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Car parked in front of drive, can't leave.

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    #32
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    kbell wrote: »
    Op, in future, park across your driveway (I know you shouldn't have to).
    They might get the message.

    If it is them, we don't know yet.


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    #33
    kbell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭kbell


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    If it is them, we don't know yet.


    Will still deter whoever is doing it and they'll park somewhere else.


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    #34
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    It was gone this morning when i got up just put cones out from now on


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    #35
    salmocab
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    If it happens again break a window take off the hand brake and move it


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    #36
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    kbell wrote: »
    Op, in future, park across your driveway (I know you shouldn't have to).
    They might get the message.

    ya I've that done now. I wont make it a permanent thing though cos little ****s kick the wing mirrors off.


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    #37
    beertons
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    The mirrors could go missing on their car too. Scummy thing to do though.


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    #38
    corktina
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    when I was growing up we had a shared drive and you wouldn't believe the number of times we had to knock up the neighbours to move as they were blocking us in. I guess some folk are selfish and ignorant.


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    #39
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Had this happen in a housing estate i was renting in before, herselfs car was blocked in. Called the guards they did nothing. Got sick of it and needed to get car free so put a strap on it and pulled it with the jeep.


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    #40
    Kenny Logins
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    In the days before the internet we used to just find the owner and ask them to move the car.

    Now, nuke from orbit is the only solution.


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    #41
    bidiots
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    J Mysterio wrote: »
    This is really ridiculous advice.

    As ridiculous as this entire thread.


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    #42
    ShaunieVW
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭ShaunieVW


    About 15 years back someone parked over our drive. We live in a small village and there was no need to block it at all. Was there the next morning so a neighbour arrived with a JCB to move it a bit with a tow rope. However, he got carried away and pulled it 300m or so to the car park "where it belongs he said" lol! The owner arrived at 5pm that evening. A right p*ick of an older man. He knocked looking for his car all he got back was "what car" from the father. I presume he found it.


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    #43
    bidiots
    Registered Users Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭bidiots


    salmocab wrote: »
    If it happens again break a window take off the hand brake and move it

    Just let it roll and walk off like

    fM3h8LX.gif


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    #44
    kbell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭kbell


    bidiots wrote: »
    As ridiculous as this entire thread.


    How come?


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    #45
    corktina
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    bidiots wrote: »
    Just let it roll and walk off like

    fM3h8LX.gif

    wow, now that's flatulence!


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    #46
    testicle
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    In the days before the internet we used to just find the owner and ask them to move the car.

    Now, nuke from orbit is the only solution.

    They tried to find the owner. What else would you have done?


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    #47
    Kenny Logins
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    testicle wrote: »
    They tried to find the owner. What else would you have done?

    Tried harder.


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    #48
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    People are so ignorant. I have a neighbour who used to block me in and the eff off for the night with the car keys so even anyone left in the house couldn't move it. Rang the guards a few times and they informed her of the illegality of her actions. She is an odd one though and is always pushing her luck/ behaving like a right cow. I think she actually enjoys causing trouble.


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    #49
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    Tried harder.

    and how exactly was I supposed to "try harder" to find them?! knocked on their door several times. What would you have done?


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    #50
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,749 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    I blocked a car into a driveway once. I was out all day, had moved into the house about 4 weeks before. Came home and found a car in MY driveway.

    I parked across the drive way and about 4 hours later there was a knock on the door. "Here, do you own that car? Can you move it?" I asked him why he thought it was ok to park in someone's driveway, his answer "the other people who lived here didn't have a car (a lie) so I parked here when I was visiting". No word of an apology. So I said I'd be out shortly.

    Left him waiting about 15 minutes before I went out.


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    #51
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭stimpson


    My mother lives near a theatre and often has people park across her drive when they are late or too cheap to pay for the multi story. I take great pleasure in calling the clamper as they will send a tow truck and lift the feckers. It's always good fun to see them panicking thinking that their car has been nicked.


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    #52
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    and how exactly was I supposed to "try harder" to find them?! knocked on their door several times. What would you have done?

    You assumed it was that door? Could it have been a visitor to another house?

    It has happened here a few times, knocking on a few doors has always sorted it with no drama.


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    #53
    testicle
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    pookiesboo wrote: »
    and how exactly was I supposed to "try harder" to find them?! knocked on their door several times. What would you have done?

    Don't mind him, he's just being a prick for the sake of it.


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    #54
    corktina
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    testicle wrote: »
    Don't mind him, he's just being a prick for the sake of it.

    you should know mr testicle :-)


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    #55
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    You assumed it was that door? Could it have been a visitor to another house?

    It has happened here a few times, knocking on a few doors has always sorted it with no drama.

    since new people moved in the car has been parked outside theirs or close by. Even if silver car was visiting another neighbour (which they weren't) there was ample parking outside any neighbours house.


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    #56
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    testicle wrote: »
    Don't mind him, he's just being a prick for the sake of it.

    I just can't understand how this is seen as a big problem, and why it has had some seriously daft responses.

    Find the owner, ask them to move the car. That really is all there is to it.


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    #57
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    I just can't understand how this is seen as a big problem, and why it has had some seriously daft responses.

    Find the owner, ask them to move the car. That really is all there is to it.

    so it wouldn't have been "a problem" for you if you couldn't drive out of your drive because someone parked in front of it.

    Tried to "find the owner" which I've said four or five times already but they were either out or not answering their door (pretty sure its the latter).

    Not all the responses were daft, I didn't know the guards would tow it away free of charge which is good to know if it happens again.


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    #58
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    Find the owner, ask them to move the car. That really is all there is to it.

    You may not value your free time, I do. I'd have better things to do than go looking for some twat who parked blocking my driveway. Could they not have rang my bell and asked if I minded, and told me how to reach them if I needed to get out?


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    #59
    JohnBoy26
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    pookiesboo wrote: »
    and how exactly was I supposed to "try harder" to find them?! knocked on their door several times. What would you have done?
    :p
    police-use-a-battering-ram-in-operation-kansas-to-hammer-down-a-suspect-s-door-698989679.jpg


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    #60
    dr.fuzzenstein
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    I just can't understand how this is seen as a big problem, and why it has had some seriously daft responses.

    Find the owner, ask them to move the car. That really is all there is to it.

    Well whoopdie fcuking dooda. Why didn't we think of that? Oh no, wait, we did!
    Op went over, knocked several times, no response. Well that's you plan shagged then. Why do you now wade in when its all over and resolved with your big ideas?
    Go be helpful somewhere else if you don't have any helpful advise.


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    #61
    Kenny Logins
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    The Cunning Linguist wrote: »
    You may not value your free time, I do. I'd have better things to do than go looking for some twat who parked blocking my driveway. Could they not have rang my bell and asked if I minded, and told me how to reach them if I needed to get out?

    Better things such as consulting the internet for daft suggestions? That's an even bigger waste of time than actually dealing with the problem directly. That was my point. I'd didn't say being blocked in isn't a problem, I said getting it sorted shouldn't be.


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