'My smug neighbour reserves parking spots with cones - I'm plotting revenge'
There's always one neighbour in the local area who continuously likes to make a nuisance of themselves.
Whether they're blasting music until the early hours, or acting less than friendly when you've taken a parcel in for them, there's many reasons for tensions to rise. One man has labelled his neighbour as a "clown", and "self-satisfied and smug" because of his shocking parking antics - and now other homeowners are copying the parking sin.
He explained that the man was "putting out cones to block off the exact area directly outside his house", which is illegal, as you cannot obstruct the highway according to Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980.
He took to Reddit to explain: "A few weeks ago, a guy (who was already a bit off the wall as it was with parking) has started putting out cones to block off the exact area directly outside his house. The street used to be bad for parking many months back, where you couldn't get space after 9pm unless someone leaves it, but it's been fine recently after some moved away and parking is easy. Yet he does this anyway, and now has a few copycats lower down the street who seem to think it's a great idea and looks like it's getting out of hand.
"The thing with it is, as he does it (and looks so self-satisfied and smug as he does) is that it is messing up parking for others. Before we just pulled up tight enough to the next car and filled the street that way, because he wanted to park directly outside his house, it caused a chain reaction where he ended up taking up space for two vehicles and now some evenings parking is actually becoming tight again. Instead of let's say 20 cars parking up to each other, there are 15 cars all over the place with gaps just not big enough to park in due to these three clowns, and now means some can't park."
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Many urged him to get rid of the cones (Stock Image) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)The man went on to fume that he thought it was "illegal" as you cannot block a highway, nor do you "own the spot outside your home on the street", but he didn't know what to do about it without it getting "further out of hand."
He finished the post by saying: "I don't want to p**s off neighbours by raising it/confrontation as I now own my house here and intend staying for some time. I could move the cones in darkness, but there's CCTV at the bottom of the street, and think some houses have personal CCTV too." He then proceeded to ask for advice on what to do.
In the comments, many voiced how they'd get revenge. Someone said: "If you have a s**t car I would just move them and park in that spot The thing is, the kind of melter who puts cones out is also the kind of melter who might key your car." Another penned: "Just steal the cones. Don't make it abundantly clear you've done it by parking your car there straight after. If he gets more cones, steal them too. Rinse and repeat, he'll get the message."
Someone else shared: "I had a neighbour that did that for years, he got away with it because no-one wanted to confront him. I moved the cones once and he came out and gave me abuse but I stood firm and pointed to my Ring doorbell that recorded everything. He still put the cones out but didn't confront anyone after that. People ended up moving them too when necessary so eventually he gave up. I know people are saying if you move his cone he'll key your car, but it'll be pretty obvious it's him if he does that and if he's an ordinary working person he won't want to risk a criminal record/losing his job."
Another Redditor wrote: "Take the cones away. I'd take them and set them on the pavement. You could do this or literally take them and bin them. People are too awkward to confront you and if they do - just have a spine and say that it's unfair, disrupting parking for others and illegal. They won't confront you though."
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