Do other car drivers have problems i.e bullying, intimidating when it comes to parking there cars outside or near there homes?

We have an ongoing problem of parking on our road, I would prefer to park outside my home, but this isnt always so because a neighbour or friend of a neighbour or delivery vehicles have parked there instead. Now thats not a problem for me, I must admit I do sigh when I see a car parked in my usual parking place, but I park in the next available place closest to my house, in one of my neighbours preferred places to park. This is when the fun and games start my neighbour will then park about 6 inch away from me.

Anyhow you get the general idea what I'm talking about.

I have phoned the police after one neighbour became aggressive and told me I wasnt to park near his regular place. The police say that I'm ok to park where I like as long as I dont cause an obstruction.

I'd be interested to hear of similar stories and adult car owners who spit there dummies out when they have to walk an extra 10 yards to their doorstep.

BTW I'm talking of grown adults here with children of their own.

Similar problems here. Numpties with drives who park on the road at the SIDE of their drives. The only place left for anyone else to park is across their drive entrance, which they clearly aren't using. Do they accept this? No chance, the selfish ******** prefer to take up two spaces with one car and have the cheek to moan about THEIR rights.:loopy:

Years ago one of my work mates neighbours complained about him paking his van outside their house, they said it spoilt there view. So he phoned his mate and had him bring his boat up and parked it there instead.

I feel sorry for these dullards kids.

Tis a sad little problem this localism. I've encountered it in several towns, and each time affirmative action does the trick. First, when the person whines at you occupying their notional space, spell out the law - it's not their space, either notionally, morally or actually. If they then proceed to petty vandalism, parking on your bumper etc, enlist a mate and bide your time. Sooner or later the fool will park up outside their gaff with loads of room each side of the car. This will magically coincide with yourself and mate being around. Simply slip a car each side of the offender's, with 10mm gap between. They'll literally have to beg you to remove them, at which point you have won the argument and can point this out. Lovely.

Or alternatively, tie their rear shock to a lamp post with a few metres of spare chain! (Low down so as to lessen damage to lamp post of course!):D

Originally posted by joyphil
They'll literally have to beg you to remove them.......

To which, you answer, "Sorry mate, I'd love to, but we've had a drink so it'll have to be tomorrow!". ;-)

We don't have a problem with the neighbours, but people who work in the city centre park right outside my house and then walk to work. They used to block my driveway but since I put a sign up, this has stopped, although sometimes I really have to squeeze out.

Now tomorrow, my friend who I live with is also getting a car. We will try and squeeze them both on the driveway but failing that, i've said its ok for him to block me in and vice versa. Now anyone not living in the area but parking by my house might see this as me becoming lenient and start doing it again.

I wish they would just make the area residents parking only, or at least assign one space per house for residents and leave the rest for commuters. I understand they don't want to pay to park, I wouldn't either, but this is fast becoming a pain in the arse.

Originally posted by dinp

I wish they would just make the area residents parking only, or at least assign one space per house for residents and leave the rest for commuters. I understand they don't want to pay to park, I wouldn't either, but this is fast becoming a pain in the arse.

It wouldn't work with our homes being listed to one car parking space, most have 2 cars per house, and most have teenagers that I doubt will be afford to buy their own house in todays housing market, so will stay at mums and dads and of course want their own car, adding even more to the problem.

I live in the Longley area, and on our road, there are only a handful of properties with off road parking. Ours isn't one of them unfortunately. Thankfully, we don't encounter the problems that have been mentioned here, as most of us know who's car's who's, and we all park accordingly, so there is no problems. .Yes, it is always nice to get parked outside your house, but that isn't always the case, but nobody minds having to park in different places. Our ex-neighbour, used to own a 4x4, but he would deliberately take up 2 spaces on purpose. Then again, he was a
complete twit.

My neighbour hates it when other people park on there front,but they park on my front even though on my gate there is a sign Keep Clear Disabled Access,I had half of my garden turned into my own drive, as my neighbours we had a shared drive,so effectively I gave them my half to park there cars on ,but they still park outside my house .I have been really nice in asking them not to park directly outside my gates ,but they could park further down.But no they still do it & there son's motorbike & there girls boyfriend,he has a souped up little vauxhall nova ,he has taken off the catalitic convertor & the exhaust sounds like a stock car & he sits & revs up for ages at night,so I keep turning my security light on & off & blind the SOB ,that gets rid of him.But I am slowly losing patience & I will crack so listen when I do lol -Whinge Over

I also live at Longley - we have one pratt who gets his son (lives on the next road) to park in his place when he goes out - its funny to watch them! As our road is narrow, we generally only park on one side - except Mr Picasso - who thinks his car is more important and parks on the other blocking the road - well he did till the police arrived and told him to either park like the rest of us or expect a tow-truck. That was funny too...

Our road has parking on one side only, and that happens to be on the opposite side from us. On THAT side of the road are drives, so the space is limited for a start. Even then the ignorant clowns still park between the drives instead of on them.

