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Parking wars - on my own drive !

999 replies

AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 14:34

I know the rules, diagram is attached. 😉

I'm on half days this week and have just got home to find a car in my driveway. As we are a corner house we have two driveways, big enough for one car each. Parking is really tight around here and permit only too. Opposite us is 8 terraced houses with no allocated parking, so quite often they either park in their garages or in the handful or visitor bays opposite my place but in front of theirs. My front drive is VERY clearly my driveway.

Cheeky Fucker Neighbour (CFN) runs a business from home which involves a lot of clients coming and going from her house throughout the day (pet groomer) and he employs two people to help.

I came home today to find a car in my drive which was not DHs. So I park down the side (pink section) of the house on the road where neighbours park their cars. I go and knock on several doors to find out who it belongs too, turns out it's one of the employees who is staying for a little while longer (P/T). "But I'll only be another hour, so I'll move it then." I reply "No, move it now please as I have to unload my car." Person refuses and I end up leaving telling them to move it within 30 minutes.

That was an hour ago and when I knock on the door there is no answer.

My next door neighbour has just told me that this car is on either my front drive or rear drive each morning ! When he questioned them about it, apparently CFN has said it's OK for them to park there and they have cleared it with us. No they bloody haven't!

Thing is this went on last year but after words it sooner stopped but obviously they are doing it again.

I'm sat here glaring out my front window waiting for the fucker to move his car then we will have words. I would block it in, but the road is only wide enough for one car so would block the road.

Parking wars - on my own drive !
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Alittlepotofrosie · 26/07/2017 17:08

I think id want to put a couple of nails under the tyres. Or a three pin plug right behind their car. I wouldn't do it, but id definitely want to.

Tofutti · 26/07/2017 17:08

Call the police!

PuppyMonkey · 26/07/2017 17:09

Late to this. Excellent diagram and bollard work.

My immediate advice is to block them in with your car and go out to the pub.

QueenieGoldstein · 26/07/2017 17:09

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Merrymumoftwo · 26/07/2017 17:09

Is there also an option of a formal letter copied to council and local MP in regards to CFN authorising people to park on your property. Worded in such a way that council department allowing business would have words?

gingergenius · 26/07/2017 17:10

Apparently, the only way the police would remove it is if it posed a danger, e.g. A leaky fuel pipe or similar........Halo

DownstairsMixUp · 26/07/2017 17:10

Ooh the bleach idea is bloody brilliant! Poo under the handles to. Have you got a local fb page? We have one for our town and people regularly get shamed on them for this sort of stuff.

EvansOvalPies · 26/07/2017 17:10

So, if my calculations are correct, CFNE has now been parked on your drive for three and a half hours AFTER you've asked him to move.

That is really taking the mickey. Angry

user1471443504 · 26/07/2017 17:10

What colour is the car? If it's black, greasy suncreamed hands leave annoying marks that can't just be washed off. Be awful if someone with suncream on their fingers accidently brushed against the car and managed to transfer 'cheeky twat' onto it.....

Groovester · 26/07/2017 17:10

Legend op! Loving the bollard!

happypoobum · 26/07/2017 17:11

I can't believe they refused to move, I would have gone ballistic right there and then!

I also would have smashed some glass right behind their tyreswhere they couldn't see until it was too late

Cheeky Fucking Fuckers Angry

Lavabravacava · 26/07/2017 17:11

Please update OP!

user1471443504 · 26/07/2017 17:12

Just to add it may work on other colours but my black car definitely suffered from little suncream handprints 🙄

peggyundercrackers · 26/07/2017 17:12

stick these on his windows?

Parking wars - on my own drive !
terrylene · 26/07/2017 17:12

I'd contact the council and see if they're allowed to run a business from the house.

Long term this is probably the only thing to be done. Then locked chain or bollard.

Keep records of all contact and the result just in case.

Put reviews online saying that there is no parking and that the neighbours are scary.

happypoobum · 26/07/2017 17:13

Maybe OP has blocked him in and fucked off out?

GlitteryFluff · 26/07/2017 17:15

Some people are so cheeky!

hellsbellsmelons · 26/07/2017 17:15

Neutrogena
I hope that's a wind up.
We all loooovvveee love love a good parking thread.
It wouldn't MN AIBU if we didn't have this to get over involved with.
Let us have our fun!

AlphaBites · 26/07/2017 17:15

DH is no fun, he made me take down the bollards.

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TheMaddHugger · 26/07/2017 17:15

I am now semi delirious from need of sleep.

OP how quickly can you build a brick fence? How long does cement take to dry ?

TheMaddHugger · 26/07/2017 17:16

Bloody Hellz, he is a wet blanket

Lweji · 26/07/2017 17:17

Resentment is you drinking a poison and hoping someone else gets sick. It's a harful, destructive, and unproductive feeling.

Not being able to park in our own drive is also unproductive.

Sprinklestar · 26/07/2017 17:17

Seriously? Why'd your DH do that? I'd be livid with him and the CF now!

IdentifiesAsYoda · 26/07/2017 17:17

TheMadd

I like the cut of your jib

Houseworkavoider · 26/07/2017 17:17

Why? Confused