A neighbour parking one

[somethingwickedlivesnextdoor]

Heard some shouting outside earlier and went to look. Our next door neighbour was arguing with a woman. He had parked his car over his drive, blocking the road (as there was a car parked opposite him). The woman had come back to her car, which was parked next to the one opposite his drive, and was blocked in. NDN was refusing to move his car to let her out. There were no double yellow lines, no parking restrictions at all. He was just angry that she had parked there.

This NDN is not a nice man. We don't speak. WWYHD??

Can you report the cars blocking the road?

Where is the diagram OP?😁

I can't really picture this. I think you need to do a diagram?

He blocked the road? He's a total twat.

And caused trouble for loads of people, I suspect.

Bit confusing to picture it, but your neighbour had double parked just to block the rest of the road, and a different neighbour couldn't get out? If he was refusing to move, what about the other parked neighbour?

Oh, so he'd specifically blocked the woman in? If there's no parking restrictions and she wasn't on his drive, what's the issue? He sounds deranged if it wasn't even affecting him in the first place

Can we have a diagram pretty please x

Ooo diagram please 🤩

You know the rules, diagram or it didn't happen

Yep. Doesn't make sense

Take a photo and inform the police. Would be what I would do, if the woman hadn’t already done so. Caveat: I am assuming I’ve understood the op correctly.

Didn't happen if there's no diagram.

Ok, here's a diagram:

Normal road, cul de sac so no other way out. No yellow lines.

Oh, well he's obviously insane

Call the police. You have to leave space for 2.6m wide fire engine to get through or they remove the car and bill you for it.

Yes, he's insane. But what to do? I went out and asked him to move as I wanted out, so that the other woman could get out. He grudgingly moved. The other woman was very grateful.

But dh didn't want me to get involved in case NDN retaliated.

Was it the car opposite his he took umbrage at op? Because she had the temerity to park opposite his drive? I'm assuming had he been on his drive and wanted out the road is wide enough that she'd not have been blocking him from doing so? In which case he is a twunt

It was, but the driver he blocked in was driving the car behind that one.

There is plenty of room for him to get out of his drive, even with someone parked opposite.

Was the woman trying to leave friends with a resident or had she parked there and he took it upon himself to block her on because he thinks she's 'not allowed' to park if she doesn't live on the street

I have constant disagreements with neighbours on our street about parking. We have a car park that can take one car per house, but not everybody puts the car into the car park, you need a permit, which is about £50 a year. Otherwise it's parking on the street, which can be difficult to find any evenings but you can park easily if you're prepared to walk 200 metres. My friends on the street all seem to think that it's outrageous that people might park here and walk into town, or whilst they're at the hairdressers on the corner. My view is that if they want guaranteed parking, they should've bought a house with parking! My friends are mostly otherwise reasonable people, but they just don't seem to get that they don't have any rights over the street. I find it strange how parking seems to turn otherwise normal people irrational!

Well done for helping! I'm not sort what else you could have done really.

She had just parked there for 1.5 hours to play sports in the park which is next door, as the park car park was full. She was doing no harm and blocking nothing.

I understand your frustration but pick your battles.
why didn’t you keep out of it? Really it wasn’t anything to do with you.

Looking at the diagram, I think it did involve the OP in the sense that if an ambulance or fire engine needed to get down the road, or she needed to get out, the man was blocking the road.

I would have done exactly what you did, made an excuse to get the neighbour to move for me and thus rescuing the lady from I guess having to stay trapped in your cul de sac for the rest of her life? Honestly what was this nutjob expecting to happen? What a lunatic.
I understand your husband’s point, but maybe standing up for someone in an unacceptable situation means taking the risk of an undeniable ass-hat being annoyed with you too. Although he would be hard pushed in this case as I think you did a grand job of innocently needing him to move his car for you.