People parking in your own driveway

[shambolic]

My drive with the inshot off a national speed limit dual carriageway at the end of it. Secure electric gates.
The local authority decided to shut the lay-bys a mile to either side so we now get everyone stopping to use the phone, wait on AA , let their child pish in my bushes.
Generally if they are stuck I will let them into the drive to park. If awaiting recovery etc.
Although I've had a couple of numpties just refusing to move as they are on important calls!!
I did hunt one women who was blocking the drive as I was leaving to go to work.
The traffic was snarled in the opposite direction and she was leaving her car to walk her little darlings "only 5 minutes to school"
Eh naw the school is over a mile away in the village and I doubt yer fat carcasse can run as fast as Mo Farah.
Beat it as I need to go to work.
She was raging as if it was my fault!!!

[skahigh]

Thanks for the context OP, that really is quite incredible.

I would certainly be shutting and locking those gates with the offenders car inside.

Edit. Whoops, just realised the shot above is not the ops at all.

Edited by skahigh on Thursday 7th July 19:42

[vikingaero]

My Dads friend lives opposite a private school and he often comes home to entitled mums using his driveway. He'll happily park up blocking the car in and disappear for a couple of hours at the pub. Not many mums get caught out twice but there's a queue of entitled folk replacing them.

[Mr2Mike]

Quite incredible that there are people so utterly self obsessed that they think it's acceptable to use someone else's driveway. I get pissed off if someone blocks my driveway by parking on the dropped kerb, but if I found a random car on my drive I'd be bloody tempted to get the trolley jack out and put it on axle stands.

[Vipers]

Mr2Mike said:

Quite incredible that there are people so utterly self obsessed that they think it's acceptable to use someone else's driveway. I get pissed off if someone blocks my driveway by parking on the dropped kerb, but if I found a random car on my drive I'd be bloody tempted to get the trolley jack out and put it on axle stands.

I thought there was another thread on this subject, and someone said its not illegal to block someone's drive if there is no car on it, it there is, then it is illegal.

Either way I wouldn't do it.

[Allanv]

I used to have this problem before the bollards were installed including the diggers, as they were building the new estate.

Confront them and they normally say there is no where else to park, but when you explain that you no longer have parking as they are over you drive or they block you in they do not get it.

Weird.

[zarjaz1991]

Mac. said:

From the angle the photograph was taken, without the context of the house/entrance/gate etc, it doesn't look particularly drive-like, and I wonder if they have mistaken it as a communal space? Do you have a photograph of what it looks like from the road that would quash this theory?

Quit being so bloody reasonable and understanding in these witch burning threads please!

[Hoofy]

Vipers said:

Mr2Mike said:

Quite incredible that there are people so utterly self obsessed that they think it's acceptable to use someone else's driveway. I get pissed off if someone blocks my driveway by parking on the dropped kerb, but if I found a random car on my drive I'd be bloody tempted to get the trolley jack out and put it on axle stands.

I thought there was another thread on this subject, and someone said its not illegal to block someone's drive if there is no car on it, it there is, then it is illegal.

Either way I wouldn't do it.

It's not that it's not illegal but they're parking on your drive, on your land! And if you block them in, that's illegal and they are entitled to call the police who will turn up 30 minutes later, knock on all the houses, and wait 90 minutes for you to return from the pub... so the mum is late for whatever unimportant appointment they were going to next.

[MDMA .]

Dont you have kids who are very clumsy with bikes / crowbars riding past ?

[Mr2Mike]

MDMA . said:

Dont you have kids who are very clumsy with bikes / crowbars riding past ?

Sadly we do, actual real ones. Found the passenger mirror on the wife's Octavia hanging off by it's wires last night, and black marks down the side of the car so looks like some dhead on a bike has done it. Because it broke the folding mechanism I've now bolted it up solidly, so if the dhead tries it again they'll know about it.

[KTF]

Noesph said:

Happens all the time for me, a few times a week. I was nearly stabbed last year for the cheek of saying something to a van driver who parked in my drive. I've given up, nearly 20 years of this problem, no one cares, police, council etc. No one gives a sh*t around here. Last year my dad was very ill, In a bit rush to get out. Someone dumped there car on the end of the drive. I found them in the barbers getting a hair cut.......

Edited by Noesph on Thursday 7th July 19:11

Can't you install folding bollards or similar?

[DanSaff]

I used to get people parking over the driveway at my old house driveway, the people used to work in factory's across the road. I could never find them to move them and 8 hrs later they would manage to fk off with out me seeing them to have a word or it was a woman. So I decided it was fairer to pull the car out of the way before finding out who owned the car so not to discriminate.

