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Dec 30, 2006 15:42:10 GMT
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The thing that bugged me was someone leaving anonymous notes on one of my Imps, pointing out that I was parking on their road, and inconveniencing them. There was a vaguely threatening tone so I contacted my local council's anti-social behaviour unit. You see, everywhere now has a team of Community Officers (police on the cheap ;-) ) and it really pays to get in with them first in any parking dispute. They can liase with the police and have a firm official word in someone's ear...
Graham
PS It turns out the guy was the dad of someone who goes to the same school as my son. He came round to talk about it. He really had the hump cos the guy in the flat below played his stereo too loud.
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Dec 30, 2006 16:10:15 GMT
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Best one I ever saw was at a place I used to work.
One of the managers had a Saab 9-3 and she couldn't drive for toffee...the car park was a bit oddly-shaped, and she could never manage to get it parked there, so she used to leave it in the yard where we had two 18-tonne Leylands, seven 7.5 tonne Ivecos and two Transits.
Time after time we asked her to not park there because it was in danger of getting belted by a wagon, and every time her response was 'I'll move it when I'm ready'.
So one day, with the help of a couple of pallets and pump trucks about 10 of us managed to get it up in the air, and eased it gently into the muddy no-mans land behind the diesel tanks, which was conveniently just bigger than a Saab 9-3.
Imagine my delight next morning at 5am when I turned up for work and the bloody thing was still there, only completely up to its sills in mud where she's obviously struggled with it to try and get it out!!!
She never did it again....
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Last Edit: Dec 30, 2006 16:11:17 GMT by briandamaged
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Dec 30, 2006 16:34:29 GMT
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^She`d probably burnt the clutch out as well, good work! You cant educate some people, the main entrance for my place has a barrier and a banked kerb but it doesnt stop people parking across it to go to the shops, during the day, stopping people getting in or out. Its actually a little bit dangerous as it leaves unobservant people wanting to turn right to get in marooned in the middle of a really busy road. And you cant even jokily pull them up about it without them getting all defensive and shirty instead of just saying "sorry mate, I`m going now" ^^I hate anonymous notes. I had a period of getting them constantly for cars that werent mine, people on my street know what I do and that I often come home in a different car so if theres a spate of vistors cars being parked stupidly, then next time the XR4s there it gets a really snotty note from someone assuming the unfamiliar cars that took up all the spaces must be mine, as if I`d take a selection of sale cars home at the same time so I could park them in the mud and let them get tree sap and snails all over them, or something.
The best one was when a guy got me up at 7 am on my day off and told me that my grey toyota (The 323 gets called a Toyota, Datsun, Honda - never a Mazda) was parked behind his preventing him from rolling his car off as it had a flat battery. I nearly knocked him out he was getting really arsey as though his flat battery was my fault somehow!
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Last Edit: Dec 30, 2006 16:37:00 GMT by vicsmith
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