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?!?

So you’d rather sit and wait around until someone answers you? When you could know within a few seconds? Right, well you do you. The rest of us can just work things out for ourselves.

CF is just a standard MN abbreviation like DH, DS or DD.

CF is just a standard MN abbreviation like DH, DS or DD.

Although tbf it's not in the official MN acronym list.

www.mumsnet.com/i/acronyms

Can you put a sign up anywhere, no parking ?

Well I don't think things are going to change just because you don't like it

Yep, this.
Block them in and open a bottle of wine. Can't drive when you've had a drink.....

Soooo owner of the erroneously parked car has a long walk and/or taxi fare until you're sober and can move your car tomorrow.

Sorry if this suggested already - I haven't RTFT and I have had wine!!😂

For those that don’t know what Acronyms mean.

Tow them.

How? We can’t really do that in the UK. Not routinely.

Well we know what happens these days when the innocent party does anything to rectify the situation! The guilty people complain vociferously to the police and the police 'investigate' the crime, sometimes taking many months and then abandoning it - but the process is the punishment. A family carelessly opened their door on my car, twice, and when I got out and remonstrated with them THEY threatened to call the police because I'd raised my voice and there were children in the car who felt frightened!

ODFOD

Edit: missed the extra page.
You can all guess to which post this was a reply

Grow up! So many immature girlies on here.

I think you maybe need to get to bed earlier @YabaJaba 🤷‍♀️

Damn you anticlimactic CFs!

Getting old is your good fortune, growing up is your choice.
Odfod is good, fottfsoftfosm is a bit more brutal.

Yeah but not ON it, surely. Given it’s private land

In future, get a trolley jack under the rear axle to lift off the floor, and then, assuming it is a front wheel drive and they haven’t left it in gear, get some people to help you push it onto the road. If they have left it gear will need to lift up the front as well

It's trespass, which is a civil wrong. You have a claim for damages (which is obviously very difficult to quantify). You can exercise a lien over the car (ie don't let it leave) until the owner has paid your claim. This is the legal basis for "clamping". So clamp it.

Do people not always leave their cars in gear when parking? I always do as I was told that it was the safe thing to do to stop it rolling if the handbrake came off. I leave it in first if on flat or uphill and reverse if downhill.

Same here. Many years ago my car rolled out of a pub car park, through the entrance, across the road and into a stone wall opposite with my terrified dog inside wondering what was happening. Fortunately it didn't cause an accident but I've never risked it again and always park in the appropriate gear.

I've been told that in Spain people leave their handbrakes off so that their car can be moved by others if necessary.

I agree. 😊 OK, so I've found out what FOTTFSOF means (fuck off to the far side of fuck) but I can't find out what the TFOSM bit means - enlighten me please?

Acronyms are a part of everyday life (BBC, NHS, MOT, etc) and who hasn't enjoyed a good game of "Buzzword Bingo" at their (usually Blue Chip) employer? I honestly don't know why anyone would get so worked up about acronyms on MN (sorry, couldn't resist that one! 😉😂)

Then fuck off some more.

Noneed if you drive an automatic. It can’t roll back in Park.

I honestly don't know why anyone would get so worked up about acronyms on MN

Because they're too lazy to work out what they mean and would prefer for other people to spend more time either typing things out or explaining what they mean? And in this case the explanation had been given multiple times so they were also too lazy to have RTFT. They really are CFers.

Thank you! Every day's a school day on MN! 😂🤣😂

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