Parking wars outside my house

[Deleted member 26715]

before the Police see it

What Police! that is one of the issues with the anti-social behaviour of car drivers, there is nobody to stop them doing it, I think it was before Christmas going home, a car parked on double yellows, half on pavement, straddling cycleway, facing the wrong way, lights still on full beam, causing an obstruction, Police car just pulled round it like everybody else was having to do & carried on driving. I understand the frustration that people have with these people, but pretty sure they would be ignorant/arrogant barstools whether they were driving or not.

 

[Kestevan]

If you really fancy a laugh then next time you see a car with a rear light out stopped at traffic lights tap on the window and when the driver lowers it and scowls "What" at you tell them very politely that they have a bulb blown and which one it is then add "It might save you £50 if you get it fixed before the Police see it".Totally flummoxes them.

Stopped doing this years ago after the charming young lady screamed "and what the farks that got to do with you, you daffodil...." after I told her the only brake light she had that worked was the centre one....

Unlikely that the cops pulled her over for it but you can always live in hope.

 

[theclaud]

Because each time there is a post you are quite vociferous against car use. I wondered if there was a specific reason.

Vociferous I can live with - maybe take a bit more care with the words you use.

Of course there's a reason, which I have tried to articulate, albeit piecemeal, on this forum over a gazillion years - I believe it's possible to change way we live, to make our social spaces more convivial, to interact more meaningfully with others. Driving, as a wise man once said, betrays an inability to engage with the world - which brings us back to the subject of the thread...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Vociferous I can live with - maybe take a bit more care with the words you use.

LOL it was the word I actually thought I had used until you pointed out I hadn't, apologies, offence wasn't intended.

 

[John the Monkey]

I disagree - parking is simply a side-effect of driving, and parking wars are an extension of motorists' sense of entitlement to appropriate public space for their own exclusive use. Parking outside one's house has assumed an importance in people's lives entirely out of proportion to any issues of convenience or practicality, because it is about status and identity.

Or, if you live on my road, parking outside someone else's house. One of our neighbours once griped to me that someone had taken "their" space (in front of my house, just beyond the restriction marking my drive) - I did my best to simulate sympathy, but may not have been convincing.

 

[DCLane]

Of course there's a reason, which I have tried to articulate, albeit piecemeal, on this forum over a gazillion years - I believe it's possible to change way we live, to make our social spaces more convivial, to interact more meaningfully with others. Driving, as a wise man once said, betrays an inability to engage with the world - which brings us back to the subject of the thread...

Agreed. Sadly successive governments and the media have portrayed car ownership as a positive thing to have as a symbol of freedom, with which comes the need for parking and a sense of personal space.

Whether this is changeable in the UK is questionable: once we've encouraged behavioural change taking that away creates resentment.

Hence the challenge with parking. On my street there's often parking for one car only, with most houses having 2+. Disagreements occur but that's not an issue for me as my house has space for 3 cars, although we've only 2 at present until my 17yo gets one.

 

[mjr]

Stopped doing this years ago after the charming young lady screamed "and what the farks that got to do with you, you daffodil...." after I told her the only brake light she had that worked was the centre one....

Unlikely that the cops pulled her over for it but you can always live in hope.

These days, you can drop the video evidence of such ungrateful scofflaws into a form on the police website.

 

[theclaud]

LOL it was the word I actually thought I had used until you pointed out I hadn't, apologies, offence wasn't intended.

No worries. I thought it was a bit of an over-reaction!

 

[Mugshot]

Is it?

You asked this as, it appears to me, a challenge to TCs assertion of status and identity when it comes to car ownership (although I suppose it could be argued she may have been talking specifically about parking in front of ones house). Yet you have on more than one occasion, on this thread alone, felt the need to tell us how many cars you have, I'm not sure I can think of more than one reason for you to do that and it makes me come over all Shania Twain. You seem to be proving her point.

Edit: just to clarify I mean TCs point, not Shanias.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The locals aren't happy near Liverpool airport. WARNING!! Those who are a bit funny about clicking a DM link don't click this as it's er a DM link!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5231931/Holidaymakers-cars-daubed-graffiti.html Seeing as you who don't like linking DM stories but will probably be curious as to what it's about i'll tell you. Some "holidaymakers" have had their cars sprayed with white paint while away on holiday. Some local residents aren't happy that some who're using the airport have taken their parking spaces,so they've decided to vandalise the "holidaymaker's" vehicles.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Why the inverted commas for holidaymakers?

They might not all be holidaymakers. The DM's assuming that people who use airports are holidaymakers and nothing else. Did you click the link? I bet you were tempted you naughty so and so! What about my WARNING!! Did you like it?

 

[mjr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-43110194

Few reports seem brave enough to report that it's not only ambulances that suffer such abuse, or to point out to these people that they don't have sole ownership of the street by their home.

I wish it were only Stoke...