Someone blocks your driveway. What do?
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willmagrath said:
We came home to find someone had parked on our drive once when i was at uni, we lived close to a station so they'd just dumped it and gone to work. It meant we had park down the road. So we turned their tyres into airless black circles
Now that crime fighting is supposed to be intelligence led, can anyone guess where the first port of call would be for suspects??At a place I used to work we would get people dumping cars on there and going to visit people in apartments nearby, often for hours on end.
Usually we would just block them in or put a polite note on windscreen.
Once someone left a scruffy people carrier, a Picasso or Scenic, something like that. It was there for 3 days, causing us issues. Called police and they weren't interested as private property. So when some local caravan scrap metal collectors came in, we said if you move it you can have it. It was gone in 30 mins.
Usually we would just block them in or put a polite note on windscreen.
Once someone left a scruffy people carrier, a Picasso or Scenic, something like that. It was there for 3 days, causing us issues. Called police and they weren't interested as private property. So when some local caravan scrap metal collectors came in, we said if you move it you can have it. It was gone in 30 mins.
Welshbeef said:
HTP99 said:
I'm not sure whether I would have moved my car or told you to do one; I would have been seriously peeved to have been woken up early to be asked to move my perfectly legally parked car so as to facilitate your delivery.
With massive signs on the exterior stating building works and keep enterence clear for deliveries of materials. Note you'd not have told me to "do one" it would be the scaffolders or any delivery of materials (were talking needing a big truck mounted crane).
Note due to location of telegraph poles they cannot make a delivery onto my drive it's around the side of the post otherwise (as it did happen) they broke a few telephone cables with a jib.
Actually I'm not sure any visitor would state to someone in street to "do one" especially from a street with close neighbours where a number of street bbqs and golf tournaments happen.
Is it me, or are most respondents here missing the point? Which is, quite simply he knows where you live. He knows because he's parked over your drive. If unpleasant things start mysteriously happening to his van, unless he's completely cretinous, he's liable to work out why and who dunnit. He's already demonstrated that he's not the most reasonable of people by rebuffing your polite overtures. And whilst you may well be a powerfully-built PH company director type, for all you know he spent a seven stretch in the Scrubs as B-wing Bubba, the hairy-backed rapist of the block and will think nothing of smashing every window in your house/violating your cat/burning your house down with you in it. At the very least, the situation will escalate. I would suggest anything more hostile than pursuing the polite request to not do so again would rebound quite badly on the OP
Don't bother with milk, that's for amateurs. Go to Tesco or any Asian store and get some "nam pla" or Fish sauce, it's only about a quid a bottle.
Remove the green cap which ensures not too much comes out at once, and tip the whole lot down the heater vents. In this weather , left overnight, I guarantee within a day the vehicle will be undriveable even with the windows open, you might even get some vomitus thrown in for free when he opens the door. A new interior plus some serious cleaning is the only option, it just won't go away.
The stuff is evil, in fact it's a very close second to using cats piss. 6 years ago we broke a bottle in our kitchen, some of it went onto the concrete under the kick boards, despite my best efforts, if you get close you can still smell it today.
Here's a pic, with a friendly looking squid on the front
Remove the green cap which ensures not too much comes out at once, and tip the whole lot down the heater vents. In this weather , left overnight, I guarantee within a day the vehicle will be undriveable even with the windows open, you might even get some vomitus thrown in for free when he opens the door. A new interior plus some serious cleaning is the only option, it just won't go away.
The stuff is evil, in fact it's a very close second to using cats piss. 6 years ago we broke a bottle in our kitchen, some of it went onto the concrete under the kick boards, despite my best efforts, if you get close you can still smell it today.
Here's a pic, with a friendly looking squid on the front
If you're gonna put dog s
t under the door handles then add some shredded glass for added effect.. I've done the nails under the tyre treads before, sometimes works but put one each side of the tyre to cover the fact a vehicle will roll forwards or backwards.
Love the candle/sump plug idea.
Somewhere under the vehicle will be the fuel hoses. Find a connecting point, undo it (no fuel pump working so fuel won't piss everywhere) and shove a few matches in it. Doesn't block the hose but makes fuel delivery a bh, van will be kangaroo hopping for days.
But personally, I'd just fill the air vents with cayenne pepper.
