EXCLUSIVE Police launch probe after pensioner 'hurled abuse at nursery worker and smacked phone out of her hand' in vicious row over PARKING

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4 days ago

Police have launched an investigation after a video of a pensioner hurling abuse at a female nursery worker and hitting her phone several times in a ferocious row over parking has gone viral.
Hertfordshire Constabulary has said they received reports of an elderly man holding a screwdriver, and hitting the victim's phone as she held it, but the tool can't be seen in the clip.
The woman, who says she is 21, filmed the enraged pensioner as he lashed out at her for parking outside the Silver Birch Court residential home as he pointed to the 'two notices' before adding: 'You've driven past both of 'em!'
Explaining how she had been working at the nearby nursery in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the woman said there were 'loads of places' to park in the space - sparking the row to descend into vitriol.
'I don't give a f***! You're illegally parked, there are two notices there that tell you not to park, it's private property and you've been here all day,' he shouted.
When the nursery worker retorted claiming she had been in the space for around four hours, bringing out her timesheet, the pensioner taunted her shouting 'yap, yap, yap, yap, yap' as he gestures with his hand.
'I would have apologised if you would have asked nicely,' the woman exclaimed, while the elderly man yelled while hitting her phone three times, 'You keep f****** shouting at me you slapper, go on!'
The woman goes on: 'If you had come to me and said, "Listen darling you can't park there." I would've apologised to you. You came at me guns blazing, I'm a 21-year-old girl now get out my face and f*** off.'
After she pleads with the man to get away from her, saying she was 'scared', the pensioner sarcastically responded, while placing his hands in a prayer-like motion: 'Oh dear, please forgive me.'
As the nursery worker attempted to drive away from the confrontation, the man blocks her from shutting the door.
She said: 'Get out my car, can you move. I'm trying to shut my f****** door mate, can you move? Move so I can shut my door, you are scaring me. Please can you move!
'You've made your point now f***off home!'
After he protested how he wasn't in her car, he added: 'Why don't you apologise for your language.'
'Absolutely f*****g not,' she said, while he retorted: 'Then you're f***** stay here all day! And I'll get the fellas when they come in and they will block you in.'
Following the distributing encounter last week, residents have since controversially defended the man's behaviour urging others to not park in the area.
Speaking on Monday at the Silver Birch Court retirement complex on Friends Avenue, one woman told MailOnline: 'She was laughing and goading him. She's not a kid.
'If you go to work in a car you need to be responsible where you park it.
'People are paying £350 a month service charges and people think they can just park here?'
'He didn't need to be aggressive. The language was not very nice,' one resident added.
'There aren't enough places for the people that live here. All the carers have to park.'
A local said they were appalled by what they saw, simply branding the pensioner 'vile', while one quipped: 'If that was one of my girls he would need an ambulance.'
'I bet he would act differently if a man was there,' a fourth shared, as another chimed in: 'I understand it both sides, she shouldn't have parked there but he shouldn't have been so rude, as she said if he had been more polite it would have been different.'
Hertfordshire Constabulary told MailOnline: 'Police are investigating an incident which happened in Friends Avenue, Cheshunt, at around midday on Tuesday 2 July.
'It was reported that a man shouted aggressively at a woman in a dispute over parking.
'It was reported that he was holding a screwdriver and that he hit the victim's phone that she was holding.
'The incident is being treated as a common assault and enquiries are underway.'
Any witnesses or persons with information in relation to the incident have been urged to contact 101 quoting crime reference 41/62415/25.
Individuals can also report information to an operator in our Force Communications Room via their online web chat at herts.police.uk/contact.
Alternatively, those who wish to remain anonymous can do so by contacting the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.