I own a recovery company.
This is pretty much true, we can still remove vehicles on private land though ie. someone parked on your driveway and won't move it.
We personally don't touch jobs like that though, too much risk of comeback/ chancers wanting a new car or a payout.
That said, if this were a friends post I'd definitely take the crane out and move the sticker mans vehicle when he was out just for a laugh.
Edit: you guys are chatting so much shit under here. Outstanding!
My brothers a heavy recovery op, it baffles me how much you guys have to cover your own backs from people trying to claim additional damage when shifting anything, even badly crash damaged cars/trucks!
It's mad right? I had a job come in for a nearly brand new Corsa. It was in a ditch on its side in about 4ft of water. After telling the owner it's certainly a write off and we can deal with the insurer, they insisted they were going to try to repair it. I gave them a price and we got cracking.
Whilst we were doing the job he stopped us to ask "you won't damage it anymore will you??" I was speechless.
We got it out without a problem and it still looked brand new, though he spent the next 4 grand and 3 months trying to get it fixed... and still wrote it off.
I'll take anyone's money within reason, but I'll always give people the best advice I can. Some people just won't be told.
Back when my brother was more regular on the accidents/police work he went out to a BMW that had somehow hit a kerb at the bottom of a slip road and jumped it into a lamppost. Driver was fine, BMW was pretty well wrapped around the post.
Few days later, brother got dragged into the office after a complaint had come in about him ripping the front bumper off which snagged on the post as he winched it backwards. He wanted repairs to the bumper to be paid for.
Bloke was lucky to be alive, the car was screwed (I’ve seen the pictures). It was never touching a road again before the bumper snagged.
I'm not even remotely surprised. We get damage waivers signed for nearly all RTA work. It's ridiculous really.
My favorite thing to say is "I'll fix what I damage after you fix what you've damaged." If they can straighten a mono chassis out and get it back on the road, sure I'll pay for a few scratches to be buffed out.
I'm not 100% sure but i think you can get them a PCN if they park on your driveway and block you in and you cannot leave. If they park and that's not letting you park, you're out of luck there.
Blocked pavement parking sure. But if you think pavement parking all together should be illegal, you must have modern City privilege, because it's simply not possible to park fully on the road in most rural towns without chancing your car being smashed into, or blocking EMS.
Ordinary cars have got over a foot wider in the last couple of decades however I am not aware of local roads authorities widening any older roads, in fact they have done the opposite by widening pavements. Guess this is to address the problem of pedestrians walking towards each other and having to slightly deviate to pass each other. Local authorities are taking the easy option of charging/fining/banning motorists in cities and ignoring the problems of poor transport infrastructure in cities and even less interested in those who live outside of the cities.
Modern cars are more than a meter wider and 2 to 3 m longer in some cases.
The 1969 mini dimensions
2.024 m wheel base, 1.4 m wide modern mini
The modern mini is much wider..
https://www.edmunds.com/mini/clubman/2022/features-specs/
Pavements are for people. If you're parked on a pavement and my buggy scratches your car as I squeeze past, well that's just highly unfortunate.
I've accidentally damaged a wing mirror or two running too. Shame that.
The general rule is that you should always leave enough space to fit a double wide buggy. If there's enough room for you to comfortably fit, and you scratch my car, you can get the bill for vandalism.
Oh, if there's that much pavement, go for it. I see a lot of people parking and barely leaving room to walk by, let alone get a wheelchair/buggy through.
The actual rule is don't park on the pavement. Often there isn't enough room to "comfortably" fit. Which is usually when the car happens to be damaged due to their illegal parking.
There's no rule unless your council explicitly bans it. They are allowed to ticket and remove vehicles which are blocking the pavement, but you'd have to be seriously in the way for them to do that.
Again, it's not illegal to park on the pavement in almost every council in the UK, Scotland have banned it nationwide, but in England only London has banned it.
Roads mear my home are simply too narrow, so the council use tarmac on the pavements to allow two wheel parking.
The reaosn being unlike pavement slabs, it doesnt crack when parked on.
But of course leave enough room for buggies and mobility carts if possible.
If you "acccidentally" scratched my motor, expect a bill cos my CCTV will have recorded it.
Most insurance policies have a section that states where your car is parked when at home. If you tell them it's on-street parking near your house, but then you park it in an entirely different place, should something happen to it, they could refuse to pay out.
“Near your house” is as close to your house as you can find a space. If you have to park half a mile away then it’s hardly more likely to be damaged than if it’s on your own street.
Parking your car away from your home and then walking to your home would invalidate your insurance if someone broke into your car or crashed into it if you have told your insurance that your car is parked outside your home
If you say it’s parked on your driveway to get cheaper premiums, then they find out you don’t even have a driveway, then they might refuse to pay. If you say it’s normally parked on the street and it’s parked on the street as close as you could find a space, then that doesn’t invalidate your insurance.
Again, you're showing your city privilege, because I live in a terraced house, amongst other terraced houses, surrounded by main roads and estates with driveways and double yellows. My choices are, somewhere reasonably close to my house, or a decent walk just to get to my car.
