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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:
Nicknacky · 08/03/2018 14:23

Don’t threaten to damage his property even if you don’t intend to do i.

Can we stop with threats of damage please?!

RedPanda2 · 08/03/2018 14:27

|I don't really understand why you can't block the drive with all your cars?
So he can't get in I mean.

QueenOfAccidentalDeathStares · 08/03/2018 14:29

vaseline and glitter on bonnet?

CynthiaRothrock · 08/03/2018 14:36

Get a copy of your deeds/landlines circle your land and in marker write "private property. No parking" and post through neighbours door. Also slap a copy on his windscreen with a flour and water paste

Blatherskite · 08/03/2018 14:39

I'm with everyone else. Park so that he can't get on/off. If you make it a pain for him, he'll stop.

OldHag1 · 08/03/2018 14:42

As there are 3 of you with cars can one of you park diagonally at the corner of your house to block his access. Is there access the other side?

FluffyWuffy100 · 08/03/2018 14:43

Well, they either know it’s yoir land and don’t care and are twats, or they don’t know.

Go round and speak to his parents “just checking you know that the land past that point is our land, not jointly owned. Your son keeps parking on our land and it is inconveniencing us and our visitors. I have raised this with him but he is still parking there. Please can you have a word? Thanks so much!”

If they respond positively all cool. If they don’t, we’ll at least you know they are twats and you can go Firth and get gates / out across a chain / whatever.

blueskyinmarch · 08/03/2018 14:45

If you park as you have detailed on your diagram surely he can't get in to park too? Does his car hover across and do a vertical drop landing?

Ginorchoc · 08/03/2018 14:48

Oi Jane the Fiesta is the No1 selling car in the UK, I’m 43 and have one Grin it’s a feisty thing and surprising expensive but cheap to run.

Don’t call the Police at this stage, why do so many people say call the Police (and then moan they are stretched)

Send a signed for letter stating it’s private property and he is not to continue under any circumstances trespassing on your property to include his vehicle.

Collaborate · 08/03/2018 14:52

Park as close as you can to your drive. If you end up blocking him in, so be it. OK - he may call the police, who will either:

  1. Do nothing, or
  2. Visit you, kindly ask you to move your car, and when you explain you've had a bottle of wine since you got home, they'll gleefully explain to boy racer that he'll have to wait until you've sobered up.

What you have to do is make it such a problem getting his car out that he never parks on your drive again.

SirGawain · 08/03/2018 15:05

DH would just stick a screw through his tyre. Massive mn points for the diagram BTW.
Tempting as this might sound it can only make things worse. Parking on your space is not a criminal offence; it is trespass and there is little the police can do. Putting a nail through his tyre is criminal damage and they can, and I guess will, be interested in that.

reddington · 08/03/2018 15:16

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.

Other than the fact it’s illegal and Fiesta boy would be legitimately able to call the police who would then take action against the OP.

BrendasUmbrella · 08/03/2018 15:23

If he's ignored your requests already I wouldn't bother installing something he could just move out of his way or unhook. And depending how petty he is, he might react to you strategically blocking the drive by parking in front of you.

Start getting some quotes for a gate, it might not be too bad. It might be cheaper to buy the gate and then pay someone to install it. When I paid someone to put in a garden gate for me I realized later I could have bought the gate myself for a third of the amount he charged.

ohfourfoxache · 08/03/2018 15:54

I’m definitely with those suggesting temporarily blocking him in.

TenancyTroublesAgain · 08/03/2018 15:57

Cheeky little shit! Yanbu. Get it clamped.

PilatesSuck · 08/03/2018 16:59

Surround him with cars, completely block him in and tell him you have been drinking so no one will be moving until ready.

If he is there now, go around.

milliemolliemou · 08/03/2018 17:01

OP ignore the pleas to damage the chap's car/block him in/contact the police.

Check you do own all that parking space (should be on your deeds) and then ask to speak to the parents and the son. Point out the number of times he's made it difficult to park/woken you up at 3am or whenever.

Is there any solution? Or are the other two houses confined to one car each forever? Living out in the countryside that sounds bad planning by the ?developers? Is the snake like thing a hedge boundary or path? Were it gone, would there be room enough for one more car to park?

GreenTulips · 08/03/2018 17:12

Love the trying to reason with the unreasonable!

Doesn't work

You have to go to his leave of understanding - which will be to inconvenience him

Other people's parking problems aren't OPs business or responsibility

JaneEyre70 · 08/03/2018 17:16

Or you could just park on their drive............ Grin.

BluePheasant · 08/03/2018 17:19

Speak to his parents and start parking so his car won’t fit. You can always move it for DD/guests.

Although r.e. Parents, they must be aware of what he’s doing and are not stopping him so I suspect they are likely to be CFs too.

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 08/03/2018 17:28

Go to Halfords, get a can of spray paint and write 'I'm a knob who parks on other people's driveways at 3am' down each side.'

OldHag1 · 08/03/2018 17:43

If all else fails ... Park in the parents driveway

snewsname · 08/03/2018 17:49

I'd be really upset if you didn't speak to me the parent first and didn't give me a chance to talk to my child.
Tell the parents you've already asked the child and ask them nicely to talk to their child. If that doesn't work, then is the time to block him in or knock on their door each and every time he parks there - whatever time that may be.

Pixelpuffin · 08/03/2018 17:52

You have my sympathy
My neighbour a retired police inspector no less, does exactly the same to us. Not a week goes by when I don't arrive home early to find his car on our drive.
A few years ago I had a change of shift for a few months - working nights. Woke up around 10ish, peered through the curtains to find his boldly Range Rover on my drive with all 4 wheels off!! He was servicing his brakes!!
We are having electric gates fitted soon. The outside button will only open one side, the key fobs will activate both. That will stop him ;)

Pixelpuffin · 08/03/2018 17:54

How about boxing him in and clearing off out for the day