ULPT : Local sport keeps blocking my drive way
Posted by sofuct@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 358 comments
As the title says our driveway and all the neighbours keep getting blocked due to local sport in a dead end street.
The parents park blocking driveways whilst the kids train and then walk into the park.
We have tried all conventional methods speaking with the club president, the police, the local council and it still occurs every day.
Hence why I am here hoping for some Left field solutions to the problem as we have tried all conventional options.
Some days taking over an hour to find the owner of the vehicle before we can leave our premises.
stabbingrabbit@reddit
Block the street with yours or neighbors cars so they can't park there
ArmadilloNext9714@reddit
Rub poison ivy or poison oak all over the car door handles
martix_agent@reddit
I got an official Reddit warning for suggesting poison ivy punishment earlier this week.
JonJackjon@reddit
You mean the type of Ivy that most people react uncomfortable to, that Ivy?
ExecutiveCactus@reddit
i got one on this sub a few weeks ago for suggesting rocks on a car window to scratch it
beckster@reddit
I got banned for literally suggesting mobilizing Monty Python's Walker Brigade, so we'll see.
PastyMcClamerson@reddit
Grease under the handles?
Present_Program6554@reddit
The OPs language makes me think UK so no poison ivy or poison oak.
GrandArcanian@reddit
He said he's in Australia. He's got access to far worse things than poison ivy
anonstarcity@reddit
Spiders then
Gogglesed@reddit
Gympie gympie the door handles.
That might be too far...
AdventureThink@reddit
Park your own car at the end of your driveway.
Mr_Funbags@reddit
That's it? No discs of urine? This is highly ethical and completely legal. Getouttahere!
Adventurous_Pea_425@reddit
hi
letmeinjeez@reddit
I mean I’m sure you could pry enough of an opening in the door to slip a disc of urine in there if so inclined
ayejoe@reddit
Just put the disc at the base of the windshield and it will melt into the AC intake cowl
OrchidTostada@reddit
Right? I’m not here for this crap! Shady tow company, not THAT’S the spirit!
Troiswallofhair@reddit
The residents are probably at work though and the parents park after school, right before the residents get home.
TolMera@reddit
This is not smart.
Because the day enforcement comes out, your car will be ticketed or towed just like all the others.
YnotBbrave@reddit
Ask 20 friends to park their cars
Better: find out the home address of the people parking. Block their driveway. Drive away as soon as the tow truck is there. Drive back as they leave. Repeat
YnotBbrave@reddit
Better yet: get 5 friends to block their way out. Can be combined with " Call the toe company " if your friends revive their cars just in time
Lower-Savings-794@reddit
That's too ethical. Super soaker full of piss for good measure. Or some sort of hornet catapult.
Katman666@reddit
Empty a piss bottle into their cabin filter.
Valpo1996@reddit
What sub are you in?
AdventureThink@reddit
The one that solves problems with groupthink.
gomazoa93@reddit
username checks out
Abject-Yellow3793@reddit
Kinda..
Valpo1996@reddit
I mean it’s the obvious solution or if you come home and they are blocking just double park them in.
meramec785@reddit
This. Block them in. It won’t take long to stop that bull.
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Problems is the 1 in a million chance the ranger patrols I will get fined
AdventureThink@reddit
Fined for parking in your own driveway?
sofuct@reddit (OP)
If my car is out past the boundary blocking public walkway I will be fined unfortunately
bombalicious@reddit
Block your own drive way as if it a curbed area
Albert14Pounds@reddit
And get a ticket for blocking a driveway
PhilMeUpBaby@reddit
Remove your licence plates for the day.
Or, get some plates from a wrecked car.
Kaymish_@reddit
Get the plates from the cars blocking the street.
Hot-Win2571@reddit
You wouldn't want to steal. Swap plates on various blocking cars.
Famous_Tree842@reddit
You’re worried about being fined for parking your car blocking and someone in? The very same someone that is currently blocking you from leaving your house?
Yeah, if the rangers won’t come to help you then they definitely won’t come to help them. You’re fine.
EAComunityTeam@reddit
There's your answer. Get the rangers contact info and let them know every time a vehicle parks there.even if they don't go out there to check it out. You're creating a paper trail. You're causing a log. Eventually a nuisance/Karen, but sometimes you need a bowl cut hero to save the day. And I'm not talking about Guy Gardner.
Yes it sucks You're taking away resources from one area thay may require the ranger more. But at least its a possible solution.
IndyAndyJones777@reddit
OP wouldn't be doing that. The criminals would be.
iaminabox@reddit
Is a Guy Gardner reference going to become a new meme? I've heard it in some form at least 10x in the past week.
EAComunityTeam@reddit
Idk. I just thought about it as i was typing it out.
Witty_Candle_3448@reddit
Put up a "Don't Block Drive" sign. Then call the tow company.
Senior_You_6725@reddit
Co-ordinate with the neighbours. Move all your cars out. Then park one (since this is ULPT, make it a stolen one) so it completely blocks the exit from the area. Have the neighbours at that point prepared to confront the parents to stop them driving over lawns or something to get out. Leave them all sitting there for the day.
cosnanook@reddit
It sounds like it's a park and they walk into it...so they could just as easily walk around their cars
allieamr@reddit
Accidentally have one break down right in the middle of the only exit ten minutes before the end of the match. Just enough time to get the wheel off and then forget where you put the locking nut key
Working-on-it12@reddit
Get up early and block the road before they even get there. Make them park and walk from way away and haul all of their stuff.
tamster0111@reddit
If they did that, the idiots would park in their actual driveways
yoduh4077@reddit
Underrated idea
OrchidTostada@reddit
Solved!
I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit
Damn this is good. They block you in, you block them in. Fuck em all. Burn it down.
bobby5557@reddit
absolutely not nobody is blocking my driveway 😂😂 we’re adults, handle it
unoriginalname17@reddit
Are they actually blocking the driveway? That’s illegal and you can have them towed.
Are there just a lot of cars out there? Chill out, you live near a park that wasn’t designed just for you.
c0l245@reddit
Trash cans.
RinRoux@reddit
Whatever you do, get some video and come back here with it. We want to see the whole ordeal play out.
sofuct@reddit (OP)
The course of action is going to be
RinRoux@reddit
Whatever you do, get some video and come back here with it. We want to see the whole ordeal play out.
zarocco26@reddit
Liquid ass and piss disks….works every time
pilgrimboy@reddit
This seems like the perfect time for this. How is your comment all the way down here.
Mushrooming247@reddit
Find out when their next practice or a big game is going to be, then get a permit from your township to block off your whole dead-end street for a “neighborhood block party”.
