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Just block them in and leave your car for 24 hours, that'll stop them.

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Drive is just for my house yes and really obviously so when you see it, its a weird one... I'm always flabbergasted when I find someone's parked in it because Id never even consider using someone Id never met's driveway, it just amazes me anyone would think its an ok thing to do!

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Screwfix sell security bollards. They’re not dear.

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Sorry to read about your wee Marmite Stanky, that must have been an agonising decision to have to make.

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I'm very sorry to hear about Marmite. I texted you but I think you might have changed your number.

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  On 24/03/2018 at 21:25, Mr A Lawrence said:

I'm only in fucking hospital.

 

Had stomach pain for 4 days which gradually got worse until I couldn't stand it no more.

 

Turns out I've got an inflamed gall bladder with loads of stones in it.

 

.waiting to see if the infection goes down before they are gonna take it out.

You know they won't take it out as an emergency? They will send you home,then put you on the waiting list in a few weeks time.

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Yeah they told me that.

 

Once the infection test results come back and I get the correct antibiotics I'll be sent home which should be Tuesday. 

 

Got a holiday booked for the 23rd of April so sods law says it'll be for the 25th no doubt .

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  On 25/03/2018 at 17:47, CortinaDave said:

Folk parking in my drive. Anyone else get this? Happens to me fairly often - I get home to find a random who has gone to visit the neighbours over the road just dumps their motor in my drive and it properly grates my cheese!

 

I wouldn't even consider doing that but whenever I pull someone up about it they're always surprised I'm annoyed and seem put out that I make them move.

 

I live in a 4 in a block type house and once the council gutted the flat upstairs... and dumped a skip full of all the crap from it in my drive for a month. Am I being unreasonable to get annoyed with it?

 

Let tyres down/remove valves. Erect bollard. Park behind them. Buy a set of castors and move it onto a motorway. 

 

This is fucking unforgivable, and they deserve everything they get. 

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  On 25/03/2018 at 22:04, robinmasters said:

Let tyres down/remove valves. Erect bollard. Park behind them. Buy a set of castors and move it onto a motorway.

 

This is fucking unforgivable, and they deserve everything they get.

If you touch it you may be exposing yourself to charges of criminal damage.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 05:17, Rusty Sills said:

If you touch it you may be exposing yourself 

 

Not if you cut the bottom of your trouser pockets off you won't.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 05:17, Rusty Sills said:

If you touch it you may be exposing yourself to charges of criminal damage.

 

Never touched it, officer...

 

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Poor Marmite :(

 

 

As to the dumped car, you need a 4x4 to drag it into the middle of the road & report it dumped as well as blocking traffic. I've never* done this to someone blocking a neighbours drive daily, it didn't need reporting though as it moved into the middle of a busy junction on it's own*.

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  On 25/03/2018 at 17:47, CortinaDave said:

Folk parking in my drive. Anyone else get this? Happens to me fairly often - I get home to find a random who has gone to visit the neighbours over the road just dumps their motor in my drive and it properly grates my cheese!

 

I wouldn't even consider doing that but whenever I pull someone up about it they're always surprised I'm annoyed and seem put out that I make them move.

 

I live in a 4 in a block type house and once the council gutted the flat upstairs... and dumped a skip full of all the crap from it in my drive for a month. Am I being unreasonable to get annoyed with it?

I wouldn't be a happy chap, have you politely asked the neighbour to tell their visitors not to park there?

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  On 25/03/2018 at 17:47, CortinaDave said:

Am I being unreasonable to get annoyed with it?

Not at all. Parking on someone else's driveway, especially if it's bloody obviously a private driveway, takes the piss.

 

Unfortunately, the law is on the side of the car owner. You can't touch it, you can't block it in by parking on the road (as you are obstruting a dropped kerb, which is unlawful) and you can't put a bollard up to block it in as you are then "denying the use of the vehicle".

 

Which is all well and good, but what about the bloody landowner who has been denied the use of THEIR OWN FUCKING PROPERTY!

 

Personally I'd reach under the car, cut the handbrake cable and push the bastard out of the way.

