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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Came home yesterday to find a van on my driveway. A workman was in a house a few doors up.
I asked him to move as I needed to park and it was not a visitor bay (area not fenced in).
He said he'd move it but drop the attitude.
Ffs why do people so often misuse the term when at worse I was just being assertive? |
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"Came home yesterday to find a van on my driveway. A workman was in a house a few doors up.
I asked him to move as I needed to park and it was not a visitor bay (area not fenced in).
He said he'd move it but drop the attitude.
Ffs why do people so often misuse the term when at worse I was just being assertive?"
I have this happen quite often. To the extent I’ve a floor plan of my property near my front door to show anyone who may not believe I own the drive |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Communication is the response you get. What to you in assertive may have come across differently to him.
As my mother always told me, you catch more flies with honey. |
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By *am450Man
over a year ago
North Kent/Greater London |
Unfortunately it's the way of the world these days. People are selfish and thoughtless but if their actions cause others problems they see it as their right to be a victim in any scenario |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
A friend of mine had a neighbour who ignored him as soon as he moved in, which didn't especially bother him.
What did get his back up was come Christmas day, this neighbour's relatives parked on his drive. So, he clamped one of their cars, ensuring no one could leave. |
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Years ago we had a prick keep parking his mini across our drive at night , to walk to the pub in next road . One night me and my dad decided to teach the imbecile a lesson so we hooked his car up to my big jeep and we dragged this car up the hill and dumped it in a industrial unit carpark .
Never parked outside again . |
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over a year ago
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"Came home yesterday to find a van on my driveway. A workman was in a house a few doors up.
I asked him to move as I needed to park and it was not a visitor bay (area not fenced in).
He said he'd move it but drop the attitude.
Ffs why do people so often misuse the term when at worse I was just being assertive?"
What you consider 'assertive' may well be what others consider rude 
Would need VAR, house cctv or dashcam to be sure but I'm guessing it's that simple |
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Used to suffer with the school run mums every morning where I lived, one in particular though took to parking across my drive blocking me in.
One day, had had enough and blocked her in with other cars.
After a couple of hours being stuck she never did it again. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape"
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park? |
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I had a clever one yesterday on a very narrow road who would not badge the car even though I had no space on my side but plenty on his. He wanted to know why I had not stopped at the top even though I could not see the ca car coming up and had alread driven downhill. Some people !!!!! |
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"I had a clever one yesterday on a very narrow road who would not badge the car even though I had no space on my side but plenty on his. He wanted to know why I had not stopped at the top even though I could not see the ca car coming up and had alread driven downhill. Some people !!!!!"
 . I was in a queue of very slow moving and at times stationary traffic on my way to work one morning. The guy in the van behind me was reading his paper, didn't notice we'd stopped and only just managed to brake before running into the back of me. He shouted at me "what did you stop for?"
I just looked at him in my rear view mirror like   . |
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"Came home yesterday to find a van on my driveway. A workman was in a house a few doors up.
I asked him to move as I needed to park and it was not a visitor bay (area not fenced in).
He said he'd move it but drop the attitude.
Ffs why do people so often misuse the term when at worse I was just being assertive?"
Either you were full of attitude and that's why he told you to drop it or you weren't.
I'm going to go with your claim that you weren't....
He's a bloke, he was challenged, his ego was in danger of damage, he lacks full emotional control , he has some control and fear of the law or he would have just k.o'd you. ........ So ......
he deflects 'attitude' on to you so that he can make you appear unreasonable instead of him having to let it be seen that you control him ..... like a teenager he complies reluctantly ... Can't say sorry cos he sees it as weak and his penis would shrink further inside.
Bless him ...... this is the same emotion / attitude behind those that patronise others. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape"
I hope all of that is jest ...... |
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"I had a clever one yesterday on a very narrow road who would not badge the car even though I had no space on my side but plenty on his. He wanted to know why I had not stopped at the top even though I could not see the ca car coming up and had alread driven downhill. Some people !!!!!
. I was in a queue of very slow moving and at times stationary traffic on my way to work one morning. The guy in the van behind me was reading his paper, didn't notice we'd stopped and only just managed to brake before running into the back of me. He shouted at me "what did you stop for?"
I just looked at him in my rear view mirror like . "
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
I have attitude whenever I get home from a 14 hour day and find some muppet parked in my space (we have clearly marked allocated parking spaces).
That attitude being "I'm fucked off someone assumes I don't need to use my space".
Attitude or assertive you weren't in the wrong.
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This is one bugbear of mine. Our house is at the end of a cul de sac so people think they can just leave their cars there and feck off to one of the other houses around. All well and good but they park across our drive so were completely blocked in. Copped attitude from a worker on a house a couple doors up when i asked him to move as he was blockin our drive. Swear id asked him to crawl naked across hot coals |
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Someone parked in my mates disabled space at work. She had no choice but to block them in. The shame on their face when they had to come and find her and ask her to move. The double shame when they saw how poor her mobility was and how difficult it was for her to get from office to car and how she needed someone to help her in and out of the vehicle. I doubt they ever did it again, anywhere. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?"
