A man got angry after his “stupid generosity” backfired and parked him in a driveway with a stranger’s car for seven months.
In December 2021, Omar, who lives in Stoke, Plymouth, parked someone he didn’t know in the driveway because he was not driving and was not driving his own car.
But now he’s struggling to get the car off his property. According to Omar, the person who owned the car refused to take his vehicle.
While Omar didn’t explain exactly how the deal came about, he said he initially agreed that the car owner could use the driveway as long as needed.
When Omar contacted the man to take his car, the man said he would not obey.
In Stoke, near Plymouth, Omar Badran agreed to let an unknown man use the driveway in December 2021, on the condition that he get it back when he needs it.
“If I wanted to reuse my driveway, I agreed on the condition that I could,” the driveway owner said.
Omar said he tried to contact the owner of the car in the driveway but had no luck.
Omar said he has since explored legal avenues, but was shocked that it was legally considered a “gray zone”.
“I was shocked at my initial research that legally it is a gray area and even if the car is insured, tax free and uninsured you may not be able to get the city council, the police or the DVLA to do anything about it. I can’t. There is no MOT.
Omar said he felt “unhappy” after the man he helped refused to take his car.
“I called all those places and they told me they couldn’t do anything.”
However, after several weeks of stress, Omar claims to have found a solution under the Tort Law Act.
He said: ‘I found that there is a way to deal with this under the Torture Act. It took me a few weeks and a lot of stress, I thought I would be in really bad shape with thousands of pounds spent in a court of law”.
Omar has now added a sign placed in the driveway against the windshield of the car. “According to tort law, this vehicle will be disposed of within one week from 06/27/22 unless received by the owner,” it says.
After consulting several lawyers, Omar was also instructed to contact the owner of the vehicle in writing and wait a reasonable amount of time before disposing of the vehicle.
After being stuck in the “legal gray zone”, Omar took matters into his own hands and found a solution in the Torts Act of 1977, which deals with “interference with property” such as trespassing or damaging someone else’s property.
Ömer said, ‘A lawyer told me to contact the person in writing. I was told to fill out a V888 form that would allow me to access the person’s address and then write to them and quote Tort Law.
The law doesn’t have a specific time, it just states that the time given for the person to respond should be “reasonable”, so after getting the address from the DVLA I decided to give him two weeks.
“This whole thing really pissed me off, and a lot of people said I was stupid for letting him park in my driveway, but I was just trying to do something nice.”
Source: Daily Mail
