My 17-year-old son has a 95 Mitsubishi FTO, so a sports car with a muffler. Anyway, he leaves for work at 5:30am and now that mornings are cooler, the car sound is louder than normal. We got a old biddy in the street that retired and loves to complain bout anything to anyone, as she got nothing else to do (she across the road from mine but to the right so not directly across from me).
Anyway, I wasn't home and she came over to my husband to say that my son is revving his car. My husband explain to her that he is not, it's just a loud car, especially in the morning, and he had to reverse out of driveway, and being tight street (new estate & the people across the road refuse to park in their driveway for some reason), he has to do a funny reverse to get the car out. It's a manual, so he has to keep the revs up, which makes it sound worst.
After that, he started reversing the car in the afternoon instead of in the morning, so he can drive out and won't be as loud.
Then we get a letter from the council. She made an official compliant, but does state on there that he is allowed to start his car to enter and leave the property if out of the allowed hours, which he is, so from the councils rules he is doing nothing wrong. I did go over and see her. I told her he is not revving the car (cause if he was, I would tell him off!) and in fact, it would ruined his engine as it would be too cold.
My son was with me and we explain this again. The car is loud and more so cause it colder in the morning. It's only a maximum of 3 mins and then he is gone. The car legal has passed rego, and he is doing nothing wrong. He is saving for a new car, which won't be as bad but it will still be a few months off, she said ok and we left.
So on Friday afternoon, he was reversing the car back in the driveway. It's on a slight hill and the car across the road still won't park car in driveway (old biddy went to see them as her neighbour, guess they said no lol). So the car was being loud as he was backing it back in. I heard voices but didn't take note as his little sister went outside when he came home.
He came in to say the lady across the road 3 houses up drove over and told him to stop revving his car. She works afternoons and needs sleep (mind you, she was leaving the house to go out!). He said "I am not revving the car, reversing it is not easy in this car". She carried on and he told her to F off. I told him not to do that next time, but he just finished work and she was being nasty.
My daughter said she was very rude and being nasty. I know the old biddy and her are close so they probably are in it together. According the council rules, he can revv he car at that time of the day (even though he wasn't),
So my question is, I am concern what can they pull, cause they are both not happy about it and I am worried they won't let it go. I want to know what our rights are, if they approach him again like this lady did. Can I contact the police and report it as harassment?
He is a minor (until July). What's more funny is that the old biddy and this lady share the same neighbour, who is always having party, domestics, and car revving, yet they targeting a child, who not is not revving his car and is going to work and coming home. And that lady has her son driving up and down the road in a unlicensed, unregistered motorbike with no helmet (keeping that one in my pocket).
Anyway just want to know legal side if this become larger issue, I hope it doesn't and they go away. Just want to cover ourselves in case they continue.
Thanks
Anyway, I wasn't home and she came over to my husband to say that my son is revving his car. My husband explain to her that he is not, it's just a loud car, especially in the morning, and he had to reverse out of driveway, and being tight street (new estate & the people across the road refuse to park in their driveway for some reason), he has to do a funny reverse to get the car out. It's a manual, so he has to keep the revs up, which makes it sound worst.
After that, he started reversing the car in the afternoon instead of in the morning, so he can drive out and won't be as loud.
Then we get a letter from the council. She made an official compliant, but does state on there that he is allowed to start his car to enter and leave the property if out of the allowed hours, which he is, so from the councils rules he is doing nothing wrong. I did go over and see her. I told her he is not revving the car (cause if he was, I would tell him off!) and in fact, it would ruined his engine as it would be too cold.
My son was with me and we explain this again. The car is loud and more so cause it colder in the morning. It's only a maximum of 3 mins and then he is gone. The car legal has passed rego, and he is doing nothing wrong. He is saving for a new car, which won't be as bad but it will still be a few months off, she said ok and we left.
So on Friday afternoon, he was reversing the car back in the driveway. It's on a slight hill and the car across the road still won't park car in driveway (old biddy went to see them as her neighbour, guess they said no lol). So the car was being loud as he was backing it back in. I heard voices but didn't take note as his little sister went outside when he came home.
He came in to say the lady across the road 3 houses up drove over and told him to stop revving his car. She works afternoons and needs sleep (mind you, she was leaving the house to go out!). He said "I am not revving the car, reversing it is not easy in this car". She carried on and he told her to F off. I told him not to do that next time, but he just finished work and she was being nasty.
My daughter said she was very rude and being nasty. I know the old biddy and her are close so they probably are in it together. According the council rules, he can revv he car at that time of the day (even though he wasn't),
So my question is, I am concern what can they pull, cause they are both not happy about it and I am worried they won't let it go. I want to know what our rights are, if they approach him again like this lady did. Can I contact the police and report it as harassment?
He is a minor (until July). What's more funny is that the old biddy and this lady share the same neighbour, who is always having party, domestics, and car revving, yet they targeting a child, who not is not revving his car and is going to work and coming home. And that lady has her son driving up and down the road in a unlicensed, unregistered motorbike with no helmet (keeping that one in my pocket).
Anyway just want to know legal side if this become larger issue, I hope it doesn't and they go away. Just want to cover ourselves in case they continue.
Thanks