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction. |
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Apart from Obi who has a purpose marked space..... No one has mentioned dropped kerbs etc or legit drives.
People can park their cars according to the highway code. It doesn't have to be according to the individuals idea of what is right and wrong.
Someone taking their gates off or wall down and calling it a drive is only kidding themselves... All markings taken into consideration that is.
There's no such thing as 'your bit of the road' ..... unless it's permit parking, marked, drop kerbed etc etc ... The bit outside your house is not yours.
I have a lovely neighbour ( really lovely ) who goes ballistic when someone parks outside his house , in 'his space' ... bless. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction. "
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho |
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"Apart from Obi who has a purpose marked space..... No one has mentioned dropped kerbs etc or legit drives.
People can park their cars according to the highway code. It doesn't have to be according to the individuals idea of what is right and wrong.
Someone taking their gates off or wall down and calling it a drive is only kidding themselves... All markings taken into consideration that is.
There's no such thing as 'your bit of the road' ..... unless it's permit parking, marked, drop kerbed etc etc ... The bit outside your house is not yours.
I have a lovely neighbour ( really lovely ) who goes ballistic when someone parks outside his house , in 'his space' ... bless. "
The car was parked on his driveway which regardless of dropped kerbs is his property... |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho"
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Apart from Obi who has a purpose marked space..... No one has mentioned dropped kerbs etc or legit drives.
People can park their cars according to the highway code. It doesn't have to be according to the individuals idea of what is right and wrong.
Someone taking their gates off or wall down and calling it a drive is only kidding themselves... All markings taken into consideration that is.
There's no such thing as 'your bit of the road' ..... unless it's permit parking, marked, drop kerbed etc etc ... The bit outside your house is not yours.
I have a lovely neighbour ( really lovely ) who goes ballistic when someone parks outside his house , in 'his space' ... bless.
The car was parked on his driveway which regardless of dropped kerbs is his property..."
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"Apart from Obi who has a purpose marked space..... No one has mentioned dropped kerbs etc or legit drives.
People can park their cars according to the highway code. It doesn't have to be according to the individuals idea of what is right and wrong.
Someone taking their gates off or wall down and calling it a drive is only kidding themselves... All markings taken into consideration that is.
There's no such thing as 'your bit of the road' ..... unless it's permit parking, marked, drop kerbed etc etc ... The bit outside your house is not yours.
I have a lovely neighbour ( really lovely ) who goes ballistic when someone parks outside his house , in 'his space' ... bless.
The car was parked on his driveway which regardless of dropped kerbs is his property...
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I know you said that at the start Byron. My post wasn't about YOU or your situation. The person who quoted me thought it was. |
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"While i'm at it quoting shitty truths - it is not illegal for anyone to park in someone elses drive.....
Maybe immoral but it isn't illegal.
How do you like them apples!"
It happens a lot round Gatwick airport. People come back from shopping and a random car is on their drive. Two weeks later a family turns up, hops in a drives off. |
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"While i'm at it quoting shitty truths - it is not illegal for anyone to park in someone elses drive.....
Maybe immoral but it isn't illegal.
How do you like them apples!"
It is illegal if there’s a car on the drive but not illegal if you block an empty drive. Or maybe it’s the other way round.
I’m not 100% on this, just what I read on my local community page |
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"While i'm at it quoting shitty truths - it is not illegal for anyone to park in someone elses drive.....
Maybe immoral but it isn't illegal.
How do you like them apples!
It is illegal if there’s a car on the drive but not illegal if you block an empty drive. Or maybe it’s the other way round.
I’m not 100% on this, just what I read on my local community page"
Ha! It's illegal to park where you are not supposed to on the public highway. If you cause a blockage then it's a police matter.
BUT ...... if you park on someone's land that is not part of the public highway then it's NOT illegal and not a police matter but a matter for the local authorities - e.g. the council. Good look with that |
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Most people call the police n the police come if they think there will be a disturbance of the peace..... other than that it's not illegal ( though it's fooking shitty ) to park on someone's drive. |
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"While i'm at it quoting shitty truths - it is not illegal for anyone to park in someone elses drive.....
Maybe immoral but it isn't illegal.
How do you like them apples!
It is illegal if there’s a car on the drive but not illegal if you block an empty drive. Or maybe it’s the other way round.
I’m not 100% on this, just what I read on my local community page
Ha! It's illegal to park where you are not supposed to on the public highway. If you cause a blockage then it's a police matter.
