Got home to find someone in my parking space

[ReacherSaidNothing]

Popped out to the library earlier and came back to find a random car in my space. It's not a proper driveway but it's the end of the lane down the side of my house, my detached garage is next to the house at the end of the lane.

We have houses that back onto the lane (adjacent to our building) and I'm sure it's one of these houses that the owner of the car has gone into, their visitors have parked there a couple of times before.

I've just parked up their arse and gone into the house, waiting on the bell ringing. Was reluctant to do this as our neighbours have right of way over the lane for their pwn vehicles but it's a visitor to their house, so fuck it.

Jesus wept. Why don’t people read the bloody thread.

No, the space is hers; where she has parked, 'up their are' is the right of way.

'arse'!

This was a joke

The fact that some has right of way doesn't make it any less OP's land.

Could you paint a white line along the road from the far edge of your garage parallel to the pavement stopping level with your front garden so people can see it is a parking space and not part of the lane.

Why would you assume OP is being entitled if you don't know whether she owns the space?

To say nothing of the fact that, if you had read her posts, you would be aware that she does.

If someone parks their car so as to prevent you from getting out of your drive onto the highway, I believe that's a criminal offence. Call the police next time.

(They probably won't do anything but you never know...)

Preventing you from getting back into your drive is not an offence. It's preventing access to the highway that's a criminal issue

It's not a frequent thing, it's usually when there's a funeral at the church on my street, but that is good to know, thank you

Not wishing to derail, but people parking cars are becoming stranger. Today, in a public car park, someone had parked with their rear side door wide open. Three weeks ago, I had to tell someone on a restaurant that they had left one of their rear doors open and six months ago, the same thing in a supermarket car park.
Before this year, I hadn't seen a similar situation for 30 years.
Do people now remove their brains when parking? My sympathy to the OP, but it seems folks abandoning vehicles is 2024's new fashion.

That's not what that expression means.

@raspberryspider

Yes, it does. That poster you’ve quoted was making a joke about something someone else said. She replied to a poster saying who said thanks for putting me in my place, and she made a joke about “are you sure it’s your place.”

The OP misunderstood (got the wrong end of the stick) and replied as if the comment was aimed at her. It wasn’t.

Oh, missed that!

Yes, all a bit too dramatic for me.
I would assume the car has been abandoned on my land and start stripping it for parts immediately and listing them on eBay.
That way the original owner can buy them back if they wish to reassemble their car when they want to go home and I could make a profit to at least have a sign produced or, if it the sales do particularly well, perhaos even a new garage.

Note: I'm not sure of the legalities of this.

According to the diagram someone has parked right in front of your garage.

No one with any ounce of sense thinks that public car parking.

And no one with any morals parks in front of someone's garage thinking they don't need to access it - let alone park there.

Even worse if that's the case...the guy who owns the other garage seems like a nice guy so I hope he put his visitor right about not parking there, as he would know the score

This is genius.

I wouldn’t except to park in front of someone’s garage, whatever else is true.

Are you blocked in or prevented from parking on your driveway? If not, who cares if they’re nice people and they need an extra space for a guest or whatever or park there themselves occasionally what’s the big deal? My neighbours (and randoms) park in front of my house all the time but I don’t care cos I can still get in/out my driveway. As I say to my toddler often “is this really the end of the world?” No. Is it really something to be posting on mumsnet about? No. If you have nothing more important to do with your “mumsnet” time why don’t you reply to threads that may offer people advice on real problems? And yes I only read the first few messages cos I ain’t going to read 7 pages of this so if I’ve got it wrong then apologies. But in general I just wish people were a little bit kinder to others and let the small stuff go. I had a farmer scream at me the other day in front of my child calling me calling me an ignorant idiot for parking on a gravelly/grassy patch of land about 3 fields from a farmhouse. To take her swimming at a beautiful public lake nearby. It was the only way of getting there. I’m a single mum stuck in the city with little money. The countryside should be shared (as long as you’re not impacting anyone else) there was no no parking sign, no private road sign, nothing. I know I’ve gone off topic but I’m so sick of this what’s mine is mine attitude (unless they’re rude and disrespectful of course then by all means exercise your rights). But I just think if people were a little kinder to each other the world would be a much better place

And reading the last few comments if someone has parked at the bottom of your driveway and garage therefore not allowing you access this is of course not ok. And rude and disrespectful so if this is the case go speak to them. Hopefully they’re reasonable

Well done I’d have done the same

If and when you get a place with a garden will you be happy for total strangers, who maybe don't have a garden, bringing their picnics, children, dogs etc, to use your garden?

OK but once the truck got there and didn't need to tow anyone, what did they charge you for calling them out?

And when you fall and break your leg on my land, I suppose the claim you'll make on my insurance I should just be kind and sick it up right? Stay off private land you silly twat.

To everyone else on here, not the OP,
A Right of way, gives the other person access but no legal rights to use the land/path, so they can walk or drive over to reach the other property but shouldn't park or put anything on it without the permission of the owner of the property that the land belongs to.