Reply With QuoteDid the Police say Its all wrapped up?
I spotted this snippet whilst perusing the interweb this morning.
It would be interesting to see the woman reaction if he could catch it on video.
Not quite sure if its legal to do this. I guess no damage has been caused but she could perhaps claim it has if there were pre-existing scratches etc.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/i...cid=spartanntp
Did the Police say Its all wrapped up?
That put a big smile on my face Ian.
I have an ongoing problem with people blocking the door of my garage and have just ordered some very tenacious "don't park here" stickers which I will be applying to the windscreens of future offenders. This is in Malta by the way so no lectures about supposed "criminal damage"- we don't pussyfoot about in my part of the world.
Obviously the lady in question hadn't realised Mr Clingfilm owned the road.
Stupid of her.
R
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I know what you mean, but the story suggests it was being used for long term airport parking. I think it would get my goat as well,if someone 'dumped' a car outside my house.Originally Posted by ralphy
They have just as much right to park there as anyone else. If it's a problem for the residents then they should ask to council to restrict parking to residents only. Or if you're desperate to park outside your house get a driveway.
Parking is a major issue for lots of people, of course we don't own the road but we all like to park outside our house.
If its just short term parking by neighbours or visitors then it generally can't be helped, but long term like the one
in the article would have me right angry, so i sympathise.
Having a driveway is no guarantee of parking as its not illegal to park across a driveway, it goes on a lot.
We live in rented so whenever we move i always check local parking and will discount anything that is going to be challenging,
I don't need the confrontation that will arise eventually.
Its bad enough when there is a visitor to a house across the street from us how parks two foot from the kerb and opposite
my driveway so its a real mission to get the car in or out, in fact sometimes i can't and have had to knock on his door to ask him
to move.
I did point out that if he parked about 4 car lengths further along he wouldn't block anybody drive at all all its all residents parking
and everyone has off road parking, he just shrugs his shoulders and says oh well its insured.
He may well be on a number of special interest web sites and a simple Google search would have given her the heads up.
Stupid woman.
A few years ago, we were on a golf weekend and there was a stag do at the same hotel. The morning of checkout, we all watched the stag discover his car had been wrapped from wheels to roof in clingfilm, with pages of a porn mag wrapped under the top layer. They'd taken the time to wrap each tyre individually too. The look on his face was priceless.
Quite satisfying for the clingfilmer. Quite annoying for clingfilmee.
Now the car owner knows who did it, they should be able to bring a claim against the clingfilmer for trespass. I believe the legal-technical term for advertising what you've done is "d'oh!".
If the car is parked legally, unless it's causing an obstruction, surely the householders can learn to live with that?
Our retired Premiership foopaller neighbour (who lacks any hint of self-awareness) insists that his childminder park her car in front of our house rather than his because her white Micra doesn't look good next to his blacked out Range Rover / his wife's blacked out Merc.
I try hard to ignore and usually succeed.
I’m slightly surprised that the police didn’t tell him to immediately remove the cling film as the driver had done absolutely nothing wrong. If he wants to park outside he shouldn’t be a tight wad and buy a house without a drive. We don’t have a drive and sometimes have to park 2 streets away from the house, i don’t complain thats the situation. He needs to get things in perspective.
Personally I think he is wrong to have done that, the car was legally parked, although we can all sympathise with how he feels, he really is powerless to do anything about it in my view.
I have to park in a residential street for work and sometimes leave my car for a night or two because of the logistics of what I do, I once was asked to move my car on an empty street as a lady wanted to park right outside her front door, a bit odd as in front of me and behind me were two large spaces but I was happy to oblige and rolled it one car length forward for her.
This is something you need to consider when buying a house as it's not going to get any easier is it?
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She should black out her Micra, surely that's not too much to expect? Sheesh, some people...
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
The chap in the story sounds like a total twat.
Looks like the industrial cling film for wrapping pallets etc- this stuff seems usually really sticky, I would not be surprised if it's door the paintwork no goid
You surely don't tell the world you've done it do you? I get inconsiderate parkers outside my house every day and as frustrating as it is i have to live with it, i don't own anything beyond the drive. If someone has blocked me in and I see them I'll have a word but that's as far as it goes and most people in the world are reasonable right?. Life is too short to sweat the small stuff, and i bet this guy has parked outside someone's house before.