Just like a one-hour block party, for the one hour before the sporting event begins.
Or employ a tradition from my people and put folding chairs out in the road taking up the parking spot that you do not want them to use, (so they cannot park there because there are parking chairs reserving the space.)
RinRoux@reddit
Dibs? You from Chicago I take it?
Thestudliestpancake@reddit
Y'all just need to set up paid parking signs. $50/parking. Post a neighbor good kid up to go around collecting from everyone who wants to park in your shit.
0xZerus@reddit
At the end of the cul de sac. Put up a rope and have a table set up so you can sit there and collect. Include a "Smile, you're on camera" sign.
Inevitable_Rough_993@reddit
Roofing tacks tossed in the gutters and in front of your driveway, I did it 2 times a week and on weekends until they got the hint, so as they didn’t suspect me I jacked my car up and took the hubcap off and left it and the lug wrench in sight… I told them an ex girlfriend had it in for me and tossed tack every time she drove by
witch_doc9@reddit
Pour bamboo seed all over the field where the children play sports… it’ll be completely ruined in a few weeks
ferretkona@reddit
If you are in the states, call the fire department and tell them what is happening.
flyinhawaiian02@reddit
Find a shady tow company and let them know that's there's alot of money to be made here at a certain time
erik_7581@reddit
But make sure to get a kickback from them
Dense-Resolution-567@reddit
I think I read this in this sub, but when looking for a tow company to do this, it’s one of the few circumstances where you want to find the lowest rated company. That shady tow company with 1 star and 1000 angry reviews toward them? They’re going to come get this shit done quickly regardless of the reason.
Descartesb4duhHorse@reddit
Also, the further away, the better.
SamAreAye@reddit
Nah, close means they can round trip for 90 minutes.
ilre1484@reddit
They will outsource to their buddies if they have to. The real money is going to be in storage fees at the tow yard.
fuckshitlord@reddit
Are you a wizard?
Fun_Intention9846@reddit
Lincoln park pirates might do long range trips.
MTB_SF@reddit
My friend had an abandoned car on a lot he purchased. No idea where it was from. Tried donating it to one of those charities, but they wanted all kinds of info he didn't have. So he just found a tow company in the ghetto with terrible reviews and they came and ripped that thing away in like 5 minutes.
UberHonest@reddit
Wonder if the scummy companies will cut you in on their profits?
senadraxx@reddit
Typically they don't offer finders fees. That's the kind of thing you need to ask for up front before you give them the location.
rainmouse@reddit
Yeah one that's only open for reclaiming towed vehicles like a few hours a week.
Ok-Faithlessness7812@reddit
some municipalities require a citation before tow companies can do anything.
D-ouble-D-utch@reddit
On private property? Blocking ingress/egress
Ok-Faithlessness7812@reddit
Yes if on an urban or suburban street. city official told me in my City they manage the street and curbs (Someone with a legal background could better speak to that). So if someone is blocking the entrance to my driveway on my street but not halfway across I am out of luck and it is a “civil” matter.
D-ouble-D-utch@reddit
That's not how it works.
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
The street at the end of a driveway isn’t private property. A police citation is needed.
Jsand117@reddit
It’s an ingress, no citation should be needed
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
The street is public property and although a car is blocking use of private property, it still requires a police citation.
No different than a car broken down on the side of the road. A tow truck cannot just tow a vehicle without a police citation unless the offending vehicle has entered private property and driven past clearly posted signs of the contracted tow company at all entrances of the private property.
You might not like it, but those are facts. Cops need to do their job here because a tow truck won’t take a car otherwise.
Source - I deal with this shit weekly.
Jsand117@reddit
Do you live in Australia?
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
Does the post say this happened there?
Same answer.
Jsand117@reddit
The OP said they live in Australia.
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
Where?
FrogpondV@reddit
He commented it.
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
Sorry, I don’t look through the replies of over 200 comments to find additional information before commenting. Glad y’all do though, someone’s gotta be thorough.
FrogpondV@reddit
Nah I don’t either but once the guy said he saw it, my mission had started. I won’t talk about how much I had to scroll down lmao I got no horse in this race
hamfwb@reddit
But you're a team player. I like that.
Cheers
FrogpondV@reddit
🙏🙏🙏
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
I love that you had the gumption to do that though. Upvote for the effort!
FrogpondV@reddit
Upvote for you as well good sir! Happy redditing!
soberscotsman80@reddit
Where in the post?
D-ouble-D-utch@reddit
Ok-Faithlessness7812@reddit
hey downvoters, this happens to be the case in my City.
zvx@reddit
Established tow companies have higher prices because of their operating costs
Got quoted $220 to put it on a tow truck, plus $7/mile
Nah. Found somebody on Facebook marketplace paid $120 flat bed tow 20 miles
heyitismeurdad@reddit
Op isn't towing their own vehicle they don't have to pay anything
zvx@reddit
Established companies ✅ have higher ⬆️ operating costs 💰 meaning their storage 📦 prices 💸 are higher ↗️ meaning 🤯 they car 🚙 that was towed 🚗🪢🚙 will cost 💲more ↖️ to get back 🤗🚙
Flux_My_Capacitor@reddit
No, those emojis aren’t annoying in the least. 🙄
Aiku@reddit
You can arrange a kickback with them too.
samizdat5@reddit
Seriously. Just have the car towed.
TheEngineer959@reddit
In the U.K., ‘accidentally damaging’ three of the four tyres would result in them having to pay to repair them. All four can result In the insurance company deeming they were vandalised and pay out, but only three gives them the ‘out’ to claim it was the owner’s carelessness.
parickwilliams@reddit
Hey so uh this is just a myth that goes around. Tire damage from use does not look like tire damage from slashing a tire. If you get 1 tire slashed it’s covered if your plan covers that sort of thing
TheEngineer959@reddit
Fair point - I’ve not exactly tested it.
NikonShooter_PJS@reddit
Gather all your neighbors together and go walk over to the sport and walk right into the field and refuse to leave until the cars are moved.
If they’re gonna block you from free use of your property, you need to block them from free use of the field.
lzrdkng421@reddit
Please don’t do this one. The children don’t deserve to have their practice interrupted in this way because their parents suck. They aren’t the ones causing the issue and don’t deserve to be punished.
