People parking in your own driveway

[Sway]

Gandahar said:

essIII said:

Hammer frozen sausages into his radiator grill?

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

I find a nice chunky pork and apple is best - appeals to carnivores, omnivores and meat curious herbivores.

Nothing more distributive to a radiator or lawn than a rabbit who's just had his first taste of porcine goodness.

I live in the hope that one day someone tries the method in an area the honey badger is a likely purveyor of cryogenically prepared lidl bratwurst...

[surveyor]

littlebasher said:

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!

I'm amazed at how little care they have. I've returned cars a couple of times that they did not know i had. Not sure what happened to the cars that I was supposed to be in...

[M4cruiser]

Yes, it happens to us a lot, mainly because our driveway is an odd shape - when I moved in I bought (and paid for!) an extra bit, thinking that the deeds / title plan / site plans etc would give me protection from idiots who tried to park there. How wrong I was. A neighbour started to use my space as his overnight parking every night. So I parked there - even when I didn't really need to ... and he complained!!!!!!!!

I put up my house number on the fence - and another neighbour took the number down!

Not solved yet ...

[Markbarry1977]

Screw driver, quick reach underneath and loosen the bottom radiator Jubilee clip off and help assist it to nearly all the way off. Most prats never look at there temperature guage these days. Won't be parking on your drive when the motor seized up on them.

[wildcat45]

I've had endless problems like this - blocking my drive. I'm a bit of a tt in getting revenge.

A woman blocked my drive. A quick check of the car - window stickers paperwork seen though the Windows revealed it was a hire car from a small local company. A call to them talking about it being damaged when it's lifted got the angry woman round shouting the odds.

Paperwork I saw in the car suggested she worked for the local council so before she arrived I'd googled the name of the head of HR.

Angry woman told me she'd blocked my drive because she was "on the sick" and couldn't walk far. She was very sweary and aggressive claiming to work in the planning department and alleging my drive was illegal. It wasn't, the council approved it. She seemed quite well to me and got very upset while she was ranting when I called, and got through to her HR Department. She stormed off. Returned and moved the car. I was told my observations about her conduct and health would be brought up with her.

Another time a car parked over my drive clearly belonged to a company. Lots of paperwork visible and the car looked to be leased. Pictures of said car on the firm'sTwitter feed got the car shifted.

There was the Christmas morning block in. At the time I worked on the radio and needed to be in at 5AM. Police called and were great, making the driver, from two roads away make the walk of shame in shorts vest and flip flops to move the car after getting a knock on the door from two coppers.

There's lots more.

Whatever you do, don't be tempted to commit criminal damage by pouring fish oil down air vents or even squeezing liquid honey on door handles. It could land you in real bother.

Edited by wildcat45 on Friday 8th July 22:08

[JasperT]

M4cruiser said:

Yes, it happens to us a lot, mainly because our driveway is an odd shape - when I moved in I bought (and paid for!) an extra bit, thinking that the deeds / title plan / site plans etc would give me protection from idiots who tried to park there. How wrong I was. A neighbour started to use my space as his overnight parking every night. So I parked there - even when I didn't really need to ... and he complained!!!!!!!!

I put up my house number on the fence - and another neighbour took the number down!

Not solved yet ...

Clearly, a cone is the answer

[sebhaque]

wildcat45 said:

HR bird

I think I remember this anecdote from before, have you posted it on a similar thread before?

Coincidentally, I've been away on business for a week and returned home this evening to find a car parked in my allocated space (I live in a cul-de-sac). I know my neighbour's away for the weekend so I've parked in his space. There's a pub nearby and since my road is usually pretty empty, we get quite a lot of pub traffic parked in the street.

If the car is still there tomorrow, I might block it in while I go out for the day. No real reason other than to provide some action for this thread.

(Morning edit - the car's gone. Boo.)

I used to live in a lovely area in Bristol where my neighbours and I got along very well. We had an agreement that, when one household was away we could park on their driveway. The chap on the end of the street had a 5-6 car driveway, but only had a single car - he used to let us park our cars on the drive occasionally, e.g. if we were doing some front garden work over the weekend or had friends/family visiting. This did once lead to quite an amusing morning when my neighbour and I had both been away for the weekend and our cars were parked on each others' driveways. I left the house in the morning to go to work, he'd left at the same time, and we said good morning to each other as we travelled across to the other person's driveway to get into our own car.

Edited by sebhaque on Saturday 9th July 12:00

[Blakewater]

so called said:

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

I live near a football ground and the police have said that they might do something if someone going to a football match parks blocking a car on a driveway but if a driveway is blocked without a car on it they won't do anything.

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[Matt UK]

Never happened to me, but if it did I would be tempted to put it on axle stands and when the person came back just tell them I do not give them permission to step foot on my property unless they paid me a £1,000 parking fee.
Or just go at every panel and pane will a lump hammer.
Or start breaking it for parts.

