Don't think Tigermouse condoned the vandalism, just offered a reason why some vandal might do such a scabby act. The simple facts that we have far many more cars on the road and people living in former terraced housing/former social housing built before car ownership puts a huge amount of pressure on parking spaces. on the road where I live we have former social housing flats, some with one car per occupant of a 4 bed flat. Somehow, some semblance of order has been brought about. Yes, I occasionally get the complete pain parking across my dropped kerb or opposite on the side of the road no-one parks because it makes the road impassable and yes, I have had people park in my drive when the Doc's surgery next door is very busy, but keys always left in car if they're local - I just shift their car so I can get out. If someone parks and locks their car, it's a different matter and they'll have their car removed if we can't find the culprit. It's about respecting others.
Not going to cause a row because understand what people mean by saying you don't own the road in front of your house. By a quirk of fate and crofting land, I and four others do own the pavement and half of the road opposite our drives because the Council did not purchase the land when it made the road and the development. The Council has the right of use and maintenance of the road and pavement for the good of all but does not have the legal entitlement of the land. One of my fellow owners prevented Council works which would have seriously damaged his property on this basis.
Tigermouse was admitting a difficult situation just like I was when a fair few of you had a good whinge at me over my issues over the inability of certain motor-homers on single track roads. And they're much more and worse now!
What happened to the season of goodwill I thought this forum was at least tolerant of others.
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Quote: Originally posted by Tigermouse on 29/12/2015
Quote: Originally posted by naturlist123 on 29/12/2015But a month before Xmas some tow-rag keyed it down both sides because I parked on a public road outside his house while babysitting the granddaughter with my wife.
Several of his neighbours have told my son that mine was the 4th car to be scratched for parking there,
Maybe the guy was totally pi**ed off with people who don't live there parking outside his house, and tbh I don't blame him if that's so.
Parking is at a premium where I live, it's a narrow street with parking just on the side I live on. A few of the residents have two cars, including next door to me on both sides, and it's often difficult for me to park outside my own house so I end up going round the corner into the next avenue. No problem most of the time, but on five separate occasions before Christmas, when I came home with several heavy bags of shopping and needed to park right outside, I couldn't get in and had to do several journeys round the corner and back in the pouring rain - not funny. Believe me, if I'd been that way inclined the owners of the cars parked outside my house (none of which live locally) would have had much more damage inflicted on their vehicles than just a few scratch marks!!
So, sorry if I have no sympathy for you - if the guy in question is pi**ed off then I know how he feels!
I can understand your disappointment at not being able to park outside your own house but, unless you have dropped kerbs to access parking on your own property, why do you feel 'pi##ed off' if anyone parks there, and why the distinction between locals and non-locals? Anyone with a roadworthy, properly taxed and insured vehicle can park on the highway if it's legal to do so.
My O/H parked, legally, on the road opposite our house, when we were having our drive done. He parked just in front of a vacant rental property, which should be immaterial, but obviously incensed the owner of that property because he subsequently drove his van over the deep grass verge in front of our house and parked - illegally - in front of our living room windows, clearly to demonstrate his disapproval.
We'd have moved our car if he'd asked, despite it being parked legally and him having no entitlement to the highway in front of his property.
Quote: Originally posted by ficklejade on 31/12/2015
Tigermouse was admitting a difficult situation just like I was when a fair few of you had a good whinge at me over my issues over the inability of certain motor-homers on single track roads. And they're much more and worse now!
What happened to the season of goodwill I thought this forum was at least tolerant of others.
Tolerance is best when it's 2-way, don't you think? Tigermouse's assertion that it's understandable why someone might key a legally-parked car simply because it's in front of your house doesn't really suggest tolerance, does it?
I'm sorry to hear the OP felt compelled to change his car after it was maliciously damaged. That selfish act clearly caused a lot of inconvenience and upset to someone who had done nothing wrong.
Irate neighbour should not scratch car... Nonetheless car is scratched causing owner far more inconvenience than had he just parked in a more neutral position.
Although obviously provided it's not our car that is scratched we are free to advise others that they are free to park in any unrestricted place they choose.
The person who cowardly scratched the car will do it to the wrong car one day, that belongs to someone who is equally petty and malicious. They might only need to visit once but they would have ample opportunity to re-visit the house and exact revenge.
my road is terraced housing. someone put cones out in front of their house further down my road once. they were thrown through his living room window.
anyone new who moves here complains about the parking but i always say to them'relax, we all have to park in the next street sometimes'. we all get visitors and some have more cars than others.
Quote: Originally posted by Tigermouse on 29/12/2015
Quote: Originally posted by naturlist123 on 29/12/2015
But a month before Xmas some tow-rag keyed it down both sides because I parked on a public road outside his house while babysitting the granddaughter with my wife.
Several of his neighbours have told my son that mine was the 4th car to be scratched for parking there,
Maybe the guy was totally pi**ed off with people who don't live there parking outside his house, and tbh I don't blame him if that's so.
Parking is at a premium where I live, it's a narrow street with parking just on the side I live on. A few of the residents have two cars, including next door to me on both sides, and it's often difficult for me to park outside my own house so I end up going round the corner into the next avenue. No problem most of the time, but on five separate occasions before Christmas, when I came home with several heavy bags of shopping and needed to park right outside, I couldn't get in and had to do several journeys round the corner and back in the pouring rain - not funny. Believe me, if I'd been that way inclined the owners of the cars parked outside my house (none of which live locally) would have had much more damage inflicted on their vehicles than just a few scratch marks!!
So, sorry if I have no sympathy for you - if the guy in question is pi**ed off then I know how he feels!
WOW Is this a wind up or are there really people with this attitude walking among us?
We will park in the road outside the house, get the shopping in or whatever heavy item while a friendly wave and a signal to say 'wont be a minute' to any cars behind Before parking round the corner. Anyone who lives in the street understands.
Good job we don't all have the same attitude or I would be scratching someone's car every day of the week. How people think it is acceptable to deliberately damage someone else's property is beyond me. I had my brand new car keyed within a week of getting it. The toe rag who did it had keyed others but I had no proof and couldn't do a thing about it. More annoyingly, I wasn't even parked outside his house! Our neighbours regularly have visitors who double park or park outside our house,where my daughter usually parks, but we accept that we don't own the road and have no more right to park there than anyone else. If you damage someone's car on purpose then I hope the same happens to you, but it wont be by me!
And this is one reason I hate the human race, If the car was parked illegally then perhaps a toot of the horn if blocking as there is no way of knowing where you could be or even a note explaining the situation, but criminal damage defiantly not!!!
I live in quite a good area for residential parking but the problems we have with parking is from the miners welfare club opposite with a large carpark that never gets used at the back and space for about 8 cars at the front, for some reason its easier for people to park outside my house and across my drive than to park in the car park, yes I have had words with a few people, threatened a few more with having their car removed from across my drive and even reversed into one car by accident, went and spoke to the owner but never caused intentional damage to a vehicle because as far as im concerned it is absolutely disgusting and would never want it to happen to me
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