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Eircom Vans Parking In Residential Areas

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  • #32
    j1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭j1974


    Markroan wrote: »
    Hi I have a problem with a neighbour who parks a large Eircom Van in front of my house 24/7 its only ever gone for a few hours a day and apart from that its there all the time. This van compleatly blocks my view and is unsightly as well as a nuisance when kids are playing near it and when reversing out of my driveway.All I can see when I look out my front windows is a huge Eircom logo and I dont like it. I tried parking my own car outside my house to stop this van being parked there and would you believe this guy and his wife came in and told me that it was his space and he has been parking there for 15 years and that anyway I was only renting (obviously mad). They even move my bins on bin day so they can park there. Is there a bylaw on parking commercial Vehicles in residential areas. I am not sure which planet these bullies live on. Should I report it to Eircom and would they care?


    we live in apartments and 2 years ago we had some girls park in out spot at least 3 times in a row, despite the fact that ot was clearly numbered ( the neck of them ). anyway I was not living with my girlfriend ant the time and one night she came home upset after not being able to park in her spot, one of the girls had blatantely parked and left a note on her car reading " hi there, if you need your spot, ring 087...... and I'll come vacate it for you.

    my girlfriend is very soft but unfortunately for the notes writer, I'm not.
    I took the note, wend down stairs, banged the door down until two girls answered, I pointed to the car asked who it belonged to. One girl burst out laffing and apologised whilst assuring me it would be moved in ten minutes. I told her that my girlfriend had been way too nice to them in the first and second instance. "she asked you twice to move nicely, yet you're still parking there!!, at which point the smiles began to turn down, Now I'm f.cking telling you and who ever else lives there, park there again and you wont be able to move your car.

    one smart arse threatened to call the police so I encouraged her to do so and adived her that i would be sittin in my car now blocking there's.

    They bottled it, and moved the car all whilst apologising that it wouldnt happen again. sometimes you have to be abit nasty to get your point accross. and before you say anything, there was guys there at the time, so they were welcome to come out and have a lash, which they didnt. they probably saw my point.......


  • #33
    McCalvin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭McCalvin


    j1974 wrote: »
    one smart arse threatened to call the police so I encouraged her to do so and adived her that i would be sittin in my car now blocking there's.

    They bottled it, and moved the car all whilst apologising that it wouldnt happen again. sometimes you have to be abit nasty to get your point accross. and before you say anything, there was guys there at the time, so they were welcome to come out and have a lash, which they didnt. they probably saw my point.......

    You're a hero!


  • #34
    USER X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭USER X


    Dont want to hijack the thread here but im interested in the whole being parked on a road with no tax thing. A friend of mine lives in a housing estate and theres a load of cars parked on the road but his neighbour has a big white high roof Iveco van. The thing is rusting to pieces with weeds growing out of it and hasnt moved in a few years. Theres no tax or insurance or anything on it.... Any way to get rid of it?


  • #35
    DubTony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭DubTony


    USER X wrote: »
    Dont want to hijack the thread here but im interested in the whole being parked on a road with no tax thing. A friend of mine lives in a housing estate and theres a load of cars parked on the road but his neighbour has a big white high roof Iveco van. The thing is rusting to pieces with weeds growing out of it and hasnt moved in a few years. Theres no tax or insurance or anything on it.... Any way to get rid of it?

    Call the Gardai and complain about the untaxed vehicle. When they tell you to call the council, do that. They'll tell you that there's nothing they can do if there are reg plates on the vehicle.

    You know what you need to do. ;)


  • #36
    j1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭j1974


    McCalvin wrote: »
    You're a hero!


    oh contrare my attempting to be sarcastic wannabe friend, I'm YOUR hero.
    send me a post when the girls in your ballet troupe hide your tu tu again, i'll be happy to get it back for you, that way mammy can go to bingo and daddy wont have to come pic you up, for the 3rd week.


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  • #37
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    j1974 wrote: »
    oh contrare my attempting to be sarcastic wannabe friend, I'm YOUR hero.
    send me a post when the girls in your ballet troupe hide your tu tu again, i'll be happy to get it back for you, that way mammy can go to bingo and daddy wont have to come pic you up, for the 3rd week.

    nuff respect. bit harsh though.


