A furious resident has left a neighbourhood split after slapping angry notes on parked vehicles.
The Bristol local has been penning letters and sticking them on cars with instructions on them, telling people to stop parking on their road as they don't live on the street. The long-standing and simmering parking war has blown up again after photos emerged of cars with messages sellotaped to their windscreens.
Urging owners to ‘park on your own street’, the demands on British Road in Bedminster have left people divided, BristolLive reports. The notes - purported to be written on behalf of ‘the residents of British Road’ - appeared overnight on Saturday into Sunday morning. One was also taped to the back on a grey van.
The move was called "sinister" by one neighbour, who said they didn't agree with the forceful approach. It is of course legally permitted to leave your vehicle on any street providing you are not in breach of parking restrictions.
But that hasn't stopped one resident plastering motors with the passive aggressive messages.
The sign read: “Dear vehicle owner/driver, The residents of British Road have noticed that you park on this street regularly, yet do not live on this street. Please be mindful of the residents who wish to park near their own properties. We respectfully ask you to park your vehicle on the street that you live on, in future."
One of the notices was attached to an unmarked van, which had a ‘BT engineer on call' sign inside the vehicle on the dashboard. On this vehicle, a hand-written addition to the pre-printed notice read: “YOU DO NOT WORK FOR BT!!!” Another note, this one hand-written, claimed that a van had been left unattended and added in underlined capitals: "Help yourself."
One resident of British Road, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was concerned by the appearance of the signs. Parking is an absolute nightmare around here, and people spend a lot of time driving around looking for a space, so I understand people get frustrated, but this is a bit sinister.
"Whoever wrote this does not speak for everyone on this road at all. How do they know the people who own those vehicles don’t live nearby? Do they keep watch all the time, and then follow them to see where they go when they park up? As a woman driver, I’d be worried if that appeared on my car, wondering who was following me to check where I lived,” she added.
“And because parking is a nightmare here, you do sometimes have to park a fair distance away from where you live. There are too many cars and not enough street. But the main thing is, whoever posted this note doesn’t seem to realise they have no greater claim over the road outside where they live than anyone else.
“It’s not their road, it’s everyone’s. There’s no residents’ parking scheme here, there’s no restrictions, people can park where they like for however long they want. If this notice-writer wants to guarantee they can park their car outside their home, they need to move to a house with its own drive,” she added.
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