 

This used to happen at a garage local to where I used to live all the time. There were a couple of parking spots that were the property of the garage, but arrogant dickheads used to park there and walk to the railway station, thus avoiding the station parking charges. The garage would put a very polite note on the car the first time, asking them not to park there. If they parked there again, they got a somewhat more stiffly worded note left. Third time would be the same strongly-worded note, but attached to their windscreen with impossible-to-peel-off 10p-a-roll sellotape.

 

If they parked there a 4th time, they then got the very politely worded note again. This time attached to the winscreen with a massive blob of aluminium grease. You know the sort.. the grease that gets absolutely everywhere and you're finding blobs and swipes of it for months thereafter, even on surfaces you've not been near, never mind touched.

 

They never had a 5th time parker. Odd that.

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Some years ago where I used to live we had a big 4 car garage that opened onto a partly shared drive. According to the deeds neither of us should of parked in this area. As I used to access the garage from the back garden I couldn't see if a car had been parked there and one morning I go to open it from inside and bashed a poxy fiesta parked right in front of the door. I tried knocking on the neighbours door but they wouldn't answer so I put a snotty note on it and took a different car to work. The next weekend some jumped up little twat turns up in the Fiesta saying it was his girlfriends car and I had damaged it. He went into full rant mode and asked what was I going to do about it. I promptly told him to FRO and his response was to say he was calling the police. A week or so later I get invited to the police station and had to give a statement under caution. The copper showed me all these photo's of the damage I was supposed to of done including one of the stone chips on the grille. Once the interview was over the copper told me that because the complaint had been made they had to investigate even though he knew it was a load of rubbish. In the end I was told there would be no action taken against me but matey was getting a visit to warn him about wasting police time as he made a bit of a habit of it. Moral of the story is be very careful as some people "know their rights" and can do this sort of thing just to cause trouble.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 09:35, Talbot said:

Not at all. Parking on someone else's driveway, especially if it's bloody obviously a private driveway, takes the piss.

 

Unfortunately, the law is on the side of the car owner. You can't touch it, you can't block it in by parking on the road (as you are obstruting a dropped kerb, which is unlawful) and you can't put a bollard up to block it in as you are then "denying the use of the vehicle".

 

Which is all well and good, but what about the bloody landowner who has been denied the use of THEIR OWN FUCKING PROPERTY!

 

This is total bollocks.

 

Yes you can touch it. You can even move it so long as you don't damage it. You can also block it in as it's your property which is covered by civil law.

 

This all comes with a big but though. While parking problems are annoying being a wanker about it, as in arguing with the cars owner or damaging it generally just gets you in the shit.

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University of Birmingham HR department.

 

I got an email today asking if I'd like to do my interview on Thursday via Skype.

 

I replied yes that would be the preferred option as it saves me the annual leave. HOWEVER as long as I can submit an expenses form for the flights I'll have to cancel at such short notice! Gah!

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I would block the sods in and then not answer the door for an hour or two. When I was at home (sob!) some girl parked her car on our drive in front of the garage door. After making sure it was no one we knew, I went effin' mad and blocked her in with our car, called the police and my wife wrote all over the windscreen in red lipstick about parking on other peoples driveways. About 4 hours later the police rang us back to ask if we could let her out as she had been trying to leave for 2 hours and couldn't get an answer.

 

We did, but boy she got a rocket!

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I see the thread for the roffled Rover has been deleted. No pictures of the damage and the owner goes yellow. If I were a suspicious person...

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I too am astounded that anyone would think its ok to park on someone elses drive, however the potential new ladyfriend was telling me a near identical story at the weekend of someone who did it to her.  Rocked up to see one of the neighbours, parked on her drive, didn't seem to get what the issue was when asked to move, like, you know, so she could park her car on it

 

Incredible.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 11:00, Captain Furious said:

I too am astounded that anyone would think its ok to park on someone elses drive, ....

 

Seems people do. Wasn't there someone here who found a parent from the nearby school who decided to dump her car on his driveway (and fully on his property) because she couldn't be bothered to find a space slightly further away?

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Yeah I recall that recently too.  Its actually quite funny to imagine the brass neck required to do it in the first place and the breath taking effrontery to not see a problem when called out on it. 

