So long story short, I live across the street from a high school. Every day the parents come to pick up their kids with a complete disregard for everyone else. Keep in mind my town is only about 1.5 sq miles, so there really is no reason why everyone drives to the school.

Every day I get about 4 or 5 people who park their Range Rovers and various other SUVs in front of my driveway. I live in the suburbs, not sure why they have those cars anyway.

It would be one thing if they were getting out of the way of a fire truck (which they dont) or if it was only a 2 second thing. It never is though. There is plenty of parking in front of them. Enough for another 3 or 4 Range Rovers. Then when I attempt to ask them to move, I get met with hostile and/or clueless attitudes. It appears that these parents have to be directly in front of where teh school exit is in order to pick up their children. It leads to stupidly dangerous traffic patterns. It's next to impossible to cross that road without almost being hit and the fact that huge cars are blocking access to the sidewalk makes it even more dangerous. It's pretty bad when I don't even want to go outside during the school traffic hours because I know theres a chance of some idiot blowing a stop sign.

Oh, they also park in the fire lane too which is just great.

So i've taken down a few plate numbers and asked a few people to move, but it doesn't seem to help.
I'm thinking about handing this article out to the people who block my driveway though:
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2008/08/stories/06/1.html

put up a tow away zone sign
>.>

Well first and foremost - Is it legal for people to park there?
If not get the city to put up a sign.

If it's legal sprinkle the ground with nails and spikes and that sort.

I like that idea.

Or just sit on your lawn with a shotgun.

Idiots? I work a load of 'em.
Slash their tyres or blame them for climate change

Seriously that would p**s me off too.

Not in the fire lane. And there are No Parking signs to the left of my driveway, and it should be implied to not park in front of my driveway.

i was going to suggest this, but then the school would get put in high alert and we'd see mb on tv, who'd want to see mb on tv?

smash their cars with a baseball bat

Well since it IS a school zone I'm going to have to say try to go the "good" way first ..
Call up the PD/City parking and see what they can do about it. Maybe a new sign, maybe parking nearby and giving people warnings for a while will do it.

But if that fails - Since most good options are not a good idea to do in a school zone, I'd say just be the biggest *******, biggest prick you can be to them till they don't want to deal with you anymore.

Throw the anger around... That might ward the idiots off.

Oh I thought of a good idea. Go out in a man thong and start dancing and grinding against their car.

I'd get the hell outta there if I saw that.

...Suuuurrreee you would.

When someone parks in the fire lane, start a small fire in your front yard. Call the fire department and tell them that you can not put it out. When they arrive on the seen, enjoy the sight of their cars being demolished by a large red wagon of water.


Or line the front yard with barbed wires.

mb can't fit into one.

Seconding the nails and glass. Cheap and effective, and easy brush away with a broom, brush back when not going anywhere.

Nothing says "effective" like a $200+ fine and the possibility of an arson charge.

It might be worth the charges. And it's not illegal to start a fire in your own front yard most places. They might have laws about when you can do it, but it's easy enough to get out of that. Hey, you're just burning your leaves...

Start bruning leaves under their cars.

People get picked up by their parents in HIGH school?

Sounds like the kids in your area need to start growing some independence.

Uh, not everyone in high school: can drive, has a car.

So i lied. Town is 2.2sq miles.

Ive decided that Ill write a few strongly worded letters first >_>

Works well on vehicles and children.

Ok, unless your town is about 1 house wide and 64 miles long I'm going to give driving to school a :carl:.

Some of these ideas sound good, others...

1) If someone's tire gets punctured by nails and stuff YOU leave in the street they might sue you or make you pay for new tires on their car. Not worth the trouble when they'll win.
2) Setting your own fire with the intent of\calling out the FD will probably get you a nice fine or jail time for wasting their time, thus putting OTHER lives in danger because the FD was delayed at your "fire".

Calling the PD and complaining is the way to go. Keep license plate numbers, but don't use them for anything unless the problem continues past whatever the PD does in response to the first call.

If nothing you can do helps, you can try seeing if you can get a tow truck to come out and tow them away (if they leave their cars alone). Not 100% sure of the legality of this, but it IS your driveway and they ARE blocking it, there's gotta be some law to keep other people from blocking it.

Of course the police themselves might be able to give you nice, legal solution ideas if you ask, maybe.

You can always do what SAJN did...

bike, walk, bus?

It's possible that a ride from a parent is the only way to school, but I'd say the vast majority of people over the age of 14 should be able to use public transport, and/or get off their asses and do some exercise.

but... but... Stranger Danger! There's a pedo in the bushes waiting to kidnap their child!

I'd get a bunch of safety cones or something, put them in front of your place, since using rusty nails and tire strips is generally frowned upon.

actually, thats a good idea, bob
put them a car's distance in front of your driveway just during school hours

high school girls... oooh yeah

mb, are you referring to a suburb of rochester? If so which school are you talking about?

No. I moved out of rochester in july! horray!!!!1111

I wish those were legal.

I really do.

First of all, is it not ILLEGAL to park in front of a driveway, no matter what? Start there.

Second, some of our neighborhoods around our schools here will put up "No Parking without Area H Permit" signs all over then give the residents these "Area H permits". This allows them to go through and ticket everybody who isn't a local resident. Talk to the city about it and get your neighbors to ***** about it too. Although this doesn't necessarily stop them from temporarily stopping in front of your driveway.

If you aren't actually trying to leave when they are there... and they move when you do want to leave...

STFU.

No JM, it's illegal and damn rude.
What if theres an emergency and you need to leave in a hurry? Then you're screwed.

So?

They dont always move. If they do, it takes them 10-15 minutes to leave. You also seem to have missed the part where most of the parents dont move even if theres a firetruck trying to get through. And no I'm not going to stfu, so get over it

Park your car there first?

It's clear that everyone in your area has been infected by the idiot virus and must be cleansed. I think the most efficient method here would be to stand up, as your rolls of fat should easily crush any opposition. Especially if your town is only 2.2 sq. miles.

Good luck!

My plan would involve a copious number of parking tickets, but I suppose you can't do that. :p