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Parking wars - on my own drive !

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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.

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Itsnotwhatitseems · 26/07/2017 19:49

can you put a photo of the car on here pls op

choochooo · 26/07/2017 19:50

Cheeky fuckers!!!! Can't believe the car is still there!!!

(God I love a parking thread)

CotswoldStrife · 26/07/2017 19:50

I'd be putting the 'do not park your car on my drive' notes on the neighbour's window as well as the car tbh.

Itsnotwhatitseems · 26/07/2017 19:50

is possession still 9 tenths of the law, if so Op has acquired a car :)

gingergenius · 26/07/2017 19:52

@Itsnotwhatitseems - I was just pondering this!!!

PeppaPigTastesLikeBacon · 26/07/2017 19:52

I'm feeling the rage for you OP. You definitely need to ignore DP and go and put those bollards back up!

gingergenius · 26/07/2017 19:53

@OpalMoon brilliant! No permanent damage!!!

mrselizabethdarcy · 26/07/2017 19:53

Is the car still there OP?

Mrbluethecatt · 26/07/2017 19:53

I'd be posting photos of the car all over the business Facebook and Twitter pages.

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 26/07/2017 19:53

Absolutely not advocating this but a friend of DH once had a similar issue. They poured 4 litres of 3 day old pee mixed with paint thinner all over the car. Never happened again.

DancingGoose · 26/07/2017 19:54

Go out and buy a clamp.

Neutrogena · 26/07/2017 19:56

Do nothing for now. There is too much emotion and not enough sense being written.
Let your OH sort it out OP as it's taking too big a toll on you.

Let's get perspective people. This is a friggin parking space, not a rape.
Life's too short to get stressed about this stuff. You need to deal with it, but in calm and rational way.

aquashiv · 26/07/2017 19:56

OMG why do I love these? It is the equivalent of just doing a loud fart in a meeting and saying ah better out than inGrin

mumsneedwine · 26/07/2017 19:57

You've never read a parking thread before have you Nutrogena 😂😂😂. Perspective and calm are NOT what they are about

diddl · 26/07/2017 19:58

I don't think that it being on Op's drive makes it her possession though does it?

The owner has all the documentation.

Op has the neighbour returned & have you spoken to them?

DeadDoorpost · 26/07/2017 19:58

This thread has kept me amused for the last hour or so.

Hope the car moves. If CFNE comes in the middle of the night to retrieve it I hope you've set some spooky traps up for them. Freak them out. And try and film it.

justwhatineed · 26/07/2017 19:58

Retracting alligator teeth [grins]
www.entryparkingposts.com/

Parking wars - on my own drive !
farfarawayfromhome · 26/07/2017 19:59

I am so invested in this thread it is way past my bed time.

justwhatineed · 26/07/2017 20:00
Grin
Parking wars - on my own drive !
ajandjjmum · 26/07/2017 20:00

I would pay a tow truck to remove it 20 miles away - and then you know nothing.

Infact - I think an MN collection would be in order to pay for it!

FoxesSitOnBoxes · 26/07/2017 20:00

Why would the employee just leave their car there?? To teach you a lesson for wanting your drive back? What a very strange thing for them to do. Don't do anything tonight as this will just get unnecessarily nasty.... although would make for a more entertaining story. Up to you OP!

EnglandKeepMyBones · 26/07/2017 20:00

DH suggests that you call a local builder and offer them 50 quid to drop off a pallet full of bricks for 24 hours.

They can have the car back. They've just got to move the bricks first. One by one.

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 26/07/2017 20:00

Let's get perspective people. This is a friggin parking space, not a rape.

The so-called friggin parking space belongs to the OP not the employee of the CFN. also nobody has equated it with rape Hmm

WinchestersInATardis · 26/07/2017 20:00

Can't believe I got to the end and still no update
not placemarking at all

ajandjjmum · 26/07/2017 20:01

Actually no - love 'JustwhatIneed' Grin

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