Question Regarding Parking in a Culdesac

[jhunt223]

At the end of my cul-de-sac live three guys that look like they're straight off the docks on the second season of The Wire. Not the tough ones. The fat, bearded, scraggly alcoholic ones. One of them has a wife and kids. The wife drives a big SUV and parks it in their garage. The other half of the garage is filled with boxes and all kinds of kids stuff. Two of the three stooges drive big trucks that they park on their driveway and in front of a little space of grass that they share with their neighbours so that the wife can back out once a day to drive her greasy children to school before coming home to watch soap operas and judge shows and eat/drink buckets of lard by the looks of her.

The third one has what I have to assume is autism or fetal alcohol syndrome, listens to gangster rap and I'm pretty sure stole an i-pod from out of my car. Three months ago it seems like he finally saved up enough EI to get his drivers license (at around 30 years of age) and a car that he could use to shuttle himself to the store to get cigarettes and 6 packs of lucky.

This miscreant has started to park in front of my house for up to 5-9 days at a time without moving his car and never leaves because he's a bum.

Is there anything that can be done about him parking in a parking space right in front of my house and leaving his car there for days on end?

[Deegee]

I think they can park anywhere as long as it doesn't block a driveway. I'd take out all of your grass and replace it with giant driveway.

I thought cars could be towed for being left out on streets for too long without any movement? Phone bylaw and have it towed.

[KelVarnsen]

Wow, judge much?

[You Need a Thneed]

A car can only be parked on the street without moving for 48 hours. It very rarely enforced though.

[zamler]

Does the vehicle have current registration?

[puffnstuff]

Based solely on a foggy recollection of a WGMG post, vehicles need to be 1.5 m from driveways. Is it parked that close?

Barring that, start stealing one part at a time, til it's gone.

[jhunt223]

Originally Posted by zamler

Does the vehicle have current registration?

Yeah.

[puckluck2]

Hahaha awesome OP.

Edit: what you should do is...

Step 1: Remove his license plate

Step 2: Call the police about a vehicle parked on the road with no license plate

Step 3: Sit back and enjoy watching their car being towed

[jhunt223]

Ok. For anyone interested... I phoned the Parking Authority and they said that there's nothing they can do if they're just parked in front of your house without committing some other offence, like parking within 1.5 meters of your drive way. It has to be your drive way that they're parking within 1.5 metres of if you want to file a complaint.. so you couldn't phone for your neighbours if some dink was doing this to them. He is parked within 1.5 meters of my driveway. The back of his car is mesh with where my drive way meets my lawn. So now I have to decide if I want to leave a warning note or just go ahead and and get this little rat towed.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Have you tried talking to them or do you just resort to acting like a complete twat on the internet judging people based completely on their appearance and insulting them?

[Kjesse]

Call a towing company and have it dropped off in front of your local alderman's house, but right outside 1.5 meters of their driveway. Just to see what happens.

[jhunt223]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

Have you tried talking to them or do you just resort to acting like a complete twat on the internet judging people based completely on their appearance and insulting them?

Blow me. I haven't bothered to try talking to them because they act like thugs. Hanging out side with their grease monkey friends, working on cars, trying to stare me down whenever I pull up outside and walk from my car to my front door. This isn't based solely on appearance.

[bc-chris]

you need to PM 4x4

get him to come over... he knows a thing or two about moving vehicles.....

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=71630

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by jhunt223

Blow me. I haven't bothered to try talking to them because they act like thugs. Hanging out side with their grease monkey friends, working on cars, trying to stare me down whenever I pull up outside and walk from my car to my front door. This isn't based solely on appearance.

While you may have reason for mistrusting them,MMF is right .Talking to them is a start and may be the only way. There is an unwritten law for community parking, but no legal one. Be cordial and reasonable and you may get what you want. Honey vs.vinegar and all that.

As an aside, lashing out at CP isn't helping your cause much

[Canehdianman]

Originally Posted by jhunt223

At the end of my cul-de-sac live three guys that look like they're straight off the docks on the second season of The Wire. Not the tough ones. The fat, bearded, scraggly alcoholic ones. One of them has a wife and kids. The wife drives a big SUV and parks it in their garage. The other half of the garage is filled with boxes and all kinds of kids stuff. Two of the three stooges drive big trucks that they park on their driveway and in front of a little space of grass that they share with their neighbours so that the wife can back out once a day to drive her greasy children to school before coming home to watch soap operas and judge shows and eat/drink buckets of lard by the looks of her.

The third one has what I have to assume is autism or fetal alcohol syndrome, listens to gangster rap and I'm pretty sure stole an i-pod from out of my car. Three months ago it seems like he finally saved up enough EI to get his drivers license (at around 30 years of age) and a car that he could use to shuttle himself to the store to get cigarettes and 6 packs of lucky.

This miscreant has started to park in front of my house for up to 5-9 days at a time without moving his car and never leaves because he's a bum.

Is there anything that can be done about him parking in a parking space right in front of my house and leaving his car there for days on end?

I heartily suggest you stop being such a self-righteous ######-nozzle.

[jhunt223]

Originally Posted by Canehdianman

I heartily suggest you stop being such a self-righteous ######-nozzle.

Yeah.. I'm a ######-nozzle because I don't like some unemployed scumbag staring me down like we're in high school and leaving his car in my parking spot right in front of my house for days on end.

And I don't know Daradon... this worked alright. I learned about the 1.5 meter rule and the 72 hour rule from here and they both proved to be right. I can have him towed. Problem solved pretty much.

[Rutuu]

Originally Posted by jhunt223

Yeah.. I'm a ######-nozzle because I don't like some unemployed scumbag staring me down like we're in high school and leaving his car in my parking spot right in front of my house for days on end.

And I don't know Daradon... this worked alright. I learned about the 1.5 meter rule and the 72 hour rule from here and they both proved to be right. I can have him towed. Problem solved pretty much.

How can you only afford to live in a place where your neighbors are unemployed? Take a look in the mirror and quit ranting on the internet.

[Deegee]

jhunt's tone may be a little rough, but I can't believe the responses that think that he is over reacting to someone using a cul-de-sac as their personal used car lot.

The offenders should be in a different place as the current place obviously does not meet their needs and instead they are acting ignorantly.

[normtwofinger]

This is the first I've heard of the 72 hour rule. Is there a link someone could provide?

[Sliver]

Lol at people suggesting he try to have a talk with them. You can't reason with white trash... They're scum buckets and should be treated as such.