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Is there not like a service that will remove illegally parked cars or something? If the council doesn't want the people parking there why can't they come remove them themselves?
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Jul 20, 2021 17:02
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It's not on council land, so it's not a parking offence. It's a 'driving on the pavement' offence.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:05
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Could you buy like a cheap plastic garden chair and put it in the slot? Something that isn't permanent but still would be an obstruction for the arsehole neighbour
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Jul 20, 2021 17:09
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forkboy84 posted:Could you buy like a cheap plastic garden chair and put it in the slot? Something that isn't permanent but still would be an obstruction for the arsehole neighbour OP already tried this with cones. Arsehole driver just got out and moved them.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:10
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Trespass is a civil, not criminal, offence. Unless he's blocking emergency access there's not much you can do short of sinking a bollard or similar. We had issues with some chancer dumping his car for entire weekends in the flat's parking spaces; my ex-solicitor sister-in-law's official legal advice started with "do you think you could take him in a fight?" Perhaps mention in passing that you always wanted to know if the "potato in exhaust" thing was an urban myth or not.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:12
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Dump a really big rock in the middle of the driveway, put a few flowers around it and call it a garden feature.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:14
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Smash his windscreen and leave a threatening message from the notorious Polish racist Pavel Pilnik.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:16
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superglue a bunch of screws all over the space under cover of darkness
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Jul 20, 2021 17:17
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Thanks Ants posted:It's not on council land, so it's not a parking offence. It's a 'driving on the pavement' offence. That's even weirder though because how the gently caress can it be tenant's, or even homeowner's responsibility to stop people driving on the pavement outside their house? Like if you were allowed a shotgun maybe but how else?
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Jul 20, 2021 17:18
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Pay some local ne'er-do-wells to come and slash his tyres [edit] Preferably on a day when there's irrefutable proof you were nowhere near your home, y'honour
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Jul 20, 2021 17:18
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OwlFancier posted:That's even weirder though because how the gently caress can it be tenant's, or even homeowner's responsibility to stop people driving on the pavement outside their house? If you hate the landlord then see if you can convince the council to install bollards along the edge of the path
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Jul 20, 2021 17:22
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Thanks Ants posted:Edit: Double check that the landlord hasn't listed the space on JustPark as well. Urgh, without googling this, I'm going to assume it's an often-illegal carpark company pretending to be an app, like Uber and Airbnb?
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Jul 20, 2021 17:22
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If I was the OP I'd talk to the CAB I guess. If you can't get the landlord to let you put in some sort of heavy block like a boulder then maybe you can explain that any fine you'll deduct from your rent
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Jul 20, 2021 17:24
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Failed Imagineer posted:I don't think that's it, that example is just Leo being equally smarmy and Classics-y, not calling him out. There was definitely another example where he was called out for butchering the quote he was trying to deliver. Pretty sure it was one of the older statesmen and Boris at some big dinner event (pre covid). They were trading quotes and he got wiped. 
