Parking at home

I would phone the police and they will get them to move the car/get it towed.

Had to do this once in an old flat. The police banged on his door till he came outside and got a shock to see them.
 
I don't know how your local Police do things but only two weeks ago a mate rang the Police up complaining that somebody had parked across his drive and he couldn't get out to get to work.
He had knocked on doors with no luck.
The Police sent a lorry with a crane on it and removed it to wherever they are taken.
I have heard of others doing this.
 
bledd. said:
Put his car on ebay, say you can't find the keys so letting it go cheap!
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Back in the 80s we had a workmate who always bragged about stuff he had got and it was always superior to everybody elses.
He'd had a new car and never shut up about it for weeks so one of the lads had a collection and advertised it in the local Sentinel with his phone number and at a real bargain price.
Apparently the ringing didn't stop for days and he learnt his lesson.
 
Dimple said:
I don't know how your local Police do things but only two weeks ago a mate rang the Police up complaining that somebody had parked across his drive and he couldn't get out to get to work.
He had knocked on doors with no luck.
The Police sent a lorry with a crane on it and removed it to wherever they are taken.
I have heard of others doing this.
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I imagine his driveway backed onto a public highway though which is why the police were able to act as this is private property I'm not sure the same thing would work.
 
I'm not sure if it would be possible to do this but check with your residents association - could you get those bollards installed which lay flat when the space is needed but can be moved in to the upright position and padlocked in place when the space is used?

Perhaps if enough people in the RA agreed, then each residence could have their own bollard installed with their own lock. :)
 
GSXRMovistar said:
No I was suggesting that if the 'scummer' had an accident following issues with low tyre pressure regardless of him checking his vehicle beforehand and then it was to come to light that the OP had tampered with it (CCTV, nosey neighbour watching/filming) then yes they could be held responsible.
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Yes, if his car had a blowout on the motorway which caused a huge accident then you could find yourself facing time in jail should they establish what happened prior to the accident.
 
tom_e said:
I imagine his driveway backed onto a public highway though which is why the police were able to act as this is private property I'm not sure the same thing would work.
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Police may remove the vehicle at your request. We had a similar problem where cars would park across the backs of our cars so we could not get them out. Made a few complaints to the local car dealership that our parking spaces back onto as it was usually their customers doing it and it carried on. Spoke to the local parking enforcement and they said to contact the police. We did and they called a recovery company and they vehicles got removed - cost was passed on the the vehicle owner.

This happened 3-4 times before the garage put a massive sign up.

Might be worth seeing if your force operates something similar:http://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/uploads/library/132/Vehicle_recovery.pdf
 
I hate this type of behaviour - dicking around on "the edge of the rules" to annoy people deserves a sound beating. Assuming your not up for doing that, I think you need to fight fire with fire.

Step 1 - Install CCTV
Step 2 - Every time they do something dickish, post it on youtube (So no one can claim only you had access to images in step 3)
Step 3 - Every time they do something dickish, you do something dickish, leaving an image from the CCTV with "this is why" in place. Its really up to your imagination what you do - the trick is to be annoying without being illegal (Or at least not SO illegal the police would be interested). For example, smear something unpleasant on the windscreen, take the wheels off (Leave them there, just take them off the vehicle), stuff like that.

It may be that its a quick win. If they are the type to fight a war, this may result in them escalating, breaking the law properly and being removed.

Not an ideal scenario, but it looks like they are staying close enough to legal to make "formal" steps impractical.
 
They aren't parking directly in front - there's enough space for a car to drive down but obviously not enough space to get a car in/out of the garage.

Spoke to the head of the residents association and it seems like last nights behaviour was prompted by her going to have a chat with them about the parking.

She is making a complaint to their landlord and the property management company, who apparently have the power to fine them.
 
I do not condone the damaging of anothers poessessions or abuse of a physical or verbal nature. You would merely be lowering yourself to their level and potentially opening yourself to trouble with these people and/or the law.

My suggestion would be to speak with RA again. You could do a stake out and wait until an oportunity comes where you can record their wrong doings and bring this evidence to the RA or even the police.

If this family is only renting then there is the option to try and get these people evicted for disturbing the peace. If there is enough other residents that feel the same way then you can pretty much force the landlords hand.

Are the properties all owned by one landlord or is each property individually ownee?
 
Just keep a stack of notes "stop parking here you're in the way!"

then use them to waterboard the drivers until they agree to stop doing it, and bring you fresh orange juice every morning.

Or alternatively let the air out of their tyres every time they park somewhere that is in the way of everyone.
 
do what my flat mate did.. let it irritate you to the point where you feel compelled to go round and nearly knock there door down you bang so hard on it then when they answer offer them all out, worked a treat.. they didnt park there again and moved out 2 months later :)
 
18 flats with 1 being a **** that's 17 to 1 odds as far as I see it. Just canvass the rest of the tenants then repeatedly report them to the RA. If it is 17 against 1 then they will have to sort it.
Don't do as the other ***** have said & start damaging stuff as that would make you as bad as him.
 
Dimple said:
I don't know how your local Police do things but only two weeks ago a mate rang the Police up complaining that somebody had parked across his drive and he couldn't get out to get to work.
He had knocked on doors with no luck.
The Police sent a lorry with a crane on it and removed it to wherever they are taken.
I have heard of others doing this.
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We used to have the issue of knobheads parking across our drive when the towns footie team was playing...I rang the rozzers and told them I am a plumber on 24hr callout and if it wasn't moved I would move it with the bumper of my van, they promptly appeared with a hiab truck and lifted it away to the holding yard...knobhead owner appeared and was straight on the phone to the rozzers saying his car had been nicked, they then informed him that they had it and it would cost him £140 to get it released...had 5 cars lifted because of this and now they don't park across my drive anymore :D
 
Used to have a similar issue for a few weeks when I moved into my last apartment, 12 flats and only 8 dedicated parking spots and nearly ever flat had at least 2 people in that drove, Used to have to park on the street and on the road/driveway up the side of the flats...yet some moron used to park his van there all the time and block people in, or would park it BEHIND the dedicated parking bays... thankfully he moved out a few weeks later.
 
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