annoying person keeps blocking our drive

MarkyMarkD

regularsaver1 wrote:

what really annoys me is when people use our drive way to turn round? - is this legal?

All they can possibly be guilty of is trespass, and trespassers WON'T be prosecuted if they cause no damage (which of course they aren't doing).

Honestly, regularsaver1, this isn't worth getting worried about. I find it pathetic when I see "don't turn in this drive" signs - there's one on the entrance to a farm near us for goodness' sake. It's nowhere near any buildings.

If I'm faced with a 13-point turn or reversing into someone's drive, I'll reverse into someone's drive any day.

regularsaver1

Yeah i understand - but they do get quite close to the cars and the bins - which have been knocked over in the past. Would never have a silly sign. was just saying .

The main reason i posted on here was about my Dad getting the call from the police though!!! ha ha

MarkyMarkD

OK, I'm sure you are a nice person honestly!

wendyh

Our local council in their wisdom! have put parking in our road. I have a really steep drive and if there is a car parked opposite and one too near the end of the drive you can't get out. The council have said if the drive is blocked they will come and sort it out - when? so the onion and the sugar trick sound fantastic. If they block the drive too much then I might have to let their tyres down.

raymond

paint the door handles with excrement ...

ariba10

raymond wrote:

paint the door handles with excrement ...

Cats is the best

ttoli

regularsaver1 wrote:

Oh and guys - my dad was silly one night - in a dark road with poor lighting he was parked 1 foot over the edge (the car could still get out) - my dad received a telephone call from the police at 5am asking him to move it as the homeowner had called the police. These people didnt then leave for 2 hours, when dad had alreayd left for work at old house. So they do take action if you use the registration number!!!

. Really depends on how busy the local Police are, mid week,early hours No problem but weekends, forget it, we had quite a few locals who blocked people in on a regular basis, you should see how quick they move their cars when woken up at 4am by uniformed officers, plus 90% of the time the offenders had no road tax etc.

hammy_the_hammer

i find it quite amusing reading the 'how to get even responses'. they miss a couple of points...
1. the sort of scroat who when asked nicely to remove their obstructing car and won't ,sn't likely to be a very nice person.
2. as you have complained to them already and the only person affected by the parking problem is you ....it's only going to be you or your representative who has smashed their window , smeared excrement, punctured tyres etc
sub points
i. they know where you live and you don't know where they live ...always a bad situation to be in if you want to go down the warfare route.
ii. the snivelling scroats call you a grass , daub your walls with 'police grass'
(this wouldn't deter me from going down that route and council/asbo) but as soon as you punch them or break the law they run straight ......to the police !!! cause that ain't grassing in their world.
3. so if you wish to end it using 'rambo' techniques ...make sure you take out all their family and friends first

sassybird

Have had a good giggle reading this thread from start to finish this evening.

We have a drop-kerb driveway and used to have a problem with a silly woman who lived about 8 doors away on our road. We are a corner house and only us and the house opposite have driveways, the remainder of the road are parking on the roadside.

This silly bat insisted on parking across my driveway if it was the only space when whe arrived home from work (approx. 10.30 pm every evening). I had two small children at the time and used to get really up-tight in case I had to get off the drive at any time (children ALWAYS get their highest temperatures - and give you the most health frights in the early hours of the morning!).

I tried asking nicely, but she explained just as politely that if there was no other available space, she would have to park over my drive - - - WHAT!!??

I tried sticking a note on her windscreen, but only got her sister (who owned the house she was living in) coming and giving me a good talking to and saying her sister (the silly bat) didn't always park across the drive.

(PI** OFF!)

Eventually, I ended up losing my rag and screaming at her (the silly bat one) that if she parked the bloody car there again - I was going to take a knife to the tyres! (the whole scenario from 1st parking problem to screaming fit was probably 9 months or so - I thought I was extremely patient).

She steered clear for a couple of weeks and one night she did the bloody same trick again.

* * * * * * * COOKING OIL ON THE WINDSCREEN * * * * * * *

A nice eco-friendly way to let somebody know you are a little miffed with their parking - and it's a !!!!! to get off the screen in the morning!

She must have emptied a full tank of windscreen washer trying to move the smears!!

She didn't park there again - and thankfully after another year they moved away.

I've only had to use this method once since then on a silly schoolteacher who thought I was being 'childish' in asking that he reverse four feet so I could get my car off the drive.

He doesn't bother parking near my drive now either.

In this situation - try Cooking Oil - it's not permanent - you've not had to physically or verbally abuse anybody - it doesn't feel like you're coming on too heavy - but it doesn't half make their life a bloody misery the next time they get in the car!!

stefos

Oh dear,oh dear! What am I in for? I’ve just had a drop kerb and off road parking made available which should be a godsend- being disabled, so I can’t see myself going around knocking on doors to find the culprit!
What I think I’ll do is dismantle one of the gateposts and leave a bumper embedded in it with a scattering of wheel trims dotted about….and a “I love guide dogs”sticker somewhere visible.
We’ll see who has the courage to park across me then……


Great thread by the way,just hope I don’t end up with a twitch like Inspector Dreyfus!:)