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Julie Geue, 48, got so fed up with commuters parking in her driveaway that she hatched a fitting plan to get revenge on one recent offender.



For ten years Julie has been regularly inconvenienced by drivers leaving their cars on her property in Crowborough, East Sussex, where she lives opposite the train station in Farningham Road.

Southern runs a regular service from the station to London Bridge. There is a car park at the station with 127 spaces, and three accessible spaces available.

Commuters can pay a daily rate of £4.40, a weekly rate of £19, a monthly rate of £69 or an annual rate of £646 to park at the station.

Earlier this month Julie had been due to have gravel laid on her drive - but when workmen arrived to do the job they found a car had been left in the way, preventing the work from being carried out.

So, spotting her chance to retaliate, Julie ordered the workmen to block the errant car in with a ton of gravel.

And, to top it off, she stuck a trowel in the gravel with a note attached saying: "Happy digging, at least it's not raining."

"Unfortunately, after over ten years of putting up with lazy, obnoxious and rude, often threatening, people doing this, I no longer care if it’s a genuine mistake or not"

Julie Geue

The car was blocked in for two days before the owner was able to move it.

Julie said: "The offender in this case claims to have made a genuine error and got confused about which house he should be parking in front of.

"Unfortunately, after over ten years of putting up with lazy, obnoxious and rude, often threatening, people doing this, I no longer care if it’s a genuine mistake or not."

Jarlaxle wrote:I would simply slash the side of that burlap thing to dump the contents, kick it until it was flat enough, then push it away with the car and drive over it...might take 5 minutes.

A few days later, dump 5 gallons each of used oil and engine coolant in the spot, then call the police and report illegal dumping. Yes, I AM, in fact, an incredibly nasty SOB when you piss me off.

Bicycle Bill wrote:"...

Now me, I believe in the old saying of "finders keepers", so if I were to find a strange car in my driveway, well .......

-"BB"-

dales wrote:Me thinks that Jarl would be EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE in police custody.

Big RR wrote:jarl--if you did that, I'd go to police headquarters and swear out a warrant (using your license plate number) against you for destroying property delivered to me; as you had no right to park there, you'd have no right to slash the bags. And then I'd instutute a civil suit to get you to pay for the gravel you damaged.

Any oil dumped would be seen as a retaliation and attributed to you--but I'd also set up a camera to record what happened. Indeed, I'd likely have done it before I even had the gravel delivered to record the people who parked there.