People parking in your own driveway
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DAVEVO9 said:
Jack the car up.. undo sump plug and drain oil into appropriate container.
Replace sump plug.
Off they go none the wiser.. for extra giggles follow them to see how far they get.
Check to see if the car is unlocked first and help yourself to a pair of Foster Grant driving sunglasses, some outdated wethers originals and a 1999 a-z along with whatever else you can find in the glovebox and seat pockets Replace sump plug.
Off they go none the wiser.. for extra giggles follow them to see how far they get.
Has happened once or twice on my driveway.
We have a big Asian family 3 houses down, one of them got married and they had a family party in the house , came back from my girlfriends to find 2 cars in the driveway, the family's visitors ran out of spaces in the street and just decided to park on everyone's drive right up the street, to be fair to them the family were apologetic however the 2 guys that parked on my drive just shrugged the shoulder and jumped in the car.
Other time was a delivery driver who couldn't find the right house, was swiftly told to move when he had an attitude to me asking if I had a delivery.
Can be infuriating if someone is arsey about it, however I don't usually go to Defqon 5 if I see another car on my drive
We have a big Asian family 3 houses down, one of them got married and they had a family party in the house , came back from my girlfriends to find 2 cars in the driveway, the family's visitors ran out of spaces in the street and just decided to park on everyone's drive right up the street, to be fair to them the family were apologetic however the 2 guys that parked on my drive just shrugged the shoulder and jumped in the car.
Other time was a delivery driver who couldn't find the right house, was swiftly told to move when he had an attitude to me asking if I had a delivery.
Can be infuriating if someone is arsey about it, however I don't usually go to Defqon 5 if I see another car on my drive
Many years ago an ex girlfriends neighbour moved house but left his caravan in the close opposite the girlfriends house, her dad was pissed at this so after giving him a week or so to shift it we went outside late at night and wound the jacks up and rolled it back into the road and left it in the middle of a quite main road. We then took the space the caravan was in with our cars, someone phoned the police, they contacted him via his reg plate that was still on the caravan, he got a b
king for leaving it in the middle of the road. He then had to take it with him as there was no where to park it back up.
I live in a private road that has no turning and its getting rather annoying having people just driving up our road then using my drive to turn around on. At my last house which also was a private road some one would park there taxi at the end of the drive to pick up next doors kids, he would never move ,until i phoned his company every day and complain about him,"im only doing my job mate and cant youy wait 5 minutes" is what i got from him,.
Was chatting to a guy that was blocked in his own garage one night, he went to leave at 3am to pick up his daughter from the airport, he goes from his house through the garden into the garage, gets into his car and remotely opens the garage door, right into the front of a car that some arse had left on his drive, he's blocked in. He goes back around the house to the front of his garage to find said car, he missed picking up his daughter and had to pay for a cab to pick her up, he caught the person in the morning and asked about the parking and who was going to pay the taxi, he just drove off.
My wife had a visitor from work whilst she was off sick, the visitors boyfriend reversed his van through my roller shutter garage door,he ripped it off the wall on one side bending the frame and damaging 7 slats,i was out at the time and he was gone when i got back home, a week later he came back, after recieving the quote of £600 to repair it, he questioned whether it was his van that had damaged it, i was fking fuming, he even backed his van up to show me that it couldnt have been him that did all that damage, all the dents and scores matched up, i told him he had a choice to make , pay up or ill phone the insurance company and make a claim, he paid up, another .
king for leaving it in the middle of the road. He then had to take it with him as there was no where to park it back up.I live in a private road that has no turning and its getting rather annoying having people just driving up our road then using my drive to turn around on. At my last house which also was a private road some one would park there taxi at the end of the drive to pick up next doors kids, he would never move ,until i phoned his company every day and complain about him,"im only doing my job mate and cant youy wait 5 minutes" is what i got from him,
.Was chatting to a guy that was blocked in his own garage one night, he went to leave at 3am to pick up his daughter from the airport, he goes from his house through the garden into the garage, gets into his car and remotely opens the garage door, right into the front of a car that some arse had left on his drive, he's blocked in. He goes back around the house to the front of his garage to find said car, he missed picking up his daughter and had to pay for a cab to pick her up, he caught the person in the morning and asked about the parking and who was going to pay the taxi, he just drove off.
