People putting Cones outside their house to stop other people parking there

Hootanany · 24-06-2014 11:15PM #1

We all know you nicked the cones in the first place.
Is this legal.

jellyboy · 24-06-2014 11:17PM

Its Ireland ,nothings illegal

Alf. A. Male · 24-06-2014 11:20PM

My favourite parking spots. My boot is full of cones, a few planks and the occasional milk crate.

corkgsxr · 24-06-2014 11:21PM

Just drive over them. They love that

Madam · 24-06-2014 11:21PM

You can buy them you know. Besides why would you want to use someone else's parking space - not very neighbourly imo.

wretcheddomain · 24-06-2014 11:21PM

Just put ice cream on top of them and some morbidly obese chap will gobble them up.

michael999999 · 24-06-2014 11:25PM

Don't worry. Once it starts raining again all the cones will melt!

Lucifer MorningStar · 24-06-2014 11:30PM

Steal the cones from outside their houses and put them outside your own

Sober Too · 24-06-2014 11:35PM

Hootanany wrote: »

We all know you nicked the cones in the first place.
Is this legal.

The neighbours traffic cones I can live with, its the nail tacks that cross the line ;-)

Sauve · 24-06-2014 11:35PM

Drive over them, wreck your car, and sue the property owner. Job done.
Ya may as well trip while you're at it and break an ankle or something. Free parking and 11 grand from the council. Not a bad mornings work :P

SaveOurLyric · 24-06-2014 11:35PM

'stop other people parking there' ?
Where do you get that bit ? They are annoying to move, but if the spots free, dont let a few cones stop you. If you are really civic minded and you know who put them there you should probably report them for littering.

kylith · 24-06-2014 11:42PM

People putting them out has almost caused murder on my parent's street. Some people seem to think that if they aren't able to park directly outside their front door the world will end.

And no, it's not legal to put out cones.

awec · 24-06-2014 11:44PM

Madam wrote: »

You can buy them you know. Besides why would you want to use someone else's parking space - not very neighbourly imo.

If it's on-street parking then it probably isn't their space at all. Some people have this notion that they are the only ones allowed to park on the road outside their house.

Madam · 24-06-2014 11:54PM

awec wrote: »

If it's on-street parking then it probably isn't their space at all. Some people have this notion that they are the only ones allowed to park on the road outside their house.

I do know that but it doesn't exactly endear you to your neighbours if you do so. Not that I'm bothered as we have our own drive. My problem would be if someone blocked it or my pet hate those eejits who park on the pavement where folk with pushchairs/wheelchairs can't get passed without going out onto the road!

awec · 25-06-2014 12:02AM

Madam wrote: »

I do know that but it doesn't exactly endear you to your neighbours if you do so. Not that I'm bothered as we have our own drive. My problem would be if someone blocked it or my pet hate those eejits who park on the pavement where folk with pushchairs/wheelchairs can't get passed without going out onto the road!

Blocking entrances is a whole other story. As is parking on the footpath.

Parking in front of someones house is 100% fine, both legally and morally. People who put out cones are chancers and have no right to lay claim to a parking space that belongs to everyone.

It's part and parcel of city living where space is at a premium and people generally don't have huge driveways. You either have to accept that you may not get your car parked anywhere near your house or you are going to have to fork out the money for a house with more land to accommodate a bigger driveway.

Madam · 25-06-2014 12:07AM

awec wrote: »

Blocking entrances is a whole other story. As is parking on the footpath.

Parking in front of someones house is 100% fine, both legally and morally. People who put out cones are chancers and have no right to lay claim to a parking space that belongs to everyone.

It's part and parcel of city living where space is at a premium and people generally don't have huge driveways. You either have to accept that you may not get your car parked anywhere near your house or you are going to have to fork out the money for a house with more land to accommodate a bigger driveway.

Are we talking here of apartment buildings?

awec · 25-06-2014 12:12AM

Madam wrote: »

Are we talking here of apartment buildings?

Anything - houses and apartments. If the parking is on a public road anyone can park there whether they are a resident or not.

Though many apartments come with allocated parking that are not public spaces - these people have every right to be aggrieved if someone parks in their spot seeing as they are likely paying for this spot. This typically isn't on-street parking though.

