An aside re police... someone parked across my drive, I rang the police station, and they sent an officer round. She decided to break into the car, and roll it along, so I could reverse out.
After struggling for a couple of minutes, the teenager over the road came out of the house with a long bit of plastic, and broke into it for us!!! The policewoman thanked him.
Just as we were pushing it out of the way (onto the double yellow lines), the car owner came back, and claimed "the owner of the house" let her park there. But I was the owner of the house...
This was thirty years ago though