Random car parked on my drive!

[UftUft]

dh has just come back from work and parked across the road. I asked why he hasn't parked on our driveway and he said he thought we had visitors.
I've gone out and there's a random car on our driveway! Knocked on neighbours door but they don't know who's it is. (They are really nice and we get on with them so they would have told them to move if it was anything to do with them).
AIBU to move the car and block them in?

[NeedToChangeName]

Zombie thread, but very funny

[AlCalavicci]

This thread has given me such a laugh ( and almost made me late for work on Monday )

Thankyou so much @UftUft

[Ohdearyme20]

Gutted I missed it the other night whilst it was actually happening!
OP you and your DH made me laugh!
Ignore the people who have been a bit mean you've made a number of people laugh and we need more laughter in the world.
😂

[DoTheNextRightThing]

This thread is great 🤣

[Anniegetyourgun]

Amazed at people saying there is no way the police would have attended because it is a civil matter. The twits parking on the wrong drive would be. Obstruction, on the other hand, is a criminal offence and, on a quiet night with nothing much else going on, and depending on how the incident was described by the caller, added to the possibility of drink driving, they may well have thought it worth while to drop round and check it out. I've seen it done, even round here where we come in the "don't bother to report anything short of murder" category, and had an interesting chat with the couple of 12-year-old PCSOs sent to deal with it (the obstruction was to a business in that case, so perhaps taken more seriously); but I just did a quick google anyway to confirm my understanding of the law and guess what, it is indeed a criminal offence to obstruct "the highway", which in some circumstances can also mean preventing someone driving off their own driveway. The fact that it wasn't their own driveway was presumably one of the details they'd kind of glossed over...

As for why the police did not question a man coming to the door in a hazmat suit: he has the right to wear whatever he damned well pleases in his own house. I didn't even bother to research that one.

[SourAppleChew]

I’d be dragging it off my drive with my pickup truck and leaving it in the road.

[ozymandiusking]

Alls Well that Ends Well. Thanks OP. Kept us all, well most of us ,really entertained.

[BlackeyedSusan]

@BarbaraofSeville

Maybe MN should add a feature where no-one can post on a thread that is more than 50 posts long until they have clicked on the 'see all' link in the OP and one minute has elapsed so they've made the most basic of effort to see how the thread has progressed?

yep. It would certainly have saved me from making a tit of myself at least once. (opening wrong thread...)

[PerciphonePuma]

@BillyRaywasapreachersson

Well. A slightly damp squibbish ending, buy at least it got resolved (and the police was an interesting, unpredicted twist). Guessing you live somewhere somewhat rural, if I rang the police about a multiple homicide they'd put me on hold round here.
Thanks for a great Friday night!

I called 999 after I STUPIDLY took an overdose in 2016 and immediately regretted it once my eyesight began to go and my hearing went echoey, and they put me on hold!!!!! Not for just a few seconds either, I vaguely remember it being several minutes

[JudgeJ]

@Anonuser21

WTF that is outrageous. I would take couple of photos and report it to the police. Surely there has got to be some sort of trespass offence being committed??? You may even be able to find out the owner of the vehicle??

On that note, I would get your DH to move his car and block the person in.

I think some of the late-comers are confusing two parking threads!

[JesusIsAnyNameFree]

@SchadenfreudePersonified

Well, who doesn't like a man who looks like he is just about to dismember and dispose of you?

[Frazzled2207]

RTFT not ride!

[Frazzled2207]

Just ride- This has to go in classics

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

@pastafeend

They had just got the wrong drive in end, feeling a little guilty now.

I'm not surprised. You knew before 11pm it was a mistake with the drive, yet an hour later they were lingering outside so your husband donned a hazmat and you switched the lights off rather than simply letting them out.

They made a mistake. You knew it was a mistake. You didn't have to prolong it for mumsnet cheers.

Don't feel REMOTELY guilty OP!

They are adults and perfectly capable of knocking on a door and grovelling.

PLUS

You have made a lot of people very happy

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

@UftUft

I had to edit it so it doesn't give us away (mask has workplace on)
He's kitted out...

He looks so . . . MANLY

swoon

[LakieLady]

@UftUft

So my sister has just rung, BIL has gone into work this morning (hes police) and they are talking about the weirdos with the hazmat suit from last night... she asked if it was us.
I'm going to take them round some biscuits or something later, just to apologise for the weirdness.

Pmsl!

I'm amazed they didn't comment at the time. I mean, for all they knew, you could have had a houseful of hazardous chemicals and been up to no good with them.

[Terrazzo]

@Mamanyt

Block them. Have wine. I'm popping corn now.

Bit late I’m afraid!

[Mamanyt]

Block them. Have wine. I'm popping corn now.

[dodobookends]

@TheSunShinesBrighter

The posters saying they came out because of a 'drunk driving' possibility are way off the mark. These people were not driving anywhere. Their car was blocked in.

I guess people are saying this because it’s illegal to sit in the drivers seat of a car if you are drunk - even if you’re not going anywhere (you can’t move your car off the drive if you’re drunk).

Equally, the person whose car was blocking them in may also have been drinking.

Mind you, I suspect that the call went through and there happened to be a patrol car 5 minutes away so they were sent for a look-see in case there was either drunk driving, a fight breaking out or vandalism to a vehicle. Or possibly a hat-trick.

I went to bed early last night and have been out all day, so have only just caught up with the thread.

[AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair]

@Anonuser21

I posted without reading as there were too many comments, I wanted to come back and edit it but oh well. can't be asked now

All good fun for OP lmfaoooo.,

I think you may need to bone up on how internet forums work

[TheSunShinesBrighter]

The posters saying they came out because of a 'drunk driving' possibility are way off the mark. These people were not driving anywhere. Their car was blocked in.

I guess people are saying this because it’s illegal to sit in the drivers seat of a car if you are drunk - even if you’re not going anywhere (you can’t move your car off the drive if you’re drunk).

[Cherrysoup]

So my sister has just rung, BIL has gone into work this morning (hes police) and they are talking about the weirdos with the hazmat suit from last night... she asked if it was us.
I'm going to take them round some biscuits or something later, just to apologise for the weirdness.

I hope you told them the fuckers lied and never knocked. I’m appalled they called the police.

[ripples101]

@Kittensat36

Told a friend (who used to be in the police) about this thread and she said that an incident like this would have been all round the station like wildfire because it was utterly bonkers. Two tits park on someone else's drive, didn't knock to ask if they could be let out, lied about that and then, when we (police) knock on the door, it's opened by someone out of Breaking Bad. And if someone off-duty saw the thread.....

True it's surprising the police went, but we don't know what other fibs Driver Of The Year told when calling in.

Good to hear that the police have humans as employees that are capable of emotion and having a good laugh about something.

[Yesindeedydoodey]

Ah. I've done this before. Went to visit friends; had arranged to park at their house, then walk up to the church hall to meet them there. I got the wrong house. Very embarrassing. I didn't realise till two hours later when we all got back from the church hall and, to my horror, people started walking through the front door of the house next door. Ulp. :(

[NoLongerWantHugoToWin]

Guilty as charged.