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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:
brummiesue · 20/07/2016 08:13

Cant you get a friend or neighbour to block them in until your husband comes home?

lljkk · 20/07/2016 08:13

I know it's cheeky but some of these suggestions are extreme/inappropriate. A shirty note would make more sense, for a first offence.

If I used my car to block someone else's in, I'd be so afraid my car would get heavily scratched in response.

DeathStare · 20/07/2016 08:15

However the car is no longer blocked in because OH has left for work and had to drive, he works in the middle of nowhere with no public transport.

Can you get a friend or neighbour to block them in?

feralcat19 · 20/07/2016 08:15

Take photos of the car and number plate and report it to the police. They probably won't do anything but could possibly advise you on what to do that is within the law.

Grassgreendashhabi · 20/07/2016 08:16

How can police not move it. It's private property. Get a neighbour to block it in

Bestthingever · 20/07/2016 08:16

Littlecandle we live in the same street as a school and experience the same kind of twattiness. It's the fact that they know where we live that makes me bite my tongue. The police are useless.

MackerelOfFact · 20/07/2016 08:16

Oh dear OP. If I recall correctly, don't you have some terribly important business today that involves carrying vats of honey up and down your driveway which - OOPS - runs the risk of spilling all over the parked car? Then I'm pretty sure you needed to do something similar with feathers too?

Waxlyrically · 20/07/2016 08:18

This has to be a mistake surely no one would park in a complete strangers drive all night. Perhaps as a pp has said a drive booking website & entering the wrong postcode into a sat nav or genuine confusion of some sort. I'm sure there will turn out to be a reason and the culprit will be mortified. Can't the owner be traced with a DVLA check?

SoupDragon · 20/07/2016 08:19

I know it's cheeky but some of these suggestions are extreme/inappropriate.

And around 99% of them are just a joke!

sashh · 20/07/2016 08:23

LittleCandle

I'm on a cul-de-sac, all the bungalows are HA and you have to have a disability or be elderly to rent one.

There are a couple of similar cul-de-sacs in other areas of the town. One backs on to a primary school so all the pants park there and walk their child round the corner. Not all park on the road, some used the driveways.

One day they came back to find a lady (not sure if this is relevant but with learning difficulties) lying in the middle of the road holding a sign. I can't remember what it said but she basically stopped anyone leaving and refused to move until the police were called.

But the police didn't want to arrest her, possibly due to LD.

AnneElliott · 20/07/2016 08:23

What cheeky beggers! We used to get this problem at our old house and our flat.

I did used to block them in and then charge for the parking space. Best one was a cabby who pulled into my drive. I blocked him in and he was outraged at my asking for a parking fee. He called the police who seemingly asked what he wanted them to do!

Other time it was there for a couple of days so I got some friends to help me bump it off and we left it in the residents only bay. It got 2 tickets and was then towed.

lljkk · 20/07/2016 08:24

I hope that's true, SoupD, it's just when folk then discuss at length the more extreme options I begin to worry.

Trufflethewuffle · 20/07/2016 08:24

I once had a house with a garage in a block opposite. My garage was the middle one of three, the two outer ones belonged with the houses either side.

I came home from work once to find a car parked on the drive to my garage. I parked up behind it and asked round to find out whose it was but no one knew, or admitted. So I caught the bus to work the next day. I moved my car after about a day and a half and the other car was not there next time I looked. No one ever said anything about it but it didn't happen again.

DownstairsMixUp · 20/07/2016 08:25

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Pinkerbeller · 20/07/2016 08:26

Place parking.

flowery · 20/07/2016 08:27

We had this recently. We live next to a pub who until recently had a car park. They've now turned it into a beer garden (otherwise known as picnic tables and pot plants). Since then we've had vans making deliveries to the pub parking on our driveway, and the other weekend, someone parked on our drive and went to the pub for a couple of hours for a drink. We blocked him in.

Previous poster whose neighbour used to block the highway because of football parking and let down tyres, that's not on. Choosing to live near a football ground (school, hospital, myriad other locations) means accepting parking problems.

We have football season tickets and the ground is in the middle of houses. Was a pain for residents so they approached the council and got residents parking only. Fair enough. Now a pain for football fans (or was until now we are moving to new stadium) but perfectly reasonable of residents. Letting down tyres of people parked perfectly legally is not perfectly reasonable at all.

llhj · 20/07/2016 08:29

i just cannot believe someone would drive their car onto someone else's land and just leave it. Where I live that would be inconceivable.

Gardenbirds123 · 20/07/2016 08:34

If you can't get neighbour to block it can you at least eg move your bins or something similar big and cumbersome in way so that if they do come back they can't just slope off. You will hear them moving bins and can come out give earful

Flyingfruit · 20/07/2016 08:37

Shameless placemarking

MarthaElf · 20/07/2016 08:39

We have a nightmare with our local school and this. Despite five years of complaints to the school they still regularly park on drives up to peoples front windows.

When challenged two sets are verbally abusive and tell us they can park where they 'fucking well like..'

KitKat1985 · 20/07/2016 08:40

Ooh a parking twattery thread. [Place-marks]

stripeyreds0cks · 20/07/2016 08:40

Just ignore me....

Bishybishybarnabee · 20/07/2016 08:40

Surprised so many posters seem sure it's a genuine mistake, in my experience there are plenty of people who do this sort of thing quite willingly. We have a small drive way at our house, in a permit parking street where few others have driveways. Being on maternity leave was an absolute eye opener to me, people seem to use our drive all day. Plenty of delivery drivers (which I don't have a massive issue with as it's quick), taxis, works vehicles, brownies pick up/drop off, for the duration of a kids party at the village hall, for half the day then coming back laden with shopping bags etc, during trips to the pub etc. We have a sign that says private parking, leave polite notes when it happens etc but nothing makes a difference.

Allice · 20/07/2016 08:41

Not place marking at all!
Might be worth a call to the police again later in case it's now been reported stolen

cjt110 · 20/07/2016 08:42

placemarking!!!