Blocking someone in

dedon

Hey lads

Just wondering if this has happened anyone on here and what solution they came to.

My sister parks her car in Dublin outside her house on the road. As do the other residents in the area.

Recently, people who either live or work nearby have been parking along the road to. No problem there.

But for the last week some ignorant drivers (not local residents) have been parking so close to her that they have blocked her in. She actually cannot get her car out for work. It is madness really.

When she came back from work yesterday at lunch time two jeeps had blocked her in again. No sign of the drivers.

Any solutions??

Rowley Birkin QC

She could park on the street where people are usually blocking her in.

dedon

She does park on the street outside her house. They block her in there.

MarkR

Call local gardai and advise that cars are outside your house and you cannot exit. Those drivers will get a €40 fine for dangerous parking if they are blocking a right of way.

Just reread and it seems that they are parking too close to the front / rear of her car for her to get out comfortably. Not sure on that, above may still apply.

Rowley Birkin QC

So they double park or they park too close to her so she can't manouvre her car out?

dedon

They park SO close to her that she cant get her car manouvre. Bumper to Bumper stuff

Cookie_Monster

put out a gas cylinder or similar behind the car. gives you extra room

Vain

dedon wrote: »

They park SO close to her that she cant get her car manouvre. Bumper to Bumper stuff

If she parks a bit back for the car in front. That way if someone behind hers parks up the back of the car she can still get out.

Or else a game of bumpers:pac:

dedon

Vain wrote: »

If she parks a bit back for the car in front. That way if someone behind hers parks up the back of the car she can still get out.

Or else a game of bumpers:pac:

Hard to do when the cars block her from both sides when they arrive for work at 7.30

Cookie_Monster

If they keep mysteriously getting flat tyres from parking there maybe they'll stop??

seamus

I've seen people get traffic cones. When she parks, she takes it out of her boot or hallway and puts it about 4 feet behind her car. When other drivers arrive, they won't move the cone. So when she wants to get out, she just removes the cone and drives away.

Yakult

MarkR wrote: »

Call local gardai and advise that cars are outside your house and you cannot exit. Those drivers will get a €40 fine for dangerous parking if they are blocking a right of way.

Just reread and it seems that they are parking too close to the front / rear of her car for her to get out comfortably. Not sure on that, above may still apply.

+1 exactly what I was gonna say.

Gypo

Buy a Smart, I'd like to see them block that in!

dedon

seamus wrote: »

I've seen people get traffic cones. When she parks, she takes it out of her boot or hallway and puts it about 4 feet behind her car. When other drivers arrive, they won't move the cone. So when she wants to get out, she just removes the cone and drives away.

Ya spot on. Thanks for that

BrianD3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke86Iwz_8Mg

Gypo

Good idea about the cones, just please take them away when you move the car unlike some clowns on St Bridgets Terrace here in Galway City

biko

http://www.revengeisyellow.com/jokeparkingtickets/parkingtoclose.htm

Gypo wrote: »

Good idea about the cones, just please take them away when you move the car unlike some clowns on St Bridgets Terrace here in Galway City

Those cones are there to make sure the resident has a spot to come back to. A lady on Mill street does the same thing.

Rowley Birkin QC

http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com/

Gypo

biko wrote: »

Those cones are there to make sure the resident has a spot to come back to. A lady on Mill street does the same thing.

Yep, but as annoying as it for the resident (been there..) I don't think they have a claim on a public parking spot that just so happens to be outside their door, do they?

Anan1

Gypo wrote: »

Yep, but as annoying as it for the resident (been there..) I don't think they have a claim on a public parking spot that just so happens to be outside their door, do they?

No, i'd just move the cones. Blocking someone in is a different matter, however.

ballinloughan

Get a tow bar fitted and reverse ..

Ferris

ballinloughan wrote: »

Get a tow bar fitted and reverse ..

+1 - the ultimate parking aid.

ART6

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

put out a gas cylinder or similar behind the car. gives you extra room

Wrong. throw the gas cylinder into the blocking car preferably through the windscreen, and then blame vandals.:D

nhughes100

I had a similar problem with a visitor to one of my neighbours, she'd park halfway across my driveway regularly with about 4 feet to spare to the car in front of her also parked on the road, one day I arrived back and couldn't get into my driveway so I knocked on the door, left my car on the road with the engine running and told her to move hers. She was so embarrased at her crappy parking especially when I pointed out that she had so much spare room and has since taken to parking at the public carpark of a shop in the estate and walking the 1 minute trip to my neighbour.

