CF parked on my driveway!

[SEMPA1234567]

CF has now been parked on my driveway for at least 3 hours! Husband home soon and won’t be able to park!

My question is what can you actually practically do about this, apart from giving them an earful if you spot them returning to their car!! 😂

A quick google says

1. the police won’t do anything (they might if it’s stoping you getting off your drive but not if they’re preventing you accessing your drive)
2. My areas police website says try contacting the council . The councils website clearly states they will not remove vehicles or issue parking charge notices for private drives

Also you are not allowed to block them in as this is an offence to stop them leaving and obviously you can not damage their car as this would be criminal damage.

Assuming you don’t want to break the law 😂 what are you meant to legally do if someone parks on your drive??

Has anyone successfully got any type of justice against a CF?!? Or can I now just go around being a CF never paying for parking and just using other peoples drives?!?

What consequence are you suggesting?

And why are you claiming that a number of people are lying?

We live near Gatwick and people used to park for up to two weeks on ours. Turned out someone was selling our space on a parking app. Only found out as we bought a car and I used to park across both spaces and some one knocked one day to say can you straighten up I can't park with you like that! Cheeky buggers.

I really can’t believe the audacity of some people! Who parks on a private drive?!

Just a thought - a couple of times when I've had people parking across my driveway, I've encouraged them to move by walking around the culprit's car and ostentatiously taking pictures of the position and the numberplate.

I just can't fathom the absolute cheek of some people. Unreal.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you think that because you've never seen something or had it happen to you that you simply don't believe it happens? Surely you're not that dim?

I've a pal lived near the O2 arena, people parking on her drive was a frequent occurrence. Sometimes it was a scam site "selling" the space, sometimes they were just cheeky fuckers. Again though, it absolutely does happen. The fact that there are Highway Code rules written about what to do if it happens kind of implies that it does.

Allow me to introduce you to another thing that you may not be familiar with, Google! You can find all the proof you need with this handy dandy tool!

This took three seconds to find

Spray with manure. 'Oh I was just doing the garden'...

That neat, clear diagram is most excellent. It's up there with the one by the lady who had neighbours going around the house to use the back door (2nd version, with nude woman dancing).
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If they're parked over a drop curb they can be ticketed. Parking wardens come surprisingly quickly when alerted a ticketing situation.

In addition to a message in Vaseline I would put on some rubber gloves, find some dog or cat shit and put it under the handle of the driver's side door. Then I would mix some eggs and pour it into the vents at the bottom of the windscreen. If I had some prawns (I don't usually) then I would put some of those in the exhaust pipe. But any fish would do.

I’ve done it with Vaseline. I live opposite a school and am a wheelchair user. The number of parents who ignore a dropped kerb for a wheelchair user is unbelievable. I’ve come home to find cars parked across my drive at afternoon pick up and even a ticket written by PCSO’s doesn’t deter them. I printed off my own signs telling them they were blocking a wheelchair user and that parking across the dropped kerb was illegal, and plastered it on with Vaseline. It never happened again.

JandLandG DS lives in a city centre flat with a gated car park with a security code. This didn’t stop a car appearing in his allocated space last summer. The letting agents and the building owners wouldn’t do anything, other than allow him to park in a spare space without getting a fine. The car stayed four months then disappeared one day when he was at work. These stories are real, there’s CF everywhere!

Legally if you need to do more than wipe it then it is classed as criminal damage. So someone spits on your car, quick wipe, not criminal damage. Someone puts Vaseline or lipstick on it and you need to use cleaning products and elbow grease it is criminal damage.

Edit. It’s my job to know this

All over the place, I've seen it on my local Facebook groups. Are you new to the internet?

In my case a Community Psychiatric Nurse who was seeing a new client. Wasn't sure where the client was, so left it on our shared drive while he wondered down the road and saw the client. Admittedly we are rural and its all house names. He parked in an interesting position in front of my dining room, making life difficult for us and our neighbours. I complained to his Trust as he didn't see he'd done anything wrong as he had seen a bus stop down the road and thought he didn't want to park on the narrow road.

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@SEMPA1234567

Any update? Is it still there?

I too need an update.

put a massive mound of birdseed on the roof and on the bonnet.
Bird crap amungo.

😂😂😂No 5! 👏

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even some carparks have notices like this.
"Cars are parked at owner's risk"
I'm shocked that the police can't/won't help. It's trespassing on private property.

I'm shocked that the police can't/won't help. It's trespassing on private property.

You must be easily shocked, trespassing has nothing to do with the police. It would be more shocking if they were interested!

I agree. WTW is absolutely brilliant. I'm amazed that not all of the courier/delivery companies aren't using it, but I've only encountered one who is.

It's really not so rare. We had it at our last house. There were builders next door. Workmen left vehicles on our drive. When confronted they said "the boss" had told them to park there. After I went full fishwife at them it never happened again.

And when you say sorry I've been drinking, perhaps stumble around a bit and bang onto your wall
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