Petty Irritation.

[Sara_H]

There's been a car blocking my drive for about 3 hours.

It's really irritating me. There isn't even a car on the drive/In the garage, but even so. OH will be back with a car load of camping gear in a bit - he won't be best pleased.

I've got much to do (flying to NYC in the morning) but I feel compelled to stand at the window so I can go and harangue the anti social nuicance, who ever they are.

 

[mark st1]

Eggs and flower on the bonnet stop it from happening in future.

 

[Arch]

Depending on the state of your own car, you could just gently shunt the offender forward. They might get the message then.

Or if you have a mate with a fork lift, they could come and move it about a bit.

 

[coffeejo]

Breathe out and let it go. Not, imho, worth the stress.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Throw some dung at it.

 

[Fnaar]

Lie on the bonnet like a model at a 1970s car show, wearing a bikini and pouting. Don’t know if it'll do any good, but it'll make your day memorable.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I might be mistaken and I expect one of the police officers who frequent the forum could clarify. I believe it is illegal to block access onto a public highway (so blocking somebody on a driveway is illegal) but it's not illegal to block a driveway if there is not car on the drive.
As such any action you take could place you in the wrong from a legal perspective..

. However you could take the plates of it which then makes it an illegal road vehicle and increases the possibility of the vehicle getting towed where ever it is parked on the public highway and inconvenience the owner as they have to get new plates made.... not that I would advise such an action

 

[colly]

Lie on the bonnet like a model at a 1970s car show, wearing a bikini and pouting. Don’t know if it'll do any good, but it'll make your day memorable.

Just because that is what you do at every opportunity, it doesn't make it right.

 

[Sara_H]

They've gone now.

They got a shock when they had to remove a bikini clad 40 year old woman covered in flour, water and dung from the bonnet before they could drive off! Ha! That'll learn em.

 

[Sara_H]

I might be mistaken and I expect one of the police officers who frequent the forum could clarify. I believe it is illegal to block access onto a public highway (so blocking somebody on a driveway is illegal) but it's not illegal to block a driveway if there is not car on the drive.

That's how I understand it too, but to be fair the anti social drive blockers had no way of knowing that there isn't a car in the garage.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

That's how I understand it too, but to be fair the anti social drive blockers had no way of knowing that there isn't a car in the garage.

Yes... the car with no number plates, I would call the council about that, it might be abandoned

 

[ASC1951]

They got a shock when they had to remove a bikini clad 40 year old woman covered in flour, water and dung from the bonnet before they could drive off! Ha! That'll learn em.

Maybe that 's why they did it.
"Dad dad dad - please can we park across her drive again?"

 

[PaulSecteur]

They've gone now.

They had to go... this sound of Saras incessant tutting was driving them mad!

The family over the road from me has a regular guest that parks so I cant get on or off my drive. VERY annoying!

 

[Fnaar]

please can we park across her drive again?"

I can imagine Les Dawson as curler-clad toothless housewife Cissy, saying to Ada...
"Have you seen the number of men she lets park across her driveway...oh, yes, three last week, I spotted"...

 

[Night Train]

I still occasionally get people parking either across my drive or so close that I can't get a car out as the road outside is very narrow. I try to not get my blood pressure up about it nowadays.


In the past, when I had an AEC Matador parked on the drive, I would tell the driver to move their car. The response was often "Yeah, I'll move it in a bit, I won't be long, just visiting X (or waiting to pick up my kids)."
I would let the hand brake off on the Matador and let it slowly roll down the drive towards their car as I walked back into the house.
cars were moved pretty quickly then!

I'd then run down the drive to stop the Matador when they drove off.
I did get it wrong one time and the Mat trundled slowly across the cobbled road and knocked down the stone wall opposite! I quickly rebuilt it so no one noticed and it didn't happen.