pedrobedro
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Paint your notice on the door then they can't remove it, something like grumpy b@$tard on nights, do not obstruct door please.
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steveo3002
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i rent a garage and the council said they will have the coppers out if blocked , they also painted keep clear on the space near the doors
ChrisJ
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Cheers Steveo hopefully will get a similar result from our council
brianblock
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Best bet is to allow someone to park in front on a regular basis like a pensioner who doesn't go out much, at least you'll know where to go if you need it moved
Nick67GT
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Not got any solutions for you but can empathise, I live in a corner and somehow people think its acceptable to park in front of the drive while visiting neighbours
We had a similar problem but on a much greater scale due to general lack of parking in the area. The lazy s*ds couldn't even be ar*ed to use the nearby (free) car park less than 100yds away.
That was until an HGV went down the road with some hefty chunks of I section hanging off the back and went down the side of the whole lot.
Never had any problems after that.
Exuptoy
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I sympathise with you. I live on a main road with double yellows and have the only driveway along this section of road. They could park anywhere along the road but the **Language** who live in the flat opposite have friends who park across my drive when they're being picked up! Guy got all snotty when I asked him to move it like it was my fault. Happened a few times but I've given up asking now.
brightspark
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them half inch big roofing clout nails works wonders sprinkle a few around and watch the fun 
HockeyNomad
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I fund these very handy shifting cars around, pop two under the back wheels a few pumps and the car will move,
http://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wheel-dollies/ws2000-680kg-wheel-skates
it was funny when I used it to move the neighbours friends car from in front of my garage on my driveway into the street sideways so it blocked the whole Road and left it there, whilst I drove off on my errands.
They never parked there again. I can't imagine what they thought when they found there car sideways in the street blocking all the traffic
http://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equipment/wheel-dollies/ws2000-680kg-wheel-skates
it was funny when I used it to move the neighbours friends car from in front of my garage on my driveway into the street sideways so it blocked the whole Road and left it there, whilst I drove off on my errands.
They never parked there again. I can't imagine what they thought when they found there car sideways in the street blocking all the traffic
Wedg1e
They call me Mr. Bodge-angles
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We had 'Private Driveway, No Access' and some t**t ripped it off. So presumably they ignored the sign, drove up the drive and found it went nowhere, so the point in ripping the sign off was... what, exactly?
Wedg1e
They call me Mr. Bodge-angles
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Last century an ex-partner of mine rented an ex-council house in Middlesbrough. It was one of those estates where the houses all face each other across a 'green' with car access to rear; which wouldn't have been so bad if every house had a garage and used it, but of course there weren't enough garages and people had to park opposite them... including the ex, and myself when visiting.
If by chance someone had a problem they'd knock on the door and I'd move the cars, but there was one young lad who kept his pride and joy (an old BMW 3-series IIRC) in one of the garages, using it to go to college. His mother was a proper psycho and instead of knocking on doors she'd usually stand in the road and yell at the top of her voice 'My son can't get his car out!' until someone responded.
Now it has to be said, the son was totally incompetent. I watched him a few times and he couldn't have turned a Mini round on a football pitch without assistance, so it didn't matter how much room you actually left him, it was never enough.
So one Sunday morning we're lying in bed and there's some yelling outside followed by a knock at the door and there's Uncle George (we nicknamed him that as he was clearly not laddo's mother's husband
) timidly asking if we'd mind moving the ex's Skoda Rapid.
So I take my sweet time getting dressed and made my way out, by which time there's nobody in sight and the Rapid is thirty feet away from where we left it - and it hadn't even been parked opposite his garage. WTF?
I soon realised the driver's door quarterlight had been smashed and the handbrake released. Hmmm. So I hunted the scrappies, replaced the quarterlight and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Then one school (college) night about 6 months later, as I was leaving to go back to my place I squeezed the entire contents of a bottle of Loctite into the padlock on laddo's garage door. As the feeble up'n'over door locks had all been jemmied years before, the council had fitted hasp and staple to the top corner of each door and I'd observed laddo up on tiptoes a few times jiggling his nice expensive Abus Granit.
Next morning, unsurprisingly, there was a different form of screaming in the street and the ex reported back later in the day that having snapped the key, Uncle George had spent four hours balanced on a dining room chair, using a junior hacksaw on the padlock.
I reckoned a Granit was fair exchange for a Rapid quarterlight, they were never exactly common in scrapyards...
If by chance someone had a problem they'd knock on the door and I'd move the cars, but there was one young lad who kept his pride and joy (an old BMW 3-series IIRC) in one of the garages, using it to go to college. His mother was a proper psycho and instead of knocking on doors she'd usually stand in the road and yell at the top of her voice 'My son can't get his car out!' until someone responded.
Now it has to be said, the son was totally incompetent. I watched him a few times and he couldn't have turned a Mini round on a football pitch without assistance, so it didn't matter how much room you actually left him, it was never enough.
So one Sunday morning we're lying in bed and there's some yelling outside followed by a knock at the door and there's Uncle George (we nicknamed him that as he was clearly not laddo's mother's husband
) timidly asking if we'd mind moving the ex's Skoda Rapid.So I take my sweet time getting dressed and made my way out, by which time there's nobody in sight and the Rapid is thirty feet away from where we left it - and it hadn't even been parked opposite his garage. WTF?
I soon realised the driver's door quarterlight had been smashed and the handbrake released. Hmmm. So I hunted the scrappies, replaced the quarterlight and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Then one school (college) night about 6 months later, as I was leaving to go back to my place I squeezed the entire contents of a bottle of Loctite into the padlock on laddo's garage door. As the feeble up'n'over door locks had all been jemmied years before, the council had fitted hasp and staple to the top corner of each door and I'd observed laddo up on tiptoes a few times jiggling his nice expensive Abus Granit.