Most ignorant people don't realise they're being ignorant so it's up to us more enlightened people to show them the way. If you're worried about annoying the neighbours, they'll most likely be mortified but when I go on holidays I always offer the use of the driveway to them.

_Kaiser_

nhughes100 wrote: »

I had a similar problem with a visitor to one of my neighbours, she'd park halfway across my driveway regularly with about 4 feet to spare to the car in front of her also parked on the road, one day I arrived back and couldn't get into my driveway so I knocked on the door, left my car on the road with the engine running and told her to move hers. She was so embarrased at her crappy parking especially when I pointed out that she had so much spare room and has since taken to parking at the public carpark of a shop in the estate and walking the 1 minute trip to my neighbour.

Most ignorant people don't realise they're being ignorant so it's up to us more enlightened people to show them the way. If you're worried about annoying the neighbours, they'll most likely be mortified but when I go on holidays I always offer the use of the driveway to them.

Unfortunately when your neighbours do it deliberately - like at my mam's house - there's very little you can do as the Gardai or local council don't want to know.

Many's a time I've come over to havev to leave my car halfway down the street as I can't get parked outside her house, nevermind in the driveway because of neighbours parking vans and cars just far enough over to block the entrance.

PattheMetaller

The blocked driveway scenario happens to me occasionally too:(

Do these idiots forget the rules of the road

Guy:Incognito

A few years back we used to go to Cumiskys on blackhorse ave (for those who know it) after football on a Saturday. The guy that was drivign that day park at the end of a row, beside a kerb. When we came out there was a car parked an inch or so from his front bumper and one behind parked touching his bumper. After 10 mins of getting the reg called out in the pub he gave up and reversed gently backwards, pushing the car behind into the middle of the road in the carpark.

Hopefully the guy that found his car blocking 10 feet or so from where he parked it learned his lesson.

It's surprisingly easy to push a car with another car. iirc it was a mondeo or somesuch he pushed, he was driving a 1,4 corrolla.

Sandwich

Gypo wrote: »

Good idea about the cones, just please take them away when you move the car unlike some clowns on St Bridgets Terrace here in Galway City

I know.Its a pain having to get out and move them - but handy when spaces are scarse and u can help yourself to a space someone thought they were reserving for themselves.

Run_to_da_hills

If you know anyone working in the parking dept of a hospital or collage you could get some obstruction stickers that are very difficult to remove. Place them on the wind screen and driver side windows. They will think twice of parking again.

cyclopath2001

Leave a pile of broken window glass near the spot....makes it look like a bad place to park.

gofaster_s13

Happened me once, got a trolley jack, jacked up the back of the jeep which renders handbrake useless and pulled jeep about a hundred meters down the road and left it in the middle of the road(not on public road, in apartment complex)

eringobragh

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

Happened me once, got a trolley jack, jacked up the back of the jeep which renders handbrake useless and pulled jeep about a hundred meters down the road and left it in the middle of the road(not on public road, in apartment complex)

Wouldn't be much use if they left the car in gear.

dedon

Thanks for all the advice lads. I think she is going to try the cone.

seamus

Stekelly wrote: »

It's surprisingly easy to push a car with another car. iirc it was a mondeo or somesuch he pushed, he was driving a 1,4 corrolla.

When they don't have a gear applied, definitely. Spent 20 minutes in the car park of a place I worked in once beeping the horn to get someone to move their car which they'd parked literally in front of mine (there were loads of apartments and shops around, I wasn't going to knock into every single one). Got pissed off eventually and pushed it back, quite easily. It was a bigish car, a large saloon anyway, and I moved it easily with a 1.25 fiesta. Onto a steel pole.

antodeco

^^ Would you're car not get wrecked?

Anyways, stick dog sh!t under the handle of their car. They'll get the message eventually.

Hagar

Towbars and Bullbars FTW.

mumhaabu

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

Happened me once, got a trolley jack, jacked up the back of the jeep which renders handbrake useless and pulled jeep about a hundred meters down the road and left it in the middle of the road(not on public road, in apartment complex)

I did this once to a friend as a practical joke, I jacked up the back axel with a trolley jack and he came out and got it and revved it up and the wheels were spinning. Cue frantic "the clutch is gone" "What'll I do", His was a RWD and it was funny if a little dangerous although the car was parked in a pretty deserted spot!

mumhaabu

www.youparklikeanasshole.com stickers and Avery denison FTW! Slap bang in the middle of the drivers window with really hard to remove sticker which will leave offending idiot scratching (in the rain hopefully) for at least 10mins trying to get it off.

gofaster_s13

eringobragh wrote: »

Wouldn't be much use if they left the car in gear.

90% of jeeps are rear wheel drive unless 4wd selected