Parking in Baroness Place, Penarth

FIRST, I will apologise if this incident is not related to you as a resident of this very pleasant road.

I recently had to park my vehicle in Baroness Place, as my vehicle had been subject to children's anti-social behaviour when parked just around the corner.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances I deemed it appropriate to park in Baroness Place as there was sufficient space and it being what I took to be a pleasant street, with I assumed mostly pleasant residents, as I know personally that they are.

I did not expect this to be huge issue. It was only meant as a temporary measure, in any event.

My vehicle is fully taxed, insured and mot'd, which allows me to park on the highway, as long as there are no parking restrictions or prohibition signs to the contrary. There clearly are no such restrictions on Baroness Place. This is obviously unknown to the resident concerned.

I came to collect my vehicle on Wednesday, April 22, to find that, clearly, one of the residents feels very territorial in relation to the roadside, as they had, placed a very large sign on the window, right in the driver's view point.

The sign was in very large red letters, giving the indication that they were very aggressive. With the childish words 'Park your car in your own road, OK', I do wonder if the OK is meant to be threatening. Unfortunately, I do not own any road, and according to the Highways Department this is a public road and not privately owned.

It would have been more appropriate for the person, who was obviously keen to remain anonymous, to have approached me with a hello and a smile to discuss, whatever the issue is.

I would have been open to discussion, as they are obviously not. It would not now be a consideration.

It may be that the person concerned has some issues going on in their lives, that caused this to be become such a major issue to them, and I am sorry it upset them to such an extent that they saw fit to actually glue the sign to my vehicle, making it dangerous for me to drive away in that state, as I could only remove small sections.

They, also, took it upon themselves to bend my side mirrors inwards, which they must have done with such aggression that one of the mirrors is now full of small cracks and the other mirror cannot now be operated from inside.

The irony is that I moved my vehicle, which already had damage due to anti-social behaviour by young children on random vehicles, while not appropriate behaviour, they are children and will hopefully grow out of it. But then to be subject to anti-social behaviour from what I would assume is a mature person, by age, at least. Please do not deliberately damage any more vehicles, this is quite unpleasant.

As it is likely you may have behaved in this manner with other vehicles in the past and may again (hopefully not), when residents have visitors, and may, also, have more than one vehicle per household, do not take this to heart, and become this upset.

There are a lot of awful things going on in the world today. If you could put this anger towards something more positive maybe you would have a happier disposition.

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