Further to an earlier bitch about towing, and impound fees and having our driveway blocked numerous times each year…the latest offender should consider themselves lucky. Sure our driveway is narrow and hemmed in by two large trees. There is, however, a curb cut and a vehicle protruding between two houses.
Last night I only needed to get to the supermarket to get seafood to take home to my family for my first visit in over two years. By the time the police showed up and tried to contact the owner (whose wife apparently was “frantically” trying to get in touch with her husband), they then contacted us to see if we wanted it towed but by then it was too late. We didn’t have them towed as the store was closed and it would have been futile. Sweet justice, maybe, but futile.
If it had been tonight it would have cost me a $50 taxi ride to the airport and hopefully I would have caught my flight.
Pay atention to where you are parking, and if you are towed suck it up. The towing company may be making the bucks, but in my experience the police at taxpayers’ expense are far too reticent to have a vehicle towed. In this case they attempted to contact the owner. In a previous case thay had me had me try to find the owner in the church hall!
Moral of the story. The police are more concerned about you getting towed than those you inconvenienced. If you get towed suck it up. —Blocked in
This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2010.
The OP did the right thing. Your driveway should never be blocked, and if it is, contact the police or ACE Towing. Personally, I like the idea of jacking up the vehicle and removing the wheels. Heck, it’s in your driveway afterall, whether it’s your vehicle or not. Sell the tires on Kijiji.
I feel for ya, OP. I used to live beside a church and the perish members seemed to think they owned our driveway. Never had anyone towed, but blocked a few of them in a few times and laughed hilariously when they scrambled to try and get out only to have a car in the driveway blocking them (they’d park on the LAWN behind the driveway! OUR LAWN! They also thought the church owned our house, and we had more than a few people walk right in the first few years we lived there. Finally we had to put a hook on the screen door to keep them out, though a few times almost ripped the door off trying to get in and yelled at ME when I came out and questioned them (like I was some intruder in my own freaking house!). Fucking anglicans.
After 13 years of living there they were still doing it and should’ve known better so we had no issue blocking them in. Not like we were assholes about sharing — if they had a function (the side door was facing our driveway) or a funeral we were more than happy to move our vehicles to accommodate easier access or parking for the hearse.
Don’t know why OB, but I get almost irrationally angry when that happens. Keep calling the towing company, maybe they’ll give you a kick-back for frequent tows.
Put a brick through their window. Teach them an expensive lesson in not being dumbasses.
next time o.p., use a long spike to drive a few extra air holes in their tires. if they park again after that, they surely must be fucked in the head.
Uggg this happens to me too! I don’t understand…people see my drive way, with my car in it and decide to block me in…I just don’t get it! And one evening I came home to someone actually parked IN my own driveway!! I left a huge note detailing how retarded they were for parking in someone else’s fucking DRIVEWAY. Looking back I think I should have got someone to piss all over the car, spit loogeys (sp?) all over it, drop some bricks on it, etc etc as it’s not my problem that shit happened to the loser who was parked illegally ;D but it was a pretty good note I left and that made me feel better.
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