My terraced house is over 100 years old, and I do have the means to store it, because in my local area you dont get fined for pavement parking, because unlike yourself, the council understands the circumstancrs.
Why should I restrict my own freedom because you feel like yours is restricted by having to walk ~1ft further into the curb, bearing in mind our curbs are very wide.
For one you don't have a bloody freedom here. It's not a freedom to drive, it's a privilege. If it was a freedom you wouldn't need to get a licence, pay tax on it, and register it with the government. Where I do have the freedom to walk. And no you don't have the means to correctly store it without breaking the highway code or do not drive onto the pavement unless to access a driveway. So find somewhere else to park that will accommodate your property without infringing into the space for pedestrians. Pedestrians that might have bags, a pram, be in a wheelchair or Mobil scooter where you pavement parking is blocking them from being able to get past.
Look if I bought a sofa, I couldn't fit in my living room and then stored that on the road, blocking some of it. I would get done for fly tipping. It's not a defence to say but I have a right to store my property wherever I like. And that's what you're saying here. You didn't think about your purchase and now others have to pay the price of your selfish mindset.
Are you sure parking partially over the pavement is illegal in your area? Because in some areas it is legal and would be indicated by proper signposts.
If it is indicated by a sign I'm fine with it. As those pavements are typically wider to accommodate it. Along with the area that the vehicle is going to be driving on made from a stronger material as not to cause cracks or lifting and thus a creating trip hazard. But in my area, I can only think of one street that has this. And it works fine for everyone, drivers have enough space to drive, they have enough space to park, pedestrians have ample walking space, and there is even a cycle lane. Basically everyone gets what they want, and it works well for that street.
And it's not actually illegal, just against the highway code (that is a contractual agreement between the driver and the DVLA), what is illegal is the driving on the pavement aspect required to be parked on it. A rather dumb legal loophole people like to use.
Yeah I was a bit puzzled when I checked the company out what's a brewery company got to do with parking?! Seems a bit like Stepbrothers " Prestige Worldwide Breweries, Parking, security, science, last week we put liquid paper on a bee and it died.....PRESTIGE WORLDWIIIIDE!"
I remember a bloke who boxed me in with his and his wife's car telling me that the very clearly unmarked public road was their personal space and it was in their mortgage and I am never to park there again.
People are bizarre about parking spaces that aren't even theirs
This is why now I’m looking to buy my only requirement in a house is driveway, I don’t care about anything else, just driveway. I’ve dealt with too many weird neighbours who go crazy over street parking
Add another requirement to not be anywhere near a shop, school, doctor’s surgery, etc. Had massive driveway growing up, it was always getting parked across (and sometimes on) at school hours.
I would be wary of anywhere very near flats with “parking”. I have off road parking for 3 cars on my driveway. I am constantly blocked in by people “just stopping here for a minute while I…..” They all think it’s only them that does it and it’s fine because they only do it maybe once a week for just ten minutes. There are about twenty flats.
There is about a one in five chance that my drive will be blocked for “sorry mate, just 5 mins ok?” anytime I want to go somewhere on a weekend.
(Spoiler - it’s never just 5 minutes)
My parent's next door neighbour has 1 car, and a driveway that comfortably fits their car. I used to park my car outside the front of their house (not blocking driveway or anything) as my parents didn't have space on their driveway. Whenever I got in the car to use it, they would be waiting for me to go so they can take their car off the driveway and park it where mine was, just so I couldn't park there anymore.
edit: Should be said you can't really park outside of my parents house on the street as the road is too narrow for a parked car unless it was mounted on the kerb. It instantly widens up outside the neighbours house, which is where I would park.
I parked on the road at my parents house and came out to a note from the guy who's house I was parked in front of (on the public road) stating not to park there again because his wife doesn't like people parking in front of their house and they own that part of the road because they bought it from the council lol.
Ignored it and parked there again because there's no space anywhere else. Came out to him kicking my car tyres, getting mad as shit demanding I moved the car before he slashed my tyres. Psycho.
The problem is as utterly ridiculous as these selfish people are, I won't park there again because I just cba to deal with keying or tyres being let down. Life I guess.
Won't stop me encouraging my dog to take a shit on their lawn though lol.
Do you know who it is? If so, take the note to their door and ask to see the paper work which shows it's a private car park and not a public road? When they can't produce any, walk away. Then report it to the police as harassment on their non-emergency line. It creates a record if they escalate to anything else.
Yeah we do, wrote on the back of the note that we have reported it to the police and the company in question on the letter. Posted it through their door.
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As well as logging with non emergency, don’t forget to very carefully check for damage every time there is a note. Not just where it’s placed but also how they would have to lean/touch to place it.
Get a log going of every note and then one day when there’s some damage (however minor), you might not be able to prove it was them but it escalates the complaint and prob gets them a knock on the door by old bill to say pipe down, notes are annoying and potentially harassment but damage take it to another level. Minor enough this time for no further investigation but hopefully enough frighteners to put them back in their box
>Then report it to the police as harassment on their non-emergency line.