It is annoying, my neighbour does it despite the fact that there is a stretch of road with no houses next to his house, but as someone said earlier I don't own the road.
The police were lazy, surely this is criminal damage. He should have been told to put it right at least.
If you need to park in front if your own house then buy a house with a drive or garage. The public road is, well, PUBLIC!
You have no 'rights' to your supposed part of a street, unless it's a private road.
Twats!
The highway is one thing, but anyone parking on or blocking a private drive or garage access deserves to be reciprocally inconvenienced.
But that's not what has happened in this case.
At least there was a degree of transparency about his actions.
Time to buy a really crap car with a few months MOT, paint it purple with yellow spots and park it outside his house. Tell him it clashes with your lawn.
"A man of little significance"
Naw - cheap van and spread something like "BDSM party supplies" on the side. Then park outside and phone local press from payphone...
We have a similar issue with the charming characters across the road , they parke on our side of the road and constantly block our back gate rather than park on their side of the road .Would love to dump a 7.5 tonner outside their house one day
Surely it could be deemed criminal damage , the owner could claim the car was scratched in the process or similar ? Not a great move particularly when he has now admitted it in the media . Bit of an idiot as the car owner had done nothing illegal . Too many cars on the roads , 2-3 car families and a common problem , nothing wrong with parking your car 100-200 yards away if you havnt got a driveway , good exercise every week . People need to fill their lives with important things .
Wait until they're out at work then get a 20 ton load of hardcore dropped outside and say sweet FA to nobody.
That'll teach the pesky nuisances.
Used to be an offence under Con&Use Regs to tamper with a vehicle whilst parked.
Very understandable frustration but wholly wrong. Police taking no action surprises me irrespective of how funny it looks. Wee touch of police negligence and disciplinary action might loom for the officers as this will not be the last of it I reckon.
Ach well, back to slippers and pipe with a nice dram.
Funny but ultimately illegal and an overreaction. Bit of a plonker strutting around telling everyone how clever he is. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't end up regretting this.
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He's made his point (and I understand his feelings) but that roll of film will be landfill when they return. It will still be in the ground in several hundred years time.
I would thank the chap for keeping my car nice and clean for me while away on holidays - as usually the car is filthy and dusty when I get back even in the covered pay-parking
There is no requirement for any physical damage (e.g. scratches to the car) to have occurred for the act to constitute Criminal Damage under The Criminal Damage Act 1971. The fact that the car's owner will have the inconvenience of removing the cling film is sufficient.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/criminal_damage/ says:
Meaning of Damage
Damage is not defined by the Act and what constitutes damage is a matter of fact and degree. The courts have construed the term liberally and included damage that is not permanent such as smearing mud on the walls of a police cell.The damage need not be visible or tangible if it affects the value or performance of the property.
Personally, I hope that he prosecutes the idiot who wrapped his car, which by all accounts was parked perfectly legally on the public highway.
I daresay the police have better things to do than pander to an extrapolated and po-faced interpretation of what constitutes “criminal damage”.
Unless it's their cell!
There are similar problems in Luton with people using residential streets for long term airport parking. However, the locals response is a bit more hard core!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-40862367
Ayr, like turning up to make enquiries about why the car was in the state it was.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Do they have any choice? The law was broken and the evidence is irrefutable. If it was a panda they wouldn't think twice about charges.
People park on my street and walk 15 minutes to the tube station rather than may the parking.
I'll never get the spot outside my house in the week after 7 in the morning or before 7 at night.
It is a pain in the backside and at some point the council will hold a referendum on the street and introduce permits.
The other day I got up to park the car outside my house as I couldn't get in the spot the night before. Just then a Polo pulled up and a gorgeous lass got out and walked up the road.
The car was there for two weeks. Which meant I couldn't have the car anywhere near the house.
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I was annoyed.
We are getting them parking in the road where we live, most of the residents have seen people get out of cars and into taxis with luggage, we are 10 miles from Stansted airport and its still worth it, someone must be telling them that this is a good place to park. there was a transit sized van parked outside someone's house for six weeks recently. the police said there is nothing they can do as it was taxed.
Cannot the local council introduce parking permits. In the town where I live, residents have a sticker they can place in their car which gives them unrestricted parking. They also have one visitors parking permit which gives (I think) 2 hours parking. Everyone else is limited to 5 minutes parking between 8.00am and 10.00pm.
It seems to work well and no one really objects to it.
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