Wheelie Bins and Car Wars
Discussion
So am I going mad, living on another planet, being unreasonable - what do you think?
It has been snowing a lot where we live down a small private road that the bin men could not get to, so our bins have been outside our gates as the council keep promising to collect them everyday (just like everyone else on the private road) the now overflowing bins.
The bins do not block any one elses entrance as they sit right outside our gates onto the private road. However the next door neighbour who has claimed 2 parking spaces (when we have none)on land that she does not own, which is in fact owned by the water board has complained that the bins make it difficult for her to turn into her parking space. This is partly true because she has put a line of large plants in outdoor planters outside the entrance to her own house on the private road which make the road permenantly shorter in width. This means that when we drive out of our gates one and a half meters of her planters fill the right hand side of the road which we have to negotiate everyday.
Soooo because the bin men did not arrive again today the bins are still out (as are hers)and she parked right in front of our gates in the middle of the private road and went into her house leaving us totally blocked in, meaning my husband was late getting to work. Any suggestions about what we can do with it being a private road - or am I being unreasonable?
It has been snowing a lot where we live down a small private road that the bin men could not get to, so our bins have been outside our gates as the council keep promising to collect them everyday (just like everyone else on the private road) the now overflowing bins.
The bins do not block any one elses entrance as they sit right outside our gates onto the private road. However the next door neighbour who has claimed 2 parking spaces (when we have none)on land that she does not own, which is in fact owned by the water board has complained that the bins make it difficult for her to turn into her parking space. This is partly true because she has put a line of large plants in outdoor planters outside the entrance to her own house on the private road which make the road permenantly shorter in width. This means that when we drive out of our gates one and a half meters of her planters fill the right hand side of the road which we have to negotiate everyday.
Soooo because the bin men did not arrive again today the bins are still out (as are hers)and she parked right in front of our gates in the middle of the private road and went into her house leaving us totally blocked in, meaning my husband was late getting to work. Any suggestions about what we can do with it being a private road - or am I being unreasonable?
Thanks guys, both brill ideas - thought I might be a little bit more evil though. The waterboard on whose land she has her two parking spaces might be interested to know that she parks on their land without permission - or I might put my own pot planters out. You are right though would feel best to put my rubbish where you suggest.
I had the same (ish) problem....
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I sent letters out which then ended up in a mass argument with half the street because no one would admit they were in the wrong, in the end I got that pissed I bought a white wheelie bin (a non standard colour here) placed it on my side of the road and filled it full of scrap metal and sealed the lid. You would need a crane to shift it.
I do feel your pain, I said to one woman that she was in breach of the lease terms she said she is not paying her lease (£1 a year) because she can't fit her car in the garage.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I sent letters out which then ended up in a mass argument with half the street because no one would admit they were in the wrong, in the end I got that pissed I bought a white wheelie bin (a non standard colour here) placed it on my side of the road and filled it full of scrap metal and sealed the lid. You would need a crane to shift it.
I do feel your pain, I said to one woman that she was in breach of the lease terms she said she is not paying her lease (£1 a year) because she can't fit her car in the garage.
A barrack room lawyer said:
I've heard that if you're blocked in your drive by a car and can't get out, one can call the police who will remove the offending car. Though, if you're blocked from entering your drive, you have no recourse other than to torch the other person's house. *
* I may be making this up.Easy!!
Get some polite signs to put up on waterboard land that clamping in operation with a friends Mobile Number. When she parks there after signs go up. Clamp her but make sure your friend has the key, watch her ring your mate and pay the £100 he removes clamp you get £50 for your trouble.
Just need to think of a name for the clamping company now!! Oh and buy a clamp!!
Get some polite signs to put up on waterboard land that clamping in operation with a friends Mobile Number. When she parks there after signs go up. Clamp her but make sure your friend has the key, watch her ring your mate and pay the £100 he removes clamp you get £50 for your trouble.
Just need to think of a name for the clamping company now!! Oh and buy a clamp!!
Yeah I am normally a talker but this woman is unreasonable, she has two spaces which are not her own, put pots out on a private road and yet when I put my bins out once every two weeks it is an issue, even though I have explained I can't leave the bins on my drive as the council won't collect off private land - trouble is she is so dumb she can't follow a logical arguement.
I'll see how she feels about moving her pots! Will let you know how it goes
I'll see how she feels about moving her pots! Will let you know how it goes
A205GTI said:
Easy!!
Get some polite signs to put up on waterboard land that clamping in operation with a friends Mobile Number. When she parks there after signs go up. Clamp her but make sure your friend has the key, watch her ring your mate and pay the £100 he removes clamp you get £50 for your trouble.
Just need to think of a name for the clamping company now!! Oh and buy a clamp!!
Quids in ........Genius Get some polite signs to put up on waterboard land that clamping in operation with a friends Mobile Number. When she parks there after signs go up. Clamp her but make sure your friend has the key, watch her ring your mate and pay the £100 he removes clamp you get £50 for your trouble.
Just need to think of a name for the clamping company now!! Oh and buy a clamp!!
Trolley jack.
If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
Why not drive over her pots, obliterating them (hopefully never to be seen again) or you could take a slightly more sensible route of moving them to the side of the road, to only then park in front of them 
As for her parking two cars on a private road (a problem we have here) block her in, a taste of her own medicine might make her relise how unhelpful she is being.
As for her parking two cars on a private road (a problem we have here) block her in, a taste of her own medicine might make her relise how unhelpful she is being.
Rubin215 said:
Trolley jack.
If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
If I don't damage it. Would I be responsible if the car was moved and left straddling the white lines in the center of the road?If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
ZeeTacoe said:
Rubin215 said:
Trolley jack.
If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
If I don't damage it. Would I be responsible if the car was moved and left straddling the white lines in the center of the road?If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
Unless there is some CCTV evidence showing you moving it and leaving it there, do you honestly think the plod would be bothered?
Rubin215 said:
ZeeTacoe said:
Rubin215 said:
Trolley jack.
If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
If I don't damage it. Would I be responsible if the car was moved and left straddling the white lines in the center of the road?If she locks you, then just move her car out of the way.
I left my selfish neighbours car at right angles to where it started (i.e. blocking me because I had the audacity to park on the roadway outside her window).
As long as you don't damage the car, there is nothing they can reasonably do.
Unless there is some CCTV evidence showing you moving it and leaving it there, do you honestly think the plod would be bothered?
Then awoke the next morning to pissed off neighbors honking, then a parking officer issuing him a ticket or two, and at about 9am he returned and went a little mental. Hehe was quite funny, serves him right tho cheeky b@rstuard!
He knew who did it but seeing as it was on private land (being our land) he could do nothing! Good times!!
Edited by motorbreath on Monday 13th December 20:58
I would get the pots shifted in the dead of night by a friend with a balaclava. Or just turn them over the road. If they are damaged its going to cost her and even cctv will be useless without a face, and you can't video off your own land iirc.
If she parks her car awkwardly again just go up behind it in your own car and blow your horn until she comes out. Or just once you could get away with reporting the car on fire and calling the fire brigade, and if questioned just say it was your mistake. You can probably only pull this once and its very naughty.
Awkward barstewards and you have my sympathy. And keep your cool. My mate always tells people to calm down if they start shouting at him, it makes them more annoyed.
If she parks her car awkwardly again just go up behind it in your own car and blow your horn until she comes out. Or just once you could get away with reporting the car on fire and calling the fire brigade, and if questioned just say it was your mistake. You can probably only pull this once and its very naughty.
Awkward barstewards and you have my sympathy. And keep your cool. My mate always tells people to calm down if they start shouting at him, it makes them more annoyed.
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