 

However I would be frothing with biblical rage if it happened to me.

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I've been waiting for well over a week and a half for sills from a local panel suppliers chasing them up when I can and people wonder why internet business is killing local trade, I was testing the water before putting a much bigger order to them as I'd heard differing opinions of them, i thought fuck them ive now ordered them from another place with great feedback with the rest of the stuff I wanted to order

 

I'm peed off as I've got a few days off this week and it's dry at the moment

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  On 26/03/2018 at 10:51, AlabamaShrimp said:

I see the thread for the roffled Rover has been deleted. No pictures of the damage and the owner goes yellow. If I were a suspicious person...

And the range rover roffle has gone quiet after being won by a..... Well.... Let's leave it there.

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Re parking on other folk's driveways, the problem is this: people (by and large) do what the fuck they want nowadays, and if you don't like it then you can fuck off.

 

Remember that girl who parked on some guy's drive while she dropped off/picked up her kid and proceeded to spit in his face when he challenged her? Madness.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 13:35, mrbenn said:

.....Remember that girl who parked on some guy's drive while she dropped off/picked up her kid and proceeded to spit in his face when he challenged her? Madness.

 

That's the one I was referring to.

 

Still, if you have access to a Hiab......

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  On 26/03/2018 at 11:57, dave21478 said:

And the range rover roffle has gone quiet after being won by a..... Well.... Let's leave it there.

My mother always taught me that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

 

Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk

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Stopped a pickpocket from lifting my wallet earlier.

 

As I grabbed her arm she screamed.

 

Then, she gobbed at me as I walked away. It might have been the threat of me breaking her neck if she carried on.

Trying to rob someone who's not at all happy with work and wanted a break really isn't that wise.

 

Joke's on her, snapped neck or no; I'm skint.

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And in other insurance news, Hastings Direct can just fuck off and die! They want £50 odd  to cancel the policy on the KIA, no rebate on unused cover, nothing. The chap I spoke to was worse than fucking useless,, couldn't hear him and when I could, I couldn't understand what he was saying, he dropped the call multiple times and put me on hold for ages with no warning. Total fucking crap. Told them to: 'SOD OFF! cos I am not paying them a bean!

 

Got me really grumpy it did and I hate being grumpy!

 

So then I painted the badges on the car red, it was merely an experiment so not prepared  and I only did the script part. Didn't like it at all so I sat in the parks carpark while CHester fucked about, scraping the red paint off again. It did come off nice and easy...

Then a bloke came up and started talking about the car and saying it was nice to see these 'Old ones out and about' and was then surprised when I told him it was newer than the car he'd just pulled up in!

 

Finally, to complete my grumps for so far today: I have sent Specialist cars a nasty e-mail as they were supposed to collect the dollop for sale and repair last week and they did nothing nor did they contact me. It seems, as with all things, when you are spending thousands every few weeks thay are all over you but when you want something (repair the clocks and then sell it for me) then they casually forget. Fuck 'em, I repaired the rev counter myself. A lot less than the £800 they wanted as well.

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  On 26/03/2018 at 09:53, panhard65 said:

Some years ago where I used to live we had a big 4 car garage that opened onto a partly shared drive. According to the deeds neither of us should of parked in this area. As I used to access the garage from the back garden I couldn't see if a car had been parked there and one morning I go to open it from inside and bashed a poxy fiesta parked right in front of the door. I tried knocking on the neighbours door but they wouldn't answer so I put a snotty note on it and took a different car to work. The next weekend some jumped up little twat turns up in the Fiesta saying it was his girlfriends car and I had damaged it. He went into full rant mode and asked what was I going to do about it. I promptly told him to FRO and his response was to say he was calling the police. A week or so later I get invited to the police station and had to give a statement under caution. The copper showed me all these photo's of the damage I was supposed to of done including one of the stone chips on the grille. Once the interview was over the copper told me that because the complaint had been made they had to investigate even though he knew it was a load of rubbish. In the end I was told there would be no action taken against me but matey was getting a visit to warn him about wasting police time as he made a bit of a habit of it. Moral of the story is be very careful as some people "know their rights" and can do this sort of thing just to cause trouble.

 

 

Loosen the oil filter. 

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