[Closed] Had my first run in with a "terrortorial Parker"

Do as the aussies and fit a roo bar.....even yer regular hatch backs have em....

Make belting nudge bars.

We did have an incident where an old giffer in his golf parked between my drive way and the single track road end ..... Illigal
in its self but also a nuiscence for every one entering or exiting the road due to the distance. I was working in the garage and said he would be better moving his car up the road a bit.

Got an " i pay my road tax i can park where i like" and he dandered off up the road.

So when the farmer came in to see who owned the silver golf he just clipped with his trailer cause it was parked in a very silly spot, i told him the story and we agreed hear no evil see no evil.

When said giffer came back and went nuts at me. I simply said - do you see any green cars on my drive, maybe next time you wont park in a stupid place.

[quote=bigyinn ]I wonder what would have happened if a fire engine needed to get access.

No idea how true it is*, but I heard (in relation to a narrow road with parking both sides with a gap supposedly too narrow for a fire engine back when I was a kid) that the fire[s]men[/s]fighters would all jump out and roll cars onto their sides to make room.

*probably not

Never been riled enough to complain. Had to politely ask a neighbour to get her visitor to move their car once.

I may be being unreasonable but pulling up and parking infront of someone's garage is just a tad inconsiderate really.

Only other thing that really winds me up are the idiots that park on the opposite side of the road to everyone else when there's only room for parking on one side, it's not like the extra couple of steps you'd have to take will kill them.

How do I successfully resolve this without there being further bad feeling around the neighbourhood?

move house and buy somewhere with off-road parking that you own.

We don't get the 'parking in front of our house' thing much (mainly because ours is laid out like a funnel with the narrow bit being our drive so we have no frontage to be parked in front of apart from the dropped kerb to the drive).

But we have a near neighbour who park their many cars all over the place, fully on the pavement etc (so much so I have taken to clambering through their hedge and through their garden when trying to get past).

Belligerent, me?

Yes.

johndoh - have you taken up climbing?
Did you forget to take your harness off coming home?
Can't for the life of me remember how those marks ended up down the side of their car(s)....

😈

It really does nark me though - they sometimes park two or three cars fully on the pavement - and it is a narrow pavement so it fully blocks it.

There was a spate of vandalism a few years back at the other house (well the roads around it).
Hedge hopping, running over cars, etc. Usually on a friday night.
The road has a co-op, chinky, kebab house and Offy at one end and a social club and big park at the other.
A lot of the usual suspects who continually parked on the pavement - I mean fully on the pavement got their cars written off.
Roofs properly concave, windscreen edges bent, etc.
Stopped after a while due to the Police being seen - also stopped the parkers.
Really surprising how many started using the garages they all have at the rear.
Admittedly it forced the Council into sorting out the access road to the rear (it could take 20mins just to negotiate all the crap).
Getting worse again now but there's a fair few owners/tenants that are post "parkour gate" 😆

Would hate for your cul de sac to experience such a spate of incidents.....

"The road has a ... chinky"

Welcome to the 1970s.

Cycling down a road in Hebden Bridge I came across a long note written on a car windscreen, the jist was 'please dont outside our house as we volunteer for the mountain rescue and need to get to our car quickly. I hope you understand this important work and keep this space clear etc etc'. Accompanied with lots of '!'

The note writer obviously assumed the person had a lesser role in society and I question using such a tactic but hey.

Some years ago we lived very close to a town centre and parking was always a nightmare around there. Fortunately we had a drive but we also had a space outside the house which we used to use whenever possible to keep the drive free in case friends or family visited. We never obsessed about the space though because neighbours also needed it as well.

One Saturday I noticed someone had parked across our drive and I was a bit concerned as I was expecting the wife back with a heavy load of shopping. I went out to the car and saw the door was unlocked and the keys were still in the ignition. I pushed the car down the road and round the corner and let it go down a slight incline. I watched it smash into a tree about 80 metres down the road.

Yeah right. Did you bollocks.

I pushed the car down the road and round the corner and let it go down a slight incline. I watched it smash into a tree about 80 metres down the road.

What a load of balls. You didn't really do that.

I believe that the phrase you're all grasping for is.....

Chinny reckon

our road's one of biggish Victorian terraced houses. Most people have at least two cars/4b4s/VW vans etc etc, and we're near the middle of town so people park for the shops etc. Nay biggie. Sometimes have to walk 50m to get to the car but don't have to use it that much with everything round the corner.