Some of them thought it was funny to leave the radio playing radio asia over the weekend in the summer so if you slept with the windows open all you got was bangra all day and night - once is an accident, twice is a pisstake, third time after a reasonably polite exchange is war!! I fixed that problem with an extreme reaction one night!

So it was a sore point when I moved house.

I came home one day to find a fking car on my fking driveway!

I went utterly mental expressing my disbelief that some cheeky fker came around to visit, someone else, and decided to park on my drive (like who the fk does that!) to the mrs as we approached the house. which immediately steamed up the windows of the car up like a mobile fking sauna.

The mrs decided to do a three point turn which infuriated me even more as I had tried to get out of the moving (which I had expected to stop) car as we passed the house!!

So car stops I get out go almost in hulk mode I was gonna get out and just start smashing it!! I just had a thought I'd ask the only friendly neighbour if it could possibly be them (which I new it wouldn't be) I expressed my disbelief which was compounded to be justfied! So fk it! I'm gonna fk it off the drive by any means necessary. Wanna watch?

So as I'm storming back across back to the house about to get fking medieval it dawns on me it..........its the Mrs hire car that she ordered for work the next day.

Ooops

[Gary C]

SlimJim16v said:

essIII said:

Hammer frozen sausages into his radiator grill?

Hammer frozen sausages into his/her arse.

What you do in the privacy of your own home....................



My first house was a terrace, the neighbour had two cars and often placed one to block two spaces. I had an mk1 mr2 and often squeezed it into the half space

At work a stupid Bing had a new mgf and would park over tHe white line of a space to prevent people parking too near her precious car. Having an old polo I just stuffed it 3mm from the drivers door. Wasn't even a space at the far end of the carpark, but right near the main turnstile.

Outside Lancaster boys grammar school, parents park on the double yellow lines waiting for their precious kids, causing an obstruction, making the adjacent junction more difficult than necessary and putting pupils walking home at more risk than necessary. Selfish tts.

Edited by Gary C on Thursday 7th July 20:57

[spyder dryver]

Gandahar said:

I hope since Brexit those are Cumberland sausages and not some sort of Bratwurst.

The ironic thing is that following Brexit the Cumberland sausage could lose it's "Protected Geographical Indication" status. Anyone might then be able to produce Cumberland sausages, even the Germans!

Then what about Chelsea tractors?

Hang on, the Germans already make most of those.
They're fond of Cleveland steamers too, I hear!

[Smiler.]

Not a car but a local company once placed a skip on my drive. Took them 3 bloody days to move it.

Fortunately, no sofas appeared in between times.

[Fozziebear]

Had folk park on my drive twice to visit a house 2 doors down from me, they have a drive for 3 cars and room outside for another 2 to park. I knocked and asked for them to move it, very polite for once, the guy came out and said he'd be leaving in 30 mins so could I wait?! I blocked him in and went indoors, 30 mins later I get a knock on the door, apparently pleb needs to leave, I told him I leave for work at 0730 could he come back then? I closed the door and cracked a beer. I gave him an hour before I rolled the bin out and decided to let him off the drive, zero eye contact ever since. The 2nd time it was some muppet taking her kid to the running track just up from us, blocked her in and went inside. Had a knock at the door, wife beat me to it and explained to the woman in a very direct way not to return.

[so called]

Vipers said:

Mr2Mike said:

Quite incredible that there are people so utterly self obsessed that they think it's acceptable to use someone else's driveway. I get pissed off if someone blocks my driveway by parking on the dropped kerb, but if I found a random car on my drive I'd be bloody tempted to get the trolley jack out and put it on axle stands.

I thought there was another thread on this subject, and someone said its not illegal to block someone's drive if there is no car on it, it there is, then it is illegal.

Either way I wouldn't do it.

I posted on another thread once regarding parking across a dropped kerb.
My new and very arrogant neighbour decided it was fine to inconvenience my Wife every day.
She called the police as she needed to get to a hospital appointment.
5 minutes later they were round, banging on his door telling him that it would be towed if he did it again.
That it was illegal to block a dropped kerb drive, car on the drive or not.
They also told my Wife to give them a call if any threats were made.

Edited by so called on Friday 8th July 21:07

Edited by so called on Friday 8th July 21:08

[Josho]

The last car that was parked outside my father's drive (no kerb outside either) was swiftly moved with some wheel skates.

Everyone decided to use it to turn round in too. There was a tall wall you'd have to reverse around so two cars didn't see the forklift forks 3ft in the air with the forklift hidden behind said wall.

One had the cheek to have a go for leaving the forks there as if I'd done it on purpose.

[Vipers]

so called said:

That it was illegal to block a dropped kerb drive, car on the drive or not..

Thank you for that.

[jdw1234]

I recall someone doing this to our driveway at uni.

Much hilarity ensued as we took it in turns to jump on the roof.

It didn't happen again.