Advice please.....Should I take any action at all?

Flip Flap said:
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A bit of a nerve she has doing that then not responding when someone's showing genuine concern and she's ignored it.
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She may well have been too embarrased to respond, or she may have felt threatened that someone (& male at that) was making unsolicited attempts to contact her. Lots of sensible raesons why someone might not want to respond to the note - including my "theft scenario".

It is also quite possible that neigbours complained & it has now been towed away by the Police. Maybe Rover should ask them if they have towed it, she will be quite upset if she returns shortly to find it missing . . .
 
If residents complained that it was "obstructing the highway" - ie making it harder for emergency vehicles to get by, then they would act, would they not? There are always ways of getting the Police to act over a nuisance if you really think about it.

My PC mate used to quote "The Ways & Means Act 1947" when people who were asked to stop doing something said "Wot for, there ain't no law against it?" It worked 99% of the time.
 
Me? I'd drop a line to the Chief Constable and ask to be informed of the real situation.

This is NOT good for community relations. I'd mention Cameron's "Big Society" and ask if they want it to work or not....?

I'd probably think of a quite lot of other things to say at the same time.

Be pretty unusual for me to do something like this {cough} - I'm normally so tongue-tied, as you know... :eek: :lol-049: :rolleyes2:
 
Tut-Tut....... I can't believe that New Rover took his eyes off the van for long enough to let the murderer (sorry, little old lady) drive it away without him seeing! Next time anything like this happens, we need to send a posse of wildcampers to the scene to keep a 24 hour vigil!

(Which reminds me of the chap I found hiding in a garden hedge with a pair of binoculars. He turned out to be a "privet" detective!) :):)
 
I think some member of the public read this thread (perhaps came across it accidentally) decided to run around the centre of Glasgow near Glasgow Green and look for a grubby motorhome parked in a residential area with a note on the windscreen - and STOLE it :p
 
Could have wheel clamped it. I have a wheel clamp suitable for a small truck if it's needed again . . . :king:





Seriously tho, would have loved to have the owner chip in on this thread . . .
 
It has been entertaining in a way reading all the posts on what or not what I should do/have done.
The story as far as I am concerned, is over.
If I see it again and spy the owner, I may ask them (politely) if they had been on holiday.
Anyway, I hope that my neighbours are still going to welcome the Motorhomes that are going to turn up in August for the Pipeband Championships and park in our street.
 
New Rover said:
It has been entertaining in a way reading all the posts on what or not what I should do/have done.
The story as far as I am concerned, is over.
If I see it again and spy the owner, I may ask them (politely) if they had been on holiday.
Anyway, I hope that my neighbours are still going to welcome the Motorhomes that are going to turn up in August for the Pipeband Championships and park in our street.
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I think the person who came out best in all of this was you, New Rover. Bet many of us wish we had good neighbours like you.
 
Smaug said:
Could have wheel clamped it. I have a wheel clamp suitable for a small truck if it's needed again . . . :king:





Seriously tho, would have loved to have the owner chip in on this thread . . .
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Wheel clamping is illegal in Scotland :-D
 
OK!
Final word on this from me.
The van is BACK!

I spoke with the owner and told her that I had asked the police to check on the vehicle because I was concerned knowing that she said she "fulltimes" in her van when I spoke with her last year.
She offered no explanation of her whereabouts (she didn't have to of course) and I did not press the matter.
She did tell me though that she has no permanent home but uses her daughter's address in Ayrshire.
She is employed but her work-place no longer allows her to park her van at her place of employment so she has decided to park in our Glasgow street.
She has now parked the van in a different spot (30 metres along the street) and now one of my neighbours has complained.
The street is adjacent to the Glasgow Green and there is a great outlook to the Park so the neighbour has a point I suppose that instead of looking out onto the park she has an elderly van to look at from her window.
My MH is parked in front of my place so the only person inconvenienced is me and it does not block anyone else's view.
There is an extended off-road parking area 50 metres away and if she parked there she would not be blocking anyone's view.
The thing is, she seems to have taken herself off again and the van is empty so I cannot point out this spot to her.
If the neighbour who complained starts to involve others then the vans who turn up in August may not be welcomed as much as they were last year.
Anyway, I just hope that no flak heads my way because of my van but then again I have lived here for 30 years and I will not be influenced into moving mine away from its present parking spot.
 
This is so sad. I mean, it's great that she is well. But her ignorance of (or lack of concern over) the consequences of her own behaviour is stunning. Even after you have talked to her she continues to do just as she pleases without regard to the feelings of others, that is what saddens me. It is the sort of behaviour that gets us so disliked by some.

Everybody makes mistakes & we all miss the harm we may unwittingly do to others, but the very fact that OR as chatted to her makes me wonder about her attitude to others. So it goes, may I never be so inconsiderate (altho I fear it may already be too late for me to be redeemed)

I think the thread has been very thought provoking & informative as well as entertaining.
 
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Remember Alan Bennett and his old lady camper, she moved onto his garden in her old campervan I believe and was there for donkeys years!!, I would consult the police if I was you. Alison
 
So what has happened to the elderly lady who owned the camper last year if it is now occupied by a lady of working age?
 
Unfortunately the lady does not appear to have broken the law and is wildcamping perhaps not in the best of locations. If we want the police to move her on, then is that not the thin edge of the wedge concerning wildcamping? I am delighted that the OP has shown concern for the lady but there is not much that can be done.

There was a recent press report of a caravan parked on yellow lines near the traffic wardens office in Edinburgh and they could do nothing as it was not a road vehicle and not causing an obstruction.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
 
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