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[jerry]

had the inlaws over the other day and they were telling us about a couple who'd made their local paper as someone had parked their car on their drive, partially blocking their access and then buggered off abroad for a week and a half. Seems they'd parked there to avoid airport carpark fees. They'd been told that the police couldnt help as it was not on a public highway and that they could not touch the car for fear of doing any criminal damage! Me, Id get a couple of mates, a couple of trolley jacks and park it on some double yellows somewhere. What would you lot do?

[KW]

What would you lot do?

Depends on the circumstances surrounding the issue, but I wouldn't have a problem driving over any obstruction in the way of my drive if it was an ongoing thing.

To stay legal though, the trolley jack under the back axle and a couple of bodies to help move the car sounds perfectly reasonable.

[PhilRich]

I would clamp all four wheels & charge the cheeky buggers £10 per wheel per day for for the time it has been stood. Removal of clamps dependant on immediate payment when they turn up for the car, charges to go up by extra £10 p/W/p/D for every 24 hours thereafter! They can't call the Police, or if they do, they will get the same fob off you got.

[Amigo]

As you say. Move it in the dead of night with no witnesses & no damage to somewhere it will get lifted from. Teach the selfish so & so's a lesson.
   I'm surprised the police could'nt do anything. Is'nt this tantamount to fly tipping?...unwanted items dumped on your land? There is always the local scrap man, banger racer, car thief. I know two wrongs etc. but they should'nt have left it there in the first place.

[tunnie]

jack it up, and rotate it so that's its blocking the road, local fuss would have to do something then

[waspy]

Ring my mate up & he'd take it away, never to be seen again
Car What car :-?

[CaptainZok]

Brick up the end of the drive then sit back and watch the fun on their return.

[Amigo]

I would clamp all four wheels & charge the cheeky buggers £10 per wheel per day for for the time it has been stood. Removal of clamps dependant on immediate payment when they turn up for the car, charges to go up by extra £10 p/W/p/D for every 24 hours thereafter! They can't call the Police, or if they do, they will get the same fob off you got.

I thought of this but for it to stand up in court relevant no parking signs would have to be on your house/driveway prior to the offender parking which i know is ridiculous.
    How does this hang legally Broocie? :-/

[Amigo]

Brick up the end of the drive then sit back and watch the fun on their return.

Like it. Nothing illegal there.

[tunnie]

this is only few miles from my house, take it here:

http://www.tanks-alot.co.uk/galleries/crush-a-car/

[KW]

this is only few miles from my house, take it here:
http://www.tanks-alot.co.uk/galleries/crush-a-car/

That would be criminal damage

[JesterRT]

A couple of years ago I moved house and at the same time bought a new car.  I didn't want to take the old car with me and had meant to take it to the scrappers along with the V5.  Time slipped away as work, packing and moving arrangements got in the way so on the day I moved this car was still outside.  To look at it was still in reasonable nick, but wouldn't have sold for much and the engine was on it's last legs.  So, I rang the local scrappers.  They didn't ask my name, phone number or anything more than the street it was on and that it was a red Volvo.  I locked the car up and left. By the next afternoon they'd taken it.  I still had the V5 and sent it in to the DVLA a little later when it reappeared unpacking at the new house.
So, depending on how old it is, or what kind of condition it's in then a call to a local scrapyard might remove the problem

[Martin_1962]

Sell it for scrap

[sassanach]

have lots of similar situations at work,i keep a tow chain attached to the forklift.i've lost count of how many i've hauled away

[Kevin Wood]

I'd develop a habit of being a bit careless when carrying boxes of self-tapping screws across my driveway. Might also crawl underneath and take a bit of charge from the battery as payment for parking. About 70 Amp Hours should cover it.

My "usual charge" would of course apply for jump starts and use of my air line.

Kevin