If I was being creative, probably cut up a tin can in to bits, stick them together with candle wax, undo sump plug, insert rod of wax and bits of metal, redo sump plug. Dozens of bits of metal bumbling about in the engine oil causes untold grief.
Getting access to the cab is the jackpot, once you can lift the engine cover, untold woe can be inflicted. Nail polish on the glow plugs, weakening fan belts, timing belts or just say fk it, open the engine oil cap and tip in a pound of lead shot. Or drain cleaner.
t under the door handles then add some shredded glass for added effect.. I've done the nails under the tyre treads before, sometimes works but put one each side of the tyre to cover the fact a vehicle will roll forwards or backwards.Love the candle/sump plug idea.
Somewhere under the vehicle will be the fuel hoses. Find a connecting point, undo it (no fuel pump working so fuel won't piss everywhere) and shove a few matches in it. Doesn't block the hose but makes fuel delivery a b
h, van will be kangaroo hopping for days.But personally, I'd just fill the air vents with cayenne pepper.
If I was being creative, probably cut up a tin can in to bits, stick them together with candle wax, undo sump plug, insert rod of wax and bits of metal, redo sump plug. Dozens of bits of metal bumbling about in the engine oil causes untold grief.
Getting access to the cab is the jackpot, once you can lift the engine cover, untold woe can be inflicted. Nail polish on the glow plugs, weakening fan belts, timing belts or just say f
k it, open the engine oil cap and tip in a pound of lead shot. Or drain cleaner.The trouble is the person subject to all this may have no idea why their car is full of pepper or has tyres full of screws
Besides I thought this was supposed to be a motoring forum where everyone respected everyone elses P&J
How would you like it if it happened to you if you parked in the wrong place one day
Besides I thought this was supposed to be a motoring forum where everyone respected everyone elses P&J
How would you like it if it happened to you if you parked in the wrong place one day
ScoobyChris said:
Considering asking the council to put down a white line (apparently £175 quid) but honestly not sure how effective it would be. Maybe I should just put that cash towards a vehicle I can tow with 
Chris
My driveway has a white line on the road, but it doesn't work, people still ignore it. My street is bad for parking, a right mixture of front gardens turned into driveways, and on street parking in a street built in the 1950's so I am fairly tolerant and not the type to go charging out every time someone parks there, usually because it is cars I recognise (normally neighbours or regular visitors), and I would know where to find them if I needed out. Chris
There is one neighbour in particular, who I noticed their visitors would block my drive whilst visiting, but usually never for long periods. And normally my car was in the driveway at the time. I came in one day to find a car I didn't recognise blocking my empty driveway, so I couldn't get in. I ended up having to find somewhere on the street to park. A problem I didn't anticipate when I bought the house, because the house has a driveway!
It turns out it was a visitor of the same neighbour. So this time I did go out for a quiet word when they returned. I got an apology and excuses about how they were only there 5 minutes, and they had parked close by as they had to carry a baby to be strapped in etc etc. Now the car had in fact been there for over half an hour but I didn't challenge them on that as I felt I had made my point.
Since then, none of their visitors have blocked my drive, so the softly softly approach seems to have worked this time.
I still don't understand though what goes through peoples minds when they decide to park across someones driveway no matter how long they are going to be. Some people apparently will not walk the length of themselves even if it means only parking a street away from their destination.
e8_pack said:
Some humorous suggestions
None of which will happen, work or worse, end up with repercussions, either legal or violent.
It's cathartic and fun to conjure up wicked suggestions and giggle at the humorous thought of some troglodyte in a dirty vest having an aneurism through stupidity.None of which will happen, work or worse, end up with repercussions, either legal or violent.
eezeh said:
Remove numberplate & report a stolen / dumped van to the police/Council.
I wouldn't even remove the plate, just add black electrical insulating tape to the rear plate as a strikethrough. If you're simply going to take off the plates then take them with you to the local speed camera, stick them on your car and ping the camera. Then replace the plates.
Wiccan of Darkness said:
eezeh said:
Remove numberplate & report a stolen / dumped van to the police/Council.
I wouldn't even remove the plate, just add black electrical insulating tape to the rear plate as a strikethrough. If you're simply going to take off the plates then take them with you to the local speed camera, stick them on your car and ping the camera. Then replace the plates.
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