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Jul 20, 2021 17:25
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I'd choose violence. Its ypur property I'm sure there are a few things you could legally do that might incidentally cause damage to a car illegally parked on your property.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:27
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feedmegin posted:The letter I got from them wasn't 'your car' it was 'permitting someone to park there', though. Pretty much this. The offence you are being charged with is allowing your land to be parked on. The defence that you have to show is that you are not allowing this to happen and that you have been making attempts to prevent this from happening. The fact that you haven't failed to get this dickhead to stop parking on your property* is irrelevant. Your letters and photographs and cones are all proof that you aren't allowing him to do so. You could escalate it by putting cones on the spot and then video him (even from your window, no need to go outside.) parking and removing said cones. All while narrating to the camera that he is doing this without your permission. Another option is check out the guys car after he's gone. It's a gamble, but if this guy ignores parking regulation, his Insurance/Road Tax might be out of date. If it is, you can absolutely call the police on him for that. * = The fact that it's not your property is very much also a defense, but we can focus on one issue at a time.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:31
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pour a load of birdseed on the car and watch as they poo poo all over it
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Jul 20, 2021 17:36
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feedmegin posted:The letter I got from them wasn't 'your car' it was 'permitting someone to park there', though. As people have said I'd speak to CAB. Also a good idea to email local counsellors and ask them to intervene on your behalf. MP pxuld be worth a shot, but I'd go to the counsellors first u less you have prior experience of them being useless Also this: Julio Cruz posted:pour a load of birdseed on the car and watch as they poo poo all over it
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Jul 20, 2021 17:37
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Nothingtoseehere posted:The momentum slate is as follows. Thanks, just voted as well.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:38
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Just Another Lurker posted:Pretty sure it was one of the older statesmen and Boris at some big dinner event (pre covid). There's this but not sure it's quite what you were thinking: https://www.indy100.com/news/gordon-brown-boris-johnson-brexit-latin-good-morning-britain-9709396 quote:
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Jul 20, 2021 17:38
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pour coke all over it, cheap key blanks snapped off in all the locks, expanding foam up the exhaust, piss into the air intake below the windscreen, and so on
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Jul 20, 2021 17:42
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Get Virgin Media to install a box on the space: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-furious-virgin-media-install-21067566 But seriously: This is a list of things you shouldn't do: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/motoring/motoring-news/parking-rules-law-drive-street-14760027 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 17:45
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If this is your driveway, and someone is moving cones to park there, then I'm sure it's not just a random local worker. Either your landlord has told someone they can park there, or it's listed on one of the parking apps (and your landlord is making money off it). Have you spoken to the landlord about it?
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Jul 20, 2021 17:51
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feedmegin posted:That is what the letter said, yes. My landlord is pretty shady and remodelled this whole house without bothering to ask the council first, which is why they've repeatedly told him to gently caress off when he's applied for permission to rent it out as an HMO - he's allowed single family only (that's us, occupying the ground floor of a currently otherwise unoccupied 3 storey house). As part of that I assume he created the paved open front yard as a place to park as part of that without bothering to check with the council that that was actually legal, which turns out it isn't when they did a general 'let's clean up this street' inspection thing a few weeks ago (so another house apparently got the same letter, various abandoned cars got towed, other people got ticketed for illegal parking, yada yada). I guess keep a diary of the days you find the car there and the time you called the landlord to let them know the car is there. If the landlord wants it towed he can pay for it, if he doesn't then he can pay any fine that arises. You have records that show you made him aware at least, and that he's the one who has authority to materially change the property to stop them parking there. OwlFancier posted:That's even weirder though because how the gently caress can it be tenant's, or even homeowner's responsibility to stop people driving on the pavement outside their house? Until Borrovan awakens I don't know the law, I just have a nasty feeling that this is probably the case. Or, Julio Cruz posted:pour a load of birdseed on the car and watch as they poo poo all over it Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 17:53
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kecske posted:pour coke all over it, cheap key blanks snapped off in all the locks, expanding foam up the exhaust, piss into the air intake below the windscreen, and so on Expanding foam is a good one. The flaw in all of these is that it's pretty easy to deduce motivation, so it comes back to "can you take him in a fight?"
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Jul 20, 2021 17:55
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If OP is renting one section of an entire house, does the rental agreement cover that “driveway”? If not, it’s clearly not your responsibility despite the council thinking it is (probably based off address). If the agreement does cover the area, turn it into a garden or something (something very difficult to move quickly but that won’t damage anything and result in lost deposit).