What does piss me off is increasingly everyone's having their front garden turned into a carpark, every time they claiming the full frontage and taking space for two/three or cars out of the game, as well as making their house and the road look rather shite. Hey ho.

The other thing is that, on top of their being so many more cars around nowadays, every car is massive compared to 20 years ago - so we have more and more bigger and bigger things blocking everywhere and everything up.

I went out to the car and saw the door was unlocked and the keys were still in the ignition

Whilst I hope that you're making the rest of the story up, this was the norm at my Prep School. The parents would abandon cars all over the place leaving the keys in them for people to shuffle about themselves.

I was the scholarship boy with the rusty Austin Maestro full of Labrador hair, I can imagine the disdain that was moved with. 😆

My friends parents have restraining orders or something to stop their neighbours parking near their house. People are odd.

I grew up in an urban sprawl with lots of terraced Victorian houses that were split into flats, so we were lucky to park a street or so over. Made me laugh when I went to uni and my housemates were upset they couldn't park right outside the house.

The note writer obviously assumed the person had a lesser role in society and I question using such a tactic but hey.

I question your thought process its no impossible to have a reason for wanting to park outside your house/claim a space. Being a first responder to emergency events seems a fair one to me and probably most folk if not you.

I’ve only had this once. We were on holiday in Gran Canaria. We’d got bikes in the back of a van and wanted to park up and go for a ride. We started in a quiet part of a resort, marked parking bays on the road (no restrictions/charging), nothing parked in the bays on one side of the road (no houses), we parked on the other side in front of a house mainly because that was the direction of travel. Spaces in front/behind us. Half the houses are holiday lets rather than homes and we just pulled up outside one at random. Anyway, we get back to find someone parked right up against us blocking his drive. As soon as he sees us he comes out and glowers at us waiting for us to pack everything back into the van, change and head off. Didn’t say a word but clearly didn’t want us there. We move off and he moves his car straight into the space.

At home it’s not really an issue. People park outside my house, but I have a drive so I’m not too bothered, and it’s a wide road so there’s no need to park on the pavement. The one that did bug me a bit was when I got home from work to find someone parked up across my drive, sitting in the car. I was on the bike (the car was in the drive) but did he move to let me actually get the bike onto the drive via the dropped kerb rather than taking a circuitous route? Nope, he just sat there and watched.

Junkyard you don't own that space. Walking another 5metres isn't going to affect anyone. I thought attempting to emotionally blackmail someone out of a public piece of road partly moral corrupt..

@forzakawi
That's nothing. A bloke once leant his bike against my wall. So I builtva satellite armed with a gazillionGW laser and melted his house from space. That showed him.

hjgh5 - in Spain you actually do own the path and section of road in front of your house.
Ex in-laws had to pay double as they have a corner plot when they laid the paths and surfaced the roads in the village.
You are responsible for the upkeep of the path directly - the road you aren't once its down. You "gift" it to the council.
Its been know for them to actually leave the tarmac missing where they owner has refused to pay.

As for the guy across your drive - he'd have moved if it was my house/bike.

strange how many are complaining about car parking when they own a car on a bike riding forum, perhaps sell the car and get more bikes or move.

I agree Project.

Anyway, got to go as I have a 200 mile cycle tomorrow, with my wife, 2 kids and the dog balanced on my bike.

Yep. I've got to go to bed now in prep for the cycle from Portsmouth to Harrow. Would normally only take a few hours but carrying 200m of rope, 6 steel strops,full abseil kit, a load of traffic cones and a box of mastic tends to lower my average speed a touch. Can wheel it all the way to the door though, so not all bad! 🙄

If you're late - I'll be docking your wages too!!

Anyway, got to go as I have a 200 mile cycle tomorrow, with my wife, 2 kids and the dog balanced on my bike.

Yep. I've got to go to bed now in prep for the cycle from Portsmouth to Harrow. Would normally only take a few hours but carrying 200m of rope, 6 steel strops,full abseil kit, a load of traffic cones and a box of mastic tends to lower my average speed a touch. Can wheel it all the way to the door though, so not all bad!

ever heard of hire vehicles, yo hie them as needed not leave them blocking a street, and where are you going too park them at your destination, in front of someone elses house.