Can't park on our side as the kerb is a steep rise and drives are out of the question, and opening nearside doors impossible when parallel parked.

And you bet your ar$e, that the minute you park in the only space left, across their drive, they'll want to use it for the first time in ages!

The road I live on affords residents with parking on both sides of the street, but only allows for a car width down the middle for traffic.

At the end of the road is a group of small industrial units housing various businesses. I addition to this, the street is also home to many students, having their own vehicles, which in some cases is upward of 2-3 cars / house.

One evening I returned home later than usual and was less than surprised to see there was no available spaces to park.

The only place was outside one of the business units. So I thought, ******** to it, I live here, why not. Oh I need to mention at this point, that the business always parks its two vans outside other resident’s properties overnight therefore reducing the available spaces further.

When I returned to our car the following morning, there sitting proudly on the windscreen was a note asking that I kindly not park outside their property as this made it impossible for them to load their vans.

In light of this note I contacted the Highways Planning Dept to confirm that the business had applied for permission to stop people parking outside their premises. Guess what, they hadn’t.

With this, feeling very confident, I paid the business a visit and told them very calmly, that, as a resident I will park my car on the road where I live and if that means outside their building, then so be it. The man then asked me if I thought it was fair that they had to man handle boxes of product down the road so they could load their vans, I replied, did he think it was fair that as a resident I had to park on some other road and walk 300 yards back to my home because they had parked their vans outside another residents home causing everyone else to shuffle up. I said that we should work together to create a win/win situation, but the guy wasn't listening and was obviously up for a barny.

When he said "beside's we have permission to stop people parking outside", I laughed in his face, then promptly told him that he hadn’t and should he wish to speak to the Planning Dept, they would be only too pleased to consider his application, oh and take his money off him for the privilege.

I've parked outside there since, not had another problem and don't expect one either.

Our neighbour opposite get very upset If she can't park her TWO cars outside her house. Last week our kitchen fitter parked outside her house, so she parked opposite him, which blocked the road (narrow street) then knocked on our door and started really shouting and bawling at him, saying she had a right to park outside her own home:loopy: He had to go move HIS van, though she had blocked the road :rolleyes:
Next day, she did about a 37 point manoeuvre to squeeze into her space, then stood there glaring at me with her hands on her hips. (So my wife told me - I was painting at the time) This woman seriously has a problem:loopy:

Originally posted by draggletail
Our neighbour opposite get very upset If she can't park her TWO cars outside her house. Last week our kitchen fitter parked outside her house, so she parked opposite him, which blocked the road (narrow street) then knocked on our door and started really shouting and bawling at him, saying she had a right to park outside her own home:loopy: He had to go move HIS van, though she had blocked the road :rolleyes:
Next day, she did about a 37 point manoeuvre to squeeze into her space, then stood there glaring at me with her hands on her hips. (So my wife told me - I was painting at the time) This woman seriously has a problem:loopy:

Behaviour like that would ABSOLUTELY make me want to park outside their house at EVERY opportunity I had, especially knowing that the law was on my side.

Draggletail, perhaps it's time to appeal to the council for 'resident's parking? This should limit her to one permitted space :heyhey:

A friend of ours drove a rangerover pickup, and lived next door to an auction house. Every friday he came home to a blocked driveway. He began to tow offending vehicles into the middle of the road and leave them there. He never found a handbrake that was a match for it! He would then settle down with a cup of tea and watch the scene outside as the driver returned :hihi:

Funny, he never towed the same car twice! :huh: :suspect:

I've had a full blown argument with a neighbour tonight as when I returned home from work, my driveway was partially blocked, making the reverse manoevure into the drive particularly difficult. We do have a sign on the gatepost as well to tell people not to block the driveway.

I left a polite notice under the wiper of the car, who has blocked the driveway before, and about 5 mins later, there was a knock at the door - which my friend answered to be greeted by the neighbour, who we have never seen before, shouting his head off at him.

I went to the door and the man shouting kept contradicting himself, saying he wasn't blocking the drive as I had managed to reverse in, but then was saying that he was only blocking it a bit. He then threatened to ring my landlord and the police - we told him to go right ahead as, unlike on-road parking, i'm pretty certain we have the right to decent access to the driveway without obstruction - What if we needed to leave in an emergency for example?

Luckily our landlord has given us his full support though.

Dinp, a previous neighbour of ours rose at 5am to go to work only to find his driveway blocked. He rang the police, who said they can issue a parking ticket. Try pulling forward to just one inch from the offending vehicle (thereby demonstrating the obstruction) take a photo, and send it to the police. Or just phone them, and ask them to supply a ticket if somebody is passing.

Or see my previous post above!!

Originally posted by Strix
Dinp, a previous neighbour of ours rose at 5am to go to work only to find his driveway blocked. He rang the police, who said they can issue a parking ticket. Try pulling forward to just one inch from the offending vehicle (thereby demonstrating the obstruction) take a photo, and send it to the police. Or just phone them, and ask them to supply a ticket if somebody is passing.

Or see my previous post above!!