My wife had a visitor from work whilst she was off sick, the visitors boyfriend reversed his van through my roller shutter garage door,he ripped it off the wall on one side bending the frame and damaging 7 slats,i was out at the time and he was gone when i got back home, a week later he came back, after recieving the quote of £600 to repair it, he questioned whether it was his van that had damaged it, i was f
king fuming, he even backed his van up to show me that it couldnt have been him that did all that damage, all the dents and scores matched up, i told him he had a choice to make , pay up or ill phone the insurance company and make a claim, he paid up, another .The other day I came back from somewhere to discover someone had left their yellow korean supermini thing blocking access to my driveway. We share our driveway with our neighbours who luckily were out at the time, so I was able to reverse via their side of the driveway and across onto my side. However I wasn't exactly impressed, if my OH was in then I'd have had trouble getting my car onto the driveway. As I unloaded the car, the woman appeared from our neighbours house on the other side - some old lady who seems completely useless at everything, has a driveway space but doesn't have a car, therefore any visitors can park there as opposed to blocking others' driveways! Anyway this woman didn't even acknowledge me, just got in and drove off. If she does it again I'll park such that she can't open her drivers door.
Spent 2008 to mid 2015 living in my flat with assigned underground parking and all manner of bollards, posts, signs and snotty notes flying about between residents. Was quite glad to get away from it and in to our new house with double driveway.
I'm currently finding the problem of people parking in our drive more amusing than irritating, essentially because at least once a week someone is doing it thinking our house is the showhome. To be fair it is the first one as you come up the street, its right next to the sign for the development and its a pretty big driveway. Those that make it to trying to open the front door, usually past the dog eyeballing them from his footstool by the window, are mortified they've just tried to walk in to someone's house and parked on their driveway
I'm currently finding the problem of people parking in our drive more amusing than irritating, essentially because at least once a week someone is doing it thinking our house is the showhome. To be fair it is the first one as you come up the street, its right next to the sign for the development and its a pretty big driveway. Those that make it to trying to open the front door, usually past the dog eyeballing them from his footstool by the window, are mortified they've just tried to walk in to someone's house and parked on their driveway
Astonishing cheek.
If I could mobilise quick enough, that would inspire to commence re-laying my driveway, starting with a massive trench behind their car.
"Sorry mate, digger has been booked for weeks but should be done in a week or so...nothing I could do. I wasn't in and they started without me assuming it was mine..."
If I could mobilise quick enough, that would inspire to commence re-laying my driveway, starting with a massive trench behind their car.
"Sorry mate, digger has been booked for weeks but should be done in a week or so...nothing I could do. I wasn't in and they started without me assuming it was mine..."
Had someone dump their car on my drive a few years back as further down the road the driver had spotted the police doing an ANPR check. I saw the lad pulling up on to the driveway, lock his car and leg it pretty quickly up the road... Unfortunately I was upstairs at the time...
The Mrs went and asked the police about the car and it transpired that it didn't have insurance, or an mot etc.... They said they would be able to remove it pretty quickly (a couple of tow trucks were already on hand) if the car were to be found on the road...
It was intimated that they would overlook any broken glass on the drivers seat...
Within 2 minutes the car was on the road, minus a drivers side window and being quickly loaded ....
The look on the lads face when he came back 5 hours later to collect his car was priceless, he even had the audacity to ring the bell and ask ...
(sometimes it pays dividends to know who your local polices and PCSOs are..)
The Mrs went and asked the police about the car and it transpired that it didn't have insurance, or an mot etc.... They said they would be able to remove it pretty quickly (a couple of tow trucks were already on hand) if the car were to be found on the road...
It was intimated that they would overlook any broken glass on the drivers seat...
Within 2 minutes the car was on the road, minus a drivers side window and being quickly loaded ....
The look on the lads face when he came back 5 hours later to collect his car was priceless, he even had the audacity to ring the bell and ask ...
(sometimes it pays dividends to know who your local polices and PCSOs are..)
I spent about a year traveling for work on Mondays and Fridays. As i needed a hire car dropping off beforehand, they used to drop on a Friday afternoon for Monday and another on Wednesday for the Friday.
Over that time, i gathered an impressive amount of hire cars on the drive they seemed unwilling to pick up. At one point i had 6 of them parked on the drive all unlocked with the keys under the sun visor - the front of the house looked like a used car lot.
When i did get them collected, it wasn't long before i had a few more, including on one occasion a mini bus they left for two weeks that they used to transport their drivers to collect the cars.
The record was held by a Golf though, that was sat on my drive for 6 weeks. Despite repeated assurances that they were going to collect it, they never did. Took a call to their HO to get it collected, where they said it was showing as 'missing' on their system and presumed stolen!
Over that time, i gathered an impressive amount of hire cars on the drive they seemed unwilling to pick up. At one point i had 6 of them parked on the drive all unlocked with the keys under the sun visor - the front of the house looked like a used car lot.
