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What Mattbee suggested. No glue, just a spray of water and some thin paper with the correct citations on for the offence, job done. You could always pretend that you did not see her in the car...
Howsyourday1...
I’ve seen Swedes grabbing keys out of people’s cars that are just running and throwing them on the ground. Normally such passive folk. Could be an alternative?
Wait, I'm allowed to do that? Hell, I'm going to have soooo much fun on my morning commute now! Does this mean I am also allowed to stop other cyclists from going through red lights? How about those fscking scooters?
Sh1t on her bonnet.
Beetle?
Honestly, ask politely, if challenged explain why you think it’s important, then walk off and try not to let it bother you.
Repeat as often as you have the stomach for.
Ah yes, the best advice is always to tell you to do exactly what you described doing in your post!
Thanks for your valuable, snippy input Dezb
The key here was to “try not to let it bother you.” Given that mouth breathing car idlers who are willing to yell abuse at folk for making reasonable requests that they obey the Highway Code are very unlikely to change their behaviour, the best you can often do is to do the right thing, then move on.
Finding a way to vent can be part of that, hence all my “yes, it’s a blind corner” posts a while back. They were mostly for my own benefit, not others’.
Now, as I advised, I’m going to move on!
You've found yourself an entitled arsehole. Bad luck.
You've done the adult polite thing. She's demonstrated her character to you.
At this point I'd do the reporting thing for phone use whilst sat in running car and sat idling near school. Regularly.
Some people, you just can't reach.
I had no idea this was actually an offence. It irritates the hell out of me so good on you for the challenge. Now just email your local PCSO, with photo of the car and let him/her take over from there. They may take a week or two to turn up but they will get there eventually. Probably won't 'book' her first time but may be enough to change behaviour. She will have to wind her chubby neck in long enough to listen to the PCSO as well!
Life's too short to get stressed by the actions of the knuckle-draggers in this world. You've tried to educate her, clearly she isn't prepared to change her obnoxious ways. You could try the police reporting route but unless you live in a quiet area I can't see them having time to respond (unless possibly the school gets involved as well as they arrange for a general awareness patrol). So I'd just advise ignoring it from now on.
Learn a new hobby - this:
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There was an article recently - guy earns a living off reporting idling vehicles now.
Scatter drawing pins where she tends to park.
Personally, I'd get over it.
You might be in the right, she may indeed be committing a minor motoring offence, but there's not a chance in hell you'll change her attitudes now, in fact you've probably cemented them.
And for god's sake, don't stand there filming her with your smartphone, that's a guaranteed way to escalate the situation.
ive recently started taking my daughter to school (shes just started) and the stuff you see from parents is nuts. they have no idea half the time. Are in a blind panic the rest. They park in peoples drives and allsorts. Its genuinely been an aye opener.
There nutters. id stay well clear.
the stuff you see from parents is nuts
^^^^ THIS ^^^^
We are in our final year of hell as our girls go to secondary school next September but we have seen some things in that time - people parking over drives, parking on the zigzags outside the school (happens almost daily), people parking fully on pavements, people driving right into the school car park despite many signs telling them not to etc etc etc. The best one was when two dads had a full on fist fight right outside school over a disagreement on where one of them had dumped his Range Rover (it is Harrogate so that's normal). Morons the lot of them. In the last six years I have always parked well away from congested areas and walked my girls in (we live just short of two miles away despite it being their catchment school so walking all the way isn't really an option). Many others will do everything they possibly can to avoid walking more than a few metres.
Some of the things i've witnessed when i've picked my nephews up is truly staggering!! I don't know how women manage to get so angry about things?!?!
This is a timely post, no word of lie, i picked my nephews up on Friday and there was a cluster of parents tearing a shred off what i assume was the PE teacher because he had given their kids DOMS (sore legs from exercise!) by doing squats to 'Up Sally up, down Sally down'! They were venemous!
I don't know about drink driving be dangerous a mother on a school run in a Nissan Quashqai is lethal - mounting the pavement whilst pedestrians are on it, they'd park on the teachers desk if they could!!
