CFNE Parking wars 2

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Starting this just in case :-)

Just as well it's quiet at work this week

I hope the thieves weren't daft enough to leave their gains somewhere obvious!

I can't think of anything else to have done. Dog shit under the handle, Vaseline under the wipers and so on don't seem so fitting somehow. Park on someone else's drive and refuse to move the car, so the car gets stuck there when you DO want to move it? Seems pretty fair.

I'd have probably looked into getting a clamp and using that but I'm guessing OP had no time for that, plus they cost.

Best plan I think...

OP installs a drop bollard.

Tyre thieves realise they've pinched crap tyres and so replace them.

CFNemployee comes round to get car back.

OP looking confused - 'What do you mean the tyres were gone, I thought it was the battery that had the problem?'

Flat battery and stolen tyres it really isn't car owners week.

people arguing if it was tyres or wheels.

but (if this has even happened) the crime of interfering with a vehicle has already taken place (fine of up to 150% of weekly income), it is also possible whatever the dh has done when removing the tyres/propping up the car on bricks (which he just happened to have available) has caused criminal damage to the vehicle.

Seriously!?? You realise this is most definitely a 3rd world problem??! the police (if they even get involved) will see it for what it is. People are taking this whole thing far too seriously no one has died, or been horrifically injured, everyone involved is still functioning, living and breathing. The car on the other hand has had 3 wheels taken off, for being parked without permission on someone else's property, the wheels can be put back on, not the end of the world and the person who parked there won't dare do so again, it's civil matter not a police matter.

The police will get involved if it amounts to harassment. I have a situation with my neighbours which started as parking on my drive/blocking my drive and has escalated to general harassment/disablism. The police are taking it all very seriously.
Because some people really are entitled arseholes

I can't help but wonder if possibly CFN is the tyre "thief". After all the refusing to move it, refusing to even open the door, taking CFNE home and then the "flat battery" bollocks. It's as if he really wants to get across a message of "we'll use your drive and there's nothing you can do about it"

Hopefully I'm wrong but, after all that, it seems like a rather big coincidence for the tyres to be stolen from the problem car as well.

I'm thinking that if the thieves had merely removed the tyres and left them on the ground next to the car, then no thievery would have taken place.

Only thing to bear in mind is that CFN and CFNE presumably have plenty of access to dog shit.... could get messy!

pics or this didn't happen, surely?

So it's illegal to block access TO a private drive but not illegal to block access ON a private drive

Have you reported CFN to the council OP?

Not placemarking at all

pics or this didn't happen, surely?

several requests for pics now op.................

It's illegal to block someone in and prevent them accessing the highway but I think there's no law about blocking someone out.

Plarking= place marking on a parking thread. Is the driver a Russian lady, by any chance? Just wondering if it links with my thread about Lovely Innocent Ladies parking themselves all over my DH on holiday (on AIBU DH on holiday)

So it's illegal to block access TO a private drive
Yes, because the dropped kerb is not being blocked.
The dropped kerb is council property, the private drive isn't.

Happy sigh

Monkeyinshoes ah thanks that makes more sense

Un-bloody-believable that some random wanker can just rock up all over your private proverty

It's illegal to block access to public highway, not to a drive

Oooh new thread. Placemarking for when I get back.

Parking immorally.

And I have a spare tyre you're more than welcome too

Reminds me of the lovEly person who regularly parked on a ladies drive as she lived opposite a train station. Despite repeated requests he continued to park on her drive. Unfortunately one day the builders dropped off a tonne of gravel just behind his car.. she left him a trowel to dig his car out.

Place marking for updates for when the op gets home.....