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?!?

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

oh it really does @JandLandG I was expecting a visitor and as I came down my stairs I could see a car pulling onto my drive (next to my own car) through the frosted front door. I opened the door to see a complete stranger. I told her that she could park there (politely) and she responded “but there’s nowhere else to park nearby and I’m wearing heels”. I wasn’t so polite in my next response and then my neighbour at the time (a softy but built like the proverbial outhouse) came out and said “Are you annoying my friend?” At which point the CF got back in her car and drive off. Another time I came back from shopping to find a white van on my driveway, knocked at lots of nearby houses but no one knew who it was. Fortunately nice neighbour let me park on their driveway because it’s double yellows outside my house. Van went while I was collecting DCs from school.

Years ago this happened to a neighbour. She got another neighbour to block the car in. When the cf car owner came kicking off, our neighbour said that it was a family friend blocking the drive, who had permission to do so when they travelled by train (we lived about 10 minutes from the station). A police officer did actually attend, but they said as the car blocking the drive had permission to be there, and was due to be collected later that night the cf driver would just have to wait it out.

Page 1 of a google search ‘people parking on my driveway’ @JandLandG

It happens quite a lot.

If lipstick isn’t damage, why bother to use it?

Of course it is damage as it takes time and effort to remove, to restore the car to its original state. It’s exactly the same as throwing an egg over someone’s clothing - the clothing needs to be cleaned and therefore has been damaged

Best diagram I have ever seen on here. Amazing job. Shame someone random is parked in/across your drive though.

It doesn’t need to be permanent to be criminal damage.

4.You must provide a diagram.

5.If you have to open the door, do it in costume.

6.Penguin bollards.

Is the car still there?
Has your husband come home yet?
Please update us OP...

I love a parking thread 🍿

I'm amazed by the amount of people in this thread that think something that needs a clean and someting that's been damaged are one and the same!

A few years ago, a woman parked on our driveway. When I asked her what she was doing, she replied "well, my son built your house," (she was the mother of the architect). She seems genuinely perplexed that it didn't give her parking rights.

@SEMPA1234567 looks like they are half on the road!! think that is actually an offence being committed!! not fully on your drive! or else you can ask both neighbours to park on the road right up to their bumper!

@SEMPA1234567 collect some dog poo and put it on inside of door handles!

JandLandG

Yes on our actual drive, and it’s very obviously our drive

We’re in Derbyshire

On the very rare occasion we were there and someone knocked and asked we’d say ok as long as you move it straight after your appointment

It was the twats who talked as if it was their right that used to mightily piss us off

Bird seed on the roof - involve a third party.

Larance

Fucking hell!

This happened to me once so I went to try and set the alarm off (thinking they might be nearby and would come). When I tried to open the door I realised it was open. I went and knocked on my neighbours door and they pushed the car while I sat in and steered it off my drive.

Wow - hats off to the dog poo on handles. Yeesh.

Have you spoken to the neighbours? This happened to be about a month ago. Turns out my neighbour was renting out their driveway via an app and the owner of the car had got the wrong driveway.

I do hope you found somewhere suitable to leave it for them - preferably on double yellows outside a police station!

I do wonder if it's done by someone using an app like "park on my drive" and genuinely parked on the wrong drive?? :(

Love the diagram op!
This happened to my friend, but her CF went one step further and plugged his car into her charging point too! He left it there all day.

Great diagram, OP!

@JandLandG very common, I have one of these CF’s as an in law. Last year we were going away for the weekend and they opted to drive. Me and DH met them (in Southfields, SW London so not much available parking) and they decided to stop for coffees and snacks for the drive. Parked on someone’s driveway, wouldn’t get off when I told them how bad it was. i genuinely couldn’t believe it, and a year on it still shocks me. Their DP said they do it all the time.

Bloody hell😮

I have private parking outside my house. Not a drive, but signed, marked spaces. The number of cheeky cunts that park there and then get the arse when I block them in is astounding. There’s sheltered housing nearby and often I’m told that the warden has told them to park wherever they like.

Once, when my twins were babies a man parked there for three days. Police wouldn’t do anything so my ex husband phoned local radio well-known personality who ran the story and filled it up. Cops turned up later that day to tell me the owner of the car “had a pass” and so they couldn’t do anything. I explained the only person who could have given him a pass was me as I own the fucking land and they arsed about for another day until they got him to shift.

Im in Northern Ireland and a cop friend told me to throw a lunchbox under the car and call the police to say there’s a suspicious object under it and they’d race out to deal with it. But I’ve never been brave enough.

So now I block them and have pretended to be out if I’m in bad mood. Fuck them.

They do.
It happened to me many many years ago.
It was the landlords wife who thought she could park in 'my' drive because her husband owned it, despite me being the tenant.
Unfortunately prior to her return the lads in the garage next door had bounced it out of the drive ( it was a long time ago ) so was was a little surprised upon her return.
She never did it again though.