Contract_Man@reddit
Why are you acting as if they’re suggesting to go on the field and beat the kids up lmao
rjvCdn@reddit
They don't deserve it but they deserve to learn that actions have consequences and hopefully theyt don't turn out like their shitty parents
xO76A8pah4@reddit
Buy some 6mm ball bearings and some valve stem caps. Glue/super glue the ball bearings to the inside of the cap and then replace the offending car's caps with these rigged ones. The tires will lose air at a slow rate. Hopefully, the driver doesn't figure it out for a while and has to reinflate his tires a few times.
wellwaffled@reddit
A valve stem removal tool is only like $5 and you can put it right back in.
https://a.co/d/irJE1B6
ggibby@reddit
To all the offending cars.
tree_beard_8675301@reddit
Thanks, Satan.
Myownprivategleeclub@reddit
That just blocked the drive for longer...
SantosFurie89@reddit
Not really, it's a slow puncture. It is maybe tiny bit dangerous, more so if they're on a long journey tho potentially, but not greatly likely
Bb guns shoot little plastic pellets which can work for this also, and also be shot and leave little dents in the metal panels
Roonwogsamduff@reddit
This is s great lurking sub
srslydudebros@reddit
Block the street before the event
allieamr@reddit
Stage a sit down protest in the street with your neighbors every week at 4:45. Might even make some good friends in the process
srslydudebros@reddit
Great idea, might as well make it a block party hahaha
Gen_JohnsonJameson@reddit
Put out a bunch of traffic cones and a sign that says "Unauthorized vehicles will be towed" and then make good that threat.
SoggyMcChicken@reddit
Is it a fenced in area? Park your car in front of the entrance.
OlyVal@reddit
Disrupt their sports. Go stand in the field until they move their cars.
macsogynist@reddit
My driveway gets blocked all the time. I take a piece of printer paper and write a nice note then spray the back of the paper with 3M Super 77 spray adhesive. Then place it on their windshield on the drivers side dead center. This will not come off easy. With adhesive remover takes about 15 minutes to get off. Without, hours to remove.
crunchthenumbers01@reddit
Sign out saying blockers will be towed at owner's expense, then call the shadiest tow company
Lopsided-Bench-1347@reddit
Put a note on every windshield. “Your cars are blocking our driveways. We cannot get in or out. All of us neighbors have your license numbers and pictures ( attach same). .We WILL have your car towed the next time.
ExpressionNo2123@reddit
Buy and stake out along your (and neighbors) yards NO PARKING signs with added “vehicles will be towed” warning. Pop them out for game days. Remove them when done so don’t get confiscated. We have done that on our dead end for events that used to make our road a nightmare. Have two signs in our garage for such times.
human743@reddit
Remove their license plates and dispose of them.
gdl_E46@reddit
I'd just get those awful to remove stickers cities use for parking violations and slap them on the car windows. Bonus cite the town ordinance on them that mentions what they're doing isn't legal
https://a.co/d/74IB0Y3
PeterVanNostrand@reddit
Right in front of the steering wheel
tree_beard_8675301@reddit
And a different window each time.
human743@reddit
All windows every time.
wisebongsmith@reddit
put up a sign saying violators will be towed. get in touch with the local tow company. It will as soon as people see one car getting pulled they'll be much more careful.
overjoony@reddit
pissdisks in the air intakes for the ac
Naughteus_Maximus@reddit
What you have to watch out for, with all these suggestions (mine would have been ramming potatoes down the tailpipe or expanding foam - car will stall soon after driving off) - is cars having cameras that record around the car even when stationary. Especially Teslas. Then the owner could actually report you for criminal damage which is worse than parking violation.
I am surprised your local police or whoever enforces parking aren't interested. Wouldn't there be some parking fines for them to collect?
Could you call the police or fire brigade and say that your partner is feeling suddenly unwell and you want to take them to hospital, but there is a car blocking your drive?
sofuct@reddit (OP)
We have tried the police option unfortunately our police force is overwhelmed with larger issues in the community and can take a few hours to get to it at which point it’s too late.
The council rangers also stop work at 5pm and this occurs from 5pm which is super convenient and they are set hours with no over time I was advised.
CrudBert@reddit
The rangers are in the park watching their kids play.
Toadjokes@reddit
Then don't worry about a fine from them
dexter-sinister@reddit
Good call, should work both ways!
BamaTex@reddit
Yeah... they can't fine you for blocking in another car if they aren't working....??
AffectionateMarch394@reddit
Ah, if they are overwhelmed then they likely won't have time to come give you shit if you make a cheap wood road barricade (think of the ones you see when they close off streets for a parade or festival) and stick it at the end of your street before games/practices
Devilswings5@reddit
sounds like an opportunity for you then
BigMax@reddit
I wonder if you call them back again, tell them the exact time and let them plan ahead. If you're not saying "come here now!" they might be able to do it.
"We don't need you here right now, but can you come at 4pm next Monday? If you're ready, it should just take a few minutes to write tickets for all the cars."
Least-Back-2666@reddit
Rent a forklift
Sum-Duud@reddit
Ask them what tow company they would like for you to call on their behalf when a car is blocking your driveway.
inkslingerben@reddit
Can you or a neighbor be deputized as a parking warden to issue parking tickets? It would be a source of income for the council so they would be in favor of it.
ggibby@reddit
Expanding foam in the tailpipe?
Your brand of evil is sexy.
CommunityGlittering2@reddit
well putting a potato in a tesla tailpipe is not going to do anything since they don’t have them
Naughteus_Maximus@reddit
Yep this has been pointed out several times 😂 In that case I would put a bicycle cable lock through one of the wheels
fester250@reddit
Please provide concise instructions for installing potatoes in the Tesla tail pipe.
JJHall_ID@reddit
The tailpipe on a Tesla (well, one that is parked illegally anyway) is in between the driver's seat and steering wheel.
Naughteus_Maximus@reddit
😂 I didn't think that through, did I? I think for Teslas it would have to be a bicycle lock through the wheel
BusyBullet@reddit
Just spray the Tesla with your garden hose. If the way haven’t enabled Carwash Mode the car will be bricked.
Gooniefarm@reddit
Cover your face and those cameras are now useless.
thx1138a@reddit
Good luck finding the exhaust pipe of a Tesla! 😉
blaspheminCapn@reddit
Isn't that Elon?
NefariousnessOver819@reddit
May not be unethical but I would get everyone living in the street to park on the road blocking their drives that day and every day that event is planned.
Offshape@reddit
This is a beautiful opportunity for a coordinated pissdisk operation with all neighbours.
_muck_@reddit
Glitter pissdiscs.
dracotrapnet@reddit
If it has no license plates, no valve cores, call in a tow an abandoned vehicle blocking your driveway. How it got to that state. I dunno.
