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?!?

Invest in four wheel dollies. Jack up their car, roll it a few roads down so they cant find it.
You havent damaged it, you havent stolen it; bugger all trouble you can be found in.

Rinse, repeat for every CF who ever dares park on your drive.

It’s not really relevant, and I doubt anyone is interested. Also I don’t generally ask people their nationality. I live in an area with a high turnover of residents (I live in a very poor area). One of the frustrations that I’ve experienced is that people don’t have much regard for driveways and mine is blocked frequently. It’s really annoying!

This is the best idea I have seen all thread. Genius.

That actually is criminal damage

This is the best idea I have seen all thread. Genius.

More appealing in theory than it would be in practice, I think.

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This calls for Penguin Bollards.

Nah...nice try, but this is not what we were talking about.

ie leaving your car flagrantly parked up on someone's driveway while you go off and carry on with your day.

This is a temporary bung....PLUS, the bungee actually did something about it.

My amazement was at the suggestion that cars were left for hours on end on someone's private property AND MORE IMPORTANTLY that people let them get away with it without consequences.

Get lost.

I dunno...maybe whatever goes on on these new-build estates is beyond my ken...

Show me an incidence of an actual car being left on an actual drive - which isn't adjacent to an actual national monument or tourist attraction and subject to an internet scam - for an actual proper amount of time and I'll recant.

And as soon as I've recanted, I'll declare my non-plussedment at the people who put up with that kind of shit.

Divvies. Stop being so lame.

Like the girl highlighted here in the lovely Daily Mail. The Voice of Reason, ofc.

Here's two stories, @JandLandG -

[[https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/student-dumped-car-on-neighbours-drive-with-cheeky-note-before-jetting-off-to-china-94684

[[https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/car-parked-strangers-drive-four-6809964

It’s not. If you simply let the air out, there’s no damage.
if you slash the tyres, that’s criminal damage.

Absolutely it’s criminal damage. It doesn’t have to be permanent, if it needs action or expense to put right then it’s criminal damage.

@Swiftie1878 you see how it could be incredibly serious right? It's criminal damage and could lead to far worse charges should a very likely accident happen!

Letting someone's tyre down without permission is not specifically listed as an offence in law, it could come under a couple of other umbrella terms tho.

You haven’t damaged it, you haven’t stolen it

No, what you’ve done there is TWOC it.

Right Shade17? (I can tell you’ll know!😀)

Cant get in trouble for REMOVING it from my property. 😎

Nah

Clearly doesn't count

Student neighbour who left note, not randomer who parked car.

Let down their tyres, plus tow-rope drag to somewhere to collect tickets and police attention.

Nothing to do with me, chief.

People who just sit there and do nothing - lame.

Criminal damage? Prove it was a particular individual. What's the car-owner going to do? Go to the police? If I'm a police person, I'd be, like, do one, chief.

If letting tyres down is criminal offence, that's when a screw comes in handy. They must have driven over it and not realised.

Now, that’s a really interesting one! At some point it must become TWOC but if you move it 10 meters off your property into the road?

Yes, interesting. What the pp said was moving it a number of roads away so they can’t find it. I might have to look this up now!

Surely LWOC should also be an offence? Leaving (a vehicle on somebody else's property) without consent?

Why isn't that also a crime? Is it because it's much harder to pronounce as an acronym?!

Is it just vehicles? Would it be an offence to get 20 tons of soil/manure/rocksalt delivered to a stranger's drive - presumably very unwelcome?

Ok I’m a total saddo and have thought about this some more. The fact it may have been moved only a small distance, and moved off your property, could I think amount to lawful authority.

But moving it further so the owner couldn’t find it wouldn’t as you’ve gone beyond any lawful authority you may have had. What would save it from being a TWOC in Gouki’s scenario (not totally clear exactly what they had in mind but it didn’t involve getting in and driving/being driven) would be that the vehicle would not have been taken ‘for use as a conveyance’. So not a TWOC after all, but not for the reason they thought. And definitely not a good idea to think you can basically do what you want with someone’s else’s stuff because it’s on your property.

The ‘LWOC’ is probably the civil wrong of trespass. But good luck doing anything about it. Caveat: I am not a civil lawyer!

Dumping loose stuff in the way you’ve described would almost certainly amount to criminal damage.

What about the second example, @JandLandG? That was a stranger's car.

And you did say "Show me an incidence of an actual car being left on an actual drive - which isn't adjacent to an actual national monument or tourist attraction and subject to an internet scam - for an actual proper amount of time and I'll recant." - you didn't specify that the car had to belong to a stranger.

Put a typed invoice for parking fees on their windscreen. Seriously though let their tyres down so it inconveniences them as they have done to you. It's not damaging their car so there shouldn't be any come back on you.
If they knock asking about it just say you have no idea who could've done it.

Block them in.