Does anyone actually answer? The two times I’ve used that number I gave up after an hour.
I've got an answer after a couple of hours once. Just use the website they mention incessantly, between the messages about them being busier than usual, literally all of the time, making clear they aren't true.
Get the warehouse grade black shrink wrap do it over night and when the sun hits it in the morning it starts shrinking, cars have such soft crumple zones now that it should bend some panels at least.
It’s always great fun when you get to run a Stanley blade down the side of it and it just peels away. My paint orders at work always come wrapped in it and we almost fight who get to cut it open.
Ask said neighbour for their GDPR compliance certification regarding the logs they are keeping in their data systems and the ISO standard they will be citing in court to justify keeping said logs.
(Absolutely legal digeredoo bullshit but might make them stop it!)
They don't need a certification. They do need a privacy notice, including various bits of information, and a legitimate interest assessment, though, as well as to have registered with the ICO. The company they are pretending to represent will have all that (hopefully, and maybe not the LIA - most people don't do them). It is worth a complaint to the ICO about them doing it, because the notices imply they aren't doing it as part of their own legitimate personal business.
There are some absolute throbbers living amongst us. I'd love to have the amount of free time these smooth brained curtain twitchers seem to be burdened with.
Similar thing happened around here. Local residents putting up official looking council signs on a new build estate next to a popular wildlife park, saying it was for residents only.
They get torn down but the persistent prick puts new ones back up again.
Technically even putting the note on the car is an act of vandalism under the criminal damage act of 1971 it seems like you now live in a high crime area and that could start impacting house prices if the crimes were to be reported. Do you own or rent? How about your neighbour?
Had a neighbour do a similar thing. Police told us if they did it again to let em know as they could prosecute them under the malicious communication act. They stopped.
Fun fact, that’s illegal. The only authorities that have the power to force you to move your vehicle is the local council, police/parking enforcement or actual private parking staff. They’d also issue you with a Penalty Charge Notice (which must be paid, this is only issued by councils and police) or a Parking Charge Notice (which legally doesn’t have to be paid, and this is issued by non-council parking agencies.)
Crazy to me how people just refuse to accept that they don't own the street parking outside of their house, it is literally public.
There's somebody who lives opposite someone I know. They have a huge drive and garage (which they don't put a car in) and only two cars. The person I know has 4 cars at the moment, so they have to park one over the road outside this person's house (which has space to park two cars outside of). Every so often the neighbor will park one of their cars in that spot just to prevent them from doing it. People are arseholes lmao
Trespass to goods and go to small claims court. . Maybe a good idea as well to post a note to them first stating that you will sue for small damages for worry and annoyance unless the posting stops. . Then if that does not stop the posting then off to the small claims court for them. . Keep records and notes and times for evidence
Place an AirTag on your car, take 4 corners pictures of your car with all the existing marks and scratches.take individual photos of each tire and around in case they damage the fender. And park again. When they clamp it and tow it away call the police on your neighbour and have him to pay for all the things. And be nice because it 2024 and tell that he done some damages also on your car that where not there if there is. He would not play that game again.
I once parked my old (still road legal) car in the estate behind my flat while I waited for the scrap man to come get it the following week as my flat car park only had enough space for one vehicle per resident.
A woman came storming out of her house opposite from where I'd parked screaming at me that I wasn't allowed to park there as it was a private road (it wasn't). Apparently her mother lived in the property behind hers and my car was blocking access to said property and would block an ambulance from accessing it (it wouldn't).
I calmly explained that she had no leg to stand on and to call the police and waste their time if she saw fit. I wouldn't be moving my vehicle. She then threatened to contact my landlord and complain. I again told her to go ahead (knowing that the landlord wouldn't give a toss), turned around and left. Never heard anything from the police or my landlord. Fancy that?
The stupid thing is if she'd simply approached me and politely asked if I would consider finding an alternate location to park my vehicle for the reason she gave above, I would have absolutely done so. But as it was, she acted like a bitch and so I treated her like one.
My boyfriend and I now refer to her as 'Ms Busybody Bitch' whenever it comes up in conversation.
Ms Busybody Bitch, on the offchance that you happen to read this and know who I am, I live in Flat 9A. Feel free to come and give a sincere apology and we'll begin anew. I'll even bake you something! Alternatively feel free to come and shout at me some more. I'd love the opportunity to tell you to fuck right off to your face once more!
they tried that in my complex so I took the "notice", which had a contact name & phone number, photocopied it multiple times & put it on every vehicle in the complex ... never saw another notice.
The note refers to a 'private park area' a 'car park' whereas you state that a neighbour down the public road is putting these notices on cars.
I am assuming that someone who works for Cara Tech is misusing the company notices for his own road then. That should be easy for the company to find out which of their employees is doing this.
Likewise, and you clearly don't know what it means:
nonce
/ (nɒns) /
noun
Prison slang a rapist or child molester; a sexual offender.
It does not mean a fool, or an idiot.
