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.

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The lesson here is simple: actions have consequences,

To be fair the shops were closed by then.

And not a waste of resources as a wanker was taught a lesson. He'll probably not block someone's drive in future

and also he will have had to pay so that's an economic contribution to someone somewhere 😂

That sounds something of a doormat Ned Flanders-style resignation.

Like if somebody is punching you in the face, urging them to be very careful that they don't hurt their hand on your nose!

All those people saying a waste of resources and she should have left it, let’s wait and see if you ever get your drive blocked in eh?? She did the right thing 100%!!! Good on her I say. People keep doing things like this thinking they can get away with it. Same with society in general! Too many do gooders about scared of punishing people for things they shouldn’t do. Hopefully the idiot now will think twice about blocking someone’s drive!!
I will also think twice about parking in a residential area near Anfield now when we watch dua lipa 🤣

Ah, I love having a weekend off MN, coming back on Monday, discovering a live parking thread that I can follow through from beginning to end resolution!

Excellent resolution OP. You definitely shouldn't feel guilty. It's the ultimate consequence for a CF like them - money and inconvenience! It's selfish entitled behaviour that deserves consequences.

They may have even spotted it and towed it without you calling. I know round our (v local and small) football stadium, the parking wardens are out in force on match days.

In future though, you could advertise your own driveway on these drive sharing websites - make yourself a bit of money from it! DH goes to Stamford Bridge every so often and will rent a driveway for the match.

I think it actually makes it more poetic!

OP did what she had to do to assert and regain her legal right to access the public highway at any time with her car. Naturally, she also very much has the right to not access the public highway at any time if she so chooses, but the choice is hers and it is not for some random football fan to remove from her and decide whether or not she needs it.

Edit: in fact, as OP points out, the shops had already closed, so he even more earned his financial penalties and inconveniences.

FFS. Did it never occur to you that hundreds of posts before you plopped on to the thread, that the situation might have changed?

RTFT.

Perhaps you could consider reading the thread?

This is it for me on iOS app.

I'm a teensy bit hot headed, but I do own a very old 4wd that no car sales yard would even take for a trade-in. I would have just ( slowly ) driven out of my driveway , when I hit the car I'd just keep slowly going until I could turn and drive off. I'm not sure if that's illegal but I really don't care. Parking across someones drieway is so incredibly infuriating and rude.. I might get a sign made stating what will happen if anyone does park across my drive. You should do that OP. Or even when of those No Parking Need 24 access signs. Might help.

This was an enormously satisfying thread until the posters came out in sympathy with the CF drive blocker!
Jesus fucking Christ.

The person NOT breaking the law or inconveniencing others is going to be the one in the right, just so's you know. 🙄

ABSOLUTE RUBBISH !

Anyone rude enough to park across anyones drive deserves to have their car towed. It is never an accident.

What resources were wasted? The driver pays for the pleasure of recovering their car, therefore paying for the resource.

The tow truck driver would’ve been sitting waiting for a job and if he hadn’t got one, no money would’ve been paid, but his wages would still have had to be met.

So I’d argue the resources were paid for and therefore it’s a better situation.

Why? She’s already got a dropped kerb, she can park there.

Won't help your immediate problem but when we lived near a premiership football ground we'd take the car out on match days and block our own drive.

Really, you think the reaction of the police was 'disproportionate' to the event? The rule is that cars blocking driveways can be towed but you don't believe the police should enforce the rule? Or you don't think a woman should ask for the rule to be enforced? So the police, or the OP, should be 'kind' and allow illegal parking to be 'nice'? How daft.

The waste of resources is not OPs concern, it's the person blocking her drive. Selfish and inconsiderate. 10mins blocking in is bad enough but hours on end - let them be towed. Likely the police will recover their money from the individual who blocked her in.

Well done OP, taught someone who things they are more important that everyone else a lesson.

No, I referring to responses of posters egging OP on

We have a drive that occasionally gets blocked by tradesmen or the ambulance. Our next door neighbour was an old man and before he died the ambulance was here sometimes twice a week blocking my drive. If I was out I had to park quite a long way away. Or if I couldn't take out the car, I had to walk to the shops. I grumbled but it was the ambulance and I was sympathetic.

Now the next door neighbour who bought the house after the old man died had lots of work done on the house so his tradesmen were blocking my drive on a daily basis, I'd have to call someone to move their car so that delayed me for a few minutes. I HATE having the drive blocked, it gives me panic attacks.

If someone dropped their car and left for hours I'd have it towed, not because it gives me great pleasure, but because someone's drive should never be blocked, just in case. Shops aren't very near to where we live, I have back problems and also have to do the school run in the car, school is 40 mins walk or 10 mins by car.

I might get a sign made stating what will happen if anyone does park across my drive. You should do that OP. Or even when of those No Parking Need 24 access signs. Might help.

But why? Everybody knows that it's illegal to block a drive - those who do so regardless just don't care; and they assume they'll get away with it, whatever warnings or threats you put up.

You may as well put a sign next to your front door saying don't burgle as all of the contents are needed, and the police will come out for you if you do.

Also, unless it's a commercial premises, you're very unlikely to NEED 24-hour access; but the fact is that you may need access at any time and have a perfect right for it to be available at all times.

To me, people putting up signs stating the obvious that they need 24-hour access kind of lowers the ante and could thus make CFs assume that anybody without a similar sign is acknowledging that they don't - and so it's a CF free-for-all.

Ignore the naysayers, Op. You did the right thing.