Am I likely to be in trouble?

[Lakitu]

OK here's the situation, where I live I have a residents only car park, which is clearly signed saying as much.

Every weekday morning I come out of my house to cars parked there for the day while the owner is at work - not so much of a problem in the morning but it's infuriating when you drive home and don't have a parking space, which I paid for along with my house!. If any of us who stay there catch a non resident (or their friends or family) parking up, we ask them if they're a resident, when they admit they are not we point to the signs and ask them to park elsewhere. Sometimes this is met with expletives but for the most part they move on.

I get a lift to work most mornings and my car share driver is on the ball and asks the non resident workers to move on if they drive in while he's waiting for me. This morning, he pointed to a car and said "that woman just ignored me when I spoke to her, she just walked away".

This pi55ed me off big time.

I wrote a note and stuck it under her wiper saying:

"The next time I see you parked in residential parking or you are ignorant enough to ignore being pulled up for it, expect to come back to flat tyres. From the resident at number 23"

My driver is convinced that I'll get done for issuing threatening letters, but I don't think so - at worst a 'talk to' from the police.

[Lakitu]

LOL, me saying she will return to flat tyres isn't a threat, I will actually do it but in the meantime I'm just itching for her to chap on my door tonight.

Ignorant moo she is! That's bugged me more than the act of parking in the private car park!

[Lakitu]

LOL Jayne, I'm not planning to but if I disappear for a few months, then you'll know I'm banged up and you're to send me a cake with a file in it :D

It turns out Raggy is talking about a public highway that ONLY resiidents are allowed to park on, though I've never seen anything like that - only parking permits issued by the council so they don't have to put money in he meter.

[t-mids]

How about a sign that says something like "park here and be clamped"... can you clamp someone legally in your situation lakitu (or anyone else who can answer that) ?

[cheries]

Hands up who thinks David needs anger management classes?

[Lakitu]

Raises handalong with cheries

I've just had a chin wag with my neighbours, including the couple who had talked of getting a barrier put up across the entrance. The problem with the barrier is that some of the houses are owned by a housing association, it's about a 75/25 split - homeowners being the majority.

The couple who instigated the barrier idea got everyone to sign a petition, including the HA tenants, before approaching the HA.

The HA are kind of not really caring (and why should they, I guess) and are "thinking about it" at the moment, so we are bound in that sense.

Me thinking along the lines of clamping the offenders, well, I thought I would contact a Company that does that tomorrow and they will be in a good position to tell me exactly what the legalities of it are. If they give us the nod, then I can go ahead and talk to all my neighbours about getting something to display on their cars and the cars of their friends and family visiting, and the clamping Company can do their worst with the rest until a longer term solution has been reached.

The ignorant womans car had disappeared when I got home after work and she hadn't torched my house LOL. Pity, I was ready to have a go at her!

[burnhal]

to put raggy out of his misery regarding residents only parking on public roads. Yes it happens, yes they pay the same road tax as the rest of us great unwashed.... but generally speaking they pay the council a fee to obtain a residents parking permit! So its not a freebie!