Mr_MacGrubber@reddit
Floor jack plus car dolly. Move the cars into a big pile so close together where the only way for the parents to leave is to start with the outer cars and work inward.
PuerSalus@reddit
This would be hilarious. Turning it into a real world version of those puzzle games with all the interlocking parked cars!
kelariy@reddit
don’t even need a floor jack, these jack it up for you, just go in with 3 of your neighbors and each buy one and get to it.
Mr_MacGrubber@reddit
Yeah that’s over $500 though vs a floor jack for $100-150 and 2 sets of Dollies totaling $100. But given the sub, the extra ULPT is to return the expensive dollies after using them. lol
kelariy@reddit
Right, I was mostly going for max chaos/min. Having to position the floor jack takes more time. 4 people popping the self jacking ones in and going could get some cars moved quick.
Mr_MacGrubber@reddit
True. Get some practice in ahead of time like a pit crew so you can really get them moved fast. Haha
kelariy@reddit
I’m perfectly happy to second getting the expensive fast ones, cause max chaos, and returning them. Could even get 8 people with a dolly each and really get them good.
Szarn@reddit
Take a big piece of plywood and make one of those employee of the month type signs to put in your yard. But make it Driveway Blocking Asshole of the Week and put photos of the last offending car to block your drive. Make sure to get clear shots of the license plate.
nop_nop_nop@reddit
Buy 4 wheel dollies from Harbor Freight and roll those cars away…as in anywhere else on the street, intersection, ditch, down the hill, sky’s the limit for this ULPT
naut@reddit
Block off the road and charge for parking
Laugh_en@reddit
Block the entrance before they get there
Play loud terrible music while they practice
Collect dog shit and throw on field at night before practice
Fuck all the parents
GrandArcanian@reddit
Like, proper fuck?
Sartorius73@reddit
Yes, Tommy!
Laugh_en@reddit
Gang bang
ThisIsMockingjay2020@reddit
Now we're talking.
ShoddyJuggernaut975@reddit
Walk to park while sport is going on, start a rumor they're towing cars on your street, watch panic ensue.
PoolMotosBowling@reddit
Get a bull horn, announce: I just called the towing company on behalf of every blocked driveway!
Why be subtle??
Japslap@reddit
And follow through
Make the rumor true??
ajw248@reddit
At least 4 weeks of false threats. Once they stop reacting to the warning, then call the tow trucks the following week.
cheesenuggets2003@reddit
vandon@reddit
r/foundsatan
xnoxpx@reddit
This is the way !
ShoddyJuggernaut975@reddit
I mean, you could, but then you might become a target of their ire. Also, if you pretend to be one of them, they might be more likely to believe you .
Bk_Punisher@reddit
Yes ☝🏼
Gude-Tama-Tama@reddit
Gotta be more disruptive and just walk in the middle of whatever sport their playing, game can’t continue until that car is moved
Retrograde_Bolide@reddit
Get someone to actually tow cars
Classic_Ad3987@reddit
Move your car to the street. Buy a car boot from Amazon and boot their car. Stay home , crack a cold one and watch them frantically call all sorts of city departments looking for whomever booted them. After a day of 2, under cover of darkness, remove the book. Rinse and repeat as often as needed. Bonus, tell your neighbors so they can also boot cars.
BeautifulAvailable80@reddit
Block your own driveway. At least you can move car if needed.
fuckshitlord@reddit
Slam 4 shots of whiskey, March out there and tell them to get the fuck out of your way. Then apologize and offer them whiskey, explain that you bottle frustration and struggle with communication and sometimes it boils over. Then put the bat down and hug it out.
zer04ll@reddit
Call a tow truck company and setup a deal, you get x amount for every tow truck
0NiceMarmot@reddit
Floor jack and some dollies. Jack the car onto the dollies and roll the car to double park in another driveway blocker. Bonus point if the owner of the double parked driveway is a wank.
tree_beard_8675301@reddit
Stickers. Lots of stickers on all sides of every car. Penis stickers are classic, but vaginas make people uncomfortable. Or ones that identify the driver as a pedophile. Make sure they’re hard to remove.
Valpo1996@reddit
Can you have them towed?
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately not we have applied for this to be deemed a tow away zone for non residents
tree_beard_8675301@reddit
If you can get all the neighbors to agree to a lockdown plan, park a couple cars sideways across the street at the entrance.
Valpo1996@reddit
Even if they are blocking your drive? I mean I understand if they were legally parked on the street.
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Yeah Australia has some backwards laws , not only are we upside down it appears
Valpo1996@reddit
Then I’d def let the air out of their tires (or are the tyres down there?). Here in the US if they are blocking the drive you can have them towed. You will probably have to pay the tow company but well worth it.
GidgetTheWonderDog@reddit
Love the tow truck idea, but here's how you get some petty revenge. You're going to need a BUNCH of glitter. Each time a car blocks a driveway, go up and pour a dram of glitter into their air intake (the little vent between the windshield and hood). Then, when they get in their car to leave, turn on the A/C or Heat (depending on weather) they'll get a face full of glitter from their interior vents. It will also get all over the interior of their car, resulting in them trying to get rid of glitter for the rest of the car's life.
tree_beard_8675301@reddit
This is the way.
ThisIsMockingjay2020@reddit
I like this one.
Crewstage8387@reddit
Tire iron take all their lug nuts off of all the wheels they won’t get far
l94xxx@reddit
"whilst the kids"
Where is this? It may affect the answers
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Australia
mordecai98@reddit
Great, put a dingo in the car.
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Considered it unfortunately we only have kangaroos and snakes
draeden11@reddit
Do you have those really loud birds near you? Start feeding them on the field.
thekathied@reddit
Either of those in my car would be a deterrent. Although, I might leave the car there forever, so the opposite effect.
Fun-Bug5106@reddit
Then one of each! Bonus points if you put the snake in the kangaroo then into the boot
mordecai98@reddit
Also a huntsman spider.
Obvious_Extreme7243@reddit
https://youtu.be/fpsQKD0LER8?si=CIU73gGxgcwQKMe3
ClimateBasics@reddit
I'll tell you a story. I worked at an airport. I rode a (small) motorcycle to work, and parked in the public parking garage near Central Plant, as we were supposed to do.
Some joker in a BMW parked his car in the same parking stall as my bike, blocking me in. He literally moved my bike all the way to the back of the parking stall, parked crosswise across the stall, to give his car more room. Even then the car was sticking out into the roadway.
No problem, I went and got a pallet jack, jacked the car up, rolled it over to an exit lane that was just about as wide as the car was long, with high cement curbs, and placed the car crosswise in that lane.