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Jul 20, 2021 17:55
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Stick a big rock in the middle of the space I agree with this approach. £50 should get an absolutely massive boulder.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:58
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If it’s a front yard that he’s converted to a parking space and the same person is parking there every day then 99.9% chance the landlord is renting it out to this guy and nothing you do is gonna stop him parking there. Nothing legal, anyway
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Jul 20, 2021 18:00
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There was a brilliant story from Canada about a guy that kept parking on someone else's drive, waking them up, being a dick, etc. so every day he put a bin in the middle of the drive, and the guy moved it the first couple of times, then started just shoving it out of the way with the truck, until one night the person living there filled it up with water, knowing that it would freeze, and the truck owner decided to just ram into it again and knackered his vehicle, called the police, and ended up getting laughed at. Not much chance of a bin full of ice at the moment though 
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Jul 20, 2021 18:02
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It's raining! Still loving hot, mind you
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Jul 20, 2021 18:04
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FeedMeGin forgive me for asking but I didn't notice it in any of your posts, don't like to make assumptions, and the angry sky orb is melting my brain so I may have missed it but, have you spoken directly to the council about this since receiving the letter and if so what was their response?
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Jul 20, 2021 18:04
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knox_harrington posted:I agree with this approach. £50 should get an absolutely massive boulder.
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Jul 20, 2021 18:04
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Guavanaut posted:There was a brilliant story from Canada about a guy that kept parking on someone else's drive, waking them up, being a dick, etc. so every day he put a bin in the middle of the drive, and the guy moved it the first couple of times, then started just shoving it out of the way with the truck, until one night the person living there filled it up with water, knowing that it would freeze, and the truck owner decided to just ram into it again and knackered his vehicle, called the police, and ended up getting laughed at. This reminds me of a snippet, arrogant doctor parks his BMW in fire lane at hospital regularly, fire engine needs to come one day, rams BMW out of the way in order to do fire engine job, then fire service bills doctor for dent repair on fire engine. No idea if it's true or not, or what country it's meant to be from, but it is certainly just. Re the actual problem, a big wooden planter filled with earth would be as inconvenient as a boulder, but easier to put in place (i.e. you don't have to lift it all at once). Assuming that you have any right to use the space, as Pantsmaster Bill says.
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Jul 20, 2021 18:09
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Guavanaut posted:Not much chance of a bin full of ice at the moment though You could try a football filled with concrete I suppose
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Jul 20, 2021 18:09
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feedmegin posted:That is what the letter said, yes. My landlord is pretty shady and remodelled this whole house without bothering to ask the council first, which is why they've repeatedly told him to gently caress off when he's applied for permission to rent it out as an HMO - he's allowed single family only (that's us, occupying the ground floor of a currently otherwise unoccupied 3 storey house). As part of that I assume he created the paved open front yard as a place to park as part of that without bothering to check with the council that that was actually legal, which turns out it isn't when they did a general 'let's clean up this street' inspection thing a few weeks ago (so another house apparently got the same letter, various abandoned cars got towed, other people got ticketed for illegal parking, yada yada). In addition to getting a dropped kerb, you also need planning permission if you impermeably surface more than five square metres. This is because when everyone on the street does it, you've added a load of extra drainage catchment which means the local surface water drainage is more likely to get overwhelmed. https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/45/paving_your_front_garden You'd be able to check any applications on the planning portal for your local council. It's something a concerned neighbour might report. Especially if there's local flooding during the thunderstorm we're massively overdue.
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Jul 20, 2021 18:09
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Call the cops, cops just love petty non crime crimes like parking violations.
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Jul 20, 2021 18:09
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I think the bolded bit is where I got that impressin, but drat, the rest of that owns. His reasons for being anti-Labour in 2010 were also excellent: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/may/20/labour.guardiancolumnists
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Jul 20, 2021 18:16
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I think the main thing that makes me think monbiot is a lib toff is because his name is monbiot. But I couldn't actually point you at anything he's done that I object to and he seems to have his head on right fairly regularly.
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Jul 20, 2021 18:19
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Here in Canada if someone is parking illegally where they should not be, you call the cops and they send out a parking enforcement officer who then tickets the driver, and if you want them towed the cop does that for you. You don't pay anything, the driver has to pay for the tow when they pick up the vehicle. And it definitely works to have that person never park there again!
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Jul 20, 2021 18:25
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i just roll my eyes and tsktsk at inconsiderately parked vehicles like you have to remember the driver might have had to park that way because they have diarrhea
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