Guy blocked in driveway due to neighbours

[George111]

james_gt3rs said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Do people have a "£200 snotter" tucked away for this kind of thing or do they buy one in for each incident.

Is there a source specifically for £200 snotters with MOT?

I think i will get one just in case.

Beat me to it! The internet hardmen are so funny

Go to your local vehicle auction on trade in day or whatever they call it and you can pick up a taxed, MoTd car for £100+, lots of them about. I wouldn't want to ever drive one or be in it on the road but they do exist.

[X5TUU]

Shakermaker said:

If only it were viable to be a car dealer specialising in £200 snotters that were road legal and MOTd etc, for just this type of situation.

There used to be a garage in Darlington called Dalmation Cars that specialised in this such thing, they've gone a little more upmarket now and I think may have changed their name but stock is around £500+ now with MOT etc...

[chris285]

Couple of trolley jacks and move offending cars

[Sheepshanks]

Axionknight said:

GTIAlex said:

Brake fluid in a spray bottle. A slight fine mist over a localised area will do the trick.

Of course it will until the coppers turn up and put 2 + 2 together after seeing that certain individuals cars weren't targeted.

Come off it.

They're housing association tenants - they'd end up stabbing each other.

I can't understand why the Police are saying it isn't illegal to obstruct the footpath, or even why the HA doesn't tell tenants not to do it?

[saaby93]

Dempsey1971 said:

DonkeyApple said:

Gary hasn't talked to his neighbours. Gary doesn't want to follow the standard mediation route. Gary hasn't followed the council instructions for collecting evidence. But Gary does go to the council then ignores what they ask him to do. Gary does then go to the police but ignores what they ask him to do. Gary has now gone to the tabloids.

Obviously his neighbours are being bell ends but Gary seems to be a complete tt who actually doesn't want to fix the issue using any of the means that have been put in place to help protect people who get stuck in this situation.

If Gary isn't even willing to attempt either of the routes to resolution as laid out by the council or the police then Gary really should just shut the fk up, suck it up and stop wasting tax payers money and civil servants' time.

You resort to the tabloids when all official routes have failed not because you just can't be arsed to follow them to try and help yourself. Lazy, tt, pansy victim who is as much an arse as his neighbours.

This.

Are you sure the reason Gary hasnt spoken to his neighbours is because he fears he may end up with flat tyres, a brick through the window or the brake fluid someone else alluded to

[saaby93]

Shakermaker said:

james_gt3rs said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Do people have a "£200 snotter" tucked away for this kind of thing or do they buy one in for each incident.

Is there a source specifically for £200 snotters with MOT?

I think i will get one just in case.

Beat me to it! The internet hardmen are so funny

If only it were viable to be a car dealer specialising in £200 snotters that were road legal and MOTd etc, for just this type of situation.

Are you sure the neighbours arent already onto this one

[lostkiwi]

saaby93 said:

Shakermaker said:

james_gt3rs said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Do people have a "£200 snotter" tucked away for this kind of thing or do they buy one in for each incident.

Is there a source specifically for £200 snotters with MOT?

I think i will get one just in case.

Beat me to it! The internet hardmen are so funny

If only it were viable to be a car dealer specialising in £200 snotters that were road legal and MOTd etc, for just this type of situation.

Are you sure the neighbours arent already onto this one

I wonder if I could rent out my £250 snotter or if it would mean I'd priced myself out of the market?
Then again being a Merc maybe I could market it as a better class of snotter to the average snotter....

[Samjeev]

I like the towing idea but I vote that you have a bit of fun with them. Rather than towing/pushing the cars away from the drive, make it so that they neighbors are all blocking each other in but leaving Gary's drive un-blocked that way he can come home from a hard day's work, easily park in his driveway, go in, grab a box of popcorn and watch the chaos begin.

[shake n bake]

lostkiwi said:

I wonder if I could rent out my £250 snotter or if it would mean I'd priced myself out of the market?
Then again being a Merc maybe I could market it as a better class of snotter to the average snotter....

I watched a 98 ka go through the auction for 25 quid last week, it had 9 months mot too!

[Megaflow]

k-ink said:

Willlll said:

Who the fk buys a house with one allocated space, no road and has 3 cars.

Selfish retards. Sadly the world is full of them.

Yep, we have just bought a new place with a budget of nearly double the UK average, you simply wouldn't believe how hard it is to find somewhere with off road parking for three cars.

We found a couple where it might be possible with some landscaping work, but also possible you might piss the neighbours off as well, so we left them alone.

[smithyithy]

The OP looks like my street, only on a much smaller scale, twice a day when the school moms are picking up their kids

[shakotan]

TankRizzo said:

Jimboka said:

Strictly speaking, you can block access to a driveway. But you can't block somebody on their drive.
tttish but true.
( A workmate parks his car across a neighbours drive, his neighbour only had it installed for their sons weekly visit. Police called on occasions by his neighbour, he now has a police letter to show them confirming no offence)

Your workmate is a bellend.

Depends if its a legal driveway, or someone's tarmaced their front garden which requires access over a non-droppped curb.

