some g*t keeps egging my car

Will be some old Victor Meldrew type , you know small minded,over 60,highly opinionated.
4 chioces IMO.
1/ Carry on regardless ( feck 'em)
2/ Park in an adjoining street, it's not worth the hassle,
3/ Put a note in your screen telling them that there is a hidden camera in the car and the police WILL get involved ,
4/ Buy that £ 300 banger and use that.
 
terrible show.

one thing I would say that maybe hasn't been covered, is that if you take any action against this, camera / hiding / following / police, etc.. chances are whether it gets sorted correctly or not, you probably still won't be able to park there afterwards.

i mean.. if you got him arrested and charged over it, would you still park there?

I bought a 406 HDI for £1500 for this problem, now I don't do the commute I'm going to sell it, but it's been so incredibly handy I'd recommend this anyway. Still - that doesn't mean you won't be annoyed to coming back to find a banger covered in eggs. :thumbsdown:
 
The embarrassing old banger gets my vote LOL.

I once did a house refurb in my spare time in my wifes home town of Barrow-in-Furness which involved me driving from the Oxford area every weekend for a year - a 520 mile round trip. Rather than trash the Merc I had at the time, I bought a weeny little Nissan Micra 1.0 16v for a few hundred quid....45mpg, never missed a beat and if you kept the revs up its was surprising who you could undertake (!)...and the joy of leaping into a car that you didn't have to give a stuff about in terms of what you did to it or where you left it was worth the embarrassment (almost)!

I found walking past the car as if i wasn't yours, then diving in at the last minute was a useful tactic... :oops:
 
I also have an old Diahatsu Terrios. Never gets cleaned and only has oil changes! Use to go to the tip and shopping and the odd run to a sports club where the car parks are dodgy! Just keeps going! Wouldn't be without it! :P

You could always see if you can buy a second hand BMW scooter with a roof! Don't think they make them now!

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peddy said:
I find it funny that you find 35 mins so long. You don't know how lucky you are! Try doing 9 miles in London!! :headbang:
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Yes but 12 min in the morning then 35 min in the evening for the same route is a bit off! ;-)
 
guys - i say this with a heavy heart, but last night i paid £280 for a quarterly parking ticket at the station. Reason why? i came back to my car last night and once more the egging had resumed, for all the anger and fury that i have displayed all week I realised that this was a battle that i was going lose. Whether i followed your advice on getting a banger or setting up a webcam - if i caught them fcuker - even if i beat them up, spoke to them whatever, i was never going to win. They would keep doing it and more than likely it was escalate to something more serious like keying or cutting the roof.

i feel like gutted that they have won, but really what choice did i have? if i knew who i was i would sorely tempted to in the dead of the night smash their car window as a good bye fcuk you. why are some people complete and utter dickheads?
 
I would be well p*ssed off if some cheeky Train users parked in my road worse in front of my house to save cash and use the train.

Why dont you check out a few spaces during non peak time knock on the house and ask if you could maybe donate a few quid a month in return for parking outside their house.

How fars the train station to where you work? you could always bike to the station.

Cheers

PaulN

With them only doing it on your windscreen shows its not to damage it could be bad on the paint work for a day.
 
PaulN said:
I would be well p*ssed off if some cheeky Train users parked in my road worse in front of my house to save cash and use the train.

Why dont you check out a few spaces during non peak time knock on the house and ask if you could maybe donate a few quid a month in return for parking outside their house.

How fars the train station to where you work? you could always bike to the station.

Cheers

PaulN

With them only doing it on your windscreen shows its not to damage it could be bad on the paint work for a day.
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Hmm, that reminds me. Villagers near me rented ther driveways to commuters some time back. A win-win?
 
jpp3941 said:
i feel like gutted that they have won, but really what choice did i have? if i knew who i was i would sorely tempted to in the dead of the night smash their car window as a good bye fcuk you. why are some people complete and utter dickheads?
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I know exactly how you feel and really sympathise with you. I used to live in an apartment in a very nice area with no trouble (well, so I thought).

I lived there for a couple of years and after about a year of moving in I kept getting the tyre pressure light coming on. It turns out that someone was putting nails underneath my front wheels, so as I reversed out of my space I would get a puncture. At £230 a go I was f*cking fuming!

I tried to look out of the window and try to catch the culprit (seeing as it was only parked there at night and weekends, I thought it would be pretty easy to catch them) but I never did. The thing that wound me up the most was the fact that everytime it happened, they were probably watching but I couldn't see who it was due to the amount of apartments there were (if it was a resident). Because I couldn't catch them, I ended up having to park out on the street even though it was my own parking bay I was in.

