WWYD car parked on our drive

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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?

Would it be a bit extreme to build a wall over the boundary of your driveway overnight?

Also Aprilanne?

I think i could get it towed but I'd have to pay the tow truck.

Oooh I love a parking post!

I was in the park yesterday with dd and a man comes over to ask if I drive a yellow KA (I don't) because it was parked on his drive! Some people have no shame!

Id be churlish enough to block the feckers in! But I'd also want them
Off my drive asap

Where do you live? Maybe someone has a 4x4 and a tow pole and can help tow it away

i can't imagine parking on someones drive, I feel a bit guilty if I park on the road outside someones house and go out for the day and that's the public highway

I love the skip idea

A garage once returned my car to the wrong house, parking it on a strangers drive.
the garage owner had posted my car keys through the letterbox too.
Luckily the householder opened my car, routed around and found a friends telephone number on a piece of paper and managed to trace me.
The owner of the garage was given a bollocking.

I think i could get it towed but I'd have to pay the tow truck.

Worth it.

I reckon it's stolen but just hasn't been reported as stolen yet. perhaps the owners are away.

Or someone vulnerable could have just abandoned it.

You would think the local police would just check with DVLA and contact the owners.

All this getting the locks changed and driving to an airport is just stupid. One, you'd be driving a car without the owner's permission which is an offence called theft. You wouldn't be insured. Another offence. You get stopped, you end up with a criminal record and lots of points on your licence. Slow handclap for trying to be all clever and witty, and coming up with a scheme which no sane person would ever carry through.

Agree that it's most likely a simple error, especially if you're in an area with not much parking pressure. We get parcels delivered for the same number of a street with a similar name a mile away - it's more than possible that a garage or hire company has made a similar error. Or driver has agreed with a friend of a friend to park on their drive and got the wrong house. Or if the driver is just an inconsiderate idiot, they will get the message when they arrive back to find their car blocked in and the note on the window.

Bloody cheek! Go to bed and switch off your phones and don't answer the door. And let us know what happens OP

I'd defiantly block it in I've down it once or twice when living places with rubbish parking, it's my house dickhead get off my drive!

Even if it is illegal to do I can't see the police chasing me down for it you know when there are actually real criminals in this world. To be honest if I'm parking on my own drive and it just so happens the dick that parked on my land gets blocked in that's not really my fault is it ? They choose to park on my drive nobody made them

Blatant place marking.

What kind of entitled arseholes think they can park on someone else's drive?

Luna I think sometimes people just suggest exaggerated ideas on these threads, for, you know, a bit of a laugh.

We had a car that parked in a private parking area shared by four houses. They did it again and again. Polite notes, non polite notes - nothing worked. I followed them to their work - a local health food shop and stood there demanding to see the boss. He was the sodding boss. I said I'd stand in the shop every single day saying how awful it was very loudly and to every customer that came in until he stopped parking in our private area. I stayed in the shop doing just that. He called the police. They told him to move his car!

He did it one more time and the neighbour poured olive oil over the whole car. Not sure why - think it was just sheer rage and he'd been shopping!

It's ok Luna I think posters they say change the locks etc are having a laugh.
Nothing wrong with a laugh this time of night

I would block them in, disable the door bell, then go to bed

nicknacky look up scotland tress pass laws .as i said this came from a policemen. because you cannot legally clamp uphere either .england totally different the only people who can clamp or tow your motor is dvla .or police in scotland

Luna, it's not theft. It's twocing. A lesser crime. I'd get it clamped by a gruff parking guy or ticketed/towed if possible. Basically making it teally inconvenient for the fuckers. If it's a simple mistake then the garage that incorrectly dropped it off would be happy to pay.

Nothing wrong with letting the tyres down. You can't steal air - there is a case to that effect.

I do love a parking thread! I haven't blocked someone in on my drive before now and I got the bus to work - oh no not me.