Douchebag parking - actions?

hughtrimble

hughtrimble

hughtrimble

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Afternoon,

There's a Merc that keeps being parked not in a parking bay, but in front of the bays and blocking neighbours' cars in. Only happens on Sundays, and from speaking with neighbours they do not appear to be visiting any residents here.

It's at weekends so no parking enforcement and it's not a public highway as it's estate parking. No luck yet seeing the person responsible to ask them how they can be so douchey.

What can be done about this?

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If you can't get a hold of the driver in person, leave a firm but polite note on their windscreen asking them to park more considerately. If it happens again afterwards, leave a less polite note on the windscreen, but instead of putting it under the wiper, stick it on with lots of Pritt Stick.

If that doesn't work, karma can be a bitch. Pray to the gods of karma that those tyre valves spring a leak.

Don't block the car in. There are a lot of unpredictable crazies out there, and they tend to park like that.
 
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Scuzi has given the most sensible approach.

I would however be petty over this so if your neighbours are up for it, block it in with a couple of cars. They’ve shown zero consideration for letting your neighbour go about their business or worse, the possibility of an emergency
 
Never understood how people can park their car like this, I'd be worried about damage or giving whoever I'm visiting a bad reputation with the neighbours. It's completely avoidable.

Polite note first time, but I'd be wanting to find out who they were visiting as it's easier to talk to a neighbour than a visitor tbh.
 
It may be on a private estate, but IIRC it is/was considered a minor offence to block access to the Queen's Kings Highway, and the police could/would used to be able to contact the registered keepers of vehicles that were parked blocking people's drives, so that may be something to look into (obviously the non emergency number). They probably don't do that anymore, but going back I remember my father ringing the local station as some pillock had parked blocking his shared drive preventing 5 houses from being able to pull their cars out including two that did early shifts, apparently the police managed to find a contact for the registered keeper as at about 4:30am someone did move it about 20 meters to an open spot on the road.

From memory and some of the past threads the old go to was something along the lines of slip the local rugby club members a few pints to assist in moving it, or put it on wheel trolleys and move it so the owner has a real problem getting it out.;)
 
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hughtrimble said:
Afternoon,

There's a Merc that keeps being parked not in a parking bay, but in front of the bays and blocking neighbours' cars in. Only happens on Sundays, and from speaking with neighbours they do not appear to be visiting any residents here.

It's at weekends so no parking enforcement and it's not a public highway as it's estate parking. No luck yet seeing the person responsible to ask them how they can be so douchey.

What can be done about this?

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AFAIK, but take with a pinch of salt, if they're obstructing you from accessing the public highway then it's a police issue.

I seem to recall when there was talk of scam parking companies for airport users parking their cars on other peoples driveways, it was made very clear that you could not block the car in with another one as the owner of the house would get in **** for it.

I know around our way the PCSOs/community police or whoever they are have given us an email address or two to contact them, maybe see if there's something similar and ping them an email.
 
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AFAIK, but take with a pinch of salt, if they're obstructing you from accessing the public highway then it's a police issue.

I seem to recall when there was talk of scam parking companies for airport users parking their cars on other peoples driveways, it was made very clear that you could not block the car in with another one as the owner of the house would get in **** for it.

I know around our way the PCSOs/community police or whoever they are have given us an email address or two to contact them, maybe see if there's something similar and ping them an email.
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That is my understanding, and IIRC it doesn't matter if the blockage is on private land as long as that land has "public access", as the Road Traffic act for some things applies to privately owned land if there is nothing stopping people from using it.

Hence the reason you can be done for driving without insurance/licence if you're in say a Tesco car park, and some interesting case law regarding farmland as basically a famers field is private and you don't need a driving licence/insurance etc if it's gated, but the moment you allow the public general access for say a car boot or other event it become "public" for the duration - one of the defining cases involved a farmers son who was driving something at one end of a field were a car boot was being held.
 
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A small piece of gravel between the dust cap and the valve. The tyres will go down slowly.
It quite often falls out without being noticed when the tyres need to get pumped up.

You could leave a note, but I doubt the person who parks like this take any notice of it.
The car is taxed and has a current MOT, so I doubt the police will be interested in helping.
Are there any signs indicating that it is private parking in that area?
 
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