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This is my current pet peeve, always feel like I should move 'em but a bit scared of getting into a confrontation about it.
What do other folks think/do ?
On public roads, on obviously ...
Deserve to have them run over .
Perhaps they have booked a skip.
My elderly neighbour does it. She puts a cone behind her car to "prevent" other people from running into it......
She's old - so I don't care.
Much more effective to paint a fake disabled parking bay!
A former neighbour of mine did this. I just stole the cone and they didn't do it again.
I put cones outside my house. Does my head in having to park down the road, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than getting the kerb lowered to pretend I have a drive.
Come and move mine...
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I blame this lot.
i see it as someone reserving the spot for me. If my car was then scratched i'd know where to knock.
Next door does it .Funny how easy they are to 'not see' in the morning .I think I'm into double figures now :0)
I have a drive and a garage, but no car; takes all sorts.
Come and move mine...
Where do you live?
Only dicks do this
Is the Cone a nod to passers by that a secret sexual society is available inside the property?
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Abandoning stuff on a public highway? Report them for fly tipping.
They might be dicks for putting cones out, but you are conspiring with them if you obey the cones.
+1 Cougar. It's fly tipping...and they should be fined.
We put some cones out as we were waiting for an ambulance, some gimp came, moved the cones and parked denying access for the ambulance. Fortunately no-one got too hacked off that the ambulance blocked the road for 1 hour+, the queue was was very patient and understood what was happening.
But hey, get out there and move them.
Here I am...
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don simon thats a very unusual situation, and if that is the case they would do well to speak with their neighbours. 99.9% of the time it is people being dicks and wanting to bag their own space.
I live opposite a primary school, if I time it wrong the road is littered with squiffily parked 1 wheel on the pavement Honda CRVs. Who need at least two car lengths to park as they can only go in forwards, I think it's a special licence category, like folk who can only drive automatics. I might consider putting cones out, but I doubt this lot would even see them, let alone obey them.
Report them to the Highways for stealing cones.
They might be dicks for putting cones out, but you are conspiring with them if you obey the cones.
Dude, that is totally what Desmond Tutu said.
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Right on ! And all it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. And all that.
Don Simon, I'm worried we might have met now!
I got really angry arriving at a job one night, having to do a 20 point turn to get the ambulance into a tiny spot because "some t**t has put cones out to "reserve" their spot! Then the neighbour pops out and tells me that the coned off area was for me and he assumed I'd move them! Doh!
[i]We put some cones out as we were waiting for an ambulance[/i]
Maybe standing outside till the ambulance arrived would have been a better approach. You just happened to have road cones available?
Anyone under the age of 70 who does this is a fanny.
But it doesn't bother me in the slightest and I can't see a situation where it would.
Don Simon, I'm worried we might have met now!
Why "worried"? 😥
Anyone under the age of 70 who does this is a fanny.
This ^^^
People "that"?????
Stick a sign up at the local College/Uni on a Friday or Saturday evening saying free cones.
People that put cones outside their houses
...they're almost as bad as people who have drives and somewhere to park but they still park on the road just to stop other people parking outside their houses!
Maybe standing outside till the ambulance arrived would have been a better approach. You just happened to have road cones available?
I actually preferred spending the time with the patient, just to make sure they were alright, know what I mean?
Cones , no? Triangles from the back of the car, yes.
Are people so incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of others? If I see cones blocking a space I drive on and find another space, or pay or...
Having lived in areas of limited parking, I'm aware of the problems and the compromises that peope have to make and live with it. Double parking is something else that the small minded selfish idiots don't seem to be able to comprehend either. But hey...
If you have two cars that seems fairly logical. If you parked two cars on the driveway and someone parks across it then you're stuck. If you park one car in the drive and one in the road then whats the issue?
[i]I actually preferred spending the time with the patient, just to make sure they were alright, know what I mean?[/i]
I assumed one person could stay with the patient and the other watch for the ambulance. Makes sense to me.
Where my parents live it's a sign that you are slipping down the social ladder if you park on the street. It's very frowned on and the neighbours get very very sniffy. They are moving as they can no longer garage my dads car collection, so started to park the modern cars on the street, the horror. I think the neighbours got up a petition.
When I was growing up we had 5 cars at one stage (I had two) this is NZ by the way so quite normal. All kinds of shuffling had to go on in the mornings to get everybody out of the L shaped garage.
My mum used to make me park the Falcon on a different street some days ! Not outside our house. It was kind of the opposite problem.
I assumed one person could stay with the patient and the other watch for the ambulance. Makes sense to me.
You assumed a lot, perhaps too much.
Not really, you said 'we put cones out', this suggests more than one person put the cones out. Crazy assumption I know.
People "that"?????
People [b]what[/b]. Get it right, ffs, guys!
Crazy assumption I know.
I know, but not your fault. I think that this is the problem, people see something and have difficulty in understanding the reasons behind it, then jump to, often incorrect, conclusions.
We could equally apply to me and patient, or the royal we, or... 😉
FFS if the patient was well enough to put cones out I would suggest they could have got the bus to the hospital or at least waited outside for the ambulance - saving the need for the whole cone scenario. Drama queen.
FFS if the patient was well enough to put cones out I would suggest they could have got the bus to the hospital or at least waited outside for the ambulance - saving the need for the whole cone scenario.
Suggest all you want. Did I say that the patient was well enough to carry emergency triangles?
You weren't there, were you?
Change "we" for "I" if you're having difficulties understanding. You sound like the typical selfish [swear filter avoidance] that creates more problems than they solve. I bet you'd have stopped and given the ambulance driver an earful preventing them from doing their job instead of minding your business, it's got nothing to do with you!!
Don Pisspot, you're coming across as a bit of a Benny. OP was talking about those sad old ****ers who cone off "their" parking space on the public highway. Your example is pretty unique/fictional. Do you regularly cone off "your" space and are trying to justify it?
Don Pisspot, you're coming across as a bit of a Benny.
Thanks for that ****banger you're the milk of human kindness.
I'm enjoying this thread 🙂
Carry on....
I'm enjoying this thread
Me too! Don Pisspot, Benny(?) and ****banger all in 2 posts.
Things can only get better.
What about putting cones out to stop people parking across a drive? We have a little car park area behind our flats (only 2 flats in a building) with a big gate and people always block it. I've thought about getting cones to stop people parking there.
Although the current issue is people letting animals shit on our drive, or across it- there's been 4 dogs turds that just won't die there since the heatwave in March and a couple of days ago some inconsiderate beggar let their horse leave a smear of shite 7 feet long across the from of our home. Which is not very nice.