# What are your rights when your car gets blocked in **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449 "2008-10-04T15:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449/41 "2008-10-12T15:54:44Z")
False imprisonment doesn’t sound right to me either. But, In one case, my Wife and I where blocked in right after we where married. Yep, Wife in gown, me in a tux (the offending vehicle was not from our wedding party). Luckily, we didn’t HAVE to be any where, but what if we had to rush to the airport for a honeymoon? It could have cost us dearly in dollars. Lots of situations could come up. In that last situation, I was very close to pushing the car out with my SUV. But I did not want to damage my car. (nor did I want to spend my wedding night in jail). There has to be something these clueless, inconsiderate, lazy idiots can be charged with. So far all I have been able to do is leave a note on their car. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449/42 "2008-10-12T20:56:34Z")
This happened to me all of the time at the last house I lived at. Assclowns would park in front of my driveway and I got tired of banging on all of the doors of the neighborhood to find him (always a him). I started calling the cops and the amazing thing was as soon as the cop showed up, they would bound out from nowhere to move their car. I did this a couple of times and then no more problems. I guess the word got around - oh and the fact that I put a huge old rock in the street next to the curb at the corner of the driveway so anyone trying to pull over to park there would get a rude awakening. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449/43 "2008-10-12T22:23:07Z")
I truck drove and seems a reefer truck dumped a load of spoiled fish in a corner of the building’s lot. nobody parks near there, guy challenged me today, wanting to block me in, blowing his horn, but he stopped, I have one of those drive-cam recorders and it really helps for peeps that fail to yeild, but then again my boss can use the gps and see me speeding. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449/44 "2008-10-12T22:37:07Z")
Some years ago, three ladies had a house opposite me and had _a lot of male visitors_. Parking in my driveway became common. So I blocked them in, and when they came out after their 15 minutes was up, they used to toot their horn or whatever, and I’d come out with a can of cider in my hand and explain that they were parked on my private property and no, I couldn’t move my car because I had been drinking and was no longer in a fit state to drive. 😃 Word soon got around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-rights-when-your-car-gets-blocked-in/466449.md?page=2)