Now the car was blocking traffic, and was stuck with front and back ends facing those curbs.
I rode home. The next day, I heard that the driver attempted to drive over the curb, got high-centered, and had to call a tow truck.
Now, I'm not suggesting you buy or rent a pallet jack and organize all the offending vehicles into an untangleable traffic jam down the road a ways, but it'd sure be funny if you did.
flitterbug33@reddit
Put up a sign "$20 per hour parking fee". Get one of the adults or kids to stand at the beginning of the road and take the money.
BedAccording5717@reddit
Might I offer you a piss disk in this trying time, sir?
ijuiceman@reddit
Candle wax or a crayon. Write that they park like a cunt on the rear screen. Every time it gets wet it will be very visible
Katman666@reddit
Paper.and clag on the windscreen. Once that shit dries it's a prick to get off. Hard to drive if you can't see out the window.
ijuiceman@reddit
It’s too obvious, this is the subtle gift that keeps on giving
melonhowitzer@reddit
Remove some valve stems
sph4prez@reddit
Bird seed. Throw it everywhere so birds crap on the cars
FriendToPredators@reddit
Mark your non parking zone with orange road paint
Appropriate-Taste124@reddit
Put up a small sign that says "no parking. Violators will be towed at owner's expense". Then get ahold of a tow company and let them know there's a bunch of game to be had. They will do all the work AND if youre lucky cut you some kick back
Just_Philosopher_900@reddit
Monetize it
HotepHatt@reddit
Call parking enforcement. When they do nothing call a tow truck.
Jerrysmiddlefinger99@reddit
Get a bunch of family or friends to take the parking spaces before the entitled ones show up.
If they're parked in front of your own home run a sprinkler on full blast on your lawn and don't worry about overspray into the street.
hivemind_disruptor@reddit
Buy a traffic cone and place in front of your driveway
MrLurker698@reddit
Keep it easy, egg whatever car that parks in front of your driveway. They’ll get the hint. Egging doesn’t cause real damage that you could end up liable for but it sure is a pain in the ass to clean off!
BryanP1968@reddit
I mean, raw eggs left too long will ruin the car paint. Oh darn.
OrchidTostada@reddit
This is a good, old-timey idea. Wear a mask in case of car cameras for an up-to-date version.
SeaUrchinSalad@reddit
If they block your driveway, put trash cans on either side right up close to the car
Experiment626smile@reddit
Ever heard of the Pittsburgh parking chair?
sofuct@reddit (OP)
I have not , enlighten me
Experiment626smile@reddit
Basically you use a chair, any chair to make sure your space is reserved. Whatever spots those people are parking in that cause problems, chair them ahead of time! 😁
https://madeinpgh.com/pittsburgh-neighborhoods/classic-pittsburgh-the-pittsburgh-parking-chair/
Zeus_H_Christ@reddit
How many of these posts do we get a week? …. Plllllzzz halp! Cars keep parking illegally!!! What to do???? Towing??? Wats that???????
Dude… come on.
asicarii@reddit
Keep putting nails in their tire until they stop. Not one car. All of them.
ThisIsMockingjay2020@reddit
A few days before, set some food into multiple garbage cans and leave in a warm place so it all rots. Shortly before they arrive, set the cans out at the ends of your driveways so the invaders have to smell it as they get out of their cars and walk.
JLev007@reddit
How do all these flat tires keep happening? Weird🤷♂️
twatcrusher9000@reddit
Britain you say? put mushy peas in the air vents ya cunt
DannyMotorcycle@reddit
Make friends with them. Then when they start telling you their problems and enemies give them bad advice. Sabotaging them until they move away.
1badh0mbre@reddit
Buy a tow truck
Chinablind@reddit
Immediately cover any cars parked in front of driveways with bird seed. Bonus points if you shoot some Vaseline over the top of the car before throwing the bird seed on it
Thrushporridge@reddit
Paint stripper works great on cars
joule_thief@reddit
Brake fluid works pretty well too.
art-as-a-real-threat@reddit
Call a tow. Or put scientology flyers on the windshield
thintoast@reddit
Glue the flyers to the windshield.
catz_with_hatz@reddit
Glue Scientologists to the window.
Jokerman5656@reddit
SCHRADER VALVE SCREWDRIVER
amanuensisninja@reddit
1) Buy fish, milk, and large veterinary syringe (with needle)
2) Put fish in bucket with milk
3) Cover with foil, leave in secure place overnight
4) (very important) wear something over your face/eyes/nose to cover smell, as well as gloves and clothing you don’t care about 5) Fill syringe with fish/milk solution
6) Inject fish/milk solution into vehicles blocking your driveway
AffectionateMarch394@reddit
Talk to your neighbors, and get everyone to park in all the street parking before any practices (bring in a few friends if needed to fill the spots)
Parents will have to find another place if its always filled (hopefully you can do it just for a little while until they give up and find new places)
Throw bird seed on the cars so the birds shit all over them
Water your grass/garden with LOTS of off spray so the cars get covered in mud
vroddba@reddit
You should be able to get a slingshot, a hammer, and some sparkplugs off of Amazon relatively cheap if you don't have them already.
Working-on-it12@reddit
Something that ruins paint but can be loaded into a super soaker that you can shoot from beyond camera range?
nabt420@reddit
Brake fluid!
PizzaCop_@reddit
The police won't come urgently to a low grade job, but they'll come to a high grade one. Tell the call taker you're at your wits end and you're going to start smashing cars with a bat unless someone comes and solves it. Tell them you can't get to work and you're going to lose your job. Sound furious and a bit deranged.
Then when a patrol turns because the job is now urgent, be as calm and normal and nice as pie to them and show them the problem.
43GoTee@reddit
Unscrew the valve stems to let the air out. Then tighten them back up after the tires deflated
Klutzy-Spell-3586@reddit
Air out all four tires and then set up an air station and offer to refill the tires for $50
nabt420@reddit
A bunch of 2x4 with nails set out as spike strips, fart spray in the windows, bologna polka dots, post-in notes covering the car with "Don't park here" written on all of them, frozen cans of shaving cream cut open and put into the car to fill the cabin space... what else can I come up with....?
Working-on-it12@reddit
Parents? That means youth sports? Right?
Send all of your kids off to somewhere for the day. Get some huge speakers. Play… “questionable” music very loudly. When they complain, tell them the music stops when the cars are gone.
Repeat until it works. Up ante to porn tracks if needed.
ShodoDeka@reddit
It’s Australia nobody is going to be scared of by a few swear words in a song.
