nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:33 PM |
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Do you think I was Right or Wrong?
I have just rented a garage from the Council for storing my F1-2 in order that I can build another car at home.
The garage door has "No parking please" painted on and I have put a sign up saying that 24Hr access required.
A woman who I saw driving around last week in her Polo has today parked her car across my garage.
I wanted to move the F1-2 there when I got in from work this afternoon.
I tooted the horn and no one even looked out of a window of the flats. I made enquires with people entering and leaving the flats and I tried all of
the intercoms.
I rang the police who would not get involved because it was council property.
I did manage to open the door and fit a garage defender so I was there for an hour or more.
This is my question: Was I right to write on her windscreen in indelible red pen "NO PARKING HERE!" ?
My thoughts were along the lines of you have totally F"$ked up my plans for today so you can have the bother of finding some thinners to clean
you screen !
This is the offending car:
 
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davrus
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:38 PM |
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You did good there , it must be an illegal immigrant, Other wise they would have read the sign.
Did you write on her screen with perminant maker? that would have taught them!!!!
Well done i say!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:39 PM |
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trolley jack and leave it in the middle of the road
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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jos
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:41 PM |
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nope - bang out of order
as far as i'm concerned youve vandalised her car
writing on a piece of paper or scrap bit of cardboard lying around in your garage and leaving it under her wipers would have been a perfectly
acceptable way of venting your frustration & showing your dissatisfaction, i'd probably even have been happier with you boncing her car
carefully out of the way of your garage door, even if it set off her alarm but scribbling on her windscreen was not the correct thing to do.
You shouldve got in your garage & trolley jacked her car out of the way
[Edited on 12/5/07 by jos]
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oadamo
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:42 PM |
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clamp it leave your phone number and charge her to take it off
adam
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:43 PM |
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The car is not vandalised, it just needs a clean. No paper to hand or and trolley jack otherwise that would have been my first option.
I couldn't be sure but I think she walked by at one point. Beligerent is the word.
 
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[Edited on 12/5/2007 by nitram38]
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by oadamo
clamp it leave your phone number and charge her to take it off
adam
Anyone got one going spare?
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oadamo
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:44 PM |
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you should of write it on the bonnet
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JoelP
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:45 PM |
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vandalising it is fun but creates resentment, very foolish as she may know some vengeful types. Much better to use a tow rope to drag it aside, she
might not even realise its moved!
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bigrich
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:45 PM |
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if it had been my garage i would have been well pi55ed off and the polo would have had the boot marks to prove it
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Peteff
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:50 PM |
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She'd have been coming back to 4 flat tyres.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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oadamo
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:50 PM |
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phone the scrapyard tell them to came and pick up your scrap car wink wink
adam
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 06:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
vandalising it is fun but creates resentment, very foolish as she may know some vengeful types. Much better to use a tow rope to drag it aside, she
might not even realise its moved!
That's alright. It's lucky she came across me and not some of my mates.
They would have towed it and had it crushed.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:05 PM |
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Security at a site I work at like to leave notes on vans parked where they shouldn't, but they tend to glue them to the windscreen. Tis mightily
annoying scraping paper/glue off, but it works, you don't do it again for a good while 
I on the other hand used to leave notes along the lines of 'Congratulations on graduating from the Stevie Wonder School of F*ckwit
Parking' on cars at the flats I used to live in, it amazed me how difficult some people found it to just drive straight into a parking space 
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Benzine
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:08 PM |
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I bought a pack of these stickers
I park like an idiot
Used 2 of them so far. Very satisfying. Keep a few in the glovebox, one folded up in my coat pocket and I'm always armed ^__^
[Edited on 12/5/07 by Benzine]
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TangoMan
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
I bought a pack of these stickers
I park like an idiot
Used 2 of them so far. Very satisfying. Keep a few in the glovebox, one folded up in my coat pocket and I'm always armed ^__^
[Edited on 12/5/07 by Benzine]
Nice but only low tack adhesive. If they did high tack I would get some of these.
Summer's here!!!!
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Duncan_P
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:21 PM |
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A bit of a difficult one......
I probably would have kicked it hard enough to see if it was alarmed 
Then if not got someone to bring the trolley jack and move it onto some double yellows....
quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
I bought a pack of these stickers
lol, got to be getting me some of them....anyone know of a UK supplier?
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graememk
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:21 PM |
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i have a private parking sign at work and pay £50 a month for it, only tonight i glued (spay carpet glue) a paper sign to the drivers window
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Duncan_P
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:25 PM |
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Actually thinking about it....
Someone on pistonheads posted a link a while back to a parking ticket scheme that you sign up for. You had to pay to sign up and were supplied with
signs etc and then could issues fines which the company would then persue.......let me try and find the link
Not sure if it would be applicable as it is council land though.....
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:26 PM |
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So far only one person against what I did.
I like the clamp idea best, but the sticker one is cool if I can get hold of some official looking ones...............
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Benzine
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 07:31 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Duncan_P
lol, got to be getting me some of them....anyone know of a UK supplier?
I just bought the $10 pack from the site, shipped from america and it only took about 3 days ^__^
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JamJah
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 08:13 PM |
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Surely it would have made a donor car and disapeared off this world onto the great shelves they call parts?
This is personal advise or personal opinion.
Constructive comments gratefully recieved, picking is left for noses.
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Hammerhead
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 08:38 PM |
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I would have just found a suitable towing attachment on her car and strapped a rope to it and dragged it out of the way with my own car.
Easy.
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 08:44 PM |
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I am think of putting a sign on my garage along the lines of "cars parked here will be removed. No responsibility is accepted for any damage
arising from jacking, towing or rolling over."
[Edited on 12/5/2007 by nitram38]
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BenB
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| posted on 12/5/07 at 08:47 PM |
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Personally, the "no parking please" bit does it for me.
If it just said "no parking" it'd just be more rules and regulations. But saying please makes it personal and to ignore that is just
rude... So go for it.. obviously a selfish byatch.....
Personally I'd open the garage door a few times forceablly ("oh I'm sorry, was that your car outside, my garage door must have
banged against it when I tried to open it!" and then bleed your brakes and chuck the old brake fluid out the front of the garage......
Oh well!!!
At the very least I'd use contact adhesive to attach a few sticker to her windows.... It'll come off enough to pass MOT but enough will
stay in place to remind her frequently to stop being so fricking antisocial....
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