Pwindedd · 25-06-2014 12:15AM

awec wrote: »

Blocking entrances is a whole other story. As is parking on the footpath..

We live in a very narrow road - everyone has to park on the footpath or the road would be blocked. It's a fine line between leaving enough room for pedestrians and losing 2 or 3 wing mirrors a year. Still occasionally get some numpty park fully in the road and wonder why there's chaos on returning to their car. You put out a cone down our way you'd be having it removed -surgically.

EricPraline · 25-06-2014 12:47AM

In Dublin a common solution in many areas has been to introduce paid parking and provide paid permits to local residents. Commuters who still feel want to park can do so at a reasonable rate. Seems fair, unless perhaps you're entirely reliant on free parking in residential streets, in which case you might want to find an alternative route to work.

Dr Strange · 25-06-2014 07:23AM

In some cases though they leave them out because they are expecting a skip for that day. Sometimes there is no other way to get some renovation work done.

Hootanany · 25-06-2014 08:17AM

I can understand with the skip or fuel lorry but I see it everywhere and the same Houses as well.

Aglomerado · 25-06-2014 08:35AM

I smell a cone-spiracy...

anncoates · 25-06-2014 08:38AM

Past neighbour of mine used t do it even though it's on-street (as in not reserved parking) so I parked my car in the spot and put the cone on the roof of my car.

anncoates · 25-06-2014 08:42AM

awec wrote: »

Though many apartments come with allocated parking that are not public spaces - these people have every right to be aggrieved if someone parks in their spot seeing as they are likely paying for this spot. This typically isn't on-street parking though.

If you're paying service fees for an apartment with a parking space, parking is allocated or it is not.

If it's allocated, you have a specific space that is yours and if not, you're paying for any space you can find so you do not have the right to decide a particular space is yours.

Ashbx · 25-06-2014 08:49AM

To answer your question, its not illegal but people do not have to abide to it. Much like when people put a "no parking" sign outside their house.....they are allowed do it if they want to but no-one has to abide to it!

Just make sure you don't block someone's driveway because that is illegal!

OldNotWIse · 25-06-2014 03:18PM

I can understand people getting annoyed. See it all the time where I live - Double parking too by all the tight fists too cheap to pay for city centre parking but...not your road so tough luck. If someone's not blocking your gate then you have little recourse. We park ours in an underground and she only comes out weekends anyway so I'm not bothered.

Linka · 25-06-2014 03:44PM

Madam wrote: »

You can buy them you know. Besides why would you want to use someone else's parking space - not very neighbourly imo.

awec wrote: »

Some people have this notion that they are the only ones allowed to park on the road outside their house.

I'm glad this discussion came up. Firstly, I agree with Madam. With no thanks to neighbours on one side of my parents I have to park down the road in order to visit (my Father keeps his car in their drive way). My parents are getting on a bit in age, with my Mother frequently visiting hospital at the moment. I also take her to do her shopping and any other errands that need doing. The people next door have FOUR cars. They take up the space in their drive and the other three are parked outside the very nearest houses including outside my parents. They aren't really the kind of reasonable people that you could have a chat with about the matter either.

Parking outside your neighbours home mightn't be illegal, but I think it is inconsiderate. Having to take your parents shopping out of the car from down the road up to the house is a pain in the hole.

razorblunt · 25-06-2014 03:49PM

I got 99 problems ... I don't have a 99 cone

Wossack · 25-06-2014 03:50PM

neighbours got a house guest parking outside our house - half on the grass, half on the road. Dont care bout the space, but killing my grass

space outside theirs is free and all.. some people are just dicks

conorhal · 25-06-2014 03:54PM

awec wrote: »

If it's on-street parking then it probably isn't their space at all. Some people have this notion that they are the only ones allowed to park on the road outside their house.

It's not those people that are annoying to me so much as the ones that seem to think they're entitled to park outside their own house, park their missus car outside their neighbours house and their teenage brats junker outside the neighbouors three doors down. Typically it's these kind of people that generate such traffic cone territorial pissing.

The Diabolical Monocle · 25-06-2014 04:14PM

Public road.

People putting Cones outside their house to stop other people parking there

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