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Entitled neighbor regrets blocking electric vehicle charging installation after buying his own electric vehicle: 'The council is now refusing to install the charging point'

We should all strive to leave the world a better place than we entered it—unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be a very high priority on a lot of people's to-do lists. There are quite a few people who seek to selfishly maximize their own position without a care for anyone else or a regard for the effects of their reckless need for self-aggrandizement and wanton urge for wealth and power.

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  • Sure, all of us do this to an extent; there's something that's hardwired in our monkey brain that makes us deeply obsessed with and skilled at gathering and hoarding resources, needing to make sure we have more than all of the other monkeys to make it through the winter—or the means to take from the other monkeys if we need to. But, thankfully, humans (some of us anyway) are capable of altruism, doing things for the betterment of others without self-interest—a selfless quality that helps us to build the world into that better place, which we started off talking about before all of this rambling.

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  • Enter stage right: This guy. 

    This guy wasn't a fan of his local government's proposal to install an electric vehicle charging station outside of the house where he parked his vehicle. The installation would have meant that he had to park his car a whole 10 feet further away at the next parking space over!.. So, he ensured that the installation didn't go ahead by crafting a legal argument that would make the installation impossible. Fast forward a few years, and he purchased a trendy electric vehicle for himself. Now wanting the charging station outside, after all, he sought to have the local government resume the project. They refused on the grounds that the charging station would make the area less safe for pedestrians—the argument that he himself had used a few years prior.

    Frustrated that the local government was using his own legal arguments against him, the poster shared his experience with an online community for legal advice, seeking to find a way to strong-arm the installation into proceeding. Readers of that thread quickly called into question the hypocrisy of his desire to have the canceled installation reinstated now that it benefited his needs. This led to the poster then admitting that he had fabricated the information he used to originally block the installation, prompting backlash from readers that caused him to delete his post.

    By that point, screenshots of the thread had already gone viral, and the cat was out of the bag. Multiple posts popped up across the web where readers lambasted the original poster for his selfish actions.

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    These screenshots are of the original thread, which was deleted soon after it was posted but not before the screenshots went viral

    Successfully quashed a proposed road traffic order in 2020 against the installation of an electric charging point outside my house. I now own an electric car but the council refuses to install one because of a prior quashing order actioned by me. Traffic & Parking Back in 2020, I successfully quashed a proposed road traffic order that would have allowed the installation of an electric charging point - I argued that the local authority didn't meet the requirement of providing sufficient notice in
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    Fast forward to today, and I am now an owner of an electric car. However, I've hit a roadblock as the council is now refusing to install the charging point due to the quashing order I had initiated. They are refusing to my road on the waiting list, despite demand from the local residents. I'd like there to be an electric charging point - my house isn't suitable for off-street electric charging. Can I get the council to install one?
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    These deleted but recovered comments made by the original poster expand on the issue

    Tesla ModelUK 12m at the time i didn't want the resident parking spot that was directly outside my house to be changed - only resident cars with EVS would be allowed meaning I would have to have had parked 3 metres further away from my house - so I looked up the legislation and found the two faults the council failed on to do - consult fairly and consider health and safety risk to pedestrians - but now that i have an electric car, I kind of need a charging point the only place I can charge my ca
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    Here the original poster admits that they made up the reasons they used when they originally blocked the installation—the same reasons the local government is now using to refuse their requests for installation

    lazy_iker 10m Surely if the issues around the double yellow lines were pertinent then, they are still now as well. Tesla Model UK 15m there is hardly any footfall presence - no children or elderly people - i just used it as a technical reason for them to stop installing it. they just didn't collect the data which the council was meant to do to see the potential impact of reduction of double yellow lines to install it. i will be honest, I don't think there would be any substantial risk to reduce
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    JetsetCat 11m Whilst the council has the power to install electric vehicle charging points, there is no statutory duty to install them. You cannot therefore compel them to install one. Unfortunately your earlier actions seem to have come back to haunt you. Tesla Model UK 17m doesn't the council have a duty to consider the environment and their commitment to net zero? callsignhotdog 22m That doesn't require them to install a charger specifically outside your home. They can install one elsewhere,
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    OhioPolitiTHIC I'm not even reading past the opening. I'm just going to continue to laugh. Thanks OP! 792 Reply Share Bambi_H I mean, this is a very funny NIMBY story. It's very much "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face". Reply Share 395
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    Plasticfever So...if OP knew they'd won the quashing order back in 2020, which wasn't even five years ago, and that there would be no charging station nearby, why would they go out and get an electric car now? Do they always make decisions under the assumption that everyone else will bend to their whims? 962 Reply Share ●●●
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    Bulky-District-2757 Per his comments he really does not get it JO 146 MoreThan2_LessThan21 Oh I 54 Reply Share omw Edit: deleted. Nooooo Reply Share ●●●
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    OffKira It's like people who complain loudly about kids when they have none, then act like they're being persecuted after they have them. I did like a comment that pointed out that the BS reason OOP put forth back then probably still applies so what's up, and OP went on a rant that proved that it was always a BS point. off dude lol 62 Reply Share cantantantelope I hope he is stupid enough to write them explaining that he was full of the whole time and it was on purpose. He could have more conseq
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    TERMINAT Lythieus What an absolute bell end. Argued for all this safety stuff when he decided to be obstructive for no reason, now claims the safety concerns were all unneeded because there isn't even foot traffic on the road. Textbook example of FOAFO. ↑ 117 ↓ Reply Share
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    TRJF My favorite part is at the time i didn't want the resident parking spot that was directly outside my house to be changed - only resident cars with EVS would be allowed meaning I would have to have had parked 3 metres further away from my house 358 Reply Share
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    D GunnieGraves To clarify before I answer: The council tried to install a charging point. You objected, citing a plausible but inflated concern. Now you own an EV want a charging point installed, for free. The council has a record of a complaint that was upheld, based on safety concerns that you inflated, and is refusing Is that correct? Well sure when you put it that way it sounds bad.... 230 Reply Share
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    Properly Emphasized Oh, this is delightful. 124 Reply Share
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    edwardneb I hate people like this. Reply Share 47.2k IllustriousComplex6. And there's a lot of them out there 42.7k 2.7k Reply Share
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    Sed Not_Legal Advice_Pod God I love people like this. They'll be electric charging on the moon before it's in front of their house, planning staff will make sure of that out of simple spite. 694 Reply Reply Share
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    spibop It's funny because it was only 3 years in the past. Like, you couldn't even project that MAYBE you'd like to own an electric car within 3 years, and that MAYBE your concerted effort to block the installation would come back to haunt you...
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    ZealousidealSea2737 Hahahahaha 250 theoriginalpetebog. Couldn't have put it better myself 46 Reply Share MapleJacks2 I can ha Hahahahahahahahaaha 35 Reply Share ●●● Reply Share
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