Someone purposefully blocking my driveway

Scrapit

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.

Don't park across any drives. The warden won't know if it's yours or not. And get a clamp.;)

DoaM

Scrapit wrote: »

And get a clamp.;)

Careful ... OP might think you're serious.

missile

Burly builder intimidating 60 year old lady. He has ignored the Police warning. I would escalate this to the Chief Constable.

Scrapit

DoaM wrote: »

Careful ... OP might think you're serious.

That's seriously what I'd do.

BananaRepublic

Mistral001 wrote: »

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.

I agree. There is an element of bullying in this thread. An elderly woman would most likely feel threatened and intimidated by this builder.

Mercdriver

carproblems wrote: »

My street doesn't have resident only restrictions, unlike the the other few streets around me, and it's near to a row of shops. It's pretty common that people park across the driveway.

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.

This is getting confusing. Who is speaking the daughter in law or the mother in law? Did the daughter in law park in front of her mother in law's drive or did the mother in law park in front of her own drive. A decriminalised offence may still have been made even if parking in front of your own drive with official dropped kerb.

Mercdriver

foxy-stoat wrote: »

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.

If this keeps going, the OP's mother in law (? OP keeps moving from third person to first person) will have difficulties selling the house as you have to declare neighbour disputes in the selling pack.

Keep going tit for tat and this will not get better. Quite the opposite.

Mercdriver

Mistral001 wrote: »

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.

No there isn't anything the OP has done that is completely wrong. They've gone for the jugular when the opponent has them in an arm lock. No matter how hard one person grips the other will grip harder. Going for the nuclear option first is rarely advisable no matter how right the OP might be. It can become decisive in any civil court action.

mollycoddle

I am seriously amazed @how many horrible & smart arsed people there are commenting on this thread, some poor person comes on here for help & they get ripped a new one by some real horrible people who have nothing better to do :T

warby68

I'd go with completely ignoring it for a few days - no reaction at all - and see if they get bored.

If not, then the friendly, conciliatory approach. Perhaps say you are used to random shoppers doing this so you never know who to approach to move the vehicle hence developing your deterrent approach. Now you know its them, what do they think the best option is to get you quick access which you do need (I presume). Not ideal as it involves suggesting temporary tolerance for something you shouldn't have to. But as has been said before, its about the outcome not about right and wrong sometimes.

Going 'nuclear' as your first strike rarely ends well - if people are inconsiderate enough to block a drive in the first place they most likely won't go with the 'its a fair cop' stance when they get ticketed.