dazzyboi Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I have a problem with one of my neighbours, she is a 50 odd year old woman who lives on her own, i dont know why on hell but i dont think she likes us, never has, which is odd because we get on well with all our neighbours, but this woman is just strange. The latest....well basically we have 3 cars to our house, my mums, mine and my brothers, my mum parks on the drive, my brother parks on the opposite side of the street and i park just shy of our drive on the curb next to OUR house. When i come home i usually creep up on on the path and park the car. Going back 2 weeks now..i found about 10 nails in my front drivers side tyre, strange i thought, must be kids messing about, i put the spare on and went to the garage to get a new tyre on it. The spare tyre had been on for about 3 days or so, but i went to put the original wheel back in there today and the spare wheel had about 10 nails in!! plus my back wheel had about 4-5 nails in it! i thought this aint right...someones doing this on purpose. So i been looking around, and i found a load of nails just shy of my neighbours driveway where i get up onto the curb, these nails match the ones that are stuck in my tyre She has even put out glass to stop me coming up the curb, i saw the glass but you aint really going to spot nails are you?..we swept the glass that she had put out back onto her driveway then someone later spotted her putting it in a pile where my tyre would go The problem is there is no problem? why is she doing it? i dont park on her drive? i dont obstruct her drive, i dont obstruct her pathway, i dont obstruct anything to do with her. All she has caused me is 3 new tyres, a bruised foot and a broken bolt which happened because of changing my tyre. Rant over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Unless you want to get involved in mind games, confront her about it. Tell her you have placed a covert camera to catch the culprits, with no accusation towards her, and would she be a dear and let you know if anyone comes along? Tell her you have reported it to the police and you will insist on pressing charges if you find any more "criminal damage". If done right she won't say another word and won't do it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzyboi Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I did confront her but she denied it, were not pointing fingers but we know its her I work in I.T, my brother (not the one mentioned in this thread) is a security engineer who installs CCTV/Access controls/alarms. Maybe we can make a security rig up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naddan28 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) Unless you want to get involved in mind games, confront her about it. Tell her you have placed a covert camera to catch the culprits, with no accusation towards her, and would she be a dear and let you know if anyone comes along? Tell her you have reported it to the police and you will insist on pressing charges if you find any more "criminal damage". If done right she won't say another word and won't do it again I agree with Pin, dont accuse her outright and she probably wont touch the car again out of fear of being caught. If poss get a dummy camera only around a tenner and let her know you are putting it up. If the problem escalates then try a different tactic but i severly doubt she will do it again. ***deleted link as Dazzyboi had seen it and was a link to ebay Edited April 7, 2007 by naddan28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzyboi Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Unless you want to get involved in mind games, confront her about it. Tell her you have placed a covert camera to catch the culprits, with no accusation towards her, and would she be a dear and let you know if anyone comes along? Tell her you have reported it to the police and you will insist on pressing charges if you find any more "criminal damage". If done right she won't say another word and won't do it again I agree with Pin, dont accuse her outright and she probably wont touch the car again out of fear of being caught. If poss get a dummy camera only around a tenner and let her know you are putting it up. If the problem escalates then try a different tactic but i severly doubt she will do it again. A camera similar too this (hope mods dont mind ebay link, if so delete just couldn't find another link!) "my brother (not the one mentioned in this thread) is a security engineer who installs CCTV/Access controls/alarms." Ill see what i can get off him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Get CCTV. The really frustrating thing for me in situations like this is that we often advise clients to get CCTV, but they nearly always umm and arrr about a price tag of between £500 and £1000 to get it installed and so don't bother. Then there is some catastrophic incident which goes unrecorded and which would (in legal terms) have been "slam dunker" evidence and avoided £10k plus of legal costs and a dispute..... then everyone stares at their feet saying "yeah we should have got the CCTV". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Whoever is vandalising your car seems to object to you parking on the path/kerb , so the obvious thing is to stop doing it. There is no excuse for them damaging your car, but they obviously don't have the confidence/courage to ask you to stop parking where you do. My 83 year old MIL had a problem with the son of a neighbour parking on the kerb and really got quite upset and irrational about it. It did mean that she had to go into the road with her shopping trolley, but it was in danger of getting blown out of all proportion, with her involving the Police, the Council etc. . I had to go round and have a word with him and he stopped doing it. Its surprising what we can consider a minor gripe, some people can get very steamed up about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il cacciatore Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Am I not correct in thinking that if you were to install CCTV and it were to catch someone doing something illegal on public property then any evidence would be inadmissible in court? Same goes for private property unless you erect a ruddy great sign saying 'you are being recorded on CCTV for your own safety' or something similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzyboi Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 so the obvious thing is to stop doing it. Why should i park 100meters down the road just because someone objects to me parking my car on the kerb outside my house? why me? why not the other 20 or so people in my street who also have more than 1 car in the household and park outside by the kurb? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il cacciatore Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 You get some messed up people who think they are on a crusade against people parking their cars. Near my bit someone super-glued a notice to someone's wind screen telling them not to park there again. These folk are criminal. If it were me I would take it to the police, not like they will do anything but its the proper thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboots Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 i find the best solution is a taste of there own medicine usually does the trick and puts a stop to the carry on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Without wanting to play devil's advocate here but you are not meant to park on the path are you? Can you not just leave you car on the road? Or to quote one of Munglers earlier posts, "Sit in a deck chair in your back garden in your underpants cycling and cleaning a pump action" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibby Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Maybe she's just getting like this because it is illegal to park on the pavement, you can be fined. It is a stupid thing for her to get like this but maybe it's just something she feels strongly about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 I agree - some just can't help acting irrationally where car parking is concerned. A number of years ago while staying with a family member I found my truck blocked in the drive by a car belonging to a neighbour across the road. This was 4.30 in the morning and he refused to budge it until someone moved their car from in front of his house. I wouldn’t mind but the car was nothing to do with us! The best bit was when he said he was in the police – I said I didn’t care if he was the Queen mother…..he even refused to move it when the police rung him directly!!!! Needless to say he moved it when I pulled the truck up to the side of his car and was about to push it out of the way. Apparently he wasn’t liked in the village and it turned out he and his Mrs used to nudge cars out of the way if parked too close as they didn’t have a drive. The police were good – a Sgt at the local station called me later wanting me to make a formal complaint against him and said he couldn’t believe how he’d acted to me and the police (he was from another station). I didn’t because I didn’t have to live there and didn’t want trouble for the family member. Damn I wish I’d just driven through his car!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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