Car being deliberately blocked in when parked on a road
Discussion
joebongo said:
So OP, have the nimbys won? Will you and your family now not park there or will you continue to use the public road to park legally?
The bloke this morning got up to de ice the Mondeo just so that when my sister's boyfriend moved his car he could move it forward a couple of yards to close the space! I think tonight could call for some creative parking! Any BiB care to advise whether I could lawfully park on the road on the large verge on the corner without obscuring the view of the junction? I would have thought that would be no problem as you get a pretty good view of the junction regardless.
Muncher said:
joebongo said:
So OP, have the nimbys won? Will you and your family now not park there or will you continue to use the public road to park legally?
The bloke this morning got up to de ice the Mondeo just so that when my sister's boyfriend moved his car he could move it forward a couple of yards to close the space! I think tonight could call for some creative parking! Any BiB care to advise whether I could lawfully park on the road on the large verge on the corner without obscuring the view of the junction? I would have thought that would be no problem as you get a pretty good view of the junction regardless.
( and not necessarily due to to Mucher - the neighbours who no-longer have a drive have a lot to answer for)
As for Nimbys - the whole street in the photo is full of Nimbys - theyve all parked off road. It's only Muncher and the neighbours-who-used-to-have-a-drive-but-fenced-it-off who are any different
fluffnik said:
Hooli said:
fluffnik said:
Let's get them gone!
I think you'll find its carnsil planning rules that restrict how many parking spaces they can draw.Get 'em gone!
...I've got a
Parrot of Doom said:
Repeated applications of cold water on his car, every 15 minutes or so, will see it slowly turn into a block of car-shaped ice.
This would be funny 
inkiboo said:
We had something similar where my Dad is FD of a cleaning supplies company and he borrowed a van from work as we were renovating his house.
As the drive was full of skips, builders vans etc, we parked the van the nearest we could to the house which was two doors down.
The moment we did an old man, who in the past has been a total turd, came rushing out saying that we couldn't park in front of his house. We politely (genuinely) told him that we could and the van would be only be there a couple of hours.
Came back to find the front two tyres slashed.
Obvious next move was to try to move the van which sadly resulted in us travelling just far enough to block his drive.
Guy went totally mental, threatening all sorts. He called the police and when they arrived I proceeded to wind him up so much with my politeness (after the tyre slashing I did threaten vbrj, to kill his first born etc etc) that he admitted in front of the police that he slashed the tyres.
Cue 80+ old man being arrested and charged with criminal damage.
You have to play turds like this at their own game. And sign up them for sex catalogues in the post.
This is just want I mean about it escalatingAs the drive was full of skips, builders vans etc, we parked the van the nearest we could to the house which was two doors down.
The moment we did an old man, who in the past has been a total turd, came rushing out saying that we couldn't park in front of his house. We politely (genuinely) told him that we could and the van would be only be there a couple of hours.
Came back to find the front two tyres slashed.
Obvious next move was to try to move the van which sadly resulted in us travelling just far enough to block his drive.
Guy went totally mental, threatening all sorts. He called the police and when they arrived I proceeded to wind him up so much with my politeness (after the tyre slashing I did threaten vbrj, to kill his first born etc etc) that he admitted in front of the police that he slashed the tyres.
Cue 80+ old man being arrested and charged with criminal damage.
You have to play turds like this at their own game. And sign up them for sex catalogues in the post.
Just because you 'can' do something doesnt mean you should.
It ends up with us having double yellow lines everywhere just because someone thought it was legal to park there even though it wasn't too useful and annoyed just about everyone else.
Next thing is instructions on use of toilet paper, or blinking signs with 'drive carefully'
Borrow a white van that isn't being used due to Christmas holidays and get some magnetic "Paedophile Investigation Unit" signs made up. Park it outside with an assortment of fake documentation on the dashboard that indicates this particular address is of great interest.
Or do as I have an adopt the "silly people" attitude to odd neighbours and try to coexist / ignore them by minimising any chance they get to annoy you. This might sound like they have won but the reality is that they will still be tetchy mentalists while you are chilled out and getting on with life.
Saaby93- the OP's situation is at the side of a house, and is doing no harm at all, except for parking in a space the neighbour perceives as their own.
If we all took your outlook on annoying people then nothing would get done. So things start which are allowed become frowned upon for the slightest of reasons. Not just parking, but driving in general.
There is a little layby directly outside my house, which can at a squeeze fit two small cars in, though realistically it is for one car. Now us and our neighbours both have driveways for 2 small cars. However the woman next-door chooses to park in this layby instead of her driveway as it is easier for her to get her child out of the car (as she can stand on the pavement). Fair enough. I drive a 3 series BMW, which is long enough to mean that it isn't suitable to park my car and my wife's car on the drive together- so if the layby is taken one of us parks on the road opposite the layby. If it isn't taken, we park in the layby and the woman next-door will use her drive.
