Who Puts Their Bin Out To Save Their Parking Spot?

[anthro-nerd]

My neighbours do this and it drives me mad! We live at the end of a terrace street, I rarely have a problem parking right outside my front door, but whenever the neighbours go out they make a point of putting both their recycling and black bin spaced out in front of their house to stop anyone from parking there. It just seems really quite petty to me, especially when parking is rarely a problem.

Does anyone else religiously do this?

[ToraToraTora]

I'd just move them 100 yards down the street and park there anyway.

[Baldric]

Could they not be done for obstruction for sticking bins out on the road.
Just a thought.

[cassa333]

I would contemplate that too TTT.

I unfortunately live in a culdesac with a school at the end. All the houses have driveways with space for at least two cars so we don't have the same problem as such.

However the family diagonally opposite (who's address is another road) have their drive in our road and they have up to 8 vehicles at any one time. All but two are parked on their drive or garden but they always park the mini bus outside my house. From a parking stance we don't park there and don't need to but it is a hell of a nightmare getting in and out of our drive sometimes.

It is a bit of a relief when someone else does park there. But then he just parks farther up the road making I think harder for someone else to get out of their drive.

[anthro-nerd]

I never really considered it being illegal, just thought it was petty. But I guess what if an ambulance wanted to park there or something?

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

I share your frustration! One worse is when they seem to think they own the pavement and mark it out with traffic cones (normally nicked from roadworks). I have, a number of times, "confiscated" the cones and returned them to the local police station.

[anthro-nerd]

Hazi, noooo are you joking!!! Traffic cones!

[SlackAlice]

Around here any 'bins' left out develop AI (artificial intelligence) and go 'walkabout' . Some return but a fair number are never see again.
Most council byelaws restrict the bins to the properties border, otherwise it is classified as an obstruction

[Old_Geezer]

The binmen take the bins from the property border and leave them obstructing the pavement. Sometimes not even at the house they moved them from. Perhaps the council should be charged with obstruction.

[sunny-dave]

Leave a bin outwith the boundary of your own property round here (except on collection day) and you'll get a Fixed Penalty Ticket.

If I was actually bothered by someone doing this (which I'm not), I'd be ringing the council and asking politely for someone to 'have a look'.

When I first moved in here, both of my lovely neighbours took considerable pains to ask whether it was OK to park outside my house (of course it is - I don't own the road & have got off street parking myself) - I suspect my predecessor was of the Parking Nazi persuasion ...

[anthro-nerd]

Sunny dave, my neighbours are lovely and very considerate, they will always leave the space outside my house free. It doesn't bother me enough to report it, it just strikes me as petty, which is why I thought I'd ask if anyone else does this :-)

[albaqwerty]

strewth, they've got a lot of energy to go to the hassle of continually putting their bins out just to save a parking space.

Where do they stop their car for someone to get out of car and move the bins so they can park?

[Voltage]

Agree with OG 10.16
We got a letter from council 2-3 yrs ago telling us if our bins are not put in the right place they won't be emptied.....every time our bin is left 50 yds down the street when they have emptied it ...to much trouble to put it back where we were told to leave em!!

[MWG14]

In our area (SKDC) it is illegal to leave bins out. They cannot be put out before 6.00pm on the evening before collection day & must be taken in by the evening of the day after they've been emptied.

Perhaps there's a similar rule in your area. Why don't you check with your local council & see if anything can be done about your neighbour's bin being left out at all times.

[sunny-dave]

The worst example I've ever seen (entirely legal, but very annoying) was people who left their capacious drive empty but kept an old banger cunningly parked using two spaces outside their house all day, every day, so that they could be sure to have that space available if needed overnight.

Annoying because parking was at a premium during the working day and they were deliberately wasting two spaces. - it became a game to try to get another car into the slot if they ever left it empty ...

[ToraToraTora]

crikey mw where do you live?

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Check this one out, Ali v Suleman!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25428801

[anthro-nerd]

wow that's a bit extreme!

[aelmpvw]

my ninety year old mother insists that i put her nearly empty bins out every week so that she gets her money's worth from the council :-)

[sunny-dave]

Quite so, ael - I have put my grey (organics) bin out with a single apple core in it before now :+)

[aelmpvw]

i put my mother's green bin out every fortnight with thirteen editions of the express in it ...