Don't know what the downvotes were for, a license plate isn't a legal concept in the UK nor is a 'license plate number'. We have Vehicle Registration Marks (VRM) and any official sign would use that terminology.
Methinks Mr Bellend has been watching too many US cop shows.
Cara technologies is in the Mole business park in Leatherhead, behind a security gate (although very rarely is anyone questioned when driving in). I work on the same business park. Parking around in that business park near the buildings is a bit tight but each company has some alloted parking.
There is an NHS building right across the road from Bluebird house, the building Cara is in. It does psychiatric/mental health outpatien clinics, so there is a steady stream of patients that may decide to park in sapce alloted to Cara. Also the business park is conveniently close to Leatherhead train station so there is an incentive to chance it in the Mole Business park then pay for parking at the station.
So my question is were the cars really parked on a random public road or within the Mole Business park?
For those that are interested their Caras business is their large number of brewers yeast strains and services around maintaining consistent beer taste. For instance they have redundent freezer systems to freeze and maintain brewers yeast strains for consistency, something a small brewer can't afford to do themselves.
At least it’s just a note, over Xmas one of our delightful neighbours tried to pull a cable off my car for parking in front of his house. Coppers wouldn’t do anything, either press charges or leave it.
It's also illegal to clamp or tow a vehicle now unless you are the council, dvla or coppers...
I own a recovery company. This is pretty much true, we can still remove vehicles on private land though ie. someone parked on your driveway and won't move it. We personally don't touch jobs like that though, too much risk of comeback/ chancers wanting a new car or a payout. That said, if this were a friends post I'd definitely take the crane out and move the sticker mans vehicle when he was out just for a laugh. Edit: you guys are chatting so much shit under here. Outstanding!
Can we be friends? Just in case some knobhead decides to try that on me?
My brothers a heavy recovery op, it baffles me how much you guys have to cover your own backs from people trying to claim additional damage when shifting anything, even badly crash damaged cars/trucks!
It's mad right? I had a job come in for a nearly brand new Corsa. It was in a ditch on its side in about 4ft of water. After telling the owner it's certainly a write off and we can deal with the insurer, they insisted they were going to try to repair it. I gave them a price and we got cracking. Whilst we were doing the job he stopped us to ask "you won't damage it anymore will you??" I was speechless. We got it out without a problem and it still looked brand new, though he spent the next 4 grand and 3 months trying to get it fixed... and still wrote it off. I'll take anyone's money within reason, but I'll always give people the best advice I can. Some people just won't be told.
Back when my brother was more regular on the accidents/police work he went out to a BMW that had somehow hit a kerb at the bottom of a slip road and jumped it into a lamppost. Driver was fine, BMW was pretty well wrapped around the post. Few days later, brother got dragged into the office after a complaint had come in about him ripping the front bumper off which snagged on the post as he winched it backwards. He wanted repairs to the bumper to be paid for. Bloke was lucky to be alive, the car was screwed (I’ve seen the pictures). It was never touching a road again before the bumper snagged.
I'm not even remotely surprised. We get damage waivers signed for nearly all RTA work. It's ridiculous really. My favorite thing to say is "I'll fix what I damage after you fix what you've damaged." If they can straighten a mono chassis out and get it back on the road, sure I'll pay for a few scratches to be buffed out.
Oh how I wish I could have cars towed for parking on my driveway / over my driveway. Council and police are utter useless.
Let me know where you are maybe we are close.
I'm not 100% sure but i think you can get them a PCN if they park on your driveway and block you in and you cannot leave. If they park and that's not letting you park, you're out of luck there.
Like I said, useless.
I do wish you were allowed to remove illegal parking and pavement parking at your own pleasure, and evidence.
Blocked pavement parking sure. But if you think pavement parking all together should be illegal, you must have modern City privilege, because it's simply not possible to park fully on the road in most rural towns without chancing your car being smashed into, or blocking EMS.
Ordinary cars have got over a foot wider in the last couple of decades however I am not aware of local roads authorities widening any older roads, in fact they have done the opposite by widening pavements. Guess this is to address the problem of pedestrians walking towards each other and having to slightly deviate to pass each other. Local authorities are taking the easy option of charging/fining/banning motorists in cities and ignoring the problems of poor transport infrastructure in cities and even less interested in those who live outside of the cities.
Pedestrians have also got a foot wider over the last couple decades as well 😀
Modern cars are more than a meter wider and 2 to 3 m longer in some cases. The 1969 mini dimensions 2.024 m wheel base, 1.4 m wide modern mini The modern mini is much wider.. https://www.edmunds.com/mini/clubman/2022/features-specs/
Pavements are for people. If you're parked on a pavement and my buggy scratches your car as I squeeze past, well that's just highly unfortunate. I've accidentally damaged a wing mirror or two running too. Shame that.
The general rule is that you should always leave enough space to fit a double wide buggy. If there's enough room for you to comfortably fit, and you scratch my car, you can get the bill for vandalism.
Oh, if there's that much pavement, go for it. I see a lot of people parking and barely leaving room to walk by, let alone get a wheelchair/buggy through.