[longshot]

I think Gary needs to buy a can of yellow paint and a 6 inch brush.
Might be a bit of fun for a while if nothing else.

[johnnyBv8]

shakotan said:

TankRizzo said:

Jimboka said:

Strictly speaking, you can block access to a driveway. But you can't block somebody on their drive.
tttish but true.
( A workmate parks his car across a neighbours drive, his neighbour only had it installed for their sons weekly visit. Police called on occasions by his neighbour, he now has a police letter to show them confirming no offence)

Your workmate is a bellend.

Depends if its a legal driveway, or someone's tarmaced their front garden which requires access over a non-droppped curb.

Sounds like a bellend whichever is the scenario tbf

[Mandalore]

When comes home at night and finds the access blocked, he just needs to leave his car in the middle of the road and say 'that'll do' before walking up his drive to his front door.

[Black_S3]

plfrench said:

But unless your workmate's neighbour's drive is illegal, then surely Rule 243 of the highway code kicks in?

Rule 243
DO NOT stop or park:

near a school entrance
anywhere you would prevent access for Emergency Services
at or near a bus or tram stop or taxi rank
on the approach to a level crossing/tramway crossing
opposite or within 10 metres (32 feet) of a junction, except in an authorised parking space
near the brow of a hill or hump bridge
opposite a traffic island or (if this would cause an obstruction) another parked vehicle
where you would force other traffic to enter a tram lane
where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users and powered mobility vehicles
in front of an entrance to a property
on a bend
where you would obstruct cyclists’ use of cycle facilities except when forced to do so by stationary traffic.

That's more guidelines and not enforceable.

The options to deal with the same idiot doing this is compensation for loss through civil courts... or buy a cheap scooter and keep it in the house so next time the pest blocks an empty drive way you can prove the obstruction...

[shakotan]

johnnyBv8 said:

shakotan said:

TankRizzo said:

Jimboka said:

Strictly speaking, you can block access to a driveway. But you can't block somebody on their drive.
tttish but true.
( A workmate parks his car across a neighbours drive, his neighbour only had it installed for their sons weekly visit. Police called on occasions by his neighbour, he now has a police letter to show them confirming no offence)

Your workmate is a bellend.

Depends if its a legal driveway, or someone's tarmaced their front garden which requires access over a non-droppped curb.

Sounds like a bellend whichever is the scenario tbf

Nope, if the neighbours want a proper driveway they should pay for a dropped curb. If they can't be arsed then the curb at the end of their driveway is a valid parking space and they are illegally depriving someone the right to park there if they insist it's kept clear.

[robinessex]

shakotan said:

johnnyBv8 said:

shakotan said:

TankRizzo said:

Jimboka said:

Strictly speaking, you can block access to a driveway. But you can't block somebody on their drive.
tttish but true.
( A workmate parks his car across a neighbours drive, his neighbour only had it installed for their sons weekly visit. Police called on occasions by his neighbour, he now has a police letter to show them confirming no offence)

Your workmate is a bellend.

Depends if its a legal driveway, or someone's tarmaced their front garden which requires access over a non-droppped curb.

Sounds like a bellend whichever is the scenario tbf

Nope, if the neighbours want a proper driveway they should pay for a dropped curb. If they can't be arsed then the curb at the end of their driveway is a valid parking space and they are illegally depriving someone the right to park there if they insist it's kept clear.

Wrong

[DonkeyApple]

saaby93 said:

Dempsey1971 said:

DonkeyApple said:

Gary hasn't talked to his neighbours. Gary doesn't want to follow the standard mediation route. Gary hasn't followed the council instructions for collecting evidence. But Gary does go to the council then ignores what they ask him to do. Gary does then go to the police but ignores what they ask him to do. Gary has now gone to the tabloids.

Obviously his neighbours are being bell ends but Gary seems to be a complete tt who actually doesn't want to fix the issue using any of the means that have been put in place to help protect people who get stuck in this situation.

If Gary isn't even willing to attempt either of the routes to resolution as laid out by the council or the police then Gary really should just shut the fk up, suck it up and stop wasting tax payers money and civil servants' time.

You resort to the tabloids when all official routes have failed not because you just can't be arsed to follow them to try and help yourself. Lazy, tt, pansy victim who is as much an arse as his neighbours.

This.

Are you sure the reason Gary hasnt spoken to his neighbours is because he fears he may end up with flat tyres, a brick through the window or the brake fluid someone else alluded to

Well, we don't know. And it is fair to assume that he is maybe worried about talking to the neighbours.

However, the evidence doesn't appear to support this. He has gone to the council but chosen to ignore what they asked him to do. He has gone to the police and refused to do what they asked him to do. And he has now gone to the tabloids and had some of his pictures published.

If he was scared of the neighbours then there is no evidence of this from his behaviour.

If he had done what was asked by the council then they would have been able to assist. Likewise, the police but he has declined to do so.

There is almost certainly more to 'Gary' than the article makes explicit.

[hotchy]

I thought it was frozen sausages and a hammer that dealt with these types of situations?