When i did get them collected, it wasn't long before i had a few more, including on one occasion a mini bus they left for two weeks that they used to transport their drivers to collect the cars.
The record was held by a Golf though, that was sat on my drive for 6 weeks. Despite repeated assurances that they were going to collect it, they never did. Took a call to their HO to get it collected, where they said it was showing as 'missing' on their system and presumed stolen!
Get a big forklift like these guys. Farmer types don't mess around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBVvco5Cuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoBVvco5Cuc
Brother in law lives 50 yards from a couple of takeaways and he often gets their customers parking on the double yellow lines in front of his drive.
My son and I were with him once when we came back and found the drive blocked with an unlocked car. Handbrake off and the two of us launched it backwards just as matey appeared with his Chinese. He then had to scramble into moving car while juggling takeaway.
We thought it was funny, but got a telling off from SWMBO for acting the hooligan
My son and I were with him once when we came back and found the drive blocked with an unlocked car. Handbrake off and the two of us launched it backwards just as matey appeared with his Chinese. He then had to scramble into moving car while juggling takeaway.
We thought it was funny, but got a telling off from SWMBO for acting the hooligan
We live up the side of a mountain in a touristy area. There's a historical monument (Druidic megalithic tomb) further up the hill behind our house.
Our drive is about 1/2 a mile long with a blind S bend in the middle but the entrance is next to the walkway to the monument.
For several reasons, gates aren't practical so it is an open driveway but we do have 2x signs that say 'Private, no entry', and then further in...' Private drive, no access to tomb, do not enter!'
The walkway, has a large official looking sign right on the gate, also 'Parking' directly across the road.
I swear, most days in the Summer, 2 or 3 cars AN HOUR come up looking for access.
An then you get two rental cars meeting on the bend, parking and looking for access, ruining the baxterd verge, wheel spinning on the hill.
After 30 years, it gets pretty annoying!
I even considered levelling some ground and making a car park and charging....but it woukd
Our drive is about 1/2 a mile long with a blind S bend in the middle but the entrance is next to the walkway to the monument.
For several reasons, gates aren't practical so it is an open driveway but we do have 2x signs that say 'Private, no entry', and then further in...' Private drive, no access to tomb, do not enter!'
The walkway, has a large official looking sign right on the gate, also 'Parking' directly across the road.
I swear, most days in the Summer, 2 or 3 cars AN HOUR come up looking for access.
An then you get two rental cars meeting on the bend, parking and looking for access, ruining the baxterd verge, wheel spinning on the hill.
After 30 years, it gets pretty annoying!
I even considered levelling some ground and making a car park and charging....but it woukd
ukaskew said:
This has happened to me, absolutely no doubt it was a driveway (our driveway).
Turned out it was a hire car delivered to the wrong address!
A friend of mine had a hire car delivered to her house and the keys just pushed through the door. A brand new car left at her house with no explanation. Turned out it was a hire car delivered to the wrong address!
My grandma lives on a little cul-de-sac that's narrow and brick paved with no footpaths. The people opposite keep one car on their single driveway and another on the road nearly blocking my grandma's driveway. They had a garage but turned it into a room and when they had their front garden done up the guy apparently wanted to double the driveway but his wife overruled him, despite the fact they don't keep the garden particularly tidy now.
The guy nextdoor to my grandma has several large vehicles lined up to the end of his driveway and when he has stuff stretching out to the road the driveway is unuseable.
My grandma's carers have told them they're rendering my grandma's driveway useless, so have I and my mother, but they don't seem to care. When they came home one night in their other car I made a point of spending a very long time shunting backwards and forwards while they waited, but they probably preferred to blame my driving over their inconsiderate parking.
When she had a Sainsbury's delivery the driver had to block the road because he couldn't get the van on the driveway. A muppet from up the road who uses the turning circle as his car park had a go at him.
Other neighbours asked my grandma about five years ago if they could leave a car on her driveway. She said yes and they've taken it as permission to leave cars there ever since when they've had parties without asking again. On Christmas Day I took her home to find a car on her driveway and had to walk her from some distance away. Then the same happened because of the woman across the road when I brought her back from hospital once because of the woman across the road.
My neighbours now have two vans and three cars up and down the road in everyone else's way, not including their visitors.
I don't like being on bad terms with neighbours but so many people are selfish and inconsiderate and take advantage it's very hard not to be. They think everyone else should let them do what they want and have strops like children if they're the least bit inconvenienced.
Edited by Blakewater on Friday 8th July 20:12
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