I need to vent!

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3rd February 2014, 12:32 PM
lancalot

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Originally Posted by UltraMarginal

I live in a large apartment block. it's down a hill in a valley, long windy drive way and apart from allocated garages there is some limited visitor parking, maybe 20 - 30 spots for 98 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.

I call my strata manager about it this morning and he tells me that unless I can give him a unit number he cannot do anything about it. if I did go to the trouble of finding a unit number for him, he would send them a letter and ask them to stop.

I really want to start breaking windscreens. It looks to me like there is no recourse or support for doing the right thing. I'm considering parking across as many spaces as I can in the visitor car park when i get home tonight. but then I'll probably get keyed.

You should start a petition with all your neighbour etc and take that to the manager and next strata meeting bring it up also .... or you can print out a notice ( stating formally that you got their detail and the next time that it happen they get towed away at their expense etc ) and glue/paste it that to their windscreen !! I use to get people parking in my shop parking before because it was near the lifts in an apartment complex ... once I paste a notice on and they stop parking there...
3rd February 2014, 12:37 PM
Trent

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Originally Posted by UltraMarginal

I live in a large apartment block. it's down a hill in a valley, long windy drive way and apart from allocated garages there is some limited visitor parking, maybe 20 - 30 spots for 98 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.

Often when I have a visitor, I have to park on the street (300 or so meters up the hill) so they can have my garage because there is no other visitor parking available. because 90% of the visitor parking is taken up by selfish jerks who live here.

This frustrates me, a lot.

My garage is situated in a long tunnel of garages underneath the apartment block where opposite is a wall. On the wall there is a "no parking sign". Several times in the last couple months someone has parked along this wall. it makes it really hard to either get in or out of the garage. If I had an old shitbox car I'd probably just run into them. but I don't.
someone was parked there for a night and most of the day on the weekend.

this morning when I go to leave the cleaner is parked underneath the no parking sign. I decided to give them a break and try to get out around them. it takes 10 or so turns and by the time I'm done i'm pretty ticked and reverse fast so I can close my garage door. In my haste I nearly run into someone else coming out of the tunnel. I get out and lose my sh*t at the cleaner and she tells me off for yelling at her, doesn't move her car and proceeds to go about her business and ignore me. there is a Loading zone marked spot less than 5 meteres away outside the tunnel.

I call my strata manager about it this morning and he tells me that unless I can give him a unit number he cannot do anything about it. if I did go to the trouble of finding a unit number for him, he would send them a letter and ask them to stop.

if it continues for months, and people still park where they are not supposed to, then a third party gets involved and they can be fined.

I really want to start breaking windscreens. It looks to me like there is no recourse or support for doing the right thing. I'm considering parking across as many spaces as I can in the visitor car park when i get home tonight. but then I'll probably get keyed.

Do you have a towbar? If not, invest in one. You can then be a lot less careful when reversing ;)

Or, even better, next time a car is parked there, let down all their tyres.
3rd February 2014, 12:46 PM
UltraMarginal

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Originally Posted by lancalot

You should start a petition with all your neighbour etc and take that to the manager and next strata meeting bring it up also .... or you can print out a notice ( stating formally that you got their detail and the next time that it happen they get towed away at their expense etc ) and glue/paste it that to their windscreen !! I use to get people parking in my shop parking before because it was near the lifts in an apartment complex ... once I paste a notice on and they stop parking there...

the thing is that people on the strata committee do it too. It is illegal to tire clamp or tow a car without the owners permission. I need to have a name and apartment number to take to the strata manager

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Originally Posted by Trent

Do you have a towbar? If not, invest in one. You can then be a lot less careful when reversing ;)

Or, even better, next time a car is parked there, let down all their tyres.

no tow bar unfortunately. I've left plenty of stern notes under windscreens. The problem is if I do take the law into my own hands, I'll probably get done for it, fined and they'll keep parking there. My wife also doesn't want me to retaliate because she's worried people will then retaliate against us.
3rd February 2014, 12:52 PM
1AZRAEL1

What you could always do is make up a sign that says "I park like a c***!!!" take a photo, and send it into website of same name. Make sure the sign is visible in the picture too. Sure it won't fix the problem, but it would be fun to do :p
3rd February 2014, 06:55 PM
shokwave2

Piss in a bottle/cup and walk around and tip it down the air vents located at the bottom of their windscreens. Their car will smell like piss when they drive, turn on the air-con or park in the sun.
4th February 2014, 10:38 AM
UltraMarginal

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Originally Posted by shokwave2

Piss in a bottle/cup and walk around and tip it down the air vents located at the bottom of their windscreens. Their car will smell like piss when they drive, turn on the air-con or park in the sun.

That's certainly inventive, if not a litle disgusting.
6th February 2014, 07:10 AM
SMHFConvoy

What the hell is our government doing? Why are they being complete a-holes to everyone*? I'm hoping they're arrogant enough to call a double dissolution.

*Except in mining and news ltd
6th February 2014, 07:49 AM
1AZRAEL1

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Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy

What the hell is our government doing? Why are they being complete a-holes to everyone*? I'm hoping they're arrogant enough to call a double dissolution.

*Except in mining and news ltd

I avoid talking politics as much as possible because it makes my blood boil. But if they cut penalty rates for working weekends, there is no incentives to work them and sick days will rise. I'd like to see if any politician could live on our wages.
6th February 2014, 08:45 AM
iamirondude

have you guys noticed that most politicans are are actually failed business men. if they cut penalty rates and other awards wait and watch the usually high standards that most people put in to their work, just go away. the only people that would be happy about this is boss's(and liberal party memebers and supporters) who treat their workers like indenture slaves and the workplace brown noser that has hi nose so far up said boss's arse.
6th February 2014, 09:25 AM
5FDP

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Originally Posted by Trent

Do you have a towbar? If not, invest in one. You can then be a lot less careful when reversing ;)

Yeah, don't do this. It's actually illegal to have a towbar fitted unless you are towing something. You could cop a heavy fine.