Can people park over your driveway?

DRP

chris_m wrote: »

Hehe, I remember something similar.
Back in the 1980s I was a volunteer at a steam railway and had a week off work which I spent up there. Since the week off was at short notice I'd agreed to call into work to pick up my wages rather then them muck about with advance payments etc. Anyway, coinciding with payday we had a large delivery due at the railway (70-odd tons of locomotive on a low-loader) so we had to close off most of the car park. Since I was onsite overnight I landed that job, so early that morning I went down to the local police to collect the cones we'd arranged to borrow and set them out, before heading off to pick up my wages. Yep, you guessed it, in the half-hour I was gone some numpty had shifted the cones and parked - right in the area that the transporter would need to swing around.

Amazingly, for an '80s Ford, not one of about 20 peoples' car keys would fit so off we went down to the police to see if they had any suitable keys - to be told that their spares were with one of the officers at the other end of the patch (a rural patch, so quite a long way away) and asked if the car was really a problem.

When we told them that we had 90-feet and the best part of 100 tons of transporter arriving any minute to block the High Street and, therefore, the entire A31 for as long as it took for this car to be shifted the response was "Oh well then, provided there's no damage you'd better move it then."

Four of us went to the car, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy and it was 30 yards away from where it had been left. In came the transporter and all was well. The car disappeared sometime during the unloading operation but none of us saw it go. We reckon the owner realised what a plonker he'd been and beat a hasty retreat rather than complaining :rotfl:

Slightly different context, but when I was a student I the 90s there was a group of students who used to compete to bounce cars (usually little ford fiestas or minis) out of their parking spaces and as far as possible down the road until an irate resident or 2 came out (2 in the morning) to complain about all the racket...

Shelldean

we have a dropped curb leading to our garage and about 40 odd others, plus several private parking spaces.
yet the Numpty Parents from the nursery opposite seem to think it is ok to park either over our dropped curb or even in or over our private parking spaces, as they are only going to be two minutes collecting their little darlings.


However they get seriously pi$$edd off if you dare to mention they are on private property and how would they like it we parked in their drive? or if we dare to ask them to move so we can exit to leave to get to work. They also don't like it when the HA clamp them( not often enough). Yet they still do it.


The nursery got so fed up with parents blocking THEIR drive they put in removable posts, to stop the parents parking.
But apart from clamping once in a while our HA has no back bone, and we just have to suffer.

Dukesy

Aren't people selfish!

It's a constant problem where my in laws live - their drive is clearly a drive (although the house isn't visible from the street), but people are forever parking across it. FIL couldn't get out to a hospital appt one day, so OH and friends picked up the back end of the car blocking the drive and turned it round. Cue one car facing the opposite way and blocking one of the carriageways of the main road through town, the police arriving, ticketing it and directing traffic for a couple of hours. woulda hated to be that driver!

propertyman

My brother had a similar problem.

Mysteriously the number plates fell off the car overnight. People parked elsewhere.

ianders

Nothing useful here. Just one thing annoying me here though:

Curb - to limit something e.g. "I told her to curb her temper"
Kerb - the edge of a pavement.

xylophone

curb,

Kerb http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kerb

Kirri

Might be worth speaking to your local Council, not sure if they all do this (or still do this) but some can paint a white line on the road, obviously doesn't stop the selfish people or people who just aren't very observant but think it does help. They paint it a bit wider than the drive/dropped kerb too.

jonewer

DRP wrote: »

Slightly different context, but when I was a student I the 90s there was a group of students who used to compete to bounce cars (usually little ford fiestas or minis) out of their parking spaces and as far as possible down the road until an irate resident or 2 came out (2 in the morning) to complain about all the racket...

At school, one of our teachers had a Renault 4.

One night a group of us came across the vehicle and bounced/dragged/lifted it between two trees with about 5mm of space at either end.

We killed ourselves laughing but didnt quite know what to think when it transpired he actually sold the car a few weeks previously.........

dibuzz

DRP wrote: »

Slightly different context, but when I was a student I the 90s there was a group of students who used to compete to bounce cars (usually little ford fiestas or minis) out of their parking spaces and as far as possible down the road until an irate resident or 2 came out (2 in the morning) to complain about all the racket...

We heard a noise one night and looked out to see next door's Reliant Robin upside down in the middle of the road. He told us it wasn't the first time it had happened.

poppysarah

Go and introduce yourself. Explain the wife is awful at reversing in and will probably scrape their car if its blocking the way at all.

No notes, no running to the council, just a knock at the door.

If they keep doing it then you have lots of other options.
Including getting as many friends with battered cars as possible to come and squeeze on to the drive and do their best to avoid scratching the neighbours car.