BUT ...... if you park on someone's land that is not part of the public highway then it's NOT illegal and not a police matter but a matter for the local authorities - e.g. the council. Good look with that"
As I say I wasn’t 100% on that information
If someone was to block my drive I’d be removing parts of the car every five minutes it’s there |
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About 20 years ago I had to put gates on because every time one of my neighbours had a party one of their guests felt it was acceptable to park in my drive without permission.
There is also a 2 metre deep strip from my garden to the street which I don't own but as the developers have never maintained it, I keep the grass cut and sometimes park there if needed. Others park there now and again and often try to squeeze 2 cars in and block my driveway.
A few years ago someone parked a 26 ton box lorry in the middle of the night and left it there for 3 days.
It was a tight squeeze to get out passed it and all my neighbours had to drive onto someone elses lawn to get around it. Heating oil deliveries and bin collections were impossible because they couldn't get passed and the police and local council were no help.
Going to work on the 4th day I spotted a guy I didn't know getting out of a taxi at the end of the road and I watched as he climbed in the lorry.
When I approached him he told me he had missed the ferry to Heysham and didnt want to leave the vehicle in a public carpark. The fact I live a mile and a half from the ferry and he literally passed hundreds of viable parking spots to abandon it in the middle of a housing estate he didn't know was ludicrous. He lived in a town 30 miles away and his driving time was almost up so he parked it there and took a taxi home. |
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"Came home yesterday to find a van on my driveway. A workman was in a house a few doors up.
I asked him to move as I needed to park and it was not a visitor bay (area not fenced in).
He said he'd move it but drop the attitude.
Ffs why do people so often misuse the term when at worse I was just being assertive?"
you should have charged him lol  |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times "
Same on my road. White vans parked right up to the junction, blocking 90% of the pavement too so anyone trying to get past has to walk in the road.
If there's a fire I hope the fire engines can just smash the cunts out of the way. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times
Same on my road. White vans parked right up to the junction, blocking 90% of the pavement too so anyone trying to get past has to walk in the road.
If there's a fire I hope the fire engines can just smash the cunts out of the way. "
When we started to come out of lockdown and more people than ever took up hiking all the carparks filled up by 6am so people thought it was ok to park on narrow country lanes.
There was a massive media campaign to stop them with shuttle buses put on to all the local towns, no parking signs and police cones. Some farmers opened their fields and charged as little as £3 for the whole day.
It didn't stop the idiots from parking illegally and when a farmer drove his tractor and trailer down one road and wiped out dozens of cars he was never prosecuted because they shouldn't have been there. |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times
Same on my road. White vans parked right up to the junction, blocking 90% of the pavement too so anyone trying to get past has to walk in the road.
If there's a fire I hope the fire engines can just smash the cunts out of the way. "
I’ve actually gotten about 8 moved this year due to them being untaxed I’m a prick |
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times
Same on my road. White vans parked right up to the junction, blocking 90% of the pavement too so anyone trying to get past has to walk in the road.
If there's a fire I hope the fire engines can just smash the cunts out of the way.
When we started to come out of lockdown and more people than ever took up hiking all the carparks filled up by 6am so people thought it was ok to park on narrow country lanes.
There was a massive media campaign to stop them with shuttle buses put on to all the local towns, no parking signs and police cones. Some farmers opened their fields and charged as little as £3 for the whole day.
It didn't stop the idiots from parking illegally and when a farmer drove his tractor and trailer down one road and wiped out dozens of cars he was never prosecuted because they shouldn't have been there. "
Ha! Wish I'd seen that.
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"I would love that to happen to me, I’d block them in and make them give me cash before moving it
I often leave notes on car parked outside my house because my daughter uses the drive and so I need that space. If it’s there more than a couple hours I write “please dump your trash outside your own house” and stick it on with loads of Duct tape
Do you have any rights over the part of the road where they park?
The other issue in my area is people parking right up to the junctions, unfortunately I’m aware I’ve no right in telling them to shift their motor even if the Highway Code does state people should not park within 35feet of a junction.
My issue with that is the poor vision and accident potential it creates.... I see it less as disregarding the highway code and more as the growing number of cars and lack of space.
I've never parked on double yellow....... not even to run to a post box. It 's not out of consideration tho
I feel the lads in there 20s still living at home with mum need to move out one of them has 3 vehicles
But yeah the visibility is the issue, my drive runs parallel to the main road so to join I’ve to basically do a u turn. Makes it very difficult to see what’s coming down the road into my junction. I’ve almost lost the nose of my car a few times
Same on my road. White vans parked right up to the junction, blocking 90% of the pavement too so anyone trying to get past has to walk in the road.
If there's a fire I hope the fire engines can just smash the cunts out of the way.
I’ve actually gotten about 8 moved this year due to them being untaxed I’m a prick "
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A friend of mine finished a nightshift and a random car was parked on his drive. He kicked the door in and searched all the wardrobes looking for his wife’s lover. Turns out it was just an inconsiderate prick from a few doors down |
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