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WWYD if someone parked on your drive

166 replies

FlippertyFlip80 · 28/06/2021 16:42

or in your private parking space?

You point it out to them that they are parking on your private space and they mumble a sorry and walk off without moving their car...

I have blocked them in. AIBU?

OP posts:
Blossomtoes · 28/06/2021 17:50

Your husband was very lucky his car wasn’t keyed @VienneseWhirligig. There are some complete arseholes out there, I wouldn’t want to cross them.

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 28/06/2021 17:51

Powertothepetal
This is not true. A driveway is private land if it is included on your property deeds and parking on that private land without permission is trespassing.

VerticalHorizon · 28/06/2021 17:51

You can't get in trouble unless you are obstructing the public highway. You can get in trouble if you block a dropped kerb, for example. However if you have a double length driveway and someone parks on it and you block behind them, both cars are on private land and you are fine.

Not strictly true. Whilst the person on the drive is trespassing, you are not prevent them access TO the public highway. This is an offence, even if it's your drive.

BashfulClam · 28/06/2021 17:51

There was a great Facebook post on our village page. Someone found a car in her since so she blocked them in. The person drive over a grass verge to get out. I could just imagine the person waiting to have their day and it just not happening. So she posted on ra noon about the inconsiderate Parker and whoever knows them should send them to apologise.

Parky04 · 28/06/2021 17:52

@SilverGlitterBaubles

People are really strange. We have had a car parked outside our house for a month now. Reported to the police/ council as abandoned they are not interested as long as taxed and insured, technically it's legally parked although not roadworthy and just annoying for those that live here. Neighbours managed to track down the owner but they were very aloof and have no intention of moving it for the near future 🤯
We had this. Someone broke the window, released the handbrake and pushed it into the middle of the road. Police had no option but to arrange removal. No idea who done it but I'm glad they did!
Cocomarine · 28/06/2021 17:52

Right, so they didn’t park on your drive then.

Neither is correct behaviour, but I would definitely imagine people feeling far more entitled to park in one of a number of private spaces separated from an individual house, then on someone’s actual drive way.

2021DNA · 28/06/2021 17:52

So you don’t want them to park in your drive but you have now blocked them in you drive so they can’t move their car? Confused

Have you been working from home since last March OP?

RickiTarr · 28/06/2021 17:52

Sorry - hit “YABU” by mistake.

You are very much NOT BU.

RickiTarr · 28/06/2021 17:53

@2021DNA

So you don’t want them to park in your drive but you have now blocked them in you drive so they can’t move their car? Confused

Have you been working from home since last March OP?

Disincentive for next time innit?
Bexily · 28/06/2021 17:53

My neighbour once had this, she blocked them in. They came and knocked to get out and she told them she'd let them out in her own time as she was busy now. She made them wait an hour Grin

Powertothepetal · 28/06/2021 17:55

This is not true. A driveway is private land if it is included on your property deeds and parking on that private land without permission is trespassing
@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-interiors/property/amp21407693/what-to-do-someone-parks-on-private-driveway/

NewlyGranny · 28/06/2021 17:55

A jar of peanut butter judiciously applied to the windscreen and rear window with the word private written mirror-wise in it so they can read it as they get in would be in order.

NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 28/06/2021 17:57

Powertothepetal

Yes exactly as I have said, it is trespass, and is a civil offence
It is not a criminal offence, so the police won't do a lot, that's true. You can get a tow truck to remove it.

VerticalHorizon · 28/06/2021 17:58

@NewlyGranny

A jar of peanut butter judiciously applied to the windscreen and rear window with the word private written mirror-wise in it so they can read it as they get in would be in order.
NO!!! you can get into serious trouble for that. You must not touch their vehicle or spray / cover it with anything. In essence, you'd actually be making the car dangerous to drive. Same applies to 'letting their tyres down'.

Ultimately there's not much you can do. They are trespassing, but in terms of forceful removal, it's complicated!

BringBackThinEyebrows · 28/06/2021 17:59

I have an allocated parking space. Blocking the dickheads who use my space would block my neighbours' spaces too so I leave a note and confront where possible.

Would absolutely block someone in if I had a driveway and they parked on it.

