To ask how to best handle this car blocking my drive?

[Parkingdrama00]

I live near to a football stadium and the team are currently playing. Somebody has parked right across my drive and blocked me in. I assume they have gone the match.

You need a residents pass to park round here and it doesn't look like they have one. Looks like I'm trapped until they come back.

What's best to do? Can I report them to the council? Leave a note? Confront them upon their return. Or is all of that pointless?

I wanted to go to the supermarket which will likely be closed by the time they're back.

There needs to be wheel clamping in place for this / towing/ mega fines. Stamp it out. Fucking selfish dangerous behaviour all because they're too lazy to walk a few 100 yards

Of course. I have little sympathy

Not the police. The tow company make the money. Police do not tow vehicles.

Speeding fines also don’t go to the police. They go to local Government.

🤣

It makes me rage. Pavement parking, on the double yellows, over a dropped kerb, the zig zags FFS. It takes selfish to another level.

What waste of resources?

Copper on the front desk rings the tow-truck company that has their contract for picking up illegally parked vehicles, takes ten seconds to pass on an address and vehicle reg.

Wow. Huge waste of resources.

Oh you didn't think police officers go around driving recovery truck vehicles themselves did you?

"Probsbly an out of town liverpool fan"

Evertonian by any chance OP? ;)

I’m on Merseyside. The police here absolutely would have got involved whatever OP said. It’s a match day and there is zero tolerance for this kind of behaviour. I’ve seen more CF parking on match days than you’ve probably had hot dinners, and it amazes me that people still risk it, because the likelihood is they’ll be fined or towed. It’s cheaper to use a car park or public transport. If the culprit comes a knockin’ OP can deny all knowledge. And if the culprit rings to report the car stolen he’ll likely be told it’s been towed and where he can collect it. He made a conscious decision to park the way he did, and for a considerable period of time. OP made a conscious decision not to let him get away with it. Hopefully it’ll be a good use of resources if he learns his lesson.

Excellent result, they wont park there again will they?

@CauseImMrDarkside 600 or so posts, before you plopped onto the thread with your words of wisdom. Did you not bother to think that things might have moved on?!

RTFT. Always.

@MJconfessions what rubbish. It's not a waste of police time. In fact it should be easier to get cars towed from blocking drives and parking on private drives in this country. So many piss takers who know nothing will happen to them 99% of the time. That needs to stop.

Yes. Or at least the OPs updates. It's not hard.

I've lived in several smaller, older cities with big football clubs/several football clubs - illegal/inconsiderate parking is a massive problem on match days, particularly where you've got a fairly bad traffic system, lots of narrow streets etc. So they are absolutely on the ball about removing illegally parked/obstructively parked vehicles, and the only qualifier for removing them is that they are illegally/obstructively parked.

The OP could have told the police she fancied doing a strip tease on the road outside her house and they'd still have shifted it.

He most likely couldn’t remember exactly where he parked, just the street. I doubt he will knock on the door.

Don’t be so ridiculous! They acted because OP was blocked in, the car was parked by a total selfish cunt!

OP doesn’t live in bloody Greendale 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣!

It can mean that they are stopping you getting onto your drive, or off it. The legal remedies available in each case differ - the police will tow the illegally parked vehicle away if it is stopping you getting off your drive.

Who cares! It is a selfish and deliberate act, and it seems to not bother you, so you probably haven't been personally inconvenienced by it yourself!
What if the resident was an A&E worker, or an Ambulance driver etc, who couldn't get to work.
We get it all the time by people parking on the double yellow lines across the alley to our house.
So f#ck him, shouldn't have done it should he!!

Do you like Karaoke OP? There is a list of songs on the internet with the word Go, Snow or No in the title. Replace any of those with the word TOW.

You could position your Alexa speaker near an open window then when he rocks up scratching his head and getting all irate you can sing really loudly out of the window to him.

You could have:

Tow Now! by the Moody Blues.

Wake me up before you Tow Tow, Wham.

Tow your own way. Fleetwood Mac.

Tow Regrets. Robbie Williams.

Frosty the Towman (very topical)

The possibilities are endless.

Cheers. <chinks second glass of Amaretto>

I do actually feel slightly bad now. I never actually thought a tow truck would turn up if I'm honest!

Well what did you think was going to happen when they said a tow truck would be sent.

That's like saying "I voted leave, but didn't think it would really happen".

So you think @MJconfessions that the police only respond to a crime when someone is inconvenienced by it? It doesn't matter what the OP said or didn't say. The driver was illegally parked. They deserved to be towed away. And hopefully they won't do it again. That's one of the points of issuing a punishment. Deterrence.

Out of interest, when he got back to the car and saw it wasn’t there how does he know who to ring? Do the tow truck people leave a calling card or sticker or something? Where do they leave it??? Or is he contactable through his reg plate? How does it work?

Oh dear

Read update, nice one OP 👏But so many people on here now need to calm down and untwist their knickers about illegal parking. It was fun but now it's just tedious, banging on and repeating everything.
Leaving the thread so doesn't matter what happens now.

Can you say what colour the car was?

Oh they absolutely ARE proportional. This was a disgustingly selfish and stupid thing to do, absolutely avoidable arseholery and now they are going to be totally fucked as a consequence of their own shitty behaviour. The punishment absolutely fits the crime. They won't do it again!