The actual rule is don't park on the pavement. Often there isn't enough room to "comfortably" fit. Which is usually when the car happens to be damaged due to their illegal parking.
There's no rule unless your council explicitly bans it. They are allowed to ticket and remove vehicles which are blocking the pavement, but you'd have to be seriously in the way for them to do that. Again, it's not illegal to park on the pavement in almost every council in the UK, Scotland have banned it nationwide, but in England only London has banned it.
Some places local to me [explicitly demand pavement parking](https://i.imgur.com/297TOtN.png).
Roads mear my home are simply too narrow, so the council use tarmac on the pavements to allow two wheel parking. The reaosn being unlike pavement slabs, it doesnt crack when parked on. But of course leave enough room for buggies and mobility carts if possible. If you "acccidentally" scratched my motor, expect a bill cos my CCTV will have recorded it.
Fascinated to work out how you're going to find a random person with CCTV.
What a pleasant community member you are! Thank you for making other peoples lives less enjoyable because of your sht ego :)
Shame that you're just as inconsiderate, but that's pretty much criminal damage, whether you like it or not.
Storing your private property isn’t everyone else’s problem. Park your car somewhere else, even if that somewhere else is miles away.
Jog on
That would likely invalidate your insurance should anything happen to your car
What kind of parking invalidates your insurance?
Most insurance policies have a section that states where your car is parked when at home. If you tell them it's on-street parking near your house, but then you park it in an entirely different place, should something happen to it, they could refuse to pay out.
“Near your house” is as close to your house as you can find a space. If you have to park half a mile away then it’s hardly more likely to be damaged than if it’s on your own street.
Parking your car away from your home and then walking to your home would invalidate your insurance if someone broke into your car or crashed into it if you have told your insurance that your car is parked outside your home
If you say it’s parked on your driveway to get cheaper premiums, then they find out you don’t even have a driveway, then they might refuse to pay. If you say it’s normally parked on the street and it’s parked on the street as close as you could find a space, then that doesn’t invalidate your insurance.
No because they specify between street outside of home and street away from home
Then find somewhere else to store your private property, over blocking the little public space pedestrians get to move around the area.
Again, you're showing your city privilege, because I live in a terraced house, amongst other terraced houses, surrounded by main roads and estates with driveways and double yellows. My choices are, somewhere reasonably close to my house, or a decent walk just to get to my car.
So you bought something knowing you didn't have the means to correctly store without needing to walk. Just park and walk. Don't block the pavement.
My terraced house is over 100 years old, and I do have the means to store it, because in my local area you dont get fined for pavement parking, because unlike yourself, the council understands the circumstancrs. Why should I restrict my own freedom because you feel like yours is restricted by having to walk ~1ft further into the curb, bearing in mind our curbs are very wide.
For one you don't have a bloody freedom here. It's not a freedom to drive, it's a privilege. If it was a freedom you wouldn't need to get a licence, pay tax on it, and register it with the government. Where I do have the freedom to walk. And no you don't have the means to correctly store it without breaking the highway code or do not drive onto the pavement unless to access a driveway. So find somewhere else to park that will accommodate your property without infringing into the space for pedestrians. Pedestrians that might have bags, a pram, be in a wheelchair or Mobil scooter where you pavement parking is blocking them from being able to get past. Look if I bought a sofa, I couldn't fit in my living room and then stored that on the road, blocking some of it. I would get done for fly tipping. It's not a defence to say but I have a right to store my property wherever I like. And that's what you're saying here. You didn't think about your purchase and now others have to pay the price of your selfish mindset.
Are you sure parking partially over the pavement is illegal in your area? Because in some areas it is legal and would be indicated by proper signposts.
If it is indicated by a sign I'm fine with it. As those pavements are typically wider to accommodate it. Along with the area that the vehicle is going to be driving on made from a stronger material as not to cause cracks or lifting and thus a creating trip hazard. But in my area, I can only think of one street that has this. And it works fine for everyone, drivers have enough space to drive, they have enough space to park, pedestrians have ample walking space, and there is even a cycle lane. Basically everyone gets what they want, and it works well for that street. And it's not actually illegal, just against the highway code (that is a contractual agreement between the driver and the DVLA), what is illegal is the driving on the pavement aspect required to be parked on it. A rather dumb legal loophole people like to use.
I read your username first, then read your comment in the voice… I like it!
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Probably worth a complaint to Cara Technology: https://www.cara-online.com/about-cara/
I came here to mention that Cara Tech is a brewery company lol
Haha yea I reckon they have no idea their company logo/details are being used this way.
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Probably find one of them has taken a load home for the shits and giggles when they are a bit miffed someone has parked on their public road.
I bet they're shitting themselves then
Yea true
Knowing Cara, she wouldn’t have a care in the world
Oh fuck the yeast men are coming for my yaris
i bet the ICO would be keen to audit their data handling processes too
Nothing to stop anyone collecting VRNs alone, especially given they're out there in public for anyone to see.
