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AIBU?

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to expect my neighbours not to park across my driveway?

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coldwater · 15/05/2013 08:43

We have our car parked on our drive, it has a drop curb too. Our neighbours have FOUR cars and a commercial work van, they can only fit two cars on their drive so park the other three vehicles on the road, usually with one parked right across my drive. It annoys the hell out of me, its not like they can't see we have a car and its not like i haven't asked them before not to do it.

We don't have a very good past with these neighbours, them doing DIY until 11pm (drilling etc) and waking my kids up, dog being left out for hours in the snow yelping (which i reported), her teenage children trespassing into my back garden and breaking the trellis i put up to stop them doing it and many more things. I had a row with the mum over the DIY, i asked her to stop and she got stroppy saying she could do what she wanted. I have never mentioned the fact i have caught her kids in my garden though.

Anyway, this morning i woke to one of their cars being parked across my drive, i went mad and said i was going round there, dp said just leave it, i am over-reacting. Am i? I now can't use the car today because the man who owns it has gone to work and surprise surprise has the key with him. So annoyed, selfish idiots they are. So AIBU thinking they should use their brains and not park over someones drive and block them in?

Yes i know i could park on the road, never any space thanks to these that think they own the road and i don't want to because of the teens that hang around outside all night getting up to no good.

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IrritatingInfinity · 15/05/2013 15:28

OP

Please don't forget about us over the next few weeks, we really need to know whether the neighbours have been scared off for good.

coldwater · 15/05/2013 15:30

I am sure there will be many tales to share! lol Them annoying me and me getting wound up has been going on since 2009.

Just last weekend i caught their drunk teenager running through my back garden (had come through my unlocked side gate) at 7am to climb over the fence, only in his massive rush to not get caught he fell up the garden steps. I stood in my kitchen roaring with laughter. That will teach him to do it again!

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TalcAndTurnips · 15/05/2013 15:31

Pick 'n' Mix, hot dogs, exorbitantly-priced post mix soft drinks and cardboard triangles slathered in red stuff. Oh, nachos - sorry.

TheCraicDealer · 15/05/2013 15:31

I hope this is the end of it, but something tells me this won't end here. These things tend to escalate quite quickly..... Try not to smirk and be smug, much as you're tempted. They'll sit and plot how to get back at you and it could all get very unpleasant very quickly.

Footface · 15/05/2013 15:35

Am I getting this right, your neighbour blocked your car in, then went to work? Seriously!

LemonBreeland · 15/05/2013 15:38

Hopefully it will make them think twice about doing that again.

orangepudding · 15/05/2013 15:50

Hope it taught them a lesson!

Could you set a sprinkler system in your garden to switch on when the teenagers walk across it?

PeterParkerSays · 15/05/2013 15:52

Is putting up a sign in your front window "cars may be towed if they are parked blocking this drive" a little too much? Grin Grin

Practice your big grin and cheery wave OP.

DeskPlanner · 15/05/2013 16:06

Brilliant. Well done op. Please come back and let us know any more developments.

SquinkiesRule · 15/05/2013 16:11

LOL well done OP. Can't wait for the next installment. Who's got the popcorn?

Tiredmumno1 · 15/05/2013 16:17
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PeterParkerSays · 15/05/2013 16:28

No popcorn but I can have a bash and it would be at playing the piano during the exciting bits Grin

Aren't we lucky it stays light so late into the evening so the action of their "D"H getting home won't be hidden from us by the cloak of darkness?

marjproops · 15/05/2013 16:51

yep, by the sounds of them theyll be plotting revenge, even though you were completely in the right to call 101.

listen out for all night barking dog, loud music, diy...and thats just tonight. they sound like right nobs.

and if they own 4 cars they can afford to move to the middle of nowhere.

watch out for scratches/paint/dog mess/graffiti on your car/property now OP, sorry but this just may happen, and the f get away with it.

youarewinning · 15/05/2013 17:00

Ha ha ha ha - brilliant Grin

Well done you!!

I just love it when adults strop - you would have thought by now they have learnt they can't always have their own way/ just do as they please. Hmm

marjproops · 15/05/2013 17:03

the poster who suggested sprinklers in the garden was a good idea! thatd stop them. and cant you get them for trespassing for that?

CerealMom · 15/05/2013 17:33

www.martleyelectronics.co.uk/badger-control/484-spray-away-water-jet-pest-repeller.html#

Automatic garden water spray anyone?

LeaveTheBarSteward · 15/05/2013 20:12

Will they have to pay to get it back? I'm so proud of you op, keep up the good work.

SugarPasteGreyhound · 15/05/2013 20:21

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WandaDoff · 15/05/2013 21:00

Do you mean that the neighbour came back in the car?

maddening · 15/05/2013 21:31

wow well done op! Now you have to keep it up as I bet there will be more occurrences - these people are bullies and you have challenged their assumed authority !

toffeelolly · 15/05/2013 22:00

You did well today girlWink

coldwater · 16/05/2013 05:26

oops my post was reported, i wonder if my neighbour found it and realised it was about them. lol Or someone has way too much time on their hands. Hmm

Yeah the mother came back in the car.

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TerrysNo2 · 16/05/2013 07:37

why was it reported Confused

CSIJanner · 16/05/2013 07:39

Well if one one from the family has reported it, at least they now know the teens trespass. Silver lining and all of that

coldwater · 16/05/2013 07:56

It was reported because of a word i wrote in the original post, began with an 'M'. Can't write it down because i'll get told off again. lol

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