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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:
Thingvellir · 20/07/2016 22:26

OP if the car is still there, there is time for a little beshitting action with one of your DC's nappies...just for closure like. Its a recognised MN solution for twatty parking

Hereforthegossip · 20/07/2016 22:31

Oohh I have just read all of this and now really need to know who it was. Op has the owner of the car come forward yet?

TheFear · 20/07/2016 22:32

I live in Ireland, so maybe this is not relevant to all the parking voyeurs - but some years back a fuckwit abandoned their car on my driveway, when I was renting a house just off a very busy road.
I waited several days before calling the police to ask them what to do - they said there was nothing they could do other than try to trace the owner via the registration etc - BUT if there was no registration on the car then they would have to tow it. This was said verryy slowlllyy with emphasis on the NO REGISTRATION PLATES.. So I went out and removed the car reg from front and back with a screwdriver, called the police again to explain that there was a car without reg plates dumped on my driveway - and it was gone in an hour!
Not sure if this would work in the UK.

Solobo · 20/07/2016 22:45

Back from work and still no news!

Gallievans · 20/07/2016 22:53

We had something similar years ago at my parents home (to set the scene, it was across from the local swimming pool, which hosted competitions). 7am on a Sunday morning, household woken by frantic pounding on front door. Dad jumps out of bed, yanks on a pair of trouyers and legs it downstairs, thinking elderly mum been taken ill / house is on fire.

Opens door ......

Lady on doorstep calmly says 'is that youyr car?' to which dad replies yes.

Lady then says 'then move it. I need to park there for the swimming gala'
Dad stared,she asked if he had heard her & repeats her request. Cue a very, very blue answer and a slammed door. Found out later she'd gone along the neighbours askinbg the same (with the same result). We got our own back later in the day. She (and several others) had parked on the pavements and some even in the road. Which was also access to the fire and ambulance station. So --we - someone called the police. Tiucketed and dragged from the gala and made to move the cars.......

OrdinaryGirl · 20/07/2016 22:59

I've only read 10 pages of this thread but think she should definitely cancel the cheque...

jodiebee664 · 20/07/2016 23:01

galli that one has shocked me.....that woman.....some people!!!!

Staceyd1984 · 20/07/2016 23:15

I can't believe I've read all of this and we still don't know who the mystery parker is! I'm place marking in case of further updates lol Smile

BengalCatMum · 20/07/2016 23:27

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wowfudge · 20/07/2016 23:33

Bengal - keep up! The person who parked it on the OP's drive waited until she went out then moved it. But they haven't apologised/owned up to it and the OP still doesn't know whose car it is.

So although it may now be parked on the street causing no issue, the driver has a pretty arrogant attitude.

BengalCatMum · 20/07/2016 23:49

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Cel982 · 21/07/2016 00:07

The person who parked it on the OP's drive waited until she went out then moved it. But they haven't apologised/owned up to it

Well, you wouldn't, would you? Wink If you thought you could get away with it.

Boiledfart · 21/07/2016 00:26

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2kids2dogsnosense · 21/07/2016 01:47

TheFear - That. Is. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!

Are you a Wizzard????????

(I so much wanted the culprit to get dog-pooed (or at least Vaselined). Life is so unfair.)

SoupDragon · 21/07/2016 07:17

The person who parked it on the OP's drive waited until she went out then moved it. But they haven't apologised/owned up to it

Well, you wouldn't, would you? wink If you thought you could get away with it.

Surely you'd move it further away and not leave it outside the house you've been blocking? The sheer cheek! :o

wowfudge · 21/07/2016 07:24

Well Soup I think my assertion that the driver of the car has a brass neck was correct. Either that or they are really stupid.

Grassgreendashhabi · 21/07/2016 08:08

Op any news

olympicsrock · 21/07/2016 09:03

Are they still there??

feeona123 · 21/07/2016 09:40

This happened to us!

Went out and came back in the dark to find car on our drive!

Still there the next morning. Rang 101 and asked if it had been reported stolen. Nice lady told me there was nothing they could do but did get car owners phone number and leave them a nice answerphone message. We went out and it was gone by the time we got back.

The other week I witnessed a trade co van park on my neighbours driveway and go into another house. I can see why they parked there as it is next to the other neighbours house but other neighbour must have seen where the van was parked and didn't tell him it wasn't his driveway!!
Neighbour came back and had to park on the road!!

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/07/2016 09:51

Someone up thread asked me if I would be irritated by someone blocking my drive. Of course I would be.

In fact it happens quite regularly because we are one of the few people in our street with off street parking and people either park across our drive or once, a tradesman I'd had round to quote, parked on it.

The last time it happened it wasn't even a car parked across my drive (and across the pavement so I couldn't even get to my house) it was a truck with a trailer with a bloody digger on it. Part of my front wall had also been knocked down so I headed off to find them. The chap said "sorry love, but there wasn't any where to park" Shock So I gave them hell about it not being my problem and how dare the inconvenience me when I had bought a house with a drive so I could sodding park etc. The I gave them 20 mins to move it because I "need to use my drive because I going out and need to access my garage".

I neglected to mention it wasn't a car in the garage but my bicycle Grin Bike

MsVestibule · 21/07/2016 09:58

or once, a tradesman I'd had round to quote, parked on it.

Surely anybody you've invited round to your house isn't BU to park on your drive Confused?

Wondermoomin · 21/07/2016 10:09

Absolutely nothing wrong with a tradesman you've invited round to your home to park on your drive Confused Just out of interest, do you allow them to approach the front door or do they have to go round the back?! Hmm

Memoires · 21/07/2016 10:50

Perhaps MovingOnUp meant he parked there on a different occasion - having parked once legitimately the time he gave the quote, he then assumed he could park there any time thereafter? We have had a few doing that.

Memoires · 21/07/2016 10:54

On the other hand, I had an aunt who would have made Moving's statement quite straight-facedly. She even sent the choir she'd hired for her dd's wedding round the back of the house to get cups of tea and bread and butter from the cook, rather than allow such reprobates (a very respectable church choir!) to partake of the wedding buffet and mingle with the guests Grin

facepalming · 21/07/2016 12:53

Are they still there? Did uou find out who it was?!

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