To block the fucker in?

[MrsKeithRichards]

And breathe...

Picture the scene... terraced housing in blocks of 4, so 8 houses on one side, 4 on the other. We're on the side with 8 houses. Between the 12 houses there are 8 cars which park on the street, no bays just on the road plenty of room for all of us, occasionally you need to go a teeny bit further up the road but never an issue. Git opposite has, in his own words, lived here for 40 fucking years. This for some reasons makes him think the space at his gate is his. It isn't. It's on the road parking, anyone from anywhere can park there. We've been here for 6 years and witnessed his antics. He'll waste 3 car lengths of space just to get parked at his gate. He'll park as close as possible to anyone on "his" space.

He had a huge go at our new neighbours over it, we were on holiday at the time and one of our cars was in his space. Last night he went out, leaving his space vacant, dh popped out and on return parked in "his" space. Half an hour later the git returned and sat honking the horn a few times before wheel spinning off to park 10 metres up the road.

So this morning dh car is still there, the gits 2 spaces up, the car next to dh left so git has moved his car next to dhs car. he is, without a word of a lie, 6 inches of his bumper. the fool can barely park as it is. right now there's a full space behind git so he could reverse out when he wants. I'm in front of dh so he has enough room to get out.

Wibu to park behind the git, close but not stupidly close, to block him in?

I can kind of sympathise with him wanting to park outside his own gate. Does he just have one car?

Expat. This works five until its also the space closest to someone else and he acts aggressively.

If he wants his own parking space gee should get a house with a drive.

y expat, I want to park outside my gate, I have been known to cheer when this is possible on a Friday night But I don't sit in the road tooting and shaking my fist at people who dare to park outside of my house.

Also, if you let the man who thinks that time lived in a place (ie...40 years) makes him above the law, then letting him use Kev as a threat will only make him feel even more like the king of the hill.

Yeah we'd all like to park at our gate!

I reckon when he next takes his car out park so the space outside the gate is too small to park in - yours on one side and dh on the other just too little space directly outside his gate :) but enough that it'll piss him off even more.

We live on a footpath with a small car park at the end with 7 spaces. There are five houses in a row with a total of 8 cars, one of which is parked in the side garden of the end house - so that's 7 cars and 7 spaces. Until now, one house has not parked a car in the car park but the house has now been sold and the new couple will probably have two cars. That's five houses and 10 cars to go into 7 spaces.

I did meet one of the new owners in the car park the other day and he asked if he were in my space (he was). I said that the spaces do not belong to anyone but we do have our favourite spots. As an example, I pointed out a corner where two cars from one house park with one behind the other. He cottoned on immediately and suggested that it was an unspoken agreement.

Of course, if visitors, utility vans, delivery men etc park there, we park where we can but it's really of no consequence when you think about it. If there's no room, anyone from the remaining 4 houses will park in the road.

If I were the OP's neighbour-across-the-road and had a disabled person with me, I would like to park outside my house. Or if I had a hundredweight of shopping or a dozen babies/toddlers. Does the neighbour-across-the-road have something to be taken into consideration?

Well, yes, he's clearly pretty OTT about the need to park outside his own gate, but honestly I'd just let him get on with it. Is it worth all this aggro?

do you know anyone going away? Get them to come over, park somewhere else nearby giving you the keys, give them a lift to the airport in your car. As soon as he drives away leaving "his" space free, put this car in it. leave there for the full holiday, he'll beep, be annoyed extra but as it's noone in the road's car, it would drive him insane over the course of a fortnight holiday...

Does the neighbour-across-the-road have something to be taken into consideration?

Does it matter? The only thing to take into consideration is the fact he's an aggressive twat who threatens people.

If he did have a 'valid' reason to take into consideration, then being civilised and politely asking the neighbours to respect that would probably be fine.

Instead he breaks the law and says Kev is going to come round and get them. Therefore voiding any such argument as completely irrelevant.

It's usually just him and his partner. It's my neighbour and I that can most often be seen juggling babies, shopping etc.

block the fucker in go for it

If I win the lottery OP I'll buy you a camper van.

WAs worried he'd maybe went into his house and had a heart attack but his lights are on so he's not dropped down dead.

He has clearly had it easy for too long.
Where I live people regularly use the street as a "park and ride" as is on outskirts of city. Your neighbour would have a fit.

Have has similar situation in our street...man opposite us and 2 down has lived here for long time, is in late 50's, has been refused permission for dropped curb by council. Used to knock on our door or stand outside shouting abuse if we parked in "his" spot...whilst I was in labour and ready to deliver, the midwife who came parked there and he was hammering in the door half an hour later when he got home, incensed that someone who' doesn't even live in the street is in my space' (midwife had sign on windscreen). I had at that point lumbered out, somewhat scantily clad and dishevelled to say the least, with frying pan in hand and we exchanged some meaningful dialogue...have never so much as heard a peep since, in spite of leaving our car there for 3 weeks while we went to France...result.

I live in a road where almost everyone parks on their drive, and there is usually only one car permanently on the road parked (even though he could get on his drive at the side of his other car) and a couple of other cars parked occasionally...so we have 100/150 metres of car free road.

So when a visitor comes and parks outside, next door but one will get his wifes car of his drive and block the car in bumper to bumper. People have had to ask him to move, the last time disturbing him eating his dinner ( a lot of the other times he eventually had to go out and move so there wasnt ever any confrontation).

I went out the last time and started taking photos that I know anotehr neighbour his cronny saw. For some reason he hasn't done it since and now smiles and says hello

kiwichan00

I LOVE IT kiwichan00!

The best ever way to put someone in their place. Never rile a woman in labour.

Oh my word kiwichan00I just laughed so hard I woke my snoozy nursing baby.

Frying pan?!? (Dries eyes)

Could you ask the highways to mark out spaces (paint bays) so that the stretch of road is used to maximum efficiency?

Explain it is causing accident and road rage, give them all police log numbers, speak to your local councillor, explain how this simple solution would improve all the residents lives,

If you got the other residents(the nice ones) to send in a letter of support (print out a template for easy participation), you could apply enough pressure to get it done.

Have you actually explained to him it's a public road, and he has no more rights than anyone else? He might be so dim, he may not realise.
Anyway yanbu. Keep us updated.

Why are people like this? Its mental.

My Mums neighbour and his wife had a huge pissy fit at DP for parking outside her house (my mum has NO vehicles) as for some reason loony neighbour parks outside her house... He now waits at his window if we visit and runs out as soon as we move our car.

Dp may have --more than once-- gone out got in the car drove two doors down to the corner, turned car and re-parked just to watch the stupid twat run out, fume, and sulk back in again.

We have a neighbour like this. All on-street parking. No allocated spaces. She insists on parking outside her house. If someone else even parks halfway across her house she will curtain twitch until that person is gone then move her car half a space forwards so she's aligned with the full width of her house again. Luckily she never confronts anyone or makes a scene. I just leave her to it and never bother parking in or even half in "her space". But it's funny to watch. Poor woman must have nothing better to do at home (she's not even old - late 40s? Kids in school).