I've got a digital camera and a digital camcorder so I will be making doubly sure that they aren't getting off with it. I can be a spiteful so-and-so when needed and wont hesitate to take this to the police or street force if need be :)

its a pain when people think they are entitled to park outside their own homes, and then have a go at their neighbours over it.

in one case this happened (up in crookes actually) where a neighbour of a friend of mine decided he didnt like the fact hsi car was parked infront of his house, so basically he stuck a note under the windscreen wiper but in doing so, he must have let it slip as when my friend got back to the car his windscreen was cracked at the bottom near the wiper.

anyway, £55 quid later a nice old vw jetta was bought with v5 and two months road tax, parked right outside his house and never moved for the whole two months. harsh i know!

That is quality - small price to pay for 8 weeks of knowing that his neighbour was ****** off!! What did he do with the car after that?

I'd love to be able to do something like that but all my neighbours park on their drives :lol:

if someone is blocking your driveway completely and you have no idea how to contact them i wonder if you'd be justified breaking their window and releasing the handbrake to move the car out of the way...

Originally posted by Cyclone
if someone is blocking your driveway completely and you have no idea how to contact them i wonder if you'd be justified breaking their window and releasing the handbrake to move the car out of the way...

I wouldn't think so.

On the other hand, a car without an alarm can be quite easily bounced forward 10 feet or so by 3 or 4 blokes ;-)

I live in the Longley area (seems to be a lot of us moaning about this particular problem!) and I have had issue in the past with neighbours parking over my drive (which I do use) but it was solved amicably.

These days, if my wife puts her car on the drive and I can't be bothered to park mine, move hers under the car port, then go back out and move mine into the drive, I'll just park over the end of my own drive. That way nobody complains :)

Originally posted by spiffymonkey
I wouldn't think so.


These days, if my wife puts her car on the drive and I can't be bothered to park mine, move hers under the car port, then go back out and move mine into the drive, I'll just park over the end of my own drive. That way nobody complains :)

Its a pity more people with drives, and claiming the road in front as 'their property', don't follow your example spiffy.

Originally posted by markham
Its a pity more people with drives, and claiming the road in front as 'their property', don't follow your example spiffy.

This is what I *try* to do, we've got 2 cars and there's only space on the drive for one. Problem is other people often park so close to our drive that we can't fit our car over the end of it without blocking our next door neighbours.

That's fair enough lectrolove, if you've one car on the drive and there's no room for the other you have no choice but to park car no2 on the road. What bugs me though is those who claim the road across their drive as 'their property' but don't park there, even though there's room.

Strange to hear responses in this thread advising people to park their cars 'bumper to bumper' if there's an ongoing dispute with rogue parkers or those who believe they have a right to park outside their home.

Under the road traffic act, it is an offence to cause an obstruction when parking your vehicle, be it blocking someone in, parking in front of someone elses driveway, or parking your vehicle so that larger vehicles cannot get through (think about an ambulance or fire engine needing to get access). Also, parking up on the pavement can also land you with a fine, pavements are for pedestrians, not cars, vans, bikes, etc.

No-one has the divine right to park on the roadway (unless it is a private road), so in the event of a dispute, you might just want to give the Police a call, the downside is that they may ask everyone to move their cars on, so in the end no-one wins.

Originally posted by coopster1974
That is quality - small price to pay for 8 weeks of knowing that his neighbour was ****** off!! What did he do with the car after that?

I'd love to be able to do something like that but all my neighbours park on their drives :lol:

He was faced with a choice, either re-tax the car or get rid. he thought he has teached him enough of a lesson so he discreetly called the salvage co. and got them to remove it day before the tax ran out.

I would advocate peaceful negotiations with your neighbour, but it he is being a t n u c ..... what can u do!

I live down a cul-de-sac, where u can imagine it is very hard to park your car outside your own house at times!
I park whereever possible and yeah do grumble to myself if its not near my house!
A neighbour opposite me is a bully at parking ( though never said anything to him must admit, as i dont wanna stoop to his level) but i have seen him before bang other cars to get into the space outside his own home! That to me is aggressive and i should really say something as i wouldn`t like it done to my own car!

The main problem where I live is the huge number of people who just abandon their cars everywhere to go to the Blades ground, when there is a match on you can't park anywhere within a mile of the stadium.

Originally posted by Tracey.C.
.... but i have seen him before bang other cars to get into the space outside his own home! That to me is aggressive and i should really say something as i wouldn`t like it done to my own car!

I would contact the police, after all it is criminal damage. I certainly would be doing if I saw someone doing that to another car or my car.

i expect they'd tell you to talk to your insurance company as it would be very difficult to prove intent.

Originally posted by Skatiechik
I would contact the police, after all it is criminal damage. I certainly would be doing if I saw someone doing that to another car or my car.

Originally posted by nick2
The main problem where I live is the huge number of people who just abandon their cars everywhere to go to the Blades ground, when there is a match on you can't park anywhere within a mile of the stadium.

I too live within that mile, but I work all day Saturday so miss the rush every time :D