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strange how many are complaining about car parking when they own a car on a bike riding forum, perhaps sell the car and get more bikes or move.

Really? Cycling is a hobby for me, not a mode of transport.

I wouldn't be able to go mountain biking if I didn't have a car.

And what if you need it every day? Might as well buy it. Oh...

I'm supposed to hire a vehicle when I need it? So, Mon to Fri for work, lugging rope access kit around the South of England. Then at the weekend, to tow my caravan or just go somewhere not within spitting distance of my house? Seems like it may be a rather extravagant way to do things.
I have a driveway actually so I don't park on the road at home. Just wanted to make the point that your suggestion may be less than practical for many people...

Tbh this is why i refused to buy a new build house....

1 maybe 2 parking spots on anything i could afford, streets littered with cars lie close in their future.

But its ok , you have 5 microbedrooms each with en suite and a dining room a cat couldnt fit in never mind be swung in to compensate for lack of front garden and parking.

My cars spend most of their time sitting in my drive way , i am ok with that as the only person they affect and cost money is me. None of my neighbours even have to look at my borderline scrap.

Im all for the japan style prove you have space before you buy a car deal.....not so in for the super high tax on anything more than a few years old.

My flat in Vienna is on the border of two districts. One side of the street is free parking (18th district) and the other is 800 euro a year to park (17th district). It's a nightmare to park as everyone in the 17th who has 2 or more cars park in the free district. The flat is in the 18th so finding a parking spot within 500m is luck.

My house is in a row of about ten which for some reason was built set back from the road, so there's a public car park with space for about 40 cars for the ten houses. Every third Wednesday some bloke driving a big yellow van full of books parks right outside my house for 30 minutes. The git.

Im all for the japan style prove you have space before you buy a car deal.

Same here, ridiculous the amount of cars about, we're only lucky there are no houses across the road.

Why should I park 40 yards up the road because they can't stop breeding. But like you say it's not my road but I still feel put out after a long day at work.

We have a communal parking area at the end of the street. All the houses have drives or parking spots outside, the communal bit being...well communal, as in anyone can use it. But it gives a couple of houses a nice spot to park their cars in so they can see them from their front windows.
I brought the caravan home a few years ago, to prep for going away. So parked the mighty Mondeo in the comunual area. Low & behold we get a note, to the effect these spaces are for these houses only. So it got tore up. Few days later one of the residents has a go at the wife. She wasn't sure which house he lived in, & no amount of me knocking would bring the spineless **** out for a "chat".
So they start running a key down the car.
(180k Mondeo already well scratched, not like it's knocking thousands off its value).

Fast forward, we bought a new car in November, after the DMF went on the Mondeo.
So the Mondeo has sat since, right in the prime spot.
Don't worry, it's taxed, insured & will remain there in all its rusty, scratched splendour until the MOT runs out in March.

I once got a mini digger and lifted a car some total tool had left blocking my site entrance. Dragged it on site and fenced it in. Now that is a true story!

Lol, a nutter near me used to park his milk float outside my house because he thought it annoyed me. It was a public road with ample parking so caused me no grief at all.

His grudge against me was that one of our neighbours wrote him an anonymous letter about parking and he thought it was from me.

in Spain you actually do own the path and section of road in front of your house.

I don't. At least I don't think I do. My neighbour doesn't like anyone parking in "his" space in front of his house, to the extent of moving cars and motorbikes around to ensure no one else can park there, but as he's very careful not to park in front of anyone else's house I don't mind.

I guess it's true - if everyone says so - that it's legal to park in front of someone's drive (bit thoroughness though). I did come back from a walk into town, to find some wife, and a young lad, parked in front of our drive.

Asked her if she'd mind moving the car - "in a while" (at this point, I think she thought I was some nosey neighbour...) Asked her if she realised she was parked in front of the drive (some don't). "Yes, it's ok, there was a lady doing some gardening (it was a freezing cold day) out front and she said it'd be ok". ?? "You mean my wife said it was OK? - I find that hard to believe"..

Long pause, and then she went ballistic, then her son got out passenger seat and came round all set to have a pop at me. Most odd.

We have an elderly couple living a few doors up. They rarely drive but when they do everyone leaves [i]their[/i] spot. Not a territorial thing, just makes life a bit easier for them. The road is pretty busy and space at a premium but they bought the house brand new in 1939 so sort of have dibs anyway.