Now, I could tell this woman to use her driveway and not to be so selfish, as we have a need for it, and she has a drive. Me doing this would be similar to the OP's neighbour (they have a drive, choose not to use it). If I did ask, she may or may not use the drive instead. I'm not going to ask, as it's not my layby and I have no more rights to said layby than she does.
It's not even worth a passing discussion with our neighbour. It's first come, first served. As with the OP, this bit of the road is first come, first served. No-one has the right to claim it or, even worse, try to make a cowardly claim to it by blocking people in- and then not even answer the door to the police (this itself shows that they know that they are in the wrong).
If we all took your outlook on annoying people then nothing would get done. So things start which are allowed become frowned upon for the slightest of reasons. Not just parking, but driving in general.
There is a little layby directly outside my house, which can at a squeeze fit two small cars in, though realistically it is for one car. Now us and our neighbours both have driveways for 2 small cars. However the woman next-door chooses to park in this layby instead of her driveway as it is easier for her to get her child out of the car (as she can stand on the pavement). Fair enough. I drive a 3 series BMW, which is long enough to mean that it isn't suitable to park my car and my wife's car on the drive together- so if the layby is taken one of us parks on the road opposite the layby. If it isn't taken, we park in the layby and the woman next-door will use her drive.
Now, I could tell this woman to use her driveway and not to be so selfish, as we have a need for it, and she has a drive. Me doing this would be similar to the OP's neighbour (they have a drive, choose not to use it). If I did ask, she may or may not use the drive instead. I'm not going to ask, as it's not my layby and I have no more rights to said layby than she does.
It's not even worth a passing discussion with our neighbour. It's first come, first served. As with the OP, this bit of the road is first come, first served. No-one has the right to claim it or, even worse, try to make a cowardly claim to it by blocking people in- and then not even answer the door to the police (this itself shows that they know that they are in the wrong).
jazzyjeff said:
saaby93 said:
Next thing is instructions on use of toilet paper, or blinking signs with 'drive carefully'
I believe they've done those already 
JJ
Hooli said:
Ahh but you have to allow for saaby, he's proved time & time again that he has very little experience of reality. I guess matron doesn't let him out much.
I agree. My previous post hopefully highlights a situation that can be slightly irritating to myself or my neighbour, as the layby is the best space. However I'm not about to stop parking there because it possibly annoys her. Similarly I'm sure she knows that I (or my wife) likes that space, but she's going to continue to use it as she prefers that space too- if she thought about it, she may even think 'me parking here probably annoys them'. Either way, we get along with our neighbour, have never discussed this layby and both continue to use it despite possibly annoying the other.Another lesson in reality for Saaby.
BarnatosGhost said:
Can any BiB comment on the legality putting a pillow between OP's car and the offending car, and gently pushing it 3 feet, leaving it in a safe position?
No harm, no foul?
And in the unlikely case that the handbrake cable snaps and the car continues to roll across the junction, hits a passing car containing children and runs over a kitten?No harm, no foul?
STW2010 said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Can any BiB comment on the legality putting a pillow between OP's car and the offending car, and gently pushing it 3 feet, leaving it in a safe position?
No harm, no foul?
And in the unlikely case that the handbrake cable snaps and the car continues to roll across the junction, hits a passing car containing children and runs over a kitten?No harm, no foul?
Hooli said:
STW2010 said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Can any BiB comment on the legality putting a pillow between OP's car and the offending car, and gently pushing it 3 feet, leaving it in a safe position?
No harm, no foul?
And in the unlikely case that the handbrake cable snaps and the car continues to roll across the junction, hits a passing car containing children and runs over a kitten?No harm, no foul?
STW2010 said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Can any BiB comment on the legality putting a pillow between OP's car and the offending car, and gently pushing it 3 feet, leaving it in a safe position?
No harm, no foul?
And in the unlikely case that the handbrake cable snaps and the car continues to roll across the junction, hits a passing car containing children and runs over a kitten?No harm, no foul?
If the car is undamaged, is there any offence? How is it any different to pushing an overhanging branch out of the way when walking along a pavement?
STW2010 said:
Hooli said:
STW2010 said:
BarnatosGhost said:
Can any BiB comment on the legality putting a pillow between OP's car and the offending car, and gently pushing it 3 feet, leaving it in a safe position?
No harm, no foul?
And in the unlikely case that the handbrake cable snaps and the car continues to roll across the junction, hits a passing car containing children and runs over a kitten?No harm, no foul?
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