And his problem was …? 
Insanity. The friend who I was visiting, living across/adjacent to this dope, told me that this was typical behaviour.
Possibly furious jealousy that someone owned. TVR V8S? The condition, not infrequent in city residential streets, that certain stretches of the public highway are exclusively the property of certain residents? Not that I was parked even on the same side of y street as his house… In a suburb of Bath I was once told that if I didn’t move my car from the patch of road outside his house, this chap was going to call the police. I didn’t. He did. The officer was most apologetic. “If he goes on like this we will have to ask the Council to set up ResPark” Urban madness.
The police officer pointed out what I already knew. That in GB there is no automatic right to park a vehicle on the public highway. It is, until formal arrangements decree otherwise in some respect, tolerated.
@captainendeavour: “Urban madness”
I’m sorry if my question seemed frivolous or unsympathetic, but I was curious to know what prompted such an outrage.
But, as you say, these things do happen and are, on the face of things, entirely (and apparently) unprovoked: a sudden ‘brainstorm’, often due to brain pathology.
No. Fair question. And, as I know from the mental pathology of a neighbour, there’s probably more of it about than we realise.
My neighbour refused to answer the door to anyone. Eventually, over a couple of years, I gained his confidence to the extent that he’d come next door to me and have tea, bix, chats.
But he refused to open the door to repeated attempts by a courier service to deliver a power tool he’d loaned to me which I returned from far.
I still have it, despite writing to him to open the door to the delivery
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There’s a instance on Twitter at the moment where someone has left a nasty note on an emergency ambulance windscreen for blocking driveways and not leaving the casualty when the offended person had sounded their horn for 10 minutes
@anon22869222: “someone has left a nasty note on an emergency ambulance windscreen”
IMO that should call for a Community Service Order and a £1000 fine to be deducted, if necessary, from income, but not to the detriment of dependent children.
Another community-based remedy that could be resurrected is the stocks, or maybe a town-centre cage through the grillage of which the miscreant could be ‘rebuked’ for his transgressions, posted on a nearby noticeboard. 
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There are people who live in a bubble of solipcism so pronounced that they can barely imagine there is a world beyond their own.
Others, like my neighbour, retreat after some trauma so overwhelming that the outside world is seen as entirely threatening.
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‘It’s all about me’
That about sums it up, but I worry about the state of education when people seem to be clueless about the role of an ambulance - or perhaps it is because they’d happily call one for some trivial reason and assume everyone else will do so as well.
Yes, the catch is that the tyre will be irreparable afterwards, which on an Aston might be a few $$$ (presumably Aston owners can afford the cost).
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Personally I would look at assault charges, or even attempted murder ( if the patient came to harm obviously). It would only need a couple of severe sentences and people would be inviting ambulances to park in front of their house
George Harrison, who was a character far more ‘spikey’ than his early ‘shy one’ mop-top image, wrote "I, Me, My, Mine’ and delivered it in acerbic tones to a driving hook.
Here’s a great example. An internet date told me that one of her failures was a guy who took the platter of antipasti just delivered, divided it all equally, cut a line down the large single piece of ham and announced, “This side is mine. That’s yours”
I appreciate this as an unusually perceptive and well-informed response to a challenging and by no means unusual situation.
Why is it (I ask rhetorically) that a response like this is never articulated in the mainstream media when an arbitrary act of aggression occurs for no obvious reason, and towards an apparantly unknown target?