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SEMPA1234567 · 2024-10-15T13:05:06+00:00

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) 1. 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?!?

Nanny0gg · 15/10/2024 22:00

YabaJaba · 15/10/2024 19:26

What's CF?

I get pissed off with abbreviations being used. It's lazy

Have you been here long?

katystar · 15/10/2024 22:05

AngelicKaty · 15/10/2024 21:47

God, yes, that's awful and a sober reminder that as well as being a CF, the miscreant driver could also be unhinged. Clearly you've never forgotten it, but I hope you're all OK now. 😊

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thank you, it was a few years ago but still makes me nervous for myself and others as you really don’t know the driver.

Ivehearditbothways · 15/10/2024 22:12

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4304470-Random-car-parked-on-my-drive?flipped=1&page=1

@SEMPA1234567
I’ve not read the whole thread so don’t know if this has been linked already buts it’s the best parked on my drive thread. You might enjoy!

Random car parked on my drive! | Mumsnet

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...

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Itsmahoneybaloney · 15/10/2024 22:21

SEMPA1234567 · 15/10/2024 15:25

Thank you! 😂 art GCSE finally paying off! 😂

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@SEMPA1234567 sooooo what happened next?!

SoupDragon · 15/10/2024 22:35

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 21:07

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.

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I mean, you've not demonstrated any kind of "high standard of debate and conversation" on this thread with your multiple exclamation marks and demands for "proof" (Proof how exactly? A photo of random car you don't know the owner of parked on a random driveway you don't know the owner of? I can get that for you right now...)

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 22:43

SoupDragon · 15/10/2024 22:35

I mean, you've not demonstrated any kind of "high standard of debate and conversation" on this thread with your multiple exclamation marks and demands for "proof" (Proof how exactly? A photo of random car you don't know the owner of parked on a random driveway you don't know the owner of? I can get that for you right now...)

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Errr...there are no exclamation marks in my post that you quoted.

The proof thing had multiple to indicate it was partially in hyperbolic jest.

I still can't believe that people leave their cars on other people's drives outside their houses.

And even if they did, I can't believe that the homeowners would be so meek and pathetic that they would do nothing about it - or even worse, they couldn't actually think of anything they could possibly do about it.

I blame social media*

*This little bit I've indicated with the asterisk is my little joke. Perhaps there are some people left in here who might geddit.

samarrange · 15/10/2024 22:46

CheekySwan · 15/10/2024 14:45

Hope its a genuine mistake! You sure DH hasn't said someone from work or something could park on the drive or something. Or maybe its a present 😂, is it at least a decent car?

Put a printed A4 page on the windscreen that says "Another car successfully sold to WeBuyAnyCar.com", with that company's logo, nice and official looking.

Either that or a mocked-up penalty charge notice.

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 15/10/2024 22:47

HereForTheFreeLunch · 15/10/2024 21:38

Awww where's OP?
Don't tell me it was her mum and she had forgotten she was coming to visit! 😩
After such a good diagram and all!

I'm waiting for the one where somebody's lovely kind DH has bought her a beautiful brand new car as a surprise and left it on the drive for her to find... but instead of her calmly asking him if he knows anything about it, so that he can reveal the wonderful surprise and the news of his big promotion at work, she's already sprinkled bird seed across the roof and got it carpet-splattered with sticky turds, scrawled offensive messages in vaseline over all the windows, got her brother to come over with the rugby team and push it into the street (with the handbrake still on), on to some double yellows, and then slashed all the tyres, smeared all the door handles with creamy dog poo and forcibly shoved two dozen large parsnips up the exhaust

MrFirstTimeBuyer · 15/10/2024 22:53

Not saying you should do it, but I recall reading about protesters who were letting air out of tires of large cars/SUVs and police couldn't really do anything about it since it was not considered criminal damage. Just a thought. Not like they'd have proof it was you anyways, and feels like a fair responsive to their behavior...

Secradonugh · 15/10/2024 22:54

SEMPA1234567 · 15/10/2024 15:25

Thank you! 😂 art GCSE finally paying off! 😂

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Put empty plastic bottle in the wheel arch if nothing else will scare them for a sec.

Nanny0gg · 15/10/2024 22:54

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 21:42

Erm....dunno...can't think of anything either.

Lob a copy of the Highway Code at the car?

Write to The Daily Mail letters page?

Give up.

Maybe sell the house, buy one outside a huge visitor attraction and start an internet scam.

Use the money from that to buy all the cars in the world, thereby preventing people from parking on the drive of the house where you no longer live.

Brilliant, Katy - together we've come up with a foolproof plan!!!

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You really are just here for the wind up

samarrange · 15/10/2024 22:56

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 15/10/2024 22:47

I'm waiting for the one where somebody's lovely kind DH has bought her a beautiful brand new car as a surprise and left it on the drive for her to find... but instead of her calmly asking him if he knows anything about it, so that he can reveal the wonderful surprise and the news of his big promotion at work, she's already sprinkled bird seed across the roof and got it carpet-splattered with sticky turds, scrawled offensive messages in vaseline over all the windows, got her brother to come over with the rugby team and push it into the street (with the handbrake still on), on to some double yellows, and then slashed all the tyres, smeared all the door handles with creamy dog poo and forcibly shoved two dozen large parsnips up the exhaust

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That's very close to the plot of this Dutch TV commercial:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_9kcam3Gc

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 15/10/2024 22:58

MrFirstTimeBuyer · 15/10/2024 22:53

Not saying you should do it, but I recall reading about protesters who were letting air out of tires of large cars/SUVs and police couldn't really do anything about it since it was not considered criminal damage. Just a thought. Not like they'd have proof it was you anyways, and feels like a fair responsive to their behavior...

