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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.

Parking wars - on my own drive !
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MycatsaPirate · 27/07/2017 10:03

omg! What a shame the tyres have been stolen!

Op you may need to start a new thread soon, this one is nearly full.

I am too invested in this thread.

Lweji · 27/07/2017 10:03

It's easy to miss missing tyres. Many people get behind the wheel before realising.

CaveMum · 27/07/2017 10:04

Get in line Giles Wink

ClearEyesFullHearts · 27/07/2017 10:04

OP, when you posted this morning that the car is still there, had you not noticed that the tyres had gone?

Perhaps OP didn't pass the car on her way out this morning. Perhaps not did her husband. Perhaps they simply glanced quickly out the window to discover the car still there, without noticing tyres.

Flowersandfootballs · 27/07/2017 10:04

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Leeds2 · 27/07/2017 10:04

What did the neighbour's text say? Was it even slightly apologetic in tone?
Would also get the bollards installed asap.

QODRestYeMerryGentlemen · 27/07/2017 10:04

Hahaha love it

CaveMum · 27/07/2017 10:04

And may I also say - Best. Parking. Thread. Ever!

Bravo OP, bravo!

LurkingHusband · 27/07/2017 10:05

How many tyres did they steal? All four or just the one??

Let's put it this way ... you (used to) carry a spare in case one tyre got a puncture.

Two is way more inconvenient ....

Trb17 · 27/07/2017 10:06

@AlphaBites you're my hero!

Yes you might have wanted the car gone... but since the attitude of the car owner and the neighbour business owner meant you were probably going to have to put up with them being twats using your drive long term... the 'thrives' have probably allowed you to impact the situation on your terms Grin genius Wine

Trb17 · 27/07/2017 10:07

thieves lol stupid phone!

WeAllHaveWings · 27/07/2017 10:07

Photo or it didn't happen (don't most cars have wheel locking nuts now?)

Lweji · 27/07/2017 10:07

No self respecting thief steals just one or two tyres. You need the set, surely.

WindyWednesday · 27/07/2017 10:07

Haha

TicketyBoo83 · 27/07/2017 10:08

Omg i can't wait to hear what happens next!

SpottedGingham · 27/07/2017 10:08

wings

There'll be no photo Wink

Esspee · 27/07/2017 10:08

Have retired to the loo with an upset tummy, well, how else am I going to keep up with this thread?
Well done those tyre thieves, couldn't have happened at a better time.
Wonder if they had milk with them? Grin

Lweji · 27/07/2017 10:09

don't most cars have wheel locking nuts now?

Apparently (my brother's and cousin's) not.

woodhill · 27/07/2017 10:10

What a thread

NannyHJ · 27/07/2017 10:10

LurkingHusband (hope this really is OP's husband) - you are a hero!

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

zzzzz · 27/07/2017 10:10

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Mummyoflittledragon · 27/07/2017 10:12

Erm. Were they real thieves or just pretend ones this time??

Lweji · 27/07/2017 10:12

How would OP have a photo if she got to work without realising the tyres were missing?

More seriously, I'd return them and make a point of telling CFN that the thieves seem to have dropped them on your back garden (or somewhere around the corner), pointing out that it was such bad luck after the "flat battery".

SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/07/2017 10:12

What's so special about Penguin bollards?

Penguin bollards are brilliant Writer

The manage to be both charmingly cute and yet strangely sinister at the same time.

Lweji · 27/07/2017 10:13

LurkingHusband is a regular if I'm not mistaken.