to think my neighbour was BVU?

[haventkilledtheorchidyet]

Neigbour rang my bell to ask whose car was in my driveway. The car had previously been parked by my (admittedly a bit dozy) godson blocking her driveway for approximately 20 minutes before I realised he was parked on a single yellow and told him to move it before the parking wardens ticketed him. At no point didI see his car (actually I thought he had walked to my house) as we have high hedges.

Neighbour told me she had called the police! Something about having children to pick up/deliver somewhere.

I checked with another neighbour, and she hadn't rung his bell to ask about the car before calling the police, and she didn't ring my bell either.

Was she BVU or have I lost all perspective on the role of the police?

yabu your godson should not have blocked her drive.

What else was she supposed to do? Yes it would have been better if she had chapped the door but she clearly didn’t think it was a visitor to your house.

YANBU, what an absurd overreaction on her part!

I’m confused. So it’s your godson’s car, which he’d previously parked in a way that had blocked her in? You then told him to move it?

If that’s right she was rather odd for calling the police. I’m not sure what she was expecting them to do. However, I can totally understand her frustration and your godson is a prat for blocking her in.

I think your neighbour was being unreasonable for not checking with the other neighbours first. I'm sure that would have been quicker than calling the police, where I imagine they would have just done the same thing..

When I was blocked in by some random trade person I rang 101 and they ran the number plate and worked out whose van it was and rang them and told them to shift it...

I would be embarrassed by godson for being inconsiderate and apologetic to neighbour, I wouldn't be checking up with other neighbours how hard the neighbour tried to find owner before contacting police.

But yes, neighbour would be unreasonable to call the police, prob shows how desperate he/she was to get out. If I was late for my children for a non emergency I would be livid.

Not a police matter but a council one
They run parking now.
Total ramping up of a problem easily solved by knocking on doors and asking.

buster It is a police matter if the vehicle is blocking someone exiting their property onto the highway.

It clearly won’t be a priority and doubtful to get a response but it is a police matter.

So she wants to call the police in retrospect as car had already been moved. What does she think they will do?

Some people think the police are their personal babysitters/protection squad.
The time that is wasted by these calls must be very costly.

I’m reading it that she called the police while the car was there and once it was moved she spoke to the op. Have I got that wrong?

Clearly phoning once it would be moved is batshit and the police wouldn’t entetainer her.

YABVVU

Come on OP, you know the rules.

Diagram !!!

buster It is a police matter if the vehicle is blocking someone exiting their property onto the highway.

I work in a animal rescue clinic. Our emergency rescue vehicles are frequently blocked in by illegal parking. Neither the Police nor the Council will help us when this happens.

Your neighbour was being U by not starting a thread (with diagram) on MN. She should not have called 101 until AT LEAST page 3 after the popcorn was handed round and penguin bollards/blocking it in had all been suggested first.

@littleducks

So she wants to call the police in retrospect as car had already been moved. What does she think they will do?

Surely she rang the police when the car was blocking her in?

As for walking around the neighbourhood to find the CF who'd parked across my driveway...? I'd call the police too, if I thought of it.

I’m confused. If at no point did you see his car, and in fact thought he’d walked - when did you divine he’d parked on a single yellow?

She was right to be annoyed, fair enough to call the police and you should be apologising

Your godson was vvvu. He's not dozy he's self absorbed.

In essence, your godson’s incredibly thoughtless behaviour prevented her from picking her children up. I don’t think she’s being palpably unreasonable: I suppose she could have knocked on your door first, to find out if he was something todo with you - but she might not have had time. She might have thought someone selfish enough to block her drive, mightn’t be too amenable. My sympathy is with her.

thecat I did say you are unlikely to get a response but technically it is an offence to block a driveway preventing exit into the highway, but not off it. When I get a chance I will find the legislation.

I wouldn't knock all the neighbours on the off chance they know something about it. Usually inconsiderate parking is by randoms not people who can be tracked down and moaned at.
Especially if I was in a hurry to drive the children somewhere.

She is NBU and you or your godson should apologise with a nice bottle or flowers. You can't be in the wrong and expect people to be reasonable.

I agree godson was vvvv unreasonable. He must have realised that he was on a yellow line and blocking someone in.

That said I can't see what police will do about it now it's all over (regardless of when she called them) so I wouldn't lose any sleep.

As you neighbour was actually inconvenienced, I'd get godson to go over and apologise, possibly with chocolates. There wasn't really any excuse for parking her in (assuming her kerb is dropped etc.)