'Just taking out the trash...': Man executes cunning plan to get back at neighbor who stole his parking space

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    "My parking space is off limits..."
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    If you really want that parking spot, you should just ask.
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    I posted this under a totally different sub's totally different post, but I've been told it fits here too, so here we are. I don't have a drive, I keep the car in the public car park next to my flat. It's a 2 minutes walk, it has CCTV that is actually being used (needed a footage for insurance purposes, council was
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    more than happy to look through 3 days of stuff), and the permit isn't that expensive. A few weeks after we moved here, I've found "my" spot. Well, it technically wasn't mine, we don't have delegated spaces, but I used that spot for over a year, and no one had any problems with that. It wasn't under any trees, it
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    was next to a fence on one side, perpendicular to any other spots so no one parked next to me on the other side, and it was easy to turn around. This is the only long-stay car park in the town centre, so it's always fully packed between around 9am till 5-6pm, everyone works or shops in town uses this one. The spot I called "mine" was
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    perfect in a sense that it was relatively far from any other spots (except the other two behind it), and I used to do night shift, so I left the car there from 6:30am till 9pm, and this spot kept my car scratch and dent-free for over a year (except one time as one idiot reversed into my car...) as workers/shoppers came and go, so all in all, it was perfect for me.
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    A year or so later after I've found "my" spot, someone new moved into some of the flats, and wanted "my" spot. First, they started left their car there, even tho they must've seen mine there pretty much every day. I didn't mind if it wasn't available, I parked on another spot, but if it was empty as I've got home in the morning, I used it as much as I could.
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    When leaving their car there every now and then didn't work, they pulled their wheelie bins next to my car. It was strange, but I just put the bins back next to a wall. Next day, the bins were there again. I put them back again. Third day, bins there again, so I wrote them a polite letter and dropped into their letter box (the flat number was on
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    the top of the bins), and asked them not to put their bins next to my car, because if it's gonna be windy and the bins scratch my car, they might be liable for the damages. Fourth day, the bins were there again. Wrote anothe letter, pointed out that their flat number is on the top of the bins, so it's not a rocket science to
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    figure out who they belong to, and asked them again not to put their bins next to my car. I also pointed out that the CCTV in the middle of the car park is actually functional, and I can ask the council to find out who and when puts the bins next to my car, and they might be liable for criminal damages and, since they block my car into a spot in a
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    public car park, they also might be liable for causing an obstruction to the public highway, which again, is a criminal offence. Fifth day, the bins were there again. At this point, I was sure that they either don't speak the language and don't understand my letters, or they just generally don't give as t about them,
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    so I was moving their bins back next to the wall every day. Until bin collection day. It was 4 black wheelie bins, for 2 flats. As I've got home in the morning, I lined them up next to the fence, and then very-very-very slowly parked next to them so close that my finger wouldn't fit between my car and their f king
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    bins. And since I've got to the car park at 6:30am, and the bin lorry usually came around at 7am, I popped into a Greggs, bought a coffee, sat back into my car, and waited for the collectors. When they arrived, they looked very confused and asked me why I blocked the bins in, so I quickly explained the whole story. They told my that the rule
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    is, if they can't reach a bin, they won't come back to empty it, and since my car is unfortunately blocking all 4 of those bins, they can do f k all. They gave me 4 tags that says they were unable to reach the bins, to put on them once I'm done having fun, and they'll come back in 2 weeks to empty it.
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    So that's what I've done, once the bin lorry left, I put the tags on the bins, and went home to sleep. Their bins, with all the s t in it were there for the rest of the day until I left at 9pm, but miraculously, weren't there the next morning I've got home. For the next 2 weeks, they tried to fill them as much as it was possible, but
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    they've had to resort to bin bags, which the bin lorry did not collect next time they came around, just left a note on the bins that they can only collect what's in the bins, but as an extra, they put all the bin bags in the wheelies for and giggles. It took them a whole month to work down their rubbish, because the bins were always full of s t, but I've never had to move them again.
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    MrsDarkOverlord 19 hr. ago The resolution to this story is as satisfyingly, wholesomely petty as it is British
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    measaqueen 17 hr. ago It was nice of you to put the bins back at the fence instead of accidently rolling them down a hill somewhere. Though I suppose the CCTV had more to do with it than your good nature.
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    newsy0011 17 hr. ago Very classy and trashy of you. Well played!
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    ilp456 17 hr. ago I've got to say...I wasn't on your side regarding the space until they started with the bin nonsense. Well done!
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    User-1967. 15 hr. ago Love this revenge tactic, they would have been really р d off. Well done you
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    Ex-zaviera · 2 hr. ago • I don't understand why there would be bins in a public car park? and why would the collectors go into a car park to collect them? This sounds like something that happens in a street or alley.
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    EnvironmentalOven 703. 15 hr. ago Love the pettiness
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    Quick-Possession-245 18 hr. ago Nicely plotted!
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    PhilL77au 16 hr. ago Is there a "polite revenge sub? Because my 1st thought would've been to move the bins to a camera blind spot and melt them down.

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