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WWYD car parked on our drive

826 replies

Marsaday · 19/07/2016 21:48

Some complete asshat has left their car parked on our drive.

It has been there at least since my OH got home at 4.30, but could have been there all day.
Have phoned 101 and police say not reported stolen but they won't do anything as the car is on private land and not blocking us in. It's not a car that we recognise as belonging to neighbours and we're not near a hospital, station, airport etc.
We have currently parked across the drive preventing said car from leaving and left our phone number on the window. However, as we have a baby and a toddler our phones are on silent at night.
WIBU to leave the car blocked in until morning?
Or how can we get the car moved?

OP posts:
acatcalledjohn · 20/07/2016 06:36

Placeparking Grin

MuffyTheUmpireSlayer · 20/07/2016 06:40

Also placemarking!

Groovee · 20/07/2016 06:43

Both sets of neighbours on either side have been having extensive work done and their worki E's keep parking over my drive. Yesterday had this right pain in the arse whinge because he had to move to let me out. I warned if he didn't move, I would take a photo and place it on parked like a prick local Facebook page. He soon moved.

Ledkr · 20/07/2016 06:45

Just passing through 👀

Dachshund · 20/07/2016 06:47

Oof love a good parking thread! The nerve of some people 😡

Togaparties · 20/07/2016 06:48

Buy a wheel clamp and clamp the cheeky sods

It's illegal to clamp a car on private land.

I've seen a situation like this before where they used a 4x4 to drag it off the drive and into the middle of the road causing an obstruction. The police then had to tow it. Another where the police suggested that if the car happened to find its way into the road then they'd tow it and overlook any broken windows - 5 mins later the car was sat in the road with a smashed window.

BitOutOfPractice · 20/07/2016 06:48

You know all the people saying "let the air out of his tyres"?

Exactly how are you proposing she does that?

Bambooshoots14 · 20/07/2016 06:54

Place marking!

RageAgainstTheTagine · 20/07/2016 06:55

Unashamed place mark.

minifingerz · 20/07/2016 06:58

Re: "people are entitled to park anywhere they like in a road without parking restrictions!" Yes, but my neighbour has 17 cars (sometimes more) as he runs his car business from home. All parked in the street, and the main reason why I'm now having to spend £4K turning my front garden into a drive. Him and the church on the corner, the station 300 yards away, and the two primary schools a similar distance in the other direction. Sad

Togaparties · 20/07/2016 06:59

Exactly how are you proposing she does that?

It's not rocket science, there's this thing called a valve...

CantChoose · 20/07/2016 07:01

bitoitofpractice let me google that for you....
They all have a valve so you can put air in. Push it down and all the air comes out.

Withershins · 20/07/2016 07:01

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 20/07/2016 07:02

I wonder if any firms who run a car towing business would tow for free in such circumstances as they could then charge the owner a release fee if it's a proper impounding type company? So you don't pay, they get money off the car owner, you get rid of the car, teaches the cheeky fucker a lesson.

scaryteacher · 20/07/2016 07:05

My former next door neighbour was a child minder. Our drives were separated by a fence, and it was obvious that the parking space up the side of my house didn't belong to her property as it was between my house, kitchen windows overlooked it, and the fence separating the drives.

A couple of times a week, this woman would calmly drive up the side of my house and sit there in her car for half an hour, whilst ignoring me rapping on her window or squeezing past her car, Eventually, I had enough, and when dh came home one night, we blocked her in with the Range Rover, and dh went and had a walk. I didn't drive the Range Rover, so she couldn't get out until dh got back, and even then, he was in no hurry to move the car.

We explained very carefully that that was out drive and not the NDN, but she couldn't see that parking there would inconvenience us at all, as there no one using the space at the time she arrived. After that, she parked in the drive in front of the house, which we own, and NDN had rights of way over only, and again, she was blocked in as dh couldn't get his car in the drive. Stupid thing was, there was a car park down the lane at the village hall.

I couldn't believe the sense of entitlement she had, or the fact that she must have terminally stupid not to work out that where she was parking was my drive and not that of the NDN.

Thankfully, NDNs moved soon after...they got stroppy when we complained about it.

sashh · 20/07/2016 07:07

You know all the people saying "let the air out of his tyres"?

Exactly how are you proposing she does that?

By the valve I assume - the traditional method is with a match but you could use a tyre gauge.

If a bird nested under or in the car then it would be illegal to disturb it, maybe leave a note saying you have seen a bird going in to the engine and it can't be moved until/unless someone has checked.

Rockingaround · 20/07/2016 07:09

Morning Brew Is it still there Op? You know when you see those cars in driveways that are completely overgrown, like miniature rain forests with really old cars in the middle ... Maybe this was also their beginning Grin

Becky546 · 20/07/2016 07:11

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MayhemandMadness · 20/07/2016 07:14

Marking place

ShutTheFuckUpBarbara · 20/07/2016 07:14

bitoutofpractice I always carry a small tyre pump, the kind that you plug into the cigarette lighter, set the tyre pressure you want, and connect to the tyre valve.

All you would need to do is set it to a really low number, and it would deflate the tyre. All without damaging the tyre or the valve.

I don't think it's legal, mind, because you would render the car unsafe to drive, but it's probably not as bad as slashing the tyres

BitOutOfPractice · 20/07/2016 07:15

You actually need a special tool (or a tyre guage if she has one!) nowadays or risk damaging the valve which would land you in trouble. Not a very practicable solution I don't think

ApostrophesMatter · 20/07/2016 07:15

Wake up, OP!

Is it still there?

TheOddity · 20/07/2016 07:21

I bet they're still there...

BitOutOfPractice · 20/07/2016 07:23

Yes I think letting the air out would also risk damaging the wheels - again putting OP in a dodgy position.

Lots of keyboard warriors I suspect.

The other problem with blocking in is that it forces a confrontation and if a person is enough of a knob to park on someone else's drive then who knows what they'll be like when confronted and thwarted. I wouldn't fancy it tbh and I'm no shrinking violet

Bloody annoying though

Charlie97 · 20/07/2016 07:30

I'm just blatantly place marking! X