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Charmless Man said:
Staying at my lasses parents house over the weekend and had parked opposite the driveway of the people who live over the road from them.

No hint of obstructing their driveway at all, a competent drive could manoeuvre a caravan off their drive with the amount of road left. There’s no question of me being parked illegally.

Anyhow, left today perhaps without my full wits about me as my lass is off to India for 6 weeks with work and we’d just said our goodbyes, but noticed a note under the windscreen wiper as I’m halfway down the M62.

Stop at Hartshead services to relieve myself and to check the note and it says “We’ve reversed into you as you were parked inconsiderately (bollocks was I, but still not illegally either way) [...] we certainly don’t want to discuss directly so here’s our details for your insurance company.”

Now, I’m not minded to make a claim at all. The damage is quite minor and my car is a complete shit box worth £500 max that I’ll be parting company with very soon. But first question on that, are you obliged to report it to your insurers anyway? Can’t be arsed to go an check my policy docs, I want to get to the pub and I’ve never been involved in an accident in my life so have no idea of procedure here.

But then, what kind of imbecile hits a car parked directly outside their neighbour’s house and doesn’t suspect a little bit that their neighbour might be quite close to the person they’ve hit? :lol:

They’d like no contact with me but my lasses Dad is going mental about the whole thing waiting for them to return so he can go and have a word with them, something I’d rather he didn’t do like but it’s not my decision.

So aye:

1) Am I obliged to tell my insurance company even though I’m not bothered about claiming.

2) What creative, but legal, acts of revenge can the SMB come up with?

And, I eagerly await the parody thread in response to this. The family in question are scousers. A couple with a daughter in her early 20s. At this stage I don’t know which of them is so shit at driving they reversed a hatch back into my car from their driveway :lol:
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Are you for real here, they are blaming you for this and you are gonna take it

You’ve changed Dr Banner
 


Napoleon Dynamite said:
Are you for real here, they are blaming you for this and you are gonna take it

You’ve changed Dr Banner
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If you’d been up to date on the diet and exercise thread you’d know I’m now off the roids.

But seriously, I’m not especially bothered. I’m not particularly precious about the car and I think the tone of their note came through panic having just driven into a car.

If they apologise I won’t be forced to defeat them.
 
Parking opposite a drive is inconsiderate, just because something’s not illegal doesn’t mean it won’t piss someone off. They have been spot on leaving a note tbh, most people wouldn’t.
 
Totally accept that tbh. When I parked it though I considered how much space I was leaving and there was enough space between their dropped kerb ending and my car to do a three point turn still. It’s quite a wide street.

If they were pissed off about it it wouldn’t take much thought to knock around a few doors (was parked in the exact same spot last weekend with no bother btw) and ask who it belonged to. They know all the neighbours well apparently so shouldn’t be an issue. I’d have apologised and moved it no bother.

Edit: @HANDSOME_DAN that’s in reply to you.
 
Charmless Man said:
Totally accept that tbh. When I parked it though I considered how much space I was leaving and there was enough space between their dropped kerb ending and my car to do a three point turn still. It’s quite a wide street.

If they were pissed off about it it wouldn’t take much thought to knock around a few doors (was parked in the exact same spot last weekend with no bother btw) and ask who it belonged to. They know all the neighbours well apparently so shouldn’t be an issue. I’d have apologised and moved it no bother.

Edit: @HANDSOME_DAN that’s in reply to you.
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Fair enough CM
 
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