  • #38
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Why is the van driver not parking outside his own house?


  • #39
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Cause he's a bollox :rolleyes:.


  • #40
    Abelloid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Abelloid


    faceman wrote: »
    Why is the van driver not parking outside his own house?

    Spoils the view.


  • #41
    Seanieke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Seanieke


    I've had this problem in my estate, I drive a van, which is parked outside my neighbours window and door (my apartments alocated spot) every night and weekend. She complained to our landlord, to which i explained that van is how i earn my living, it is my car. i offered to swap allocated spaces but she refused, saying she liked her space but wanted me gone, end solution, nothing happened, hope she likes blue!


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  • #42
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Landyaddict wrote: »
    I now have TWO Land rovers parked at my house.

    TWO Land Rovers!!! TWO!!! That's unforgivable. Now if they were Landcruisers that'd be ok, but ******* Land Rovers!!!

    Jerseyful Mazes, your poor neighbours ;)


  • #43
    WestWicklow1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭WestWicklow1


    Gil_Dub wrote: »
    You've cited ruining the view etc. as though it'll somehow justify your whinge, but will you just come to your senses here for a minute? You live in a flipping housing estate - What view? The view of the other side of the road? Of the overgrown grass with the bin bag hovering around in the centre of the estate? You haven't bought the house, and while you've every right to a peaceful life, it's not like you're stuck there, are you? You're renting, and bitching and moaning. Those are the facts as I see it.

    The man uses the van for work. He parks it outside your (rented) house and whether you like it or not, either one of you is entitled to park there... If he happens to get there earlier, he can park there. If he has a van and a car, and there are two spaces along the footpath outside your adjoining houses, he can park there. If you happen to be out 'til late, tough luck. That's how it is. So no matter what else people suggest, that isn't going to change for you.

    If you want to be guaranteed a parking space, or that a van won't take pride of place outside your sitting room window, rent another house with a driveway/allocated parking or one that's out in the sticks. Living in an urban development, you just have to put up with it or move. Simple as that.

    Honestly lad, what's next? Complaining about the kids hanging around the lamp-post outside your house? Kicking off over them running amok on their bicycles in the green-spaces? You sound like a curtain twitcher.

    What you're complaining about would pi$$ me off too, but I wouldn't have a chip on my shoulder about it. Nobody's breaking the law here. That man, your landlords neighbour, has probably lived there for a lot longer than you do. He's also probably been parking in that space for years. Yet you seem to think you've some right to it over him....neither of you do, he just has his working hours on his side....

    This isn't a motors issue - It's all down to being neighbourly, and your apparent inability to be a good one.

    What a complete load of sh1te.


  • #44
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    WestWicklow1 wrote: »
    What a complete load of sh1te.

    Well done.


  • #45
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,273 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    WestWicklow1 wrote: »
    What a complete load of sh1te.

    Could you not at least expand on why you think so?


  • #46
    Jo King
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Jo King


    O/p you should be reversing IN to your driveway not out. I have no sympathy for people who reverse out of driveways.


  • #47
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,721 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    faceman wrote: »
    Why is the van driver not parking outside his own house?


    ...for the same reason said Eircom man didn't do the talking at the OP's door.......She's the reason - She doesn't want it outsider HER window....'cos it's ugly.

    QED methinks for OP's reasons for not wanting it outside his window........

    Btw, in the estate in Galway we have a house in, which is managed by a mgt company, it specifically bars commercial vehicles, so ..........

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #48
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,721 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Jo King wrote: »
    O/p you should be reversing IN to your driveway not out. I have no sympathy for people who reverse out of driveways.


    ...indeed, have a look HERE ........... technically........you could get points on your licence for "Contravention of requirements regarding reversing of vehicles"....one grounds for which could be........poor visibility........

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #49
    bonzos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭bonzos


    Markroan wrote: »
    Hi I have a problem with a neighbour who parks a large Eircom Van in front of my house 24/7 its only ever gone for a few hours a day and apart from that its there all the time. This van compleatly blocks my view and is unsightly as well as a nuisance when kids are playing near it and when reversing out of my driveway.All I can see when I look out my front windows is a huge Eircom logo and I dont like it. I tried parking my own car outside my house to stop this van being parked there and would you believe this guy and his wife came in and told me that it was his space and he has been parking there for 15 years and that anyway I was only renting (obviously mad). They even move my bins on bin day so they can park there. Is there a bylaw on parking commercial Vehicles in residential areas. I am not sure which planet these bullies live on. Should I report it to Eircom and would they care?
    I think there is a rule that applies to some eircom "workers:rolleyes:" which state they are entitled not to work


  • #50
    FunnyStuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭FunnyStuff


    If you've got a problem.............. maybe you could hire......

