vampirequeen
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On Saturday we visited a stately home that had a large car park not far away. It had a sign up saying no overnight parking but there was also another sign that said if you wanted to park overnight you should ask at the Estate Office. So we did and were given permission to stay overnight provided we left early in the morning before the next day visitors arrived. Fair enough we thought. Lovely flat hard surface. 24 hour toilets a few yards away. Winning situation.
We settled down for the night but about 11pm there was a loud banging on the side of the van. My husband got out to find the banger now in his car with the window slightly open.....don't know if he expected my husband to thump him lol. Anyway he said we couldn't stay there. My husband explained that we had permission from the Estate Office but this jumped up jobsworth refused to believe him. He was incredibly aggressive and first tried to scare us off with tales of the local drug problem and the addicts using the toilets (obvious lie). Then he said that the police would move us on anyway as they don't like people parking there overnight. Why? Even if we didn't have permission we were only trespassing which isn't a criminal offence so the police wouldn't be interested. Finally and very aggressively he said that if we chose to stay put we would only have ourselves to blame if we were attacked....he didn't say by whom. My husband said that we would move onto the nearby road which we have used before. He then told us we couldn't park on the road. My husband told him that the Estate didn't own the public highway and we would park there. We knew the police wouldn't mind because we've parked there before and chatted to the local police officers who were quite happy for us to be there. The car park officially reopened at 6am and as we're early risers we were back on it by then to use the toilets etc. and left around 7.30am as we'd promised the Estate Office.
We never park where there are no parking signs but on this occasion we had permission. Then some damn arrogant jobsworth disrupts our sleep and causes massive upset. I've emailed the Estate Office to complain about his actions and aggressive nature. It will be interesting to see if they even bother to respond.
We settled down for the night but about 11pm there was a loud banging on the side of the van. My husband got out to find the banger now in his car with the window slightly open.....don't know if he expected my husband to thump him lol. Anyway he said we couldn't stay there. My husband explained that we had permission from the Estate Office but this jumped up jobsworth refused to believe him. He was incredibly aggressive and first tried to scare us off with tales of the local drug problem and the addicts using the toilets (obvious lie). Then he said that the police would move us on anyway as they don't like people parking there overnight. Why? Even if we didn't have permission we were only trespassing which isn't a criminal offence so the police wouldn't be interested. Finally and very aggressively he said that if we chose to stay put we would only have ourselves to blame if we were attacked....he didn't say by whom. My husband said that we would move onto the nearby road which we have used before. He then told us we couldn't park on the road. My husband told him that the Estate didn't own the public highway and we would park there. We knew the police wouldn't mind because we've parked there before and chatted to the local police officers who were quite happy for us to be there. The car park officially reopened at 6am and as we're early risers we were back on it by then to use the toilets etc. and left around 7.30am as we'd promised the Estate Office.
We never park where there are no parking signs but on this occasion we had permission. Then some damn arrogant jobsworth disrupts our sleep and causes massive upset. I've emailed the Estate Office to complain about his actions and aggressive nature. It will be interesting to see if they even bother to respond.
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