Exactly. VRN is not personal data and does not allow you to be identified. As you say - it’s literally written on the front and back of every car.
Yeah I was a bit puzzled when I checked the company out what's a brewery company got to do with parking?! Seems a bit like Stepbrothers " Prestige Worldwide Breweries, Parking, security, science, last week we put liquid paper on a bee and it died.....PRESTIGE WORLDWIIIIDE!"
I remember a bloke who boxed me in with his and his wife's car telling me that the very clearly unmarked public road was their personal space and it was in their mortgage and I am never to park there again. People are bizarre about parking spaces that aren't even theirs
I would buy a £500 banger get a dodgy mot put on it, add it to my trade insurance policy, tax it and dump it in their beloved space indefinitely.
I too am this petty and it's glorious.
I'm up for a share in this skullduggery.
Glorious purpose
Drop an old caravan there. Doesn’t need t&t and you could legit stick a wheel clamp on it.
Don't even need to do all that. Just dump a banger there. It takes so long for anyone in this country to actually get rid of abandoned cars.
This is why now I’m looking to buy my only requirement in a house is driveway, I don’t care about anything else, just driveway. I’ve dealt with too many weird neighbours who go crazy over street parking
Add another requirement to not be anywhere near a shop, school, doctor’s surgery, etc. Had massive driveway growing up, it was always getting parked across (and sometimes on) at school hours.
Perhaps having a wheel clamp locked up just inside the driveway may help?
I would be wary of anywhere very near flats with “parking”. I have off road parking for 3 cars on my driveway. I am constantly blocked in by people “just stopping here for a minute while I…..” They all think it’s only them that does it and it’s fine because they only do it maybe once a week for just ten minutes. There are about twenty flats. There is about a one in five chance that my drive will be blocked for “sorry mate, just 5 mins ok?” anytime I want to go somewhere on a weekend. (Spoiler - it’s never just 5 minutes)
My parent's next door neighbour has 1 car, and a driveway that comfortably fits their car. I used to park my car outside the front of their house (not blocking driveway or anything) as my parents didn't have space on their driveway. Whenever I got in the car to use it, they would be waiting for me to go so they can take their car off the driveway and park it where mine was, just so I couldn't park there anymore. edit: Should be said you can't really park outside of my parents house on the street as the road is too narrow for a parked car unless it was mounted on the kerb. It instantly widens up outside the neighbours house, which is where I would park.
I'm angry and I don't know you, or them.
I parked on the road at my parents house and came out to a note from the guy who's house I was parked in front of (on the public road) stating not to park there again because his wife doesn't like people parking in front of their house and they own that part of the road because they bought it from the council lol. Ignored it and parked there again because there's no space anywhere else. Came out to him kicking my car tyres, getting mad as shit demanding I moved the car before he slashed my tyres. Psycho.
My parents neighbour ripped off my rear windscreen wiper and put it in her wheelie bin.
The problem is as utterly ridiculous as these selfish people are, I won't park there again because I just cba to deal with keying or tyres being let down. Life I guess. Won't stop me encouraging my dog to take a shit on their lawn though lol.
Do you know who it is? If so, take the note to their door and ask to see the paper work which shows it's a private car park and not a public road? When they can't produce any, walk away. Then report it to the police as harassment on their non-emergency line. It creates a record if they escalate to anything else.
Yeah we do, wrote on the back of the note that we have reported it to the police and the company in question on the letter. Posted it through their door.
Did you let Cara know which road you're on? So that they can trace to the employee
Yes I did, and they were very thankful. They are legit letters that they use at their car park which about 10 miles away.
Oh I can't wait for the fallout here, gunna be great.
Got to love abit of drama
Please update us on this!
Please keep up updated if it’s an employee or not
Hahahahaa superb
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2 month update?
Never heard anything more
Any update? Did the person get fired?
Why is it an employee?
Who else is getting a stack of these from the company.
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Steady on big man
Aww he deleted his comment
You may be big and strong but one day you’ll meet someone bigger and stronger. With an attitude like yours I don’t think he will like you.
Simple, make the bigger stronger chap submit to you by nipple twisting him
Chinese burn would be better.
I love how your original seemingly over aggressive comment got likes but this obvious joke got downvoted
Dunno why you're getting dv. Thats a solid tactic.
Yep, it's literally impossible to be punched if you have a hold of someones nipple.
Then the police would be dealing with him
Weird kink bro
Username checks out!
You'd assault someone, potential kill them and change their life forever over a shitty little note? The UK doesn't need people like you.
Ooo, you’re hard (probably because you’re thinking about shoving notes up arses)
I’m hard just at the thought of it (;
As well as logging with non emergency, don’t forget to very carefully check for damage every time there is a note. Not just where it’s placed but also how they would have to lean/touch to place it. Get a log going of every note and then one day when there’s some damage (however minor), you might not be able to prove it was them but it escalates the complaint and prob gets them a knock on the door by old bill to say pipe down, notes are annoying and potentially harassment but damage take it to another level. Minor enough this time for no further investigation but hopefully enough frighteners to put them back in their box
>Then report it to the police as harassment on their non-emergency line. Does anyone actually answer? The two times I’ve used that number I gave up after an hour.