Working-on-it12@reddit
Porn audio spliced together? Classical opera - several hours of the loudest soprano parts? Splice the canon section of the 1812 overture, some overly realistic battle sounds, incoming artillery, etc together and blast that
pacingpilot@reddit
Don't have to scare or offend them, just annoy the everloving shit out of them. Tiny Tim's Tiptoe Through the Tulips blasted on repeat for an hour or two ought to do the trick.
blaspheminCapn@reddit
Then play Christian Rap or Christian Country, Christian metal...
Yiotiv@reddit
When they say Australians are from "down under" they don't mean hell. How is that going to help?
Working-on-it12@reddit
Can you get fox urine there or some other kind of truly horrible smelling urine and make piss disks out of that?
spaceshipcommander@reddit
I'd glue the fuel caps shut so they don't find out until they try and put fuel in days later and can't. They are then stranded.
Aiku@reddit
My sister lived near a soccer stadium and people would literally park on their lawn!!!
Some guy even left a note saying "I've parked on your lawn".
He came back to a cardboard sign on a stick that said "I've towed your car".
knowsitmaybenot@reddit
You and all the neighbors let the air out of 1 tire on each car. Don't remove the stem or dmg it. I would also put up a sign that says warning flying balls. Then throw baseball in the driveway torwards the car
Jamespio@reddit
I use my garage as a woodshop, maybe OP does also. Sometimes, I use my woodshop to apply oil-based paint to projects with a paint sprayer. Paint sprayers are notorious for "overspray," which only effects items that are sitting right behind the item you are painting. I only use the paint sprayer in my driveway. Typically, a spray job can be finished, including set-up, painting, and putting all the gear away, in far less time than the typical children's football practice takes.
When the shitty parker loses their shit, deny any and all knowledge, and suggest that the paint could have come from anywhere that the owner illegally parked their vehicle, perhaps in front of a body shop, or an art studio. Suggest that perhaps the parker was out creating graffiti and oversprayed his own car, after all, we know he's a scofflaw just from his parking habits.
Scragglymonk@reddit
jack the car wheels up, slip a food tray under each wheel, allegedly the car can be slid into places where there is a wall 1 inch from either bumper
remove the trays to make it hard to work out how moved
PuddleFarmer@reddit
Car dollies work so much better.
Melodic-Ad1415@reddit
Just block your own driveway with your own cars
BigMax@reddit
Contact a tow company ahead of time. Let them know what is going on, and when it's going on.
Tow companies make money by towing cars like that, and if they know a guaranteed time that you can tow one or more cars, they will be happy to.
The moment those cars block driveways, call them in, and get them towed. You should only have to do this once.
XemptOne@reddit
Park there yourself, get your neighbors to as well, then they cant park there and block you in
iLikeAza@reddit
Block them in if you aren’t planning on leaving. Put out garbage cans even if it’s not garbage day. Can try to use traffic cones. Set up a sprinkler pointed at the driveway & fire it up when someone gets out of their car. Piss discs in the gas tank.
smarter_than_an_oreo@reddit
Never forget the piss disks.
kelariy@reddit
Put them under the wipers too, so when they melt they go down into the vents.
ThePowerOfShadows@reddit
Roofing nails just to the sides of the driveways.
brooklynflyer@reddit
Piss discs somehow
SeeYouOn16@reddit
Always
TheGrongGuy@reddit
https://a.co/d/g2USjOA
TraumaticSarcasm@reddit
get some of those no parking stickers off of amazon and put them right in the middle of their window / windshield. They are a pain to actually remove.
another option if you really wanted to put some effort into it would be to have fake parking tickets made with a QR code telling them that they need to pay a fine. Make a fake website that the QR code links to and so they can pay the fine.
smithwesson586@reddit
Zip tie around axle shaft/driveshaft. Makes a vibration or noise without causing monetary damage
Random_Redbeard@reddit
You can buy a cheap wheel boot on Amazon for $30. Start booting cars. I'm not sure if you can legally charge them to remove it. So maybe just leave it for them to figure out how to cut it off.
LezBfriendz47@reddit
Jack & wheel dollies. Roll those suckers somewhere really inconvenient.
toomuch1265@reddit
Unethical? Caltrops. If I said it once, I have said it a million times...CALTROPS
FriendOutrageous8374@reddit
Amazon has car boots for around $80. Put one on a car parked in front of your neighbors house (not yours, this is key) and never go help them take it off. Do this for a few weeks, it will stop.
BriscoCounty-Sr@reddit
If you haven’t tried buying them markers dealerships use to write on windows then covering the car in drawn on dicks you ain’t tried everything.
Let them spend a Saturday having to scrub that shit off their whole car and see if they keep doing it.
CaptainZippi@reddit
Call in a fire at one of the houses (or set one if you’re feeling particularly unethical) and watch for the _fire_works.
Hdaana1@reddit
Fire department. If they can't access hydrants or homes they will have it towed.
TheKidsAreAsleep@reddit
Call the fire marshal to ask what can be done. All these cars may be blocking emergency access. Fire marshals do not mess around.
And, obviously, piss discs.
Gooniefarm@reddit
Put the biggest, hardest to remove stickers you can find all over the drivers side of the windshield. Bonus points if you can find some real parking violation stickers from Grainger or another supply company. The real ones are incredibly difficult to remove.
Sparky_Zell@reddit
Each chip in to get at least 1 set of car skates. When they are at practice work together to clear the street, with 1 person at each wheel you can have the car lifted and moving in seconds.
Then push them around the corner. You can be nice and leave the cars in good parking spots. Or you can find a place not pissing off other neighbors and leave them in the middle of the road. Then call for tows.
Or if there are enough cars you can move them in a tight formation to where they cannot drive away without help.
earth_west_420@reddit
Rent a U-haul. The box truck kind, 20 feet plus. If you get your neighbors in on it and pool funds you can probably do it for like less than $10-20 per person depending on how many people are down. Uhauls are pretty cheap up front, the big charges come from the mileage and gas. Alternatively, if one of your neighbors has a bigger pickup/SUV and a trailer of some kind, that could work for the same purpose. Anyway.
Wait until theyre all parked at the end (?) of your dead end street.
Take the Uhaul and block the street so none of them can get out.
Wait until the first ones start coming back for their cars, and then leave to do errands.
Show them how it feels to not be able to use your vehicle when you want to. And then don't move the Uhaul until you get all or most of them to understand that your street is not their free parking.
