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Original poster

I've just thrown a banana skin on a car parked over our drive.

58 replies

SilenceInTheLibrary · 21/02/2015 22:31

I really have. Dh says IABU. I'm just fed up with people parking over our drive. Polite notes, going in to the village pub to ask them them move, a polite sign on the wall does nothing. I'm just fed up.

OP posts:
Notrevealingmyidentity · 21/02/2015 22:32

Block them in ?

Original poster
SilenceInTheLibrary · 21/02/2015 22:33

Can't block them in. Would love to though. My car is the one blocked in. DH is on the road, but neighbours out - no third car...

OP posts:
duchesse · 21/02/2015 22:35

Get the DC to"accidentally" repeatedly cycle into it?

"Accidentally" reverse the car into it until it moves out the way?

Slightly start a small house fire, the firemen turn up and bump it out of the way for you?

juneybean · 21/02/2015 22:35

Sure if they've blocked you in you can get them towed

slightlyworriednc · 21/02/2015 22:35

YANBU

Discopanda · 21/02/2015 22:35

We live by a pub and by a school and it is so irritating and inconsiderate when people park over our drive and our neighbours' drives. Do you have a nappy-wearing child per chance? If so, throw a sh*tty nappy next time.

Linskibinski · 21/02/2015 22:36

How totally annoying! YANBU empty the bin on it next time. Grin

EdSheeran · 21/02/2015 22:38

Vaseline on the windscreen. Wink

duchesse · 21/02/2015 22:38

juney, unfortunately you can't do anything if some tit chooses to park on your drive.

OP, how about putting up a sign saying that people are welcome to park across your drive but that it will cost them a tenner for the evening? I think that;s actually legal.

Unfortunately vandalising or moving it isn't.

You can of course glue a sign to their windscreen. Using something really difficult to remove, but non-damaging.

Original poster
SilenceInTheLibrary · 21/02/2015 22:40

One time this happened we called the PCSO who covers our village - and we have a number to get them towed. But I'm thinking by the time the tow people get here, they'll have gone. Pub chucks out at 11 - they've been there since I put dc to bed.

It's just so bloody inconsiderate - it's perfectly obvious they're blocking a car in. I honestly don't mind the ones who are just picking up/dropping off and stay in the car, but this Hmm

I'm a NC'ing regular btw.

OP posts:
KingJoffreyObviouslyWatchesHol · 21/02/2015 22:41

Get it towed.

OttiliaVonBCup · 21/02/2015 22:42

Instal a bird feeder near drive.
Watch birds poo on cars.
Enjoy.

ICantDecideOnAUsername · 21/02/2015 22:44

Oo another parking thread. Grin

You know what the answer is. Penguin bollards!

Fairyfellowsmasterstroke · 21/02/2015 22:44

Treacle, feathers and bird seed - they won't do it again.

Fuckers Grin

TwatFaceBitch · 21/02/2015 22:50

Let the air out the tyres?

It Maybe illegal? but blocking you in your drive is.

CrapBag · 21/02/2015 22:51

We used to live by a school, chippy, pub, cash point, and a couple of shops. The amount that of people who 'just stopped over our drive for a few minutes' was unbelievably infuriating. I actually had a hospital appointment once and was running around trying get to find which arsehole had blocked me in.

Another time it was a BMW and school time. I tried nudging into it to set the alarm off. Didn't work but the mouthy cow was across the road and saw me. She shouted something and I told her she was blocking my drive. She actually told me she phoned the council and asked them if she could park there. I just told her it wasn't council property anyway and stomped off upstairs (flat). I then heard her standing outside telling others about her asking the council. FFS. She didn't park there again though but every other fucker still did.

Original poster
SilenceInTheLibrary · 21/02/2015 22:55

Added a handful of apple peelings shortly after. At MN's (implied) approval.

OP posts:
OttiliaVonBCup · 21/02/2015 22:59

Birds love picking crumbs on parked car bonnets.

Just an observation I've made, nothing much to do with this thread.

Original poster
SilenceInTheLibrary · 21/02/2015 23:03

I'm way too law fearing abiding to do a let down tyres thing - much as I fantasise about it.

OP posts:
BeatriceBumble · 21/02/2015 23:09

I would stick a banana up the exhaust.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 21/02/2015 23:12

Wait till they come back and give them a mouthful.

zipzap · 21/02/2015 23:13

I'd call the tow people as soon as they got there particularly if you think they have gone to the pub.

I'd also have a poster up that says that anything parked illegally on your drive will be towed and the number of the tow company that you get to tow them so they can't say they're not forewarned...

Apparently if you can't find any sellotape to stick a note to the windscreen with, a hefty dollop of vaseline makes a good alternative to ensure the note stays on the car but is a bugger to get off afterwards. just saying.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 21/02/2015 23:17

Get it towed

EdSheeran · 21/02/2015 23:19

I thought of another one; Condom on the exhaust!

RonnieRat · 21/02/2015 23:30

Thick chalk markers (the type you use on blackboards) are good for this.

DP one wrote a rude message in mirror writing on the rear windscreen of a car parked partly across our drive so they could see it in their mirror when they finally went.

When someone parked partially across our elderly neighbour's drive (she has several carers come in to her each day) he did ring the police. They traced and phoned the twat who was visiting the people next door.

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