![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/were-at-war-with-selfish-day-trippers-who-park-outside-our-homes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20319796-1667562563158.jpg&description=LOCALS on a busy street are at war with selfish day-trippers who block their drives when parking road-side. Brits living down the road from a trampoline park - popular for kids' birthday parties and school trips - have resorted to using traffic cones to stop drivers leaving them stuck. Ian Bennett and his wife Debbie have resorted to putting parking cones out to deter selfish day-trippers from parking outside their homesCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd Locals claim selfish drivers take all their on-street parkingCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd But it's no use, as visitors would rather move the cones than find a space in the Red Kangaroo car park in Exhall, Warks. Debbie Bennett, 49, said: "I've got four cones that I use so people don't block us in. "The local police gave them to me because he could see just how chaotic it is. 'I stretch them out just enough so no-one can try and park in between. 'We've had people get out of their cars and move the cones, completely brazen. 'I confronted one guy who moved the cones. I asked him why he'd done it. "But he just sped off into the trampoline park car park and found a space there. 'I reckon half the time people are parking on the street just because they are too lazy to find a parking space in the car park. 'Somebody put a tannoy announcement out in the trampoline park asking someone to move their car because it was causing a blockage. "My friend overheard them say 'why should we?' "That's the attitude of the parents who are in there. They don't care and the council doesn't care." Locals fear accidents are inevitable unless more is done to ease parking congestion when the trampoline park is at its busiest. Debbie's husband Ian, 41, said: "It's a complete nightmare - especially at the weekends. "The clue is in the name. It's School Lane - it's a lane. It's a narrow road which gets completely overwhelmed. "If cars park on the road, it blocks the traffic. If they park on the path it blocks the path so pedestrians have to){kind=link}
LOCALS on a busy street are at war with selfish day-trippers who block their drives when parking road-side.
Brits living down the road from a trampoline park – popular for kids’ birthday parties and school trips – have resorted to using traffic cones to stop drivers leaving them stuck.
But it’s no use, as visitors would rather move the cones than find a space in the Red Kangaroo car park in Exhall, Warks.
Debbie Bennett, 49, said: “I’ve got four cones that I use so people don’t block us in.
“The local police gave them to me because he could see just how chaotic it is.