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To tell him to get his f****** Fiesta off my driveway

185 replies

Iwantmydrivewayformyself · 08/03/2018 10:41

I need some advice about neighbours teenage son who keeps parking his modified, noisy Ford Fiesta on my driveway, coming and going at all hours of the night and basically being a dick in general!

Me, 17 year old DD and DH all drive.
Me and DH have long ass Volvo’s, hence use the spare space on our four car drive for guests or reversing. DD is shit at parking and uses the spare space to get into and out of her space without damaging mine and DH’s cars Grin

The space is also used for guests

Anyway, my neighbours each only have one car space. We are three houses off a long, bendy country road which is unlit, so you’d be a fool to park there

If you park anywhere else down our road (which is tiny) you block the way

We are lucky to have the end house, which has the most parking by far, however we also have the biggest house by far, others are only two beds so not as much parking (one car each)

We asked neighbours son to stop parking here, but he hasn’t. Three times now our guests have had nowhere to park

Aside from that, neighbours son is rude and noisy and wakes me up at three AM, so even further cause for me to say no, get the fuck off my drive

I knocked on his parents door and spoke with him, wasn’t rude, but just said please don’t park there. For a week he didn’t, then as of two days ago he’s back again

So AIBU to not let him park there?

And what should I do?

It’s all our land beyond the dotted line, neighbours have no right of access or right to go onto our driveway. We own all of it, this I am 100% sure of!

Thanks!

To tell him to get his f****** Fiesta off my driveway
OP posts:
clarabellski · 08/03/2018 11:54

Get a penguin bollard regardless of whether someone is parking on your land! They look so cool!

Jaxhog · 08/03/2018 11:57

Speak to his parents. Don't wait until the morning, get up and bang on their door/ring the bell etc. at the time he parks there. If you make the inconvenience theirs too, they will soon get him to park elsewhere.

Otherwise, its a chain and/or bollards.

pigshavecurlytails · 08/03/2018 12:02

speak to the parents
then vaseline on the windscreen and under door handles

Jaxhog · 08/03/2018 12:02

This is a good overview of what the law says you can and can't do.

www.confused.com/on-the-road/driving-law/property-parking-and-the-law-would-you-park-on-a-strangers-drive.

Posts and a chain seem like the best bet, if waking them up doesn't work.

NotAnotherJaffaCake · 08/03/2018 12:05

Potato up the exhaust pipe.

DiegoMadonna · 08/03/2018 12:07

Chain link may be the way to go, although I’m worried that may be seen as a bit too much of a ‘fuck off’ statement move

You've asked him more than once (I think) not to park there and yet he continues to do so. I think a 'fuck off' statement is perfectly proportionate now.

NoSquirrels · 08/03/2018 12:08

How and when does he get onto your driveway - I mean, how does he get out at 3am if your DH and your cars are parked there?

Definitely just keep telling him that it's your land, and he cannot park there. Make his parents aware that it's their problem too now that they have become a 2-car household.

Redpony1 · 08/03/2018 12:12

I want to know exactly where on the driveway he parks without blocking you in, or getting blocked in. CF!

SoupDragon · 08/03/2018 12:12

Cover his precious car with bird seed.

Not really. I’ve always wanted to do this though.

sunshinesupermum · 08/03/2018 12:13

NoSquirrels He's probably coming home at 3.00 am if he's 17/18 years old!

RuthsRandomRadish · 08/03/2018 12:15

How rude

YetAnotherUser · 08/03/2018 12:17

If he's parking in your driveway at 3am and waking you up, chuck on some clothes and immediately go next door and bang loudly on the door and tell them to get the car shifted. Blast an air horn through the letterbox if necessary.

Do that a few times and I'm sure it'll get a result.

Appuskidu · 08/03/2018 12:18

I don’t understand the diagram!

pinkcandy84 · 08/03/2018 12:20

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MrsElvis · 08/03/2018 12:21

"I’m worried that may be seen as a bit too much of a ‘fuck off’ statement move!"

You need a Fuck off statement move!!!!

I'd definitely his was happening to me I'd wish I had the strength to flip his car on its roof

KinkyAfro · 08/03/2018 12:25

Not sure what good talking to the parents will do, unless they never leave the house surely they know he's doing it?

pinkcandy84 · 08/03/2018 12:27

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GreenTulips · 08/03/2018 12:27

Use lipstick on the windscreen - real bigger to clean off

Or those sticky printed no parking sheets

metalmum15 · 08/03/2018 12:28

His parents will be well aware of where he parks so I don't see the point in involving them. Every time he parks there, go out and tell him it's private property, he needs to park somewhere else or he will be clamped. If he wakes you up at 3am, go straight out and inform him he needs to move his car. He's just an inconsiderate teenager who thinks he can get away with not having to find another parking space because so far he has.

Emmasmum2013 · 08/03/2018 12:30

I'd go to the parents first. See if they can make a difference.
If he still parks there then start blocking him in. He'll soon stop.
If even after that, he still hasn't stopped, then look at getting something to go across the drive like a fence or a gate etc..

I wouldn't go to the police or clamp the car or anything. Seems a bit extreme to me.

ScattyCharly · 08/03/2018 12:30

id Go and speak to his parents, tell them that he keeps parking in your driveway. It’s your property and you need it.

If he then persists, go round and ask them to pay for a security bollard to be installed. You can get them remote control so you needn’t get out of your car. But there is no other solution. People are just total wankers sometimes.

GeorgeTheHippo · 08/03/2018 12:33

a bit too much of a ‘fuck off’ statement

If it's your land - there is no such thing. He needs telling to fuck off. Fit some kind of barrier - ideally gates.

anxious2017 · 08/03/2018 12:33

What does Vaseline on the windscreen do?

steppemum · 08/03/2018 12:34

I think all th eideas are great but you have to live next door to these people, so I would:

  1. go again, when he and parents are in, ask to talk to them together. Be very simple, it is our drive, please do NOT park there at all under any circumstances. I would even say - look we are neighbours, I don't want to fall out with you but it is causing us inconvenience, and I don't want to be woken at 3 am, or be put out by not being able to park, visitors can't park. It is OUR drive, sorry, no parling!
  2. If he doesn't stop, send a letter saying the same thing, and that you will clamp the car.
  3. buy a clamp, put it on car, be out when he comes round for next 24 hours. When you are 'in' and remove it, say that you will use it every time his car is parked on the drive.

I would be clamping his car rather than putting bollards etc in, as I don't see why I should have to open/ shut blinking bollards ever time when it is his car that is the problem.

NoSquirrels · 08/03/2018 12:34

Where do guests to the other houses usually park? That's where he needs to park, I assume.