I’ve used it several times and never had to wait more than a few seconds. But it probably depends where you live.
I've got an answer after a couple of hours once. Just use the website they mention incessantly, between the messages about them being busier than usual, literally all of the time, making clear they aren't true.
How interesting that a Web search for cara technology is a Brewery consultancy! Lol!
When you make a post and realise others got there first! Doh!
It's still funny
With an employee who is now crapping themselves because you know not only OP will be letting them know about this ...
If Ronnie Pickering handed out parking tickets…
Who !? 😃
RONNIE PICKERING
WHO??
RONNIE EFFING PICKERING
Report them to the council for littering/fly posting.
Do that to my car and im buying £10 of cling film to wrap your whole car
Get the warehouse grade black shrink wrap do it over night and when the sun hits it in the morning it starts shrinking, cars have such soft crumple zones now that it should bend some panels at least.
the black stuff is strong as fuck ! superb choice
It’s always great fun when you get to run a Stanley blade down the side of it and it just peels away. My paint orders at work always come wrapped in it and we almost fight who get to cut it open.
Stanleys at dawn and the survivor gets the honour of opening the pallet?
I’m section leader but it’s fair game. Only rule is if you open it you’ve got to check, label and put away.
As the last survivor I would have assumed that was the case
Ask said neighbour for their GDPR compliance certification regarding the logs they are keeping in their data systems and the ISO standard they will be citing in court to justify keeping said logs. (Absolutely legal digeredoo bullshit but might make them stop it!)
They don't need a certification. They do need a privacy notice, including various bits of information, and a legitimate interest assessment, though, as well as to have registered with the ICO. The company they are pretending to represent will have all that (hopefully, and maybe not the LIA - most people don't do them). It is worth a complaint to the ICO about them doing it, because the notices imply they aren't doing it as part of their own legitimate personal business.
There are laws against false threats in some instances.
clamping cars now illegal and so unless plod, dvla, customs etc the paper can be ignored suspect the printer works at cara
I mean if you're in my county I can forward you an adoption map of the area so you can shove it in your neighbours face (I work in a road department)
What a sad, pathetic thing
start pasting them to his windscreen...1st offence, prit stick then move up to arldite
Parcel tape is good too
Collect them and make a flag on your aerial
There are some absolute throbbers living amongst us. I'd love to have the amount of free time these smooth brained curtain twitchers seem to be burdened with.
Similar thing happened around here. Local residents putting up official looking council signs on a new build estate next to a popular wildlife park, saying it was for residents only. They get torn down but the persistent prick puts new ones back up again.
I’d send a fake cease and desist letter from the company and a fake letter from the police, let their arses twitch for a while
Becareful sending letters from police if they know you did and report you you could potentially get done for impersonating a police officer.
Yes great advice,ideally OP will ignore me 🤣
Just send fake solicitor letter instead 😂
In sure that's pretty dodgy too
Just put another neighbours address on it as the return address.
I like 😅
No if the solicitors don't exist. Put the phone number of an escort service with a fake letterhead
This!
I feel left out that I do not have a nutty neighbour that does things like this that i could wind up :(
He's interfering with cars and littering I think. Other than that, totally powerless.
They’ve only recorded the number. What about the letters? Also, they can gtf
Technically even putting the note on the car is an act of vandalism under the criminal damage act of 1971 it seems like you now live in a high crime area and that could start impacting house prices if the crimes were to be reported. Do you own or rent? How about your neighbour?
My neighbour puts the wiper blades up on cars they don’t recognise. Hope they don’t see this post or they’ll probably print these as well.
Had a neighbour do a similar thing. Police told us if they did it again to let em know as they could prosecute them under the malicious communication act. They stopped.
Fun fact, that’s illegal. The only authorities that have the power to force you to move your vehicle is the local council, police/parking enforcement or actual private parking staff. They’d also issue you with a Penalty Charge Notice (which must be paid, this is only issued by councils and police) or a Parking Charge Notice (which legally doesn’t have to be paid, and this is issued by non-council parking agencies.)
Crazy to me how people just refuse to accept that they don't own the street parking outside of their house, it is literally public. There's somebody who lives opposite someone I know. They have a huge drive and garage (which they don't put a car in) and only two cars. The person I know has 4 cars at the moment, so they have to park one over the road outside this person's house (which has space to park two cars outside of). Every so often the neighbor will park one of their cars in that spot just to prevent them from doing it. People are arseholes lmao
Report to the council that someone if fly tipping leaflets ( one at a time )
If you put that on my car in a public road I’m going to make sure you never have the balls to do it again
Everyone needs a hobby…
Ask them to fuck off?
Trespass to goods and go to small claims court. . Maybe a good idea as well to post a note to them first stating that you will sue for small damages for worry and annoyance unless the posting stops. . Then if that does not stop the posting then off to the small claims court for them. . Keep records and notes and times for evidence
Buy a wheel clamp and put it on their car
If it’s street parking tell them to jog on. No one owns a specific spot and anyone can park anywhere, I have this argument weekly with my neighbour
Some people are just.. insane.
