CF parked on my driveway!

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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?!?

I used to live in a complex of flats, with a few allocated spots, but mostly free for all. You had a code to open the barrier, but people would wait, then sit right behind and gun it in after you.

Here's a picture of the car of one who did that to me. He then walked out of the flats and fucked off. See of you can guess which car it is.

This once happened to me. I lived on a terraced street with parallel parking and someone had double parked and blocked me in. Next door was an HMO so I knocked on and said can they move it. He said not ours, I said can you ask everyone please. He said defo not ours. Knocked all doors in vicinity and no one owned up.

Luckily I lived in a student house with some strapping lads and my bf. They pushed it. Handbrake on and everything. Dickhead soon came out and told us to stop. It was the neighbours guest.

OP! Where's the update!

I have to admit I thought it stood for somethling else that starts with a C, ends in a T and has the UN in between. Second word Face 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I note you're being very vague about this.

"Said event is happening again soon"

I'm sure this isn't related in any way, but in Nottingham there is something called the Goose Fair held every year (which has already been held this year).

"...so if I get to my Mum's someone else is parked, we're scuppered as police put cones and notices up and it'll be too late to park anywhere else"

It's exactly the same thing in Nottingham. There are certain roads that are normally ok to park on the road at any time but, during the Goose Fair, they are coned off.

We used to live on one of those roads. That exact thing happened to us one year. Somebody blocked our off-road parking space so we just parked on the side of the road.

I had totally forgotten about the Goose Fair and I woke up the next morning to find that the offending car had vanished and that I had a parking ticket.

Do this but time the note when you first saw it and when they eventually knock om the door asking you to move, answer with a drink in your hand and say you can't move it as you have had a drink as you had no iddea when they would be back - police can't ask you to move it then!

Are you suggesting maybe ... a penguin bollard?

MollsDolls · Today 20:07

I have to admit I thought it stood for somethling else that starts with a C, ends in a T and has the UN in between. Second word Face

No, it's definitely not a Caring, Understanding Nineties Type! Well, it is too..

You're new around here aren't you

Something similar happened when my husband was at uni. He was a member of the uni weightlifting club. The vehicle concerned was a mini: the weightlifting squad simply lifted it out of the way.

why can't you block them in? It's your property, you have no obligation to give them access to leave it.

What a shame you can’t block them in and go out, explaining later that you assumed it must a surprise gift and you’d wondered where to find the keys.

Am jealous of the people for whom this is a rare occurrence, happens to me at least once a week and drives me crazy. It’s a combination of HMOs and people not understanding (or claiming to not understand) the concept of driveways. Also people nipping to the shops and think across my driveway is a great place to park. If I catch people I confront them. Most people don’t care or others just pretend not to understand. It’s depressing and infuriating.

I hope you are in when they come back.

"Disclaimer: I may have read too many Beanos as a child."

Oh, I thought that was maybe a reference to the 1984 film "Beverly Hills Cop" where the protagonist did the same thing with a banana (or two).

I'm always surprised at how much of a difference a paring knife applied to a tyre of a parked car can make to people's decisions to park in a particular place.

Also, a paring knife (or vegetable knife) is a lot better choice than a longer knife as it is less likely to snap.

Please, don't ask me how I know this.

I'd block them in. Dicks.

Also, I think it's criminal how little protection there is for homeowners - be it rogue builders or errant parkers, it's just awful

I read somewhere that its illegal to use a private clamping company to clamp a car on your drive?!? The police can arrest you for doing so but can't arrest the bellend parking on your driveway!! Insane x

There's absolutely no way on earth anyone would get away with parking on my driveway and there would be zero consequences...none whatsoever.

I'm not suggesting people are lying - what an odd question. I just find these tales so completely outlandish as to be astonishing. Why would anyone sit there and let people violate their property...? Beggars belief...

They wont care that theyve inconvenienced you. If they were the type to care, they wouldn't have parked there in the first place.

@JandLandG "Why would anyone sit there and let people violate their property...?"
Why do you think they just "sit there"? For most people they don't see the CF arrive at all, but discover them later. (I don't think there are many people who have the time to sit at their front window all day looking out for possible miscreant drivers.)

Guys, what's CF?

Sorry? What?

What's this pile of shit got to do with the price of fish?

Your mate lived near a huge attraction and people were on some kind of internet scam.

It's nothing like what we're discussing, is it?

Rule 243 of the Highway Code sets out where people can and cannot park. It says drivers should not leave their car in front of an entrance to a property, which means blocking someone's driveway would break this rule.

Again - what the fuck has that got to do with what we're talking about?

I've spoken about this before - I'm getting old now, but MN used to have a fairly high standard of debate and conversation. Too many Daily Mail and Daily Express readers in here now.

And breathe...

Did you think I was being literal when I said "sit there"?

Like, literally sitting? There?

Goodness me...

We need an update!

If someone comes home to find some random car sat on their drive with the owners no where in site then how are they at fault, how is that letting them violate their property?

See explanation above