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Chip shop owner scrawls ‘do not park here’ on car as row boils over

A massive row erupted between the owner of a chip shop and her neighbour after the businesswoman wrote multiple times “Do not park here” with a black pen on the other person’s car.

Sharon Myers, 53, was left “horrified” after she noticed on July 19 the sentence had been handwritten across the windscreen, driver’s door, bonnet and window of her red Suzuki Swift.

The car had been parked outside HK Fish Bar in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, located opposite her flat.

Ms Myers didn’t take long to understand who had left the unwelcomed graffiti, as she noticed from CCTV footage the owner of the fish and chips shop writing on her car after having seemingly left a similar message on another vehicle.

Ms Myers, who didn’t immediately rub off the writing so that she could take pictures, one of which she shared online, and report the incident to the police, claimed the businesswoman, 32-year-old Harleen Sohal, had taken “the law into her own hands” and to have gone “on a bit of a rage”.

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The 53-year-old claimed, as reported by the MailOnline: “I checked the CCTV and she did someone else’s and walked straight over to mine. She seemed to go on a rampage. She has clearly been caught no matter what.”

The woman, Ms Myers added, “doesn’t have the right whether it’s a private car park or not”.

While Ms Myers, a mother of five, acknowledged she “started shouting” at the fish shop owner after finding out who was behind the writing, Ms Sohal admitted to having left the graffiti on the car.

However, she explained her actions by saying she is at her “wit’s end” with Ms Myers, and claimed to have previously asked the woman several times not to park outside of her shop.

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A sign next to the space reads: “Private cark park. No public right of way. All vehicles parked at their user’s risk”.

Ms Sohal claimed: “She’s aware it’s my space, which she’s denying. I’ve got the lease. She doesn’t even live here. She lives across the road.

“I did write on the car. I’m not denying it. You can wipe it off, simple. I didn’t scratch it or touch her car. She’s just made a big issue.

“If she’s going to park on my land next to a sign saying park at your own risk, why is she causing an issue? I don’t know what to do. I’m at my wit’s end.”

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The 32-year-old said to be “helpless” and to have been forced to park on double yellow lines due to other people’s use of her private parking spot.

The businesswoman claimed to have previously told Ms Myers verbally and through a piece of paper left on the car not to park in the space.

Ms Myers, who denies seeing the previous note on her car, was also accused by Ms Sohal of leaving a note on the businesswoman’s car reading “Stay away from my car you wet wipe”.

The chip shop owner added: “She’s creating drama on social media and ruining my business’s reputation and it’s not fair.”

Ms Myers claimed to now be “nervous” to leave her car in the area and to feel “uncomfortable” at knowing Ms Sohal works near her house every day.

A Humberside Police spokesperson said: “Officers are investigating reports of criminal damage after a car is believed to have been graffitied over on Gilliat Street, Scunthorpe yesterday (Wednesday 19 July).

“We’re conducting lines of enquiry to establish the circumstances and would appeal to anyone who may have witnessed the incident, has CCTV or dashcam footage from around the time the incident occurred, to contact us on our non-emergency number 101 quoting crime reference 23*102822.”

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