Some dude parked his car outside my house, i reckon he lives lcally, is there anyway of tracing his address from the reg?
Why would you need to? Is he blocking your access?
Why, do you want to buy it?
Have you tried asking your wife?
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Why would you need to? Is he blocking your access?
*s*****
I don't [u]need[/u] to, I want to.
Are you thinking about bums, Haze?
pop a brick through his window, he'll turn up quite quickly.
If you have a legitimate reason, you can request the info from the DVLA. If it's not a legitimate reason, don't try this route.
Some dude parked his car outside my house, [b]i reckon he lives locally[/b]
You are Sherlock Holmes and I claim my five guineas.
Meh, i just want to have a chat to him about the inconvenience he causes me.
Is he allowed to park there?
Yes he is
I reckon CharlieMungus is about to tell him no.
Oh well, apparently I was wrong.
This chat about the inconvenience of parking where you are allowed to, will be interesting.
It shouldn't be a problem.
What's the inconvenience?
He makes it difficult for a friend to visit me.
PMSL. Film the conversation and post it on here...
I would, if I could find out where he lived
Hmmm, leave a polite note or something?
Does your friend have mobility issues?
I don't see why it is such a strange or amusing proposition. I live in a nice area where most folks are very reasonable.
😯
Yes, he does have mobility issues, and this particular spot is the only bit of the pavement low enough for his chair to get up.
Fair enough, not ammusing at all. I'm sure he'll be fine then.
Polite note would seem appropriate.
He makes it difficult for a friend to visit me.
So presumably there are no other available parking places/spaces ?
Doesn't seem much point knocking on his front door and asking to move his car then 😕
You could trace them by... waiting by the car. Inspired! It may take a while, but then you could use the time to brew loads of bad thoughts about what you're gonna say to the evil motherhumper.
"cough, errmmmm, excuse me but I couldn't help, err, noticing, ahh, cough.. ahem..." etc. Best of British!
Make a ramp for your friend? Get some cones and block off the spot when your friend is due to visit? Loiter around and wait for the person who parks in the inconvenient place and talk to them?
So presumably there are no other available parking places/spaces ?
???
There often are
Doesn't matter where you live and how nice folks are outside the car, it all changes when you start talking about driving or parking. Tell us more about what's going on exactly. I might be able to advise.
he does have mobility issues
Leave a note as suggested then. Not sure you can expect the space left permanently free though. How does your friend manage elsewhere ?
Cones and ramps would all be unnecessary, if if could ask him just to park a little differently.
I could wait for him, but he must work different hours. I could leave him a note, but as many of us are well aware, the written word can fail to convey some of the subtleties of conversation, and the sentiment may be easily misinterpreted. I know all these are possible, but if it was easy to find his address, then I'm sure a friendly chat would solve the problem simply.
Tell us more about what's going on exactly. I might be able to advise.
I don't wish to sound ungrateful, but really i only need to know where lives, [s]then i can send turds directly to his door.[/s] I mean, i can just go chat. I'm sure he'll be perfectly reasonable
How does your friend manage elsewhere
Sometimes it's easy, other times it's not. I can't help thinking we are drifting off topic. But if you really want to understand, then just look at your usual wlking routes and imagine how you would negotiate it in a a wheelchair,first conventional, then think about electric.
There's a couple of houses on my street that put out their own cones on a public road to park their cars, as if they own the place! For a bit I thought it was for disabled parking or something and that the council hadn't got round to painting it.
Turns out one of the cone people is old and infirm and can barely walk, and came round to ask if ok not to park there , etc No probs. but the others are young and able and just being selfish, sticking them out when they go to work! So I just move their cones and stick my car there. They've never, ever said anything.
have you ever thought about cones Charlie? 😉
But if you really want to understand,
Yeah I understand - my mother is confined to a wheelchair. OK if you don't want to 'drift off topic' I still think a [i]polite[/i] note is more desirable and possibly less confrontational than face to face. Just my opinion mind.
trolltastic.
Good luck. People get VERY odd when it comes to parking / driving.
Just up the road from my daughters nursery there's a couple (mid-forties, perfectly mobile - both active tennis players etc) who insist on putting out police (!) cones when they leave for work in the misunderstanding that they have some right of ownership over 10 foot odd of the high street. The cones make a funny noise when you run over them. Not really sure why they continue to do it - some of the parents seem to make a game of how many of the cones you can actually park on top of...
I'm not sure if DVLA will provide address details. I worked for Autotrader for a while, they use a webservice that would return V5 details, including address, to build their advert details but it's not publicly available anymore AFAIK.
As others have said, a polite note will usually suffice. If the car owner's not an idiot you'll get a reasonable response; if they are an idiot then it matters not how you approach the topic. I find there are fewer idiots than we think there are or that the tabloid press would have you think there are. The majority of people are OK.
I find there are fewer idiots than we think there are or that [s]the tabloid press [/s]STW would have you think there are.
Nah, only messing. Lots of useful suggestions. I reckon keeping an eye out is probably the best though.
The thought that even if you did talk to him and he was understanding and amenable and agreed not to park there, that someone else would just take his place.
This is one of those battles that you should simply choose not to fight because you're never going to win.
All that will happen is that you will obsess about the injustice of it. It will eat you from the inside like a cancer until you're hollow and empty. Then you'll start to read either the Daily Star or the Daily Mail (depending on which dark path you end up on) and the next thing you know you've changed you log in name on here to Elfin or Talkemada or something 😯
Feel free to collect the cones and return them to you local police station with an explanation of where they were and how they're being used. As for other issues, knowing some details would make a difference. It's always easier to start a conversation when you know what's next if it doesn't work. If the driver in the op is causing an actual obstruction, then the police may need to have a work. If he's over a dropped kerb other than his own, some authorities have adopted powers to deal with this. Some may also mark discretionary disabled bays on the highway. However, these often get ignored because of people attitudes to parking and often cause more trouble than they're worth. However, if you're confident it can be silver ammeciably, let a note saying something like "wonder if I could ask a little favour" with either your address or phone number.
Good luck with it either way. I spend most days listening.g to someone throw their toys out of the pram arguing rights the won't believe they don't actually have.
......this particular spot is the only bit of the pavement low enough for his chair to get up.
Is he blocking a dropped kerb? If he is then he is not allowed to park there.