Bk_Punisher@reddit
Ok so here’s something you can do. Buy a bunch of those caps for the tire air valve. Then get a bag of airsoft BBs and glue a BB into each valve cap. Then just go around replacing the offenders cap with yours. The BB will depress the valve slowly letting air Don’t tighten too much or it might keep the air in. No harm done but it will likely take a while before being discovered. On a side note you could get a bag of marbles and insert a few into each tail pipe. I recently had a rattling in my muffler that I thought was a marble or a nut. It would rattle and rice me nuts. Took the car to a mechanic who discovered it was an internal part of the muffler that had broken free. But nowI have ideas on how to annoy people😂🤣
chris14020@reddit
Call a tow company before the event, have them on standby.
Straight_Ostrich_257@reddit
There's no need to be unethical here. Just call a tow company and have them towed. It's illegal to block someone's driveway and you have the right to have them towed at their own expense.
sofuct@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately in Australia towing by a private company is not an option
blaspheminCapn@reddit
Then get that law changed. What if there was a legit emergency?
nikerbacher@reddit
Tire deflator. Just let's the air out, doesn't damage the tire. Do it to all four tires everyday until they stop
Abject-Yellow3793@reddit
It's not a short term solution, but pasting stuff on car windows will eventually annoy them enough to get the hint. I would make a poster that said "be a good sport, don't block my driveway again" and paste it to the windshield with some flour and water glue.
It would be expensive, but hiring a tow truck to relocate a few cars would create some panic. There are varying levels of legality to that.
Put out a fake fire hydrant. More likely to be seen, AND they can be ticketed.
PremiumUsername69420@reddit
Just walk out on to the field during their sport and interrupt their game. Make things not count and screw up their scoring.
“Who are you? Why are you doing this?!”
“I own the house you parked in front of. Keep blocking houses and I’ll keep joining your games. If my driveway is yours, your game is mine comrade. Call the cops.”
Far-Bookkeeper1324@reddit
Report every time and take pictures to prove they are not only in front of driveways, but obstructing exiting. Also towing companies may be able to tow without police intervention if it’s your property. Worth an ask.
Other options are put out a bunch of bird seed under the cars. Put shit water (or crushed mothballs) in the vent below the windshield. Potatoes in tailpipes. Pepper spray under door handles (but recommend only the drivers side). Toothpaste in door locks (if they still use those). Remove a valve stem cover, superglue a bb inside, replace tightly (slow leak but no damage). Jack up their car and get some under tire roller carts to move it around. Most of these are technically illegal but petty enough to probably not enforce. Also make sure your neighbors don’t have door cameras aimed at the car you’re effing with.
Or you could just go straight illegal, break shit and leave a note to park elsewhere, but that’s another thread. I’d go for drivers side window or pop two opposite corner tires.
Username_Chx_Out@reddit
Call a tow company. It may not be strictly unethical, but it may not be totally ethical, either….
jesus_chen@reddit
1) Buy a tire immobilization unit/boot (cheapy one on Amazon) 2) Setup Stripe account and get a card swiper 3) Wait for owner to return and charge a &100 fee to release
This will put an end to it real quick. Also, who are they going to call to come and force you to just release the car? No one.
brnaftreadng@reddit
Sprinkle nails everywhere that they will be forced to drive over to leave. Clean them up with a magnet after they leave
lvl9magicmissile@reddit
Wheat paste a no parking notice on every window of the cars blocking your driveway.
Desperate_Set_7708@reddit
Set up at the entrance to the block and charge out the ass for parking. €50
Don’t like it, they’re welcome to park elsewhere.
fatdjsin@reddit
Push bars on your vehicule ! ....to bad you had an medical emergency, no time to ask for gentle.
But honestly its 1000% better to have a sporty bunch of kid rather then a group of bad apples that ends up in drugs / stealing your property / vandalising neihborgh...
Keeping kids busy with healthy stuff is a very positive thing to have around you when the alternative is much worst
KEITHKVLT@reddit
Punch the tire valves out on all the cars
Bushid0C0wb0y81@reddit
Rent a skid steer, they are lots of fun. Stub your toe and require immediate medical attention at the nearest urgent care facility. Make an absolute mess of the shit heap trapping you and keeping you from the urgent medical care you so desperately require. Make sure to actually go and get treated so you have a paper trail. You and your neighbors can take turns. Alternative: rent a small tractor, tow all the offenders into the nearest ditch, field, or public street.
smokingcrater@reddit
Easy... Assuming you are male, get an old-school dslr camera with a big lens. Pretend to take lots of pictures of every kid. (Stay on your own property though.) For added effect, scratch yourself every so often. (Find a suitable male if you are not one, this particular tip is very gender specific.)
The problem will quickly solve itself, there will be no practices in the street.
FreeFalling369@reddit
Call a toe truck
juicehopper@reddit
Random caltrops.
roadtripjr@reddit
Get those orange no parking stickers that are hard to peal off. Start putting them on all the cars windows.
olizet42@reddit
"Car? What car, officer?"
Then sell car parts on eBay.
DreamieKitty@reddit
My neighborhood is private streets and when someone is parked illegally they have these obnoxious orange stickers about the size of a postcard that gets affixed to the drivers side window with a message that if the car isn't moved by a certain time it will be towed. No need to follow up on the towing threat. These stickers are a pain in the ass to remove. Get a stack and pass out to your neighbors and put one on the offending cars every time they are parked where they shouldn't be.
xXHolicsXx@reddit
Call a tow truck, and get your neighbors to do the same.
FakeDoctorMeatCoat@reddit
Pour a can of coke on their hood. It'll fuck up the paint
ggcpres@reddit
Start having people towed.
You've tried being nice, you've tried being civilized, now it's time for consequences. Once you've towed a few people, word will get around and they should stop blocking your driveway.
Alternatively, you could try turning your front yard into a paid parking lot. You could cash in off of the situation, also, you're going to mess your yard up most likely.
Hot-Win2571@reddit
Secede. Set up your own township. Install parking meters. Tow.
Trillian_B@reddit
Set up a blockade to the entry of the neighborhood/street and charge extortionate rates for valet parking. Split the proceeds with the residents. Have a barbecue.
itsatrapp71@reddit
Take a valve stem tool and start loosening valve stems. The tires go flat but there isn't any damage to be actionable for.
Get every car on the street and make sure you get them every time. It may take a few times to get the point but eventually they will.
Either that or they will call the cops and tattle on themselves.
Hot-Win2571@reddit
Find out the schedule of the local sports events at the park. Might be on park's web site, or might have to go ask what two teams are playing and figure out which one is the local team.
Then have a block party on each of those days. Barricade the street with sawhorses, with BLOCK PARTY sign. Set up a folding table with lemonade. Maybe arrange potluck. Open barricade for local traffic only.
