I’m still waiting for pmayes to tell us whether the parking space is common property (perhaps with exclusive use rights) or lot property.
And perhaps what vehicle it is.
There’s a big difference between food rotting in the refrigerator and say a 1970’s Ford Falcon GTHO worth over $100K and well worth covering with a tarpaulin.
Boronia is correct – the police cannot tell you the owner from the rego number (if there’s still a sticker on the window) or the VIN or the engine number. Privacy, you know.
And what does dragging the vehicle on to CP achieve? Just displaces the problem.
One element of democracy is that whatever “rights” you claim for yourself (such as the “right” to dump some unwanted object from your property onto someone else’s), those “rights” are granted to everyone. You couldn’t complain if the vehicle was dragged right back where it was observed to come from.
As the vehicle is more likely to belong to a resident than an owner (50% of residents are tenants), it would be more effective to put a notice in letterboxes or under doors than to write to owners, who may live say 100km away from their investment property. And the complainant can do that without EC/SM involvement.
I’m also sick of volunteer ECs being disparaged. Sure there are some cowboys out there, but the majority are doing a a reasonably good job of meeting their responsibilities under the Act, plus helping their neighbours (not a responsibility under the Act) for completely unselfish reasons. The selfish people are actually the owners who never volunteer for the EC, never attend meetings, and expect someone else to handle all the dramas.
Now I would like the pro-draggers to imagine they’re actually on an EC and suggest a solution for when the vehicle is dragged on to common property.