My verdict is pure jealousy. Some people have absolutely no respect or thought as to the impact it has on people. It wasn't just putting me out by having to replace my tyres, but it ended up costing me almost a grand before I realised how it was happening. If I'd have caught him, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself beating the living sh*t out of him and I still would today if I knew.
 
Slightly off topic, but at the end of the road where I live is a health centre with a large free carpark, the residents association is currently campaining to have double yellow lines placed outside the centre as the lazy cretins who go there won't walk the extra 50 yards from the carpark and constantly park accross a T junction on a narrow residential road, this has led to a couple of small accidents because of the deceased visibilty. (I have considered getting out and giving some of the offenders a piece of my mind, which I can ill afford to do, but descrection has always got the better of me, also the feeling of what good will it do)
I'm not suggesting for 1 min this is the cause of your woes, but just trying to put over the feeling of someone on the opposite side of a slightly different arguement.
 
Why dont you rent someones drive. I watched an article on the One Show the other week about people renting out driveways to make some cash. Have a look on this web site http://www.parkatmyhouse.co.uk
 
ryukin said:
jpp3941 said:
i feel like gutted that they have won, but really what choice did i have? if i knew who i was i would sorely tempted to in the dead of the night smash their car window as a good bye fcuk you. why are some people complete and utter dickheads?
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I know exactly how you feel and really sympathise with you. I used to live in an apartment in a very nice area with no trouble (well, so I thought).

I lived there for a couple of years and after about a year of moving in I kept getting the tyre pressure light coming on. It turns out that someone was putting nails underneath my front wheels, so as I reversed out of my space I would get a puncture. At £230 a go I was f*cking fuming!

I tried to look out of the window and try to catch the culprit (seeing as it was only parked there at night and weekends, I thought it would be pretty easy to catch them) but I never did. The thing that wound me up the most was the fact that everytime it happened, they were probably watching but I couldn't see who it was due to the amount of apartments there were (if it was a resident). Because I couldn't catch them, I ended up having to park out on the street even though it was my own parking bay I was in.

My verdict is pure jealousy. Some people have absolutely no respect or thought as to the impact it has on people. It wasn't just putting me out by having to replace my tyres, but it ended up costing me almost a grand before I realised how it was happening. If I'd have caught him, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself beating the living sh*t out of him and I still would today if I knew.
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Why didnt you just check under each tyre before reversing??
 
jpp3941 said:
guys - i say this with a heavy heart, but last night i paid £280 for a quarterly parking ticket at the station. Reason why? i came back to my car last night and once more the egging had resumed, for all the anger and fury that i have displayed all week I realised that this was a battle that i was going lose. Whether i followed your advice on getting a banger or setting up a webcam - if i caught them fcuker - even if i beat them up, spoke to them whatever, i was never going to win. They would keep doing it and more than likely it was escalate to something more serious like keying or cutting the roof.

i feel like gutted that they have won, but really what choice did i have? if i knew who i was i would sorely tempted to in the dead of the night smash their car window as a good bye fcuk you. why are some people complete and utter dickheads?
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Glad you went for the best option.

You should have just stuck to the parking at the station in the first place IMO. I know you werent the only one to do it bit it still takes the p*ss... :poke:

Cheers

PaulN
 
The guy should be able to park where he wants without some pea brained goon attacking his property, what used to annoy me when trying to park in boro are the people who put cones or chairs/gas bottles or anything else outside of their houses on the road to protect 'their' space.
I remember an incident when one morning i turned into the street as usual found a nice spot which was only inhabited by some wooden bench thing so i moved it and parked in the space, some gimp came out of the adjacent house and told me I couldn’t park infront of his house, I told him I was going to park where I wanted, then in a moment of genius he said ‘ well I hope your car is alright when you get back’ to which I replied ‘I hope it is too because I know where you live’ the guy must have been going for the Darwin award for endangered genes.
 
PaulN said:
Why didnt you just check under each tyre before reversing??
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It was just easier to swap with my girlfriend and let her park there - her's didn't seem to get targeted. Plus, I didn't want to have to check behind each wheel everytime I wanted to go out in the car.
 
If someone parked outside my house every evening when I came home it would really annoy me, bit in the day who cares?

Given the time of year you should rent a skip, go to the nearest turkey farm, fill it with s**t - it's the smelliest kind, then park that where your car was! :D
 
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