They wouldn't have proof that it was you, but there's a hefty clue that it might have been you, if they're the 'tasty' revenge-seeking kind, who know that they parked on your drive.

Scentedjasmin · 15/10/2024 22:58

You splatter their car, particularly the windscreen and roof with yogurt, mixed with a little black paint and a handful of seeds. It's not your fault that there are many seagulls or pigeons overhead.

FriendlyFriend · 15/10/2024 22:58

What happened op?!

fetchacloth · 15/10/2024 23:02

godmum56 · 15/10/2024 19:34

This. I am the mad old bag at number xxx and I love it

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Me too lol 😆

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 15/10/2024 23:04

samarrange · 15/10/2024 22:56

That's very close to the plot of this Dutch TV commercial:

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Brilliant!!!

Zonder · 15/10/2024 23:09

Oh no! Op disappeared mid afternoon. We may never know what happened.

WearyAuldWumman · 15/10/2024 23:16

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 22:43

Errr...there are no exclamation marks in my post that you quoted.

The proof thing had multiple to indicate it was partially in hyperbolic jest.

I still can't believe that people leave their cars on other people's drives outside their houses.

And even if they did, I can't believe that the homeowners would be so meek and pathetic that they would do nothing about it - or even worse, they couldn't actually think of anything they could possibly do about it.

I blame social media*

*This little bit I've indicated with the asterisk is my little joke. Perhaps there are some people left in here who might geddit.

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We tried putting a chain across our driveway. The miscreants took bolt cutters to it.

The problem is now solved because I have my car parked on the driveway and my van parked across the bottom. (Yes, there's a dropped kerb, but it's the one that was installed for the driveway, with appropriate permission.)

MonsteraMama · 15/10/2024 23:27

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 21:07

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.

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Er, literally everything mate. Did you read the whole thing or just cherry pick your favourite bits?

If you think what you're doing is a high standard of debate my friend, I can only laugh.

Have a nice evening, you weird, weird fucker.

longtompot · 15/10/2024 23:32

JandLandG · 15/10/2024 15:52

Show me.

Who the fuck would park on someone else's driveway?

And who the fuck would put up with it?

Parking outside of someone else's house in the street...yes, obviously.

Parking across someone's drive during school pickup for example...hmmmm, maybe.

But straight up driving up someone's driveway and leaving your car there..I mean, come on...that doesn't happen.

Who's that cheeky/ignorant to do it?

Who's that meek to let it happen without consequence?

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Okay then...
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4875789-people-using-my-drive?postsby=quicklybeendrivenmad

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4161333-it-s-a-parking-one?postsby=ILoveFlumps

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2487387-AIBU-to-be-fed-up-of-people-using-my-drive-as-a-car-park-for-the-shop-opposite?postsby=SweetTeaVodka

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3797867-To-be-annoyed-at-CF-parking?postsby=theworstwife

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4357757-I-have-a-parking-thread?postsby=Threearm

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4304470-Random-car-parked-on-my-drive?postsby=UftUft

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3817806-CF-parking-thread-picture-included?postsby=Goingwiththeflow2019

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4904791-to-get-neighbours-to-stop-parking-on-my-drive?postsby=changednameforthiswon

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2159585-To-block-this-car-in?postsby=Misssss

BitOutOfPractice · 15/10/2024 23:34

WiddlinDiddlin · 15/10/2024 17:18

Yes... some CF's parked on my parents drive once - long drive that ran in front of our house and the adjoining neighbours (off road, entirely, separated from teh road by a hedge, entry into drive clearly marked as being our house), driveway leading to a gate to the house and a double garage.

They were visiting next door, and had assumed that the end of the drive in front of neighbours house belonged to neighbours. It didn't, they had parking elsewhere. For some reason they parked right by our gate which as the driveway narrowed to single car width meant my parents couldn't get either car out of the garage and past it.

Mother did not take this lightly. She decided to position that weekends bonfire right in front of the car (it was parked right where we'd routinely have garden waste bonfires anyway).

When they eventually came out she didn't let them go until they'd made a donation (by cheque, yep that long ago) to a charity of her choice.

More recently we've had several people park in my Dads driveway - its a track that runs around the side of his house as his carport is round the back. There are a couple of corners you can park a car on as you follow it round, but they'd bizarrely (or to avoid squishy wet ground perhaps) parked on the narrow parts of the track (both times, different cars).
He chained the gate and went to the pub for the evening on foot. Never got to the bottom of why on either occasion, as both times he had to leave the gate unchained the following morning for the oil delivery tanker, so they did a flit before he got up. Not sure how they knew or where they were as his gate is not visible from any other property (and the nearest is half a mile away.)

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Why not just go to the neighbours, explain the mistake, and ask them to move? Much less effort, stress and arseholery involved.

LookItsMeAgain · 16/10/2024 00:05

Did you discover who the CFer was that parked on your driveway was @SEMPA1234567 ?

Dibbydoos · 16/10/2024 00:06

Oh my, do you have screws on your drive? Do you know that if you do, they could damage a tyre? If there are screws on your drive, I'd clear them up once they've left your drive and before your hubby gets home x

Miniopolis · 16/10/2024 00:40

Cyclebabble · 15/10/2024 14:22

It may be that one of your neighbours uses an app like JustPark and they have got the wrong space. Is the possible? I would get DH to block them in with a note and have strong words when they return.

Or someone is purposely renting out your spot.