Someone purposefully blocking my driveway

lisyloo

carproblems wrote: »

Instead of confronting and trying to speak to people that see nothing wrong with parking over someone's driveway, I've just decided to call and get them a ticket instead.

And how’s that working out for you?

Aylesbury_Duck

lisyloo wrote: »

And how’s that working out for you?

Just fine. It's OP's MIL that's having to deal with the fallout.

carproblems

I don't understand, when you get a speeding ticket, do you speed past the camera again to get your own back?! If you get a ticket for not paying for parking, do you go back to the same spot and do it again to get the traffic warden back?

This person has absolutely no right to park there. There's nothing they could use in their defence to say why they were blocking in a car. This guy is in the wrong, I'm well within my rights to access my driveway and have a ticket issued for someone blocking it. I'm being made to feel like I was wrong with what I did.

Aylesbury_Duck

carproblems wrote: »

I don't understand, when you get a speeding ticket, do you speed past the camera again to get your own back?! If you get a ticket for not paying for parking, do you go back to the same spot and do it again to get the traffic warden back?

This person has absolutely no right to park there. There's nothing they could use in their defence to say why they were blocking in a car. This guy is in the wrong, I'm well within my rights to access my driveway and have a ticket issued for someone blocking it. I'm being made to feel like I was wrong with what I did.

Is it your driveway or not? You're changing your story from post to post.

In situations like this, you need to ask yourself a question: Do I want to be right, or do I want to be effective? If being right and being seen to be right is of paramount importance to you, carry on with what you're doing. You may get your(?) driveway access back eventually, but at what cost?

If being effective, i.e. obtaining free and unhindered access to "your" driveway, is more important than your ego, you need to consider what practical and perhaps unpalatable action you might take to resolve the situation.

The choice is yours. I'm afraid you have come across as petty and stubborn on here, so it's not surprising that things have got out of hand with what sounds like an equally petty and stubborn builder. You started this whole situation by rushing straight to "law enforcement" to address an issue of inconsiderate parking. I reckon you will have to be the party that starts to resolve it.

foxy-stoat

Its a joke - you will have less rights if the guy parked in your driveway rather than blocking it.

Just keep calling up and get parking tickets issued as and when.

It wont end well but at some point he will get the message.

spadoosh

carproblems wrote: »

I don't understand, when you get a speeding ticket, do you speed past the camera again to get your own back?! If you get a ticket for not paying for parking, do you go back to the same spot and do it again to get the traffic warden back?

This person has absolutely no right to park there. There's nothing they could use in their defence to say why they were blocking in a car. This guy is in the wrong, I'm well within my rights to access my driveway and have a ticket issued for someone blocking it. I'm being made to feel like I was wrong with what I did.

No, you where absolutely right to do what you did. How is that working out for you/your mother though?

Theres rights and wrongs, and theres solutions and problems. Theyre different things.

Sometimes its better having a solution than it is being right. This is probably one of those situations.

The saying cutting your nose of to spite your face comes to mind.

01afraser4

carproblems wrote: »

I don't understand, when you get a speeding ticket, do you speed past the camera again to get your own back?! If you get a ticket for not paying for parking, do you go back to the same spot and do it again to get the traffic warden back?

This person has absolutely no right to park there. There's nothing they could use in their defence to say why they were blocking in a car. This guy is in the wrong, I'm well within my rights to access my driveway and have a ticket issued for someone blocking it. I'm being made to feel like I was wrong with what I did.

I don't think people are suggesting you weren't within your rights to get a ticket issued, more that it would have been reasonable to approach them first and ask politely if they would refrain from parking there.

As you dived in at the deep end, this guy is getting his own back and seems as though he takes pleasure knowing that it is annoying you.

Belenus

carproblems wrote: »

...The first time they did it (they are working on a property across the street), I called and got them a parking ticket. Since then, they have been purposefully blocking my driveway everyday...

How did they know that it was you that called the parking enforcers?

Their car could have been ticketed by a patrolling warden.

Is there more to this situation than you are letting on?

Mistral001

What the builder is doing might be considered as justifiable revenge for the OP calling the traffic warden's by many people, but parking every day in someone's drive goes way beyond justifiable. There is nothing the OP has to apologise for in light of the way the builder is behaving.

waamo

Who has the bigger parent? Is his dad bigger than your dad?