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Apr 2013
3:24pm, 29 Apr 2013
18,505 posts
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hammerite
I get mildly annoyed when people park outside my house. I get apoplectic if they park outside my house in such a way that I can't get my car parked*
*you can easily park two cars if positioned right between my driveway** and the neighbours driveway
** my driveway only has space for one car. You can't get out of the car if you try to park it in the garage.
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Apr 2013
3:27pm, 29 Apr 2013
22,321 posts
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Frobester
In Los Angeles a few years back I came across a sign which read "No Turning, Armed Guards Patrol This Area". I'd taken a very wrong turn on Mulholland Drive, but I was presented with somewhat of a quandary.
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Apr 2013
3:33pm, 29 Apr 2013
6,978 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
In the US, I'd obey the sign as the householder probably has a lot of guns and isn't afraid to use them
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Apr 2013
3:35pm, 29 Apr 2013
22,323 posts
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Frobester
No turning in that particular cul-de-sac would have resulted in me driving all the way back to Sepulveda in reverse.
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Apr 2013
3:40pm, 29 Apr 2013
24,603 posts
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JenL
 I am quite tickled by the idea that someone with no car would get in a state about "his/her" empty space being used just because "It's mine". People are strange.
All the houses on our road have driveways and I can't think of one that isn't used. We also all have garages but I have never seen anyone drive a car into one or emerge from one, which interests me now I think about it. Parking is allowed on the street and there is room for a car or two on street between each house, but I've noticed lately that some of the residents have started putting those big pointy rock-like stones on the verge at the kerbside to "discourage" people from parking there. I think that's really mean as the only time that on-street parking occurs in any quantity is round about school run time when parents who live a distance away but don't want to get caught up in the "real" school traffic that worsens the closer you get to school will park a bit further back and alk their children the rest of the way.
Isn't it illegal to do that? I keep meaning to find out. My understanding is that we own the driveway but not the street in front of the house.
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Apr 2013
3:52pm, 29 Apr 2013
10,346 posts
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Ultracat
Blocking you in a driveway is illegal and the police will arrange for it to be towed if it's there a long time. Not sure what happens if driveway is blocked and you can't get in.
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Apr 2013
3:52pm, 29 Apr 2013
4,877 posts
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JJ Flash
You own the land to your boundary. You own your driveway to the edge of your property and should have a right of access across any verge or pavement. That right is disputable if there is no dip in the kerb.
Parking across a drive is covered by the highway code and you commit the offence of Obstruction when you do it. This applies where the kerb is dipped for the driveway. The police or a traffic warden can issue you a ticket for doing it. As the obstructed party you can call them in.
Can you tell I used to have trouble with people parking across my drive?
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Apr 2013
3:56pm, 29 Apr 2013
3,043 posts
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Battlecat
That's what I'd have thought Jen.
There is a woman accross the road who gets cross when you park in front of her house which always amuses me as they have 2 cars and no drive/garage so they must park in front of other people's houses all the time.
Another house on the street has a 'No Parking, Drive in constant use' sign on the front of their house. They don't have a drive. It's so no one parks outside their house.
Freaks, the lot of them. It's resident parking on this road anyway and spaces aren't often a problem.
That said I really want to key next doors when they park their people carrier across 2 car parking spaces so I can't get parked nearby but then I hate next doors anyway
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Apr 2013
3:56pm, 29 Apr 2013
24,604 posts
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JenL
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Apr 2013
4:00pm, 29 Apr 2013
3,044 posts
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Battlecat
I was listening to Jeremyn Vine (I know, blood pressure!) the other day about parking around school drop off time. A man said he has had parents parking on his drive waiting for the kids.
The bloke was a shift worker and came back to find someone parked on his drive so he blocked him in. The man knocked on his door and told him to move but the house owner refused. The man who had parked his car there called the police out who backed up the house owner so he had to come back next day to get his car out!
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