Parking on someone's drive? Geez, that's just open season for whatever happens next in my book.

[fel71]

Not my driveway, but when you buy an apartment, and pay for a designated parking space (C) and person who owns (D) parks their car and partners car next to each other, on a regular basis. The only way is go in the car that means the least to you, park and leave.

[RammyMP]

Some old bid parked on my drive while she was visiting a neighbor, I blocked her in so she drove through my hedge to get off the drive. I had to chuckle, served me right! She was oblivious the whole time though, she must have damaged her stbox Peogeot in the process!

[mph1977]

Vipers said:

so called said:

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

Thank you for that.

it;s the level of action / response that is different depending on whether you are blocked in or 'just' can;t turn into your drive ...

[gazchap]

My office has private parking all up the side of the building. It's not fenced off or anything, but there are very clear "PRIVATE" signs dotted along the entire side of the building.

We still get endless prats parking all over that side, plus on the frontage.

[johnwilliams77]

RammyMP said:

Some old bid parked on my drive while she was visiting a neighbor, I blocked her in so she drove through my hedge to get off the drive. I had to chuckle, served me right! She was oblivious the whole time though, she must have damaged her stbox Peogeot in the process!

You forgot to vandalise all their car sufficiently (in line with this thread)

[RammyMP]

johnwilliams77 said:

RammyMP said:

Some old bid parked on my drive while she was visiting a neighbor, I blocked her in so she drove through my hedge to get off the drive. I had to chuckle, served me right! She was oblivious the whole time though, she must have damaged her stbox Peogeot in the process!

You forgot to vandalise all their car sufficiently (in line with this thread)

I missed an opportunity there didn't I!

[48Valves]

We used to live about 500 metres from where the Bradford Mela was held.

Eventually the council introduced residents permit parking over the weekend. The council would put signs up saying this a week or so before. The signs would always disappear.

So once a year for an entire weekend we would have people block our drive and even park on it. Parking was generally chaos. Luckily the police and council would have any offending cars removed. The highlight of the weekend was always when someone came back to their car as it was in the process of being lifted onto a recovery truck.

[Trabi601]

Markbarry1977 said:

Screw driver, quick reach underneath and loosen the bottom radiator Jubilee clip off and help assist it to nearly all the way off. Most prats never look at there temperature guage these days. Won't be parking on your drive when the motor seized up on them.

Don't do this, as cats can't resist the taste of anti-freeze, but it causes them a slow and painful death.

One of the few things that would cause me to get into an altercation with another person is if they'd harmed one of my cats.

[Willy Nilly]

Trabi601 said:

Markbarry1977 said:

Screw driver, quick reach underneath and loosen the bottom radiator Jubilee clip off and help assist it to nearly all the way off. Most prats never look at there temperature guage these days. Won't be parking on your drive when the motor seized up on them.

Don't do this, as cats can't resist the taste of anti-freeze, but it causes them a slow and painful death.

One of the few things that would cause me to get into an altercation with another person is if they'd harmed one of my cats.

If you give me you address I can send you all the cat st from my lawn. Wildlife killing vermin.

[mph1977]

Willy Nilly said:

Trabi601 said:

Markbarry1977 said:

Screw driver, quick reach underneath and loosen the bottom radiator Jubilee clip off and help assist it to nearly all the way off. Most prats never look at there temperature guage these days. Won't be parking on your drive when the motor seized up on them.

Don't do this, as cats can't resist the taste of anti-freeze, but it causes them a slow and painful death.

One of the few things that would cause me to get into an altercation with another person is if they'd harmed one of my cats.

If you give me you address I can send you all the cat st from my lawn. Wildlife killing vermin.

lion poop and or citrus is rather effective at discouraging them ... or get your own

cat poop in the middle of your lawn means it;s disputed territory

[jimmy the hat]

mph1977 said:

Willy Nilly said:

Trabi601 said:

Markbarry1977 said:

Screw driver, quick reach underneath and loosen the bottom radiator Jubilee clip off and help assist it to nearly all the way off. Most prats never look at there temperature guage these days. Won't be parking on your drive when the motor seized up on them.

Don't do this, as cats can't resist the taste of anti-freeze, but it causes them a slow and painful death.

One of the few things that would cause me to get into an altercation with another person is if they'd harmed one of my cats.

If you give me you address I can send you all the cat st from my lawn. Wildlife killing vermin.

lion poop and or citrus is rather effective at discouraging them ... or get your own

cat poop in the middle of your lawn means it;s disputed territory

The disputed territory thing makes sense in my case. I'm sure there's more than one cat crapping on my 'lawn' (weeds).

The lion poop thing, less so. I might need some persuasion that the answer to having the poo of a small cat on my 'lawn' (weeds) is having the poo of a larger cat on my 'lawn' (weeds).

Cheers, Jim