Rangers don't want to be bothered, so don't bother them about this triviality.
Rocks_are_FR33@reddit
Let the air out of the tires for the cars parked in front of driveways
Sherpa3ei@reddit
A small investment on Amazon gets you 100 MESS parking violation stickers that are hard to remove when stuck to a car window. Stick them on a few cars blocking your driveway and word will get around that bad parking is a FAFO situation in your neighborhood.
raz-0@reddit
Google “eggshell stickers”.
127-0-0-1_Chef@reddit
Sprinkle some tacks on them Johnson. (The parking spaces)
D-ouble-D-utch@reddit
Call a shady towing company. Like the worst rated one in your area. I bet if a bunch of neighbors called, they'd tow em all.
inkslingerben@reddit
Remove a valve stem on a tire on each car.
KrisClem77@reddit
Buy go jacks. Move their car into middle of street and call cops.
Chef_Schluder@reddit
Set up a toll booth and blockade with the help of your neighbors.
fasole99@reddit
Leave flyera in their windows
Waste_Curve994@reddit
Birdseed
gunsforevery1@reddit
Key every car.
No-Satisfaction-3897@reddit
After they all park, have every neighbor come outside for a block party. In the middle of the road, Start a bbq, Set up tables and chairs, a blow up kiddie pool, have kids blow bubbles and play with chalk everywhere. Have a water balloon fight. Basically close the road down for a block party.
fakwnavgc@reddit
Follow the offending car back to their home, tailgate, honk your horn, violently swerve, and then park in their driveway, blocking them in. Might not work straight away, but you'd definitely send a message.
Ok_Perception1131@reddit
Spread caltrops at the end of the road
TheGingerSnafu@reddit
Orange cones at the end of the driveway.
Tronracer@reddit
Get some wheel dollys and move the cars yourself. You put the dollys under each wheel, ratchet the car up, and you’re then able to easily push the car into the street away from your driveway.
Once it’s in the street blocking every other car, it can be more of a pressing issue.
thintoast@reddit
It’s a dead end street. Line up all the cars to block the exit to the street so that no one can get out. Line them up parallel to the road and close enough together so the only way they can get into their cars is to either break a window to climb in, or line them up perpendicular so that a wheel dolly or tow truck is required to move them.
Djguy21@reddit
Get someone with a winch or a 4×4 truck to pull 1 car out into the street so it blocks everyone
4downies@reddit
Cheap bike lock/chain through one wheel. get some penis stickers made up and go to town.
thintoast@reddit
Penis stickers that say “I am a dick”. Use additional adhesive around the entire edge of the sticker so that when they try to peel it off, they might get the paper, but the glue will still be there in the same shape as the penis.
P0Rt1ng4Duty@reddit
Make friends with someone who works for the Department of Transportation and ask them for some of those ''abandoned vehicle'' stickers that are almost impossible to remove. Stick them on the driver's side windows.
MinivanPops@reddit
Honestly? A huge social media shaming campaign. Worldwide. All platforms. Have the neighbors band together and hire a company that will help this go viral. You'll need a few thousand dollars at least to boost this.
Present the plan to the sport organizers and tell them what you're about to do. Get local news involved and have them contact them for comment.
This will burn bridges but it'll work.
scttlvngd@reddit
Join the kids sports and beat them so severely they quit
GuestStarr@reddit
Silicon spray on the windows. The kind which is used in car door seals (is this the right word?) to keep them from freezing when in below zero temps. It's not destructive but a pita to clean off. If they use the washer and try wiping, it'll just spread around and make a mess. And unless they clean the wipers too, they'll have another mess when they use them next time. Or very sticky paper stickers in the windshield, thanking for excellent parking. Paper ones, because when it sticks you'll have to scrape it off a little bit by little bit. And there will still be some paper/glue residue. For the worst and repeating offenders use both silicon and stickers. Beware the cams.
young_earth@reddit
It'd be a shame if something happened to every car on the block doing this, and nobody could tell who did it...
TN_REDDIT@reddit
Block the park entrance driveway with your car.
Let the air out of two of their tires.
Get some car dolleys. Jack up their cars and push them into the streets.
FarmerFrance@reddit
Drop an orange cone maybe? Alternatively Harbor freight sells car jacks that lift the wheels up on swivel casters, lift it up, push into the street, call a tow truck.
Fun_Sea_3915@reddit
Roofers nail around your house. Just get a magnetic broom to clean it afterwards.
InfoSecPeezy@reddit
Break their windows and take anything visible in the car, even if it’s loose change in the center console.
When this happens to a couple of cars, word will get around that cars are being broken into.
Order “bird spikes” on Amazon and place 1 behind and in front of two tires for every car that is doing this. Make sure to clean them up after so you and your neighbors to fall victim to them.
Break their windows and start tossing trash in the car (you may not even have to break their windows- people forget to lock their cars all the time), it is amazing how some rotten veg and a spilled can of tuna/sardines can motivate people to avoid shitty behavior.
Dump a bucket of paint on their windshields.
Block them in and refuse to move your car until they pay the posted $500 parking fee (make a sign, stick it in the ground).
Boot their car. You can buy a boot on Amazon for $30, I bet if you and your neighbors each buy one and start using them (post a sign that informs them they will be booted for blocking private driveways and the cost to remove is $500- just a basic sign on a removable post). https://a.co/d/fGWElMe This one is my favorite.
SantosFurie89@reddit
Call the police. In the UK (which it sounds like you are) if you're blocked getting off your driveway (off only, not on..) they can come and remove the vehicle. Especially if it is urgent that you need to leave. The owner will get a big ticket / fine also!
Obviously this depends how available your police are. It also draws attention if nothing happens and then randomly the cars blocking 6our driveway suddenly get loads of birdseed and bread dumped around to attract birds, piss discs are flung / squirted from water guns, or some young rapscallion puts sugar in the fuel tank
TampaBob57@reddit
The "local council"?
Is that an elected position? IF so you found the Achilles heel. Let this politician know that you, your family, your neighbors and your friends will be voting against him/her because of this and make sure you neighbors and friends let him/her know as well. The pol wants to be reelected and probably wants to move up to a higher position and having a group of local voters letting him know he has lost their votes to his opponent will do wonders.
FairyPenguinStKilda@reddit
Park a semi in the street
RealCoryMiller@reddit
Leave an hour before they get there, when you get back park in front of your driveway and block them in
Obi-Wan-Nikobiii@reddit
Club together with the neighbours and rent a dozer.....
Jingleberyy@reddit
Smash their cars then