Next morning, unsurprisingly, there was a different form of screaming in the street and the ex reported back later in the day that having snapped the key, Uncle George had spent four hours balanced on a dining room chair, using a junior hacksaw on the padlock.
I reckoned a Granit was fair exchange for a Rapid quarterlight, they were never exactly common in scrapyards...
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I love you a little bit more after that oneLast century an ex-partner of mine rented an ex-council house in Middlesbrough. It was one of those estates where the houses all face each other across a 'green' with car access to rear; which wouldn't have been so bad if every house had a garage and used it, but of course there weren't enough garages and people had to park opposite them... including the ex, and myself when visiting.
If by chance someone had a problem they'd knock on the door and I'd move the cars, but there was one young lad who kept his pride and joy (an old BMW 3-series IIRC) in one of the garages, using it to go to college. His mother was a proper psycho and instead of knocking on doors she'd usually stand in the road and yell at the top of her voice 'My son can't get his car out!' until someone responded.
Now it has to be said, the son was totally incompetent. I watched him a few times and he couldn't have turned a Mini round on a football pitch without assistance, so it didn't matter how much room you actually left him, it was never enough.
So one Sunday morning we're lying in bed and there's some yelling outside followed by a knock at the door and there's Uncle George (we nicknamed him that as he was clearly not laddo's mother's husband
So I take my sweet time getting dressed and made my way out, by which time there's nobody in sight and the Rapid is thirty feet away from where we left it - and it hadn't even been parked opposite his garage. WTF?
I soon realised the driver's door quarterlight had been smashed and the handbrake released. Hmmm. So I hunted the scrappies, replaced the quarterlight and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Then one school (college) night about 6 months later, as I was leaving to go back to my place I squeezed the entire contents of a bottle of Loctite into the padlock on laddo's garage door. As the feeble up'n'over door locks had all been jemmied years before, the council had fitted hasp and staple to the top corner of each door and I'd observed laddo up on tiptoes a few times jiggling his nice expensive Abus Granit.
Next morning, unsurprisingly, there was a different form of screaming in the street and the ex reported back later in the day that having snapped the key, Uncle George had spent four hours balanced on a dining room chair, using a junior hacksaw on the padlock.
I reckoned a Granit was fair exchange for a Rapid quarterlight, they were never exactly common in scrapyards...
T0rnado69
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paint on the floor in front of the garage.... no parking garage access, clamp release fee £50
i once came home and found a strange car parked across my garage access.
so i came in backwards and put my towbar about 1" from their bumper..
locked up and went to bed.......
woke up about 2am hearing voices and an engine revering.
they was trying to get there car out and had to inch it back and forth
to get it out from between the lamp post and my car..
drove it up the path. all the way up to the main road and came all the way back round and in front of my car....
when i went out at 7am for work it wasn't there....
i found out that night from a neighbour in the next street, i had blocked there friends in.
i said did i ?
ohh i thought someone had blocked me from using my garage, so i had no where to park
my car, so left it as close to my garage as possible.
they never parked there again....
and i also got told that when they drove up the path to come back onto the main road..
police was going past and stop..
gave them a ticket for driving on the path LOL
that will teach em.......
i once came home and found a strange car parked across my garage access.
so i came in backwards and put my towbar about 1" from their bumper..
locked up and went to bed.......
woke up about 2am hearing voices and an engine revering.
they was trying to get there car out and had to inch it back and forth
to get it out from between the lamp post and my car..
drove it up the path. all the way up to the main road and came all the way back round and in front of my car....
when i went out at 7am for work it wasn't there....
i found out that night from a neighbour in the next street, i had blocked there friends in.
i said did i ?
ohh i thought someone had blocked me from using my garage, so i had no where to park
my car, so left it as close to my garage as possible.
they never parked there again....
and i also got told that when they drove up the path to come back onto the main road..
police was going past and stop..
gave them a ticket for driving on the path LOL
that will teach em.......
Crater Creator
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Rather than doing all this vandalism, I'd be inclined to go and address the problem man to man.
Practical jokes are great but I'm not a fan of underhand destroying of property.....
Practical jokes are great but I'm not a fan of underhand destroying of property.....
puffernutter
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I share your pain! I rent a private garage that has its entrance onto a narrow street where parking is at a premium. There is a dropped kerb and a white line in front and a notice that states "No Parking - Garage in Constant Use". It has no effect whatsoever. Cars are regularly parked in front. One one occasion I saw a council parking chap down the street and asked him if he could ticket them, not possible as he can only write tickets where they overstay a parking time or are on double yellow. The police aren't interested it took over an hour last time for them to come out, find out who's car it was and the fact they (the cars owner) weren't answering the phone, they couldn't (or wouldn't) do anything!
Very frustrating
Regards
Peter
Very frustrating
Regards
Peter
Wendelspanswick
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You could paint your own double yellow line around the area when no one is looking!!!
ChrisJ
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The problem is it is never the same person, and there are 20+ houses in the close to go round and knock each time it happens, so what I am doing now is taking a picture of the offending vehicle and number plate each time it happens so i can say to the council, "here you go these are the culprits", I too am not a fan of destroying peoples property, it's all very frustrating.
rtbcomp
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A neighbour of mine had problems with people blocking his drive so he swung their cars through 90 degrees with a trolley jack. It's a problem in our street (terraced houses with a few drives) because there are quite a few student lets, so more than one car per house in some cases. Those of us with drives are thinking of getting "H" lines painted across our driveways.
