Seriously why should we?
Its illegal to obstruct someone's drive way and there's plenty of other places to park. Plus the bus gets here at random times. Sometimes its not an issue as we are gone but this morning the car was fucking moving when he pulled across the drive.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:03, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Realistically though
how big is this window of opportunity? Can you not shift your schedule by 5 minutes for the sake of a guy in a wheelchair!?

*edit* just saw flim flams post above. Ignore me!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:05, Reply)

Again, why should we?
There's no need to block our driveway at all. There's loads of parking around the road. I don't give two fucks if its a disabled kid or a boy racer. Its my driveway and there are other options. Can't the moron bus driver park on the other side of the street?
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Does this not entail
the wheelchair user having to cross the road? In practice not a huge issue but surely a nightmare for the public image of the school. Especially when the conflicting issue from the schools point of view is "temporarily blocking someones drive".
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:13, Reply)

Its not a school
its the F T Williams bus company. Plus they could actually park up the road and block the driveway of the Disabled kid which means he would have even less distance to cover. That one of the reason my dearest wife is pissy, there's so many other places to park.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:18, Reply)

To stop you being late and looking like an idiot?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:06, Reply)

Unfortunately unless you or your wife are a member of
an emergency service you've got no hope! If lives don't count on you getting to work on time you're fucked! :(
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Not the case
We had a similar issue in our old house where someone kept parking across our drive. We called the police and one morning they called the driver who ignored them and so they came out and moved it for us. If they are blocking you out they don't do much but if they are blocking you in they move it.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:10, Reply)

That's impressive
usually it takes a lot longer to get the police to do anything about it... did you pretend you were a local councillor or something?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:16, Reply)

No I sucked off the Chief Superintendent behind a bus shelter in 1997
got special treatment ever since
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Ah good thinking
Could you not call him now to sort out your problems?
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Spose
No-one has answer my original question though. I never asked for advice on driveway blocking disabled kids.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:26, Reply)

I would say the answer to your original question is no
because god doesn't exist
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:30, Reply)

I'll answer your original question:
No.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:31, Reply)

It's not illegal.
They have twenty minutes to load or unload in front of a dropped kerb.
www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/ukpga_20040018_en_9#pt6-pb3-l1g86

My da is disabled. For every disabled person blocking your drive for five minutes there's an able-bodied cunt without a blue badge in a disabled parking space that he genuinely needs.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:15, Reply)

That right there is a very valid point!

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Or worse
and able bodied cunt driving a car with a blue badge. Usually because he sometimes has to transport his gran once in a blue moon.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:18, Reply)

Aye, that's naughty.
That's not allowed.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)

Outside a bar in Manchester
I saw a brand new Ferrari parked on double yellows right outside the bar entrance, there was a blue badge in that. Surely a Ferrari is not the most convenient of vehicles for a disabled person to try and get in and out of. It had a parking ticket on it though which pleased me immensely, so I guess the traffic warden didn't believe it either.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:58, Reply)

For every able bodied cunt with a fake blue badge
there are hundreds of empty disabled parking spaces at my local Sainsbury's, last night the entire carpark was full bar three full rows of empty spakker spaces.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:19, Reply)

Reminds me of the Viz Top Tip
Supermarkets: why not place all your disabled parking spaces at the end of the car park furthest from the shop to discourage able bodied drivers from parking in them.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:21, Reply)

I've always thought this.
Surely having a space reserved is enough :P
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Entirely this.
I appreciate you want to get out of your drive, but do try to have a bit of heart. It's not the end of the bloody world.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:20, Reply)

I would have heart
if they had no other choice. But its almost like they are doing it because they know it will piss us off. They could park in front of their own drive but noooo they park in front of ours and then walk down the hill.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Its not illegal to park
but it is illegal to obstruct. I've had that confirmed but my local police peoples.
( Peej, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I'm one of those semi-able bodied cunts with a blue badge.
However, when I am having a good day I don't use it. I use it probably 6-7 times a month but when I do use it, I need it - usually at the mall or grocery store (they're also the days you'll see me bombing round the store in one of those scooter things with a shopping trolley on the front!)
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 10:27, Reply)