Is blocking-in illegal?
Discussion
I parked on a residential street for about 3 hours this afternoon and when I got back to my car it was blocked in. I had not parked over a driveway (although the house owner had parked over his own drive to block me). I was fairly annoyed as I had never parked there before, there are no resident restrictions etc and I would have thought that a polite note on the windscreen would have been sufficient.
When the [fat, chavvy] women deigned to move her heap she mouthed off at me (I ignored it as I wanted my car back). I was just curious as to whether there is any law against it. I have no desire to report them it is just for my personal curiosity. Besides which I have no need to report them as I couldn't help noticing the expired tax disk on one of the cars and felt it my civil duty to let the relevant authorities know.
When the [fat, chavvy] women deigned to move her heap she mouthed off at me (I ignored it as I wanted my car back). I was just curious as to whether there is any law against it. I have no desire to report them it is just for my personal curiosity. Besides which I have no need to report them as I couldn't help noticing the expired tax disk on one of the cars and felt it my civil duty to let the relevant authorities know.
boosted ls1 said:
I'd say it's illegal because it's obstruction.
Boosted.
Boosted.
Agreed.
It is often the case that residents assume 'ownership' of the road outside their house as their spot to park.
They assume wrongly, as it can be parked upon by anyone who pays their car tax.
Ironically as the chavette (Not to be confused with a circa 1980 Vauxhall
) didnt have car tax then she has even less of a leg to stand on. I believe in karma. Her mouthy attitude might deserve being reported!?
justinp1 said:
boosted ls1 said:
I'd say it's illegal because it's obstruction.
Boosted.
Boosted.
Agreed.
It is often the case that residents assume 'ownership' of the road outside their house as their spot to park.
They assume wrongly, as it can be parked upon by anyone who pays their car tax.
Ironically as the chavette (Not to be confused with a circa 1980 Vauxhall
) didnt have car tax then she has even less of a leg to stand on. I believe in karma. Her mouthy attitude might deserve being reported!?
I would definately be reporting the tax disc.
I have had note sleft after I parked near our local station in front of ahous ewho always put cones out, one day I arrived and there was no where else to park so I moved the cones and parked, cue snotty note on car. I parked ther for the next week delivberately
Company car of course, I wouldnt have risked it in my own
Several years ago, my brother came to visit, and he parked in an open car park space, in our cul-de-sac.
The woman across the road, had been parking her car there for years, but it was NOT her space,
The spaces are "first come first served"
Anyway, she parked deliberatly right behind him.
So time comes for him to go home, and he knocks on her door and askes her politly to move.
She says no.
So we phone the police.
Sorry to all the BiB on here, but they didn't come after the third phone call, several hours later, so a complete waste of time.
So midnight comes, and he needs to go home so to go to work next day.
I put a rope on the back of my Range Rover, and CAREFULLY pulled her Punto out of the way.
Only pulled it 2 meters. brother went home.
I went to the police next day and told them what i had done.
they said, as long as you didn't pull it more than required, it was o.k. as she was deliberate obstruction.
I got the feeling he was cool, as long as I didn't pull it half way roung Cheshire!
She is a bit more reasonable now.
The woman across the road, had been parking her car there for years, but it was NOT her space,
The spaces are "first come first served"
Anyway, she parked deliberatly right behind him.
So time comes for him to go home, and he knocks on her door and askes her politly to move.
She says no.
So we phone the police.
Sorry to all the BiB on here, but they didn't come after the third phone call, several hours later, so a complete waste of time.
So midnight comes, and he needs to go home so to go to work next day.
I put a rope on the back of my Range Rover, and CAREFULLY pulled her Punto out of the way.
Only pulled it 2 meters. brother went home.
I went to the police next day and told them what i had done.
they said, as long as you didn't pull it more than required, it was o.k. as she was deliberate obstruction.
I got the feeling he was cool, as long as I didn't pull it half way roung Cheshire!
She is a bit more reasonable now.
fastcarl said:
at christmas gone we had some local scrote park his car across the gates to the mill complex we have a workshop in, we just hitched it up to the transit and heaved it insid e the gates , then locked up for christmas break,i dont suppose the wanker will try it again,lol.
carl
carl
That is quite a serious offence you comitted and to be honest i wouldnt have had much sympathy if you got done for theft. It is one thing to move an obstacle, it is another to approprate it.
chrispy porker said:
I admit to being one of a team of 4 gentlemen who picked up and carried a fiat 500 a short distance away from our drive, which it was blocking. This was 26 years ago, and I doubt my back would stand it now.
My dad has a great story about carrying whatever the 70s version of an MX5 was up a short flight of outdoor stairs and leaving it there after its owner roundly abused him and his friends on a music course...
Nice! When I was at sixth form the end of term pranks always used to involve people's cars. Memorable ones were putting a car inside a paper skip, and the picnic bench on roofrack affair.
I have heard of people picking up and turning minis around 90 degrees in parking spaces for a giraffe!
I have heard of people picking up and turning minis around 90 degrees in parking spaces for a giraffe!
carrotchomper said:
I have heard of people picking up and turning minis around 90 degrees in parking spaces for a giraffe!
done that with a friend's neighbour who was starting to escalate petty issues into a tit-for-tat war. The best bit is when the owner is livid that you've done it but knows the only way to move their car is to apologise and ask nicely to get it turned round again.
An old boy who persistently blocked the entrance to my Dad's warehouse in protest at the lorries reversing in twice a week once returned to find his Orion had been removed from the entrance by forklift and wedged between two trees. The lads made him wait about five hours until they finished loading the container before picking it up and plonking it back on the road for him. Needless to say he never did it again!
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