I don't remeber it being so fraught when i was a kid....let alone dust ups which from teacher friends i believe is a common occurance up and down the land.....all that stress and it's not even 9am for them!! 🙂
As for the woman in question, she's clearly thick as * so i wouldn't expect anything sensible from her. Keep in mind that she is raising another (probably) bunch of *wits too....
Well if you dont want to get arrested ..grab her keys and move them about 10m or so away the car should switch off and trigger the alarm then place the keys on the roof JUST OUT OF REACH(for keyless start) ..as mentioned you could just throw a handful of nails discreetly in front of her tyres so she WILL DRIVE OVER THEM ..and legally she could be prosecuted for both the aforementioned engine idling and on the phone(you ARE considered in control of the vehicle if the engines running..)I would vindictivelt get her key take the battery out and in tern make it so she cant restart the car(usually not hard to do .)..
to be fair if someone had my kid doing sally sally down squats id be pretty fuming as well.
its only been a couple of weeks and im already starting to loose my sanity. cant wait for next year when i can take her on the bike.
There was an article recently – guy earns a living off reporting idling vehicles now.
Yes, but sadly in New York city, not Derbyshire:
Banana in the food pipe?
Ferris-Beuller
I don’t remeber it being so fraught when i was a kid…
the stuff you see from parents is nuts
Yep, it's the Mummies in Sportswear desperate to get there for a chat before they head to the coffee shop down the road who drive like joyriders.
The ones who launch themselves onto kerbs to save a 10m walk.
The Le Man style race to leave again, including revving engines an occasional wheelspin start.
Parking in the bus stop, just before the school bus arrives.
Sometimes I feel like I'm some kind of dogooder because we park 20m away safely and legally and walk/skip/run in.
I think there are bigger things to worry about. I would just tut and be done with it.
Don't forget starting an engine once stopped isn't without energy cost. Rough rule of thumb is the engine needs to be stopped for greater than 30 seconds to be worth it versus the energy cost of replenishing the battery. Then of course, the greater wear on the starter motor and battery etc.
Typical of modern thinking, yes its a waste of energy but stopping idling isn't going to solve anything at all. Certainly not worth worrying about.
Whereas the atmospheric conditions at platform 1-4 at St Pancras International well that has to exceed Euro legislation every single day. its horrible but its not the evil motorist so its fine.
Doctorknashoidz - I disagree.
I've asked quite a few people in the last 6 months. Mostly they've been fine. Just looking at me in that weird way and switching off. One or two have been ridiculous in their reaction. One or two have actually thanked me because they didn't know they could get fined.
This weekend there was a meeting about our local environment and the conclusion was, if one person just stopped to think and changed a little then that has a knock on effect.
This nutty woman accused me of eating food that was being kept hot from a generator. Where she got that information from is anyone's guess.
I think you'll be surprised by how short you need to stop idling for in modern engines to make it worth while. Fuel use alone is roughly 7 secs. Increased wear on the rest of the systems is another matter but i'm pretty sure the issue is more to do with fumes than using fuel.
Whereas the atmospheric conditions at platform 1-4 at St Pancras International well that has to exceed Euro legislation every single day. its horrible but its not the evil motorist so its fine.
Hmm - smells a bit like gammon to me...
I hear you Bunnyhop but sometimes, for the sake of one's own sanity and blood pressure, just leave people to their own ignorance and stupidity and she does sound spectacularly stupid.
Increased wear on the rest of the systems is another matter
I believe cars with stop/start technology have uprated batteries / starter motors to counteract this. (There was a lengthy thread on here a little while ago.)
Rough rule of thumb is the engine needs to be stopped for greater than 30 seconds to be worth it versus the energy cost of replenishing the battery.
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You might cause increased wear if you sat there turning the engine on and off the whole time, but in reality it's utterly negligible, as is the energy cost of restarting.
She probably has start-stop technology in the car anyway but is one of those people who will switch it off when she gets in.