How to stop people parking in front of your garage?

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by metalangel

I told my bosses and they gave me the keys to the pool car and told me to block her in. We then watched and waited for her return. Needless to say, she burst into reception f'ing and blinding about how we had no right to detain her like this and 'that car had better be moved or I'll let the tires down' (oh yes, brilliant, that'll really expedite your departure, daft moo) and we told her it was our private property, we can park our cars however we like.

So, how long did you leave her to stew?

an accidental drop of a box of screws in front and behind the wheel, can usually get a response.

if you leave the messy screws there and drive round em yourself it will deter them in future, as nobody like a puncture or the expense of one.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

So, how long did you leave her to stew?

About 15 minutes... we took our time getting moving the car back out of the way.

We saw a few people actually get into their cars without noticing we'd done it, and then start bouncing up and down with rage when they realized. I think one even phoned her husband for 'help' because she thought she was trapped.

Honestly, though... the clinic tried to help and put up a big sign in their reception saying 'PLEASE DON'T PARK ACROSS THE WAY', and we had a sign put up saying 'private parking' but people just don't give a toss.

[dyzio]

Originally Posted by amarko5

an accidental drop of a box of screws in front and behind the wheel, can usually get a response.
if you leave the messy screws there and drive round em yourself it will deter them in future, as nobody like a puncture or the expense of one.

Don't fancy doing damage (ok, I'd fancy it, just don't want to get caught).
Other than that, there's a car in there as well, so it would be a problem.


I think I'll get one of these

as well + print out some notes, maybe it'll work.If not, I'll be giving the Flashpark people a call.
There were cones put out earlier, but they've magically disappeared.


EDIT:

FlashPark works only on private property :/

Originally Posted by dyziowg

There were cones put out earlier, but they've magically disappeared.
/

Chain/tie them together harder for them to move (can you guess im good at this lol)

[yorkie_chris]

Have you got a local mate with a big motor? Just drag the offending motor out of the way. You can use a couple of trolley jacks same way if it's a smooth surface.

[dyzio]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Have you got a local mate with a big motor? Just drag the offending motor out of the way. You can use a couple of trolley jacks same way if it's a smooth surface.

It's downhill, even better car bowling anyone?

We had this twice.....


First time, we dragged the car out of the way, left it down the road with a "friendly" note.. Never come back..

Next up, a Granda, the doors wern't locked, so we hotwired the bugger and drove it 500m down the road

No issues after that.

[timwilky]

We had an agreement with a garage to tow away vehicles parked on our drive. Ignorant sods would knock on the front door, have you seen anyone take my car?

Where did you park it?
Down there!
What on our drive?
No the road!
No that is our drive. We thought it had been dumped and asked a scrap yard to take it away.

Local plod knew the score and worked with us. Garage got a recovery fee. All happy but ignorant sods who parked on the drive

[yorkie_chris]

Like he says about the polite notes, different cars do it if one moves... so don't know whether this would work. Deterring one will just leave a free space for next one...