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alan.g.01

iTrader: (2)

i,d probably do same good luck to him

DoZZa

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I dont think I would have shunted the car out of the way. Thats just dangerous, especially near a school!

A polite notice would be where I would have begun.

If that was to fail then it would be a not so polite notice informing them that all of their tyres have are now flat due to no air being in them.

Will more than likely guarantee that they wont park there again, lol.

All be it, my garage would still be blocked until the car was moved.

Torquemada

"you can’t go taking the law into your own hands"

End of. As much as it's a pain and an inconvenience having people park in front of his garage, that ain't the way to deal with it (especially under cctv etc!)

I used to find people parked in front of my garage all the time, they don't really do it anymore and I never had to shunt any cars out of the way!

SiPie

I've done the very same thing recently .... But towed instead of pushed

Arrived home to find some clown had dumped/parked his peugeot 106 in front of my garage. Towed him out the way but didn't damage his car (too badly )

Forester v 106 hmmmmmm?

Does seem a little harsh on the pensioner though

kingofturds

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Shame this generation does not have the same *****.

mart360

Been there , and almost done that...

I took it the calm way and spoke to the female owner, and asked if they wouldnt park there again...

My ex took it her way and went off one one, and threatened to move the car forcibly.... I had to drag her away lol..

About 5 minutes later we were going to the shops, and saw the owner

going over to the garages, with her other half , he looked well p*ssed

off, and up for trouble.

I made my ex stay well away for a few days!!


MArt

mattvortex

Fair play to him.

mgcvk

Fair play indeed to the old git. Some ignorant tossers have blocked him, a ban seems harsh. Bet he wouldn't have done it though if he was an impreza owner who had spent four hours polishing it the day before. Would you risk your bumper?

ALi-B

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I'd remove the cores from all four schrader valves (leaving them on the roof so no theft/damage has ocurred).

If they disadvantage me, its only fair I disadvantage them?

Not sure on legalities, but if a car was parked was on my land, I could assume it was abandoned and take possession of it, or at the very least impose parking charges/penalties

PaulC72

Good on him. I sometimes want to drive the 4x4 into cars that are parked blocking our driveway, one day maybe I will I know what will come off worse.

jods

Feel for him. It must be really frustrating. If I had been in a similar situation I would have left a note on the screen the first time and either got a lift or cabbed it to wherever I was going and then installed one of those metal posts with a padlock that drop down when unlocked.

Bugatti

I completely agree with what he did. Trouble with leaving a polite note is it doesn't help if its different drivers/cars doing it on a regular basis.

I appreciate the courts can't encourage this sort of behavior, this is where I would have liked to see the poxy sentences you hear on Road Wars etc of 20 hours community service or something like that. Justice served and no serious harm done to the old boy.

The punishment seems way over the top in this case.

ScoobyDriverWannabe

:/ See TWOCers and joyriders on likes of road wars etc get off lighter than he did.

DoZZa

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So you completely agree with what he did even though there is a school with young kids just over the road!?!?!?

Doubt you would think the same if a child, or even your child got stuck under the car that was being forced out of the way.

I understand his frustrations but that was not a well thought out plan of attack and he deserved what he got. Simple.

Felix.

Would he have said


.....I DON'T BELIEVE IT..!!!!

Lisawrx

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For what it's worth, I agree. I totally understand how annoyed he may have felt, but you can't put others at risk because you are annoyed with an ignorant ******.

BOB.T

I'd love to have put a jack under it, moved it to get the car out of the garage, put the Ka in the garage, then put it back outside at a later date

I did nudge my old neighbour's Cinquecento a few times! She would parked it in the middle of a gap big enough for two cars so I used to move it up a bit...in fairness it was an old ******* and the handbrakes on them didn't work when they left the factory so no damage was done...and she was a cow!

kingofturds

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With a school nearby it probably happens to him on a daily basis. I used to have to take my Dad to the post office to collect his pension and when I was unfortunate enough to take him when the schools were kicking out , I would regularly be blocked in by some ignorant ******* who was too lazy to park a few hundred yards up the road so she could pick her kids up.

STi wanna Subaru

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standard practice that in France.

Tidgy

i think he perhaps went a bit too far. can the council tow the car for being an obstruction?

Jamie

If i was him i would of set fire to it after moving said car

Lee247

Good on the old fella. It was just selfish for someone to keep parking in front of his garage like that.
The sentence was ludicrous though. Far to harsh. He should have been offered a job removing other stupid folks cars out of the way

Lady Luck

Had it been a young 17yr old in a ****box who had done it, there would have been much more of a furore over it.

I used to have the same problem with a garage not adjoined to my flat, when they shut the truckstop on the A1 (Washington) the truckers used to find places to park up, and they used to love the huge gap inbetween all the garages.

I used to have an air horn. I would stand repeatedly blasting it outside their cab until they woke their lazy ***** up and moved out of the way. See juggernauts kinda block 5/6 garages in one go!!!

I'm on the fence with this one.... hats off to him for taking action, but that is totally out of order in the manner in which he did it. It's not even technically his own private property so the area in front of the garage is surely free for all?

Saying that, what dip**** parks up in front of someones garage and blocks it in, unless its your own / neighbours on agreement.

dabow

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id have had a clamp in the garage if this had happenedso much, clamp the muppets. after all, its private property. but i have shunted persons in the past, when i had my 4x4 and persons completly blocked me in or parked in my space

no one reads letters left in windows, nose up in the air to them. done that it and thats what i've got. all you get told is, you dont own the road!!!

tell the counsil, no joy either.

fair play to the guy.
its irelivent there being a school there.
what if he had to get some where in a hurry?

ALi-B

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I think it is relevent, because more often than not its mumsies on teh school run who block drives and entrances or cause obstructions. They are so ignorant and when confronted just hurl abuse back at you even when they are clearly in the wrong. They just don't give a s**t to anyone as long as it doesn't affect themselves and their "precious" kids.

Its just bone idle ignorance that they don't park further away and walk their kids the to/from the scchool gates.

Its often the same ignorant hyporcrits that complain about speeding boyracers, but its often the mums doing the speeding when they are late on the school run; and they don't adapt to poor road condition if its wet, or even icy!

Lisawrx

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And what about the people he inconvenienced by blocking the road? What about where they may have been going? By his actions, whilst somewhat understandable, he has made himself just as selfish as the **** that blocked him in.

And a school being there does have some relevance. Parents with children are passing by (not all of them will be selfish and blocking people in), would we all be in such full support if the car had hit a child passing, a child he most likely would not/could not have seen?

I have no sympathy for the person whose car was damaged, however one selfish act doesn't always justify another. Perhaps the punishment may not have been quite so harsh had this happened in a more secluded area, but agree or not, his actions have caused an obstruction and put others in danger, all because he was pissed off.

Perhaps what also factors in, is two weeks later he did the same thing to another car, and apparently in the trial this was noted:

Giving evidence in the trial, Pemberton said he was unaware of the presence of pedestrians when he carried out the manoeuvres.

Jamie

Reading the comments just about sums it up.

J4CKO

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Used to have this all the time with the school opposite my mum and dads when I lived there, going out in the morning and there was a car across the drive, parents stood gabbing whilst I tried to locate the owner, trying to turn, cars either side a guy coming the other way wouldnt reverse ten feet so I could turn, got out, locked my car and went inside leaving it in the middle of the road.

Used to drive us mad, when it was a private school the parenta were the worst, the sense of entitlement, the ignorance and the I will do what I please mentality.

dpb

Frustrating im sure but a bit daft to put it actually into the road

id have been tempted to trolly jack it sidweawys tho