    The A-Team.


  • #51
    kenbrady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭kenbrady


    j1974 wrote: »
    I'm not.
    I took the note, wend down stairs, banged the door down until two girls answered, I pointed to the car asked who it belonged to. One girl burst out laffing and apologised whilst assuring me it would be moved in ten minutes. I told her that my girlfriend had been way too nice to them in the first and second instance. "she asked you twice to move nicely, yet you're still parking there!!, at which point the smiles began to turn down, Now I'm f.cking telling you and who ever else lives there, park there again and you wont be able to move your car.

    one smart arse threatened to call the police so I encouraged her to do so and adived her that i would be sittin in my car now blocking there's.

    They bottled it, and moved the car all whilst apologising that it wouldnt happen again. sometimes you have to be abit nasty to get your point accross. and before you say anything, there was guys there at the time, so they were welcome to come out and have a lash, which they didnt. they probably saw my point.......
    I can't believe you posted that, it's pathetic threatening girls over a parking space. Especially when they left a number and were more than willing to move the car.
    How sad must your life be if you get so worked up over something so trivial and need to win petty little victories. Did you feel tough after bullying girls.


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  • #52
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    bonzos wrote: »
    I think there is a rule that applies to some eircom "workers:rolleyes:" which state they are entitled not to work

    Era the company is falling to pieces with no sign of anyone investing the necessary to keep in relevant in the future so the van parking may only be a temporary problem.


  • #53
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,684 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    eoin wrote: »
    Could you not at least expand on why you think so?

    Seriously, one shíte post does not deserve another. Gil_Dub's post was pretty bad...


  • #54
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    The Eircom lads are a hoot.

    One of them lives next door to me and he also has one of the larger vans. If i'm ever at home for the day, hes in and out, in and out, in and out at least 3 times a day. He doesn't seem to do any work and we're 99% sure he doesn't work out of the house, hes gone for most of the day but seems to pop back home for half an hour here and there.

    There's also a little Eircom building half a mile away, only about 300ft square and the lads seem to sit outside it all day long. That's the job to be in.


  • #55
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    i know a guy locally who built his house in Eircoms time...wheneverr I pased the site his van was there whatever time of day


  • #56
    Landyaddict
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Landyaddict


    WestWicklow1 wrote: »
    TWO Land Rovers!!! TWO!!! That's unforgivable. Now if they were Landcruisers that'd be ok, but ******* Land Rovers!!!

    Jerseyful Mazes, your poor neighbours ;)

    Land Cruisers, OMG! what are they but Land Rovers in disguise :p

    No, really nice vehicles are Cruisers, I just wouldn't drive one.

    Oh and it's now 3 Land Rovers, just added another one to the collection.

    Landy
    :cool:


  • #57
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭Wossack


    FunnyStuff wrote: »
    If you've got a problem.............. maybe you could hire......

    The A-Team.

    but where would they park their van?


  • #58
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Buy paint and turn it into a UPC van. Those colours are easier on the eyes.


  • #59
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    kenbrady wrote: »
    I can't believe you posted that, it's pathetic threatening girls over a parking space. Especially when they left a number and were more than willing to move the car.
    How sad must your life be if you get so worked up over something so trivial and need to win petty little victories. Did you feel tough after bullying girls.

    Do you feel good after castigating the poster? You don't know the totallity of the persons situation so why don't you keep your comments to yourself.


  • #60
    McCalvin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭McCalvin


    j1974 wrote: »
    oh contrare my attempting to be sarcastic wannabe friend, I'm YOUR hero.
    ...
    more bullying rabble
    ...

    Seriously, all attempted sarcasticness aside.

    You are proud of how you handled that little episode?
    Would you advise the OP do similar?


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  • #61
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,273 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Ugh, this thread just goes from bad to worse.


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