but I've had to leave the car there until I can get some extra money together to get a pickup and new tyres. I called the police, but they went door to door and nobody had seen anything (which is obviously a lie). Is there anything else I can do? It must be the angry guy, but the police won't do anything without evidence.
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Jul 29, 2014 10:11:47 GMT
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Let sleeping dogs lie as frustrating as it is. People may suggest tit for tat but is it worth the aggravation. I would find it difficult to swallow but would just park elsewhere even though the guys a tool
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luckyseven
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Jul 29, 2014 12:01:41 GMT
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Use the excellent *cough* and very reasonably-priced *ahem* Thameslink train service that handily goes from your home to your work every fifteen minutes? As driven by extraordinarily handsome, lovely, helpful and wonderful highly-trained professionals  . *Or, in the real world, just suck it up and leave him to his twisted world of spite and hate. Sadly, I think willowandmikey is/are right. You're never going to prove owt against the angry dude, and the only thing retaliation will achieve is to make you (maybe) feel better at the risk of a criminal record yourself. And realistically, you're never going to be able to park there again anyway, so you might as well be the bigger man and just move on with your life. It ain't right, but then the world ain't fair  * some of these statements might not be exactly 100% accurate |
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Jul 29, 2014 12:06:08 GMT
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Leave a note under the angry mans door and their neighbours saying you are sorry but your car has been vandalised and you are unable to move it until you can afford 2 new tyres which may take some time. Also put that the police have been notified and have visited the other neighbours as well as putting the area under regular CCTV patrol.
That should let them know their plan has backfired...
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Last Edit: Jul 29, 2014 12:10:07 GMT by dodgerover
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Jul 29, 2014 12:10:56 GMT
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Only thing you can do - Fit new tyres and park somewhere else, as do you really want to risk something worse happening to the car by continuing to park there.
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Jul 29, 2014 12:15:21 GMT
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Another possible solution is to purchase a very cheap and cheap to insure car that you don't mind getting damaged but has long MOT and tax to legally park in "his" space for a few months. I guess that revenge is a bit costly though. |
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will930
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Jul 29, 2014 13:40:00 GMT
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Well he dug a hole as bow it's outside his house unable to move he car lol
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Jul 29, 2014 16:57:51 GMT
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Leave a note under the angry mans door and their neighbours saying you are sorry but your car has been vandalised and you are unable to move it until you can afford 2 new tyres which may take some time. Also put that the police have been notified and have visited the other neighbours as well as putting the area under regular CCTV patrol. That should let them know their plan has backfired... ^^^^^ this in abundance ^^^^^ Would even go one better and but another cheap runaround and leave it there for remainder of tax left on it hahaha just to make sure he gets the point Teach the buffoon to go around puncturing people's tyres |
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Jul 29, 2014 21:58:54 GMT
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Leave a note under the angry mans door and their neighbours saying you are sorry but your car has been vandalised and you are unable to move it until you can afford 2 new tyres which may take some time. Also put that the police have been notified and have visited the other neighbours as well as putting the area under regular CCTV patrol. That should let them know their plan has backfired... ^^^^^ this in abundance ^^^^^ Would even go one better and but another cheap runaround and leave it there for remainder of tax left on it hahaha just to make sure he gets the point Teach the buffoon to go around puncturing people's tyres You mean what I said two posts up  ^^ |
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Jul 29, 2014 22:29:32 GMT
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Another option, park a caravan in " his " space and forget about it, possibly note through the doors telling everyone that your car was vandalized, you are making an insurance claim and apologize that this will raise all their insurance premiums, due to their postcode becoming a crime area.
Ttfn Glenn
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THE_Liam
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I know what I'd do, but it would involve a fair bit of TforT so I'm not gonna suggest it |
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monty
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I don't approve of the residents actions but sympathise with his / their resentment of commuters parking in his / their street. Even if it isn't his personal parking space, having commuters occupy your streets to avoid parking / transport costs is a nightmare.
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smurf
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When hes not around, tie a long cable tie around his drive shaft
Not much noise when driving slowly, but get a fast A road and the noise might worry him
I know someone who this happened to, 5 trips to the local garage and they didnt find it
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I don't approve of the residents actions but sympathise with his / their resentment of commuters parking in his / their street. Even if it isn't his personal parking space, having commuters occupy your streets to avoid parking / transport costs is a nightmare. In that case you complain to the council asking for a permit parking arrangement, you don't vandalise someone's pride and joy. People park outside my house most days because parking is tight, because they know I have a drive, as long as they don't block that I'm happy. If they parked outside my house before I built the drive, I just parked down the street, fair is fair, it's a public highway that we all pay for. |
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Jul 30, 2014 12:57:58 GMT
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Bosh and nail on head IMHO ^^^^^^ Buy the biggest road legal shed you can find then hand paint it in the most awful colours possible then park it in same spot Can then sit back and chuckle each time you drive past on way to work each morn !! Depending on how far you wanna go would also make a point of bumping into neighbour when he finishes work and laugh some more too Childish yes , winning definately as sheen would put it  |
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meltdown
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Jul 30, 2014 13:38:31 GMT
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I'd be more inclined to buy a small camera recording device and stick it in a soft toy on the parcel shelf facing the pavement.
If I owned a skip i'd stick that outside his house, if someone could only drop a 2cv in it.
Sensibly though not much you can do unless you feel inclined to paper drop, we had a large sun life office outside our old place and the carpark was always spilling into our road.
Not much you can do about it from both sides and resorting to tyre slashing isn't doing anyone any favours.
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Jul 30, 2014 15:22:45 GMT
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~As said above, just leave the car there for a week or two just to cause an much inconvenience as possible to this guy (if it was even him that did it).
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monty
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Jul 30, 2014 17:41:42 GMT
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I don't approve of the residents actions but sympathise with his / their resentment of commuters parking in his / their street. Even if it isn't his personal parking space, having commuters occupy your streets to avoid parking / transport costs is a nightmare. In that case you complain to the council asking for a permit parking arrangement, you don't vandalise someone's pride and joy. People park outside my house most days because parking is tight, because they know I have a drive, as long as they don't block that I'm happy. If they parked outside my house before I built the drive, I just parked down the street, fair is fair, it's a public highway that we all pay for. I didn't say I approved of his actions, they clearly aren't acceptable and what you're suggesting is the proper way to go.......but neither is it acceptable, morally at least, to use a residential street to avoid paying for parking at work. I lived in a street some years back where none of the bonafide residents, or their guests, could get parked in their street anywhere between the hours of about 08:30 and 17:30. Most commuters don't realise, or if they do they don't care, what an impact they have. |
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Last Edit: Jul 30, 2014 17:43:26 GMT by monty
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Jul 30, 2014 18:55:55 GMT
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Order the biggest skip you can get,get it dropped out side his house....... Arrange a long term hire... Let the neighbours fill it over a couple of weeks ........ Conveniently forget about it ......
Just a suggestion, I'm not supporting this kind of action ........
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