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AIBU?

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Original poster

to think the police can't give tickets if they weren't there!

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iwantanoompaloompa · 01/05/2012 18:49

Now, I accept I'm probably in for a flaming, and I'm sure it must be very annoying however.

DD goes to rainbows on a Tuesday (she has only been going a few weeks). It is in at the end of a cul de sac and parking is a nightmare. However, I literally have to go in, pick her up and then shoot out again. When I drop her off I don't get out of the car.

When I got back to the car tonight a resident was taking a photo of my car and said he had called the police. I was blocking his drive. He said that they police would issue me with a ticket.

Now I know I am in the wrong, and I shouldn't have done it, but it was only a few minutes. I realise it must be very annoying if you live there but I do think that telling a 5 year old that the police will be visiting Mummy is out of order . She is now very worried.

Can the police issue tickets on a neighbour's say so? I've never parked there before!

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Kayano · 01/05/2012 20:07

He didn't tell a five year old anything

He told you

And he was wrong anyway. Don't do it again!

BackforGood · 01/05/2012 20:36

I get this all the time. I live by a Dr's. It has a car park that is rarely full, and it's a long road without parking restrictions. You'd be STUNNED by the number of selfish *s who park over my drive (either blocking me in or out) and when I go to drag them out of the surgery, they ALL ALWAYS say "I was only going to be a minute"
That really doesn't help me if I'm then going to be late for picking one of my dc up, or if I'm parked across the middle of a (pretty busy) road, unable to get onto my driveway, does it ?
Just park further away and wear a coat!

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iwantanoompaloompa · 01/05/2012 20:38

No, he told my 5 year old. Dd asked me what he said and he said to her 'I'm calling the police on Mummy'

I realise he's annoyed but I didn't think there was any need.

I know I was in the wrong, I apologised to him.

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ABatInBunkFive · 01/05/2012 20:41

There was no need for you to park over his drive either.

BackforGood · 01/05/2012 20:43

See my post above though - you seem to be thinking it was just you, and it was just a couple of minutes - IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME and your patience wears thin.
Even before I lived here, it would never have occurred to me to park over someone's drive!

Noqontrol · 01/05/2012 20:45

I doubt the police would do anything. I used to live next to a dentist and I was constantly being blocked in. It was so annoying and made me late for work a few times as well. But the police didn't do anything about it.

nolongeramug · 01/05/2012 20:58

The police can only issue a ticket at the time, after the offence they would have to report you for summons.
You won't get a ticket now. I agree with many other posters, the resident obviously gets this all the time and is cheesed off.
You wouldn't believe how much time is spent by local community police teams on issues like this...

Coconutty · 02/05/2012 08:17

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limitedperiodonly · 02/05/2012 08:29

Doubt if you'll get a ticket but he and everyone else could send all the photos to the council to get parking restrictions imposed. Then you will get a ticket.

Or maybe the council will take away the club's licence because its patrons are a nuisance. That'll be great wouldn't it?

Just walk and stop pissing off the poor sods who live there.

valiumredhead · 02/05/2012 08:32

If you'd have parked over my drive I would've keyed your car - you wouldn't do it again

LAlady · 02/05/2012 08:41

Don't be so inconsiderate next time. You are blocking someone's drive. I know this makes me very cross even when I don't need to go out of my drive!

Lizcat · 02/05/2012 09:12

You may get a visit from a PCSO to remind you why this is inconsiderate. I live on a main road near a corner shop and many many lorries park over my drive to just pop to the shop. The problem is I work in a clinical setting on call and on occasions when I have to leave I have to leave then. If I am blocked in I take a photo and take it to my local police station and then they call round to remind the lorry driver they are commiting an offence. I have to say on occasions it is the police who are on the motorway waiting for me so it is affecting police time which maybe why I get so much help.

Softlysoftly · 02/05/2012 09:16

The police sometimes do react. BIL parked his car over someone's drive as he "nipped" to the bank, poor guy was late for the airport, I was at MIL's house when the police turned up trying to track down the registered owner. No ticket but very very embarrassing at 30 to have the police turn up at your mums and you get proper rollicked by daddy for the "SHAME ON OUR FAMILY"

He probably shouldn't have said it to your 5 year old but "end of tether" springs to mind, and anyway you will be causing issues for the owner of the club who no doubt deals with all the fallout from inconsiderate parents.

SkinnyMarinkADink · 02/05/2012 09:27

I am sick to the back teeth of people parking over my drive, or parked oddly so its nigh on impossible to get my huuuge car off my drive.

If I caught you I would give you a mouthful. My drive, my access DON'T OBSTRUCT IT whatever the reason.

So what it was raining, wear a rain jacket and use an umbrella.

DeWe · 02/05/2012 11:24

When setting off to A&E with ds one time I had to knock on all the neighbour's doors to find the selfish person who had parked over the drive so I could get out. "I was only going to be a minute" is no excuse.

A&E said if I'd taken the registration down they would have reported them to the police who would have taken it seriously.

From the number of cars parked over our drive you'd think there was a notice saying "please park here".

mayorquimby · 02/05/2012 13:07

"I realise it must be very annoying if you live there but I do think that telling a 5 year old that the police will be visiting Mummy is out of order . She is now very worried."

hopefully make you think twice next time you decide to act as though you're the only person in the world. Only one person in this story was out of order and it wasn't him.

Shutupanddrive · 02/05/2012 13:17

Yabu
You were in the wrong not him

thestringcheesemassacre · 02/05/2012 13:28

The rain excuse doesn't wash.
As you've been told don't park over drives.

It's fucking infuriating.

ClaireDeTamble · 02/05/2012 13:29

Agree with DressDownFriday You won't get a ticket but if enough of the people who live in the cul-de-sac complain then they will probably send the police or PCSO's round on club nights to talk to people parking inconsiderately.

They did this down the street where my daughters school is at pick-up time. They also sent traffic wardens. Anyone parking illegally got a parking ticket, anyone parking inconsiderately got a police lecture!

ripsishere · 02/05/2012 13:35

Make it into a game with your DC. If you see a PC/SO hide.
And don't park in front of peoples drives. My admittedly peculiar friend once battered his way off his drive. It was in his gas board van.

CrispyCod · 02/05/2012 13:37

I'm sure it's not illegal to park outside a drive as long as you're not blocking anyone in. I think I saw in the Highway Code that they frown on doing it but it's not illegal.

I can understand the resident taking the hump though, I know I would.

valiumredhead · 02/05/2012 13:40

You can't park where there is a dropped kerb - the kerb would be dropped if it was a drive.

MrsHoarder · 02/05/2012 13:43

Does it matter whether or not the police can issue a ticket? If they never show up then you can be glad that you got the warning that their attention was to be drawn to the issue without a fine. If they do, then as you know you were in the wrong you have to grit your teeth and pay it.

As for your DD: maybe its best she learns about consequences for ignoring the law and other people's needs. If that means she worries for a short while about the police coming to see you, then its harder than if you'd told her this whilst she moaned about walking in the rain, but fair.

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