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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:
FlipperSkipper · 20/07/2016 08:43

Flowery, my parents live near a football ground which was built 20 years after they moved into the house! They didn't choose to live near the ground, and unfortunately they're just far enough away to be outside the residents only zone, but close enough for fans to be able to walk to the stadium. They'd never let tyres down, but they frequently have people park across their drive and refuse to move when challenged. I've been sworn at when I've asked people to move.

Bakesale · 20/07/2016 08:45

Cheeky feckers.... Unashamedly marking place

Wishfulmakeupping · 20/07/2016 08:47

It can't be a mistake- op has explained the car is parked fully on the drive.
I would have blocked them in too but that's not an option now sadly think I'd be putting a letter on their windscreen but keeping an eye out for them to have a go too and also if I saw which house they'd come from I'd be having a word with that neighbour too.
Just so entitled really would piss me right off- how do they know your car isn't in your garage- are you even able to access things out of your garage?

newtscamander · 20/07/2016 08:50

sashh

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.

Oh man Biscuit

2boysnamedR · 20/07/2016 08:51

I can't belive anyone would have the cheek for this. I think I'd get a security camara and check it wasn't someone on the road.

You could put a sign up saying private land and something stronger to prevent it next time.

Ex tennants in our house didn't pay a years worth of bills and I kept getting balif letters for them. I did a massive poster for the balif and stuck it in my front window for two months.

PaulDacreCuntyMcCuntFace · 20/07/2016 08:56

I have sympathy for those living near stations and sporting grounds. I know that it's a public highway but Christ it does get really tiring having to park 6 or 7 streets away from your house because you can't even get into your own street. There's ample parking at a sporting stadium where we used to live - chargeable but only very modest; think £3 for 4 hours or similar. Didn't stop people from parking over a mile away from the stadium and carpark where we lived, so that they could save £3.

Parking where we live now is a sensitive subject. All allocated bays and driveways but it doesn't stop people from bringing their work vans home and blocking other people in, or using spaces not designated for them. I look forward to the day when I can move somewhere remote, isolated and with no neighbours to worry about.

rightknockered · 20/07/2016 08:59

I always get people blocking my drive. In my borough, I can call the local traffic wardens and get them to come out and give the offenders a parking ticket. It doesn't get the car moved but it's satisfying and teaches them a good hard lesson.

NeedMoreSleepOrSugar · 20/07/2016 09:00

Will you be in today op or might you miss them when they come back? I'm afraid I'd definitely ask a friend to park on my drive all week day

Rrross1ges · 20/07/2016 09:00

I would be torn between getting it towed a couple of miles away or covering it in crime scene tape and fake blood then watching from the bedroom window

t4gnut · 20/07/2016 09:14

Can you not report it to the council as an abandoned vehicle?

t4gnut · 20/07/2016 09:15

Know anyone with a decent 4*4 and a tow rope?

EBearhug · 20/07/2016 09:15

I like the fake blood idea!

Farfromtheusual · 20/07/2016 09:16

Council can't move it either as it's private land. Police and Council can only remove vehicles that are parked on a public highway.

Windsofwinter · 20/07/2016 09:18

Silly string, and lots of it!

AmaDablam · 20/07/2016 09:25

We regularly use "Just Park" (where people rent out their drive and you book online so literally do just turn up and leave it there) and my first thought was that someone had got in a muddle and left it in the wrong place. However, you have to print out and display a ticket on your windscreen, so not only would they have got the wrong driveway, they'd also have to have forgotten to display the ticket AND be thick enough not to realise when they got out of the car and tried to get to their eventual destination, they were not in the right place. Possible but unlikely, I think.
Also think the garage dropping off in the wrong place is less plausible now, as surely the owner would have missed it by now and rang and asked wtf they'd left it.
If it was just someone being cheeky, I'd assume they'd be back within a few hours, or at least by the end of the day, not leave it overnight and into the next morning.
To me it's looking more like the car's been "dumped". I'd ring the police again. It may have been reported stolen by now.

t4gnut · 20/07/2016 09:31

Push it onto the road. Then call the police.

UnhappyMeal · 20/07/2016 09:31

It could be that someone has just dumped an unwanted car on your property instead of disposing of it properly. This happened to me when someone parked their car in my designated parking space at my block of flats and the management company tried to make me liable for the cost of towing it away. Bloody annoying!

YorkieDorkie · 20/07/2016 09:33

Please please please get it towed. I know you said about paying the company but they would have to pay so much more to get it back Halo

freetrampolineforall · 20/07/2016 09:35

It's terrible that odd nails or screws keep turning up on your drive. We get it and try our best to pick them up but sometimes you just don't see them.

monkeywithacowface · 20/07/2016 09:36

They wouldn't get too far with four flat tyres Wink

TamyQlass · 20/07/2016 09:38

Loving the thread, nothing to add other than to remind people in this situation to use an effective glue to make sure that any notice on the car doesn't blow away or get washed off in the rain. Then be creative about all the places to stick the notices! Good luck.

EarthboundMisfit · 20/07/2016 09:41

I'd be absolutely apoplectic by this point OP.

sashh · 20/07/2016 09:43

newtscamander

Surely you don't think I'm serious?

cjt110 · 20/07/2016 09:43

Cable tie a kipper to their exhaust so that when they DO eventually come back and pootle around in the car, they will get a vile odour DH hasn't done this before at all to a colleague who was due to travel 150 miles and ended up with the fish welded to the exhaust Wink

cjt110 · 20/07/2016 09:44

On a serious note, can you not get someone with a toe bar to yank it off your drive then report it as abandoned to 101?