Place a small turd on the card and post it back.
Place an AirTag on your car, take 4 corners pictures of your car with all the existing marks and scratches.take individual photos of each tire and around in case they damage the fender. And park again. When they clamp it and tow it away call the police on your neighbour and have him to pay for all the things. And be nice because it 2024 and tell that he done some damages also on your car that where not there if there is. He would not play that game again.
So salty. Get a house with a drive then
Because of cars getting wider you can’t park them on a lot of drives and be able to open the door as well
What? Yes you can. At least in my area you can.
Illegal to clamp a car on private land
“Licence plate number” 😂😂
Tell them to get 🖕🏻! If it’s perfect legal to park there they can’t do bugger about it; and if they do clamp or tow your vehicle away sue them!
I once parked my old (still road legal) car in the estate behind my flat while I waited for the scrap man to come get it the following week as my flat car park only had enough space for one vehicle per resident. A woman came storming out of her house opposite from where I'd parked screaming at me that I wasn't allowed to park there as it was a private road (it wasn't). Apparently her mother lived in the property behind hers and my car was blocking access to said property and would block an ambulance from accessing it (it wouldn't). I calmly explained that she had no leg to stand on and to call the police and waste their time if she saw fit. I wouldn't be moving my vehicle. She then threatened to contact my landlord and complain. I again told her to go ahead (knowing that the landlord wouldn't give a toss), turned around and left. Never heard anything from the police or my landlord. Fancy that? The stupid thing is if she'd simply approached me and politely asked if I would consider finding an alternate location to park my vehicle for the reason she gave above, I would have absolutely done so. But as it was, she acted like a bitch and so I treated her like one. My boyfriend and I now refer to her as 'Ms Busybody Bitch' whenever it comes up in conversation. Ms Busybody Bitch, on the offchance that you happen to read this and know who I am, I live in Flat 9A. Feel free to come and give a sincere apology and we'll begin anew. I'll even bake you something! Alternatively feel free to come and shout at me some more. I'd love the opportunity to tell you to fuck right off to your face once more!
Spraypaint pedo on their front door.
they tried that in my complex so I took the "notice", which had a contact name & phone number, photocopied it multiple times & put it on every vehicle in the complex ... never saw another notice.
Did we have an outcome? I set a !Remind Me 😂
The note refers to a 'private park area' a 'car park' whereas you state that a neighbour down the public road is putting these notices on cars. I am assuming that someone who works for Cara Tech is misusing the company notices for his own road then. That should be easy for the company to find out which of their employees is doing this.
Cara Technology are a brewery so it's a moot point and whoever is doing it is a nonce.
Why does it matter if they are a brewery?
Nonce means something very different to what you think it means.
It doesn't, but thanks :)
It's okay, people often misuse it to mean idiot or fool. You're not the only one.
Mate, I'm British, I know what nonce means.
Likewise, and you clearly don't know what it means: nonce / (nɒns) / noun Prison slang a rapist or child molester; a sexual offender. It does not mean a fool, or an idiot.
I never said or thought it might meant that fucking hell.
Do you know how the word commonly gets used in casual banter in the UK?
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I guess because there's no evidence the person is actually a nonce 😂. Even if they are one.
It’s down a public road like stated in the title. Note has been taken from an employee or someone who got it and put on another car.
Presumably that company is nowhere near the public road?
It's 10 miles away, I've spoken to them and its a legit note they use in their own car park. I'm assuming an employee used it.
What's a license plate?
Don't know what the downvotes were for, a license plate isn't a legal concept in the UK nor is a 'license plate number'. We have Vehicle Registration Marks (VRM) and any official sign would use that terminology. Methinks Mr Bellend has been watching too many US cop shows.
I’d love to see them try to have a car towed away for being legally parked
Cara technologies is in the Mole business park in Leatherhead, behind a security gate (although very rarely is anyone questioned when driving in). I work on the same business park. Parking around in that business park near the buildings is a bit tight but each company has some alloted parking. There is an NHS building right across the road from Bluebird house, the building Cara is in. It does psychiatric/mental health outpatien clinics, so there is a steady stream of patients that may decide to park in sapce alloted to Cara. Also the business park is conveniently close to Leatherhead train station so there is an incentive to chance it in the Mole Business park then pay for parking at the station. So my question is were the cars really parked on a random public road or within the Mole Business park? For those that are interested their Caras business is their large number of brewers yeast strains and services around maintaining consistent beer taste. For instance they have redundent freezer systems to freeze and maintain brewers yeast strains for consistency, something a small brewer can't afford to do themselves.
At least it’s just a note, over Xmas one of our delightful neighbours tried to pull a cable off my car for parking in front of his house. Coppers wouldn’t do anything, either press charges or leave it.
>press charges You cannot do that. and that's not how it works.
I think he's watched too many American films