I find work men are the worst for it. Some plead ignorance ("oh is it allocated? I didn't see the signs or the house number painted in the space!"). One workman even called me rude for pointing out he can't park there, then launched into a rant about how people always tell him to move his van haha.

gillysSong · 28/06/2021 18:05

It's not a crime or against the law to park on someone's drive.
It's a civil matter as trespass isn't quite a crime or against the law atm.
Will be soon though. New Police Bill.

SirenSays · 28/06/2021 18:07

We always used to have people parking in my mother's disabled space. One day a man yelled at me, called me a little bitch and walked away when I asked him to move and tried to very politely explain why. I was 14. My mother ended up needing an ambulance and they couldn't park on our street to get to her.
After that we bought gigantic stickers that basically said You've stolen my parking space, would you like my disabilities too? Every car that parked there after that got stickers.

londonscalling · 28/06/2021 18:08

Another friend had a car left outside their garage behind their apartment block. They couldn't get their own car out to go to work. Police weren't interested because it was a private road. They were told that if they tried to move the car they could get in trouble too. After nearly a week my friend and his neighbours somehow pushed it into the main road and then it got taken away!

TheoMeo · 28/06/2021 18:08

Hulu could go online and give the workman 0 stars.

TheoMeo · 28/06/2021 18:09

What is needed is a sabotage that doesn't happen for a few days - so it's not associated with you - or they might do the same to your car.
Can't think of anything off the top of my head.

crowsfeet57 · 28/06/2021 18:15

Many years ago I was in a crowded car park, I managed to find a space and was queuing to pay at the machine, while I was there a woman lined her car up to reverse into a space and a man drove the wrong way (against all the arrows) and nipped into the space before her. She got out and remonstrated with him but he just said "You should learn to drive you silly cow!" and walked off laughing.

Another woman was standing nearby watching. "That was very rude of him." she remarked calmly. "it's lucky I've got my husband's car today." With that she went to a car, opened the boot rummaged around in a tool box and came back with four 6 inch nails and a hammer. She proceeded to hammer a nail into each of his tyres then wandered off!"

I have wanted to do that SO often when some twat has parked across my drive! But I don't have the balls!

nancywhitehead · 28/06/2021 18:22

I'd tell them it is private property and to move. If they didn't I would call the police non-emergency number.

VerticalHorizon · 28/06/2021 18:22

@crowsfeet57

Many years ago I was in a crowded car park, I managed to find a space and was queuing to pay at the machine, while I was there a woman lined her car up to reverse into a space and a man drove the wrong way (against all the arrows) and nipped into the space before her. She got out and remonstrated with him but he just said "You should learn to drive you silly cow!" and walked off laughing.

Another woman was standing nearby watching. "That was very rude of him." she remarked calmly. "it's lucky I've got my husband's car today." With that she went to a car, opened the boot rummaged around in a tool box and came back with four 6 inch nails and a hammer. She proceeded to hammer a nail into each of his tyres then wandered off!"

I have wanted to do that SO often when some twat has parked across my drive! But I don't have the balls!

(or the nails!)
AliceLivesHere · 28/06/2021 18:22

@SirenSays

We always used to have people parking in my mother's disabled space. One day a man yelled at me, called me a little bitch and walked away when I asked him to move and tried to very politely explain why. I was 14. My mother ended up needing an ambulance and they couldn't park on our street to get to her. After that we bought gigantic stickers that basically said You've stolen my parking space, would you like my disabilities too? Every car that parked there after that got stickers.
I sympathise but if the 'disabled parking space' is one of those on a road with a white line around it isn't owned by anyone and has no legal right to say it is a particular persons.

I wouldn't park in one but there is no legal right to stop others from parking there.

nancywhitehead · 28/06/2021 18:24

@allihaveleft

I'm trying to picture your house, their car, where else they could have parked, and the house they disappeared into, I think I need a diagram, please Grin
Really not sure why this needs a diagram! It is private parking/ private land therefore illegal for them to park there... if the owner doesn't agree to it, it doesn't really matter if there was nowhere else to park. They still shouldn't be there and I would ring the police if they refuse to move.