There's a car parked on my drive

[Mreva]

Arrived home from work to find a car parked on my drive. Thought it might be one of dh's friends but no.

Our drive can fit two cars but the bastard has decided to park at the front of the drive so no chance of parking on the drive and blocking them in like I would like to.

It's making me irrationally angry and I can't stop checking to see if it's gone. Dh doesn't seem to share my annoyance.

Why would anyone decide it's ok to park on someone's drive?!

Lift the wipers up and carefully smear lipstick on the blades

Please, please nobody do this.
So they're on the motorway in the dark doing 70 and it starts to rain and.....?
And she kills 7 families in a pile up.

By all means wreak havoc, but not surprise deadly havoc.

If it happens again I'd have done a little DIY and 'Oh dear I couldn't have cleared all of the (strategically placed) old large nails off the drive'.

I once blocked in an electricity board van that had parked on my tiny piece of parking ground when he bullishly refused to move it. Then I called the board and said he wouldn't be home that night as he couldnt get his van out. I couldn't move the car as I subsequently had a glass of wine. After a couple of hours argey bargey my exOH moved the car - he couldn't see why I was so upset at being walked over.

Knock, knock.........."...hello - I left my car on your drive and I have come back to find 4 slashed tyres and a huge scratch down the side! Can you explain that?..........."

"No idea - I've just reported who shocked I am to find an an abandoned car on my private drive with 4 slashed tyres and a huge scratch to the police.
Meanwhile - call someone to shift it now........"

How not who!

We moved house last month - from London with on-street parking that's such a nightmare you're delighted if you can park in your own road, to a house with a couple of acres on a dead-end private road in a small village in the middle of nowhere.

Imagine my surprise and excitement when we returned home a couple of weeks ago to find a van parked - well, not on the drive exactly, but on a spare parking space near the bottom of the drive. It wasn't blocking us in, and we still had parking for at least a dozen cars, but I figured I hadn't been on MN for all these years without appreciating the value of a good parking thread. I asked myself WWMND? and blocked it in. I assumed it must be someone who'd habitually parked there and therefore they could bloody well introduce themselves...

Sadly, two minutes later there was a knock at the door and our lovely neighbour was apologising profusely; it was her tradesman and he'd always been allowed to park there, she'd forgotten to tell him there were new people. She even had the consideration to acknowledge our young children and risk to safety so I had nothing to be indignant about at all . All terribly disappointing.

I didn't get to post about it on MN at the time because it ended with me telling the neighbour that it was fine to park there but could she please warn drivers there may be young children careering down the drive on bikes, or playing in the garden near the parking space - but I did keep the carpenter's van hostage till I'd got his number . Another MN tip - don't let a good tradesman pass you by!

Oh just cancel the cheque op.

it's your property and he/she is trespassing by parking on your drive. call the police / get the car towed. I'd be livid.

Just in case she parks in your drive for next weeks meeting, I'd copy all 12 pages of this thread and be ready to stick all twelve to her windscreen next week with good sticky Pritt stick .

Happens often to us - strangers park in our backyard. We need our backyard for our car and our neighbours' car. When strangers park there and we can't find out where they are, we have to pay to park somewhere cos we are in the town centre where parking is at a premium.
Is there any legal redress? Surely what's happening to Mreva is trespass?

Harriet

We're holding you at your word

Does anyone remember penguin bollards in the Isle of Wight? The kind you can lock up or fold down? You need some, Mysteries. Would solve the problem.

Thread one.

Thread two.

Saw this on Facebook today, too. Some people are unbelievable - who does that? Blocks three cars in because there's no actual parking space left, then be indignant when people object because her kids "needed" her to park there? The absolute sense of entitlement, and fury that anyone else's rights matter, is astonishing. Who are these people? Where do they spring from?

In the absence of a convenient wheel clamp, write an appropriate message on the windscreen in lipstick...

What are nobbly bobblies??

I parked my car on my drive on night. When I got up a bit later than usual, a car had parked over my drive with a note saying "I hope it's OK to park here, if not phone me on (mobile number)" I rang and left a voice mail and another and another and a text or two. Eventually, I saw him at the boot of his car washing his face. I went out and said he had stopped me going out on a day trip with my family ( not entirely true but...) I explained I had rung the number he left on his car for the last 6 hours and he replied "oh was that you. I was up a ladder and couldn't answer it" he was doing some work for NDN but one.

Sleeponeday I remember the Penguins.. What was the outcome in the end? I think I lost track, there were many threads?
Wonder how many penguin bollards were ordered eventually lol

Maybe this would stop them ha ha

Let one or two of their tires down. Just need to stick a screwdriver in the bit that you attach the pump to when you inflate the tires. Cause them maximum inconvenience!

Bananas up the exhaust work. Would not admit to having done this ever in my life before however.

I've never known this happen in real life but it happens all the time on mn! I can't believe someone would be so cheeky, any chance they didn't realise?

I'd never experienced it until I moved where I am now and it has happened a few times to me.

I was able to block them in though.

One was a sales person visiting NDN on two occasions it was carers for the lady opposite. The thing is she has her own drive at the side of her house and no car so no idea why they parked in my drive.

Over the last couple of weeks there has been a car parked at the side of my house, sort of behind my drive - it's a odd set up, I'm at the bottom left of a cul-de-sac so my parking is to the side of the house but next to the back garden not the house.

Anyway when I saw him I asked him if he realised Friday is bin day and the bin men had to squeeze through with wheelie bins and that I wouldn't park there for that reason.

Random people park on my MIL's drive frequently. She is the last house on a busy road, next to shops. There aren't any parking bays so some people seem to assume it's ok as they'll only be a "couple of minutes". She says she wouldn't mind if only people would knock and ask first.

Came home after midnight to find someone blocking our driveway. I called 101 and gave them the vehicle plate and make/model. They were able to call the individual on their mobile and get them to move the car within 30 minutes. It was great. Never happened again and the individual was shocked to have been woken up in the middle of the night so even better!

You may have a vehicle in your garage so (s)he could potentially be blocking access to and from your property. (S)he is trespassing.

Take pictures and report to 101. Good luck.

P.S. I would be fuming too!

Carefully Airbrushed - thank you! I was about to post the same thing.

Please don't put stuff on the wiper blades - it is such a completely stupidly dangerous thing to suggest and I'm horrified by the number of posters who think it would be a good punishment.

So what happened? They've surely moved by now ?

I would have no hesitation in calling the Police and immediately having the car towed. Your driveway is your private property and they have no right to park there.