wildwood police stink
 

someone was blocking my driveway [ landscaper ] i ask him to please move his truck as it was blocking 80 % of my drive and he told me to f###off. well i tried to call wildwood police at 352 330 1355. well i got the push number 5 if you want donuts , push number 1 if you want what ever.... no live person to talk to , what a world we live in , it stinks

Were you trying to get out, or just didn't want him there?

Which landscaper?

Start with Community Watch. Does is always a live person to talk to but I also hate phone trees.

https://wildwoodpolice-fl.gov/

They were probably busy with 911 calls and/or other stuff. One just has to wait one's turn.

Either way he has no right to block your drive way

im surprised they didn’t show up , I would think showing up to arrest the lawn guy blocking the driveway for a half an hour would be a top priority , oh my thank god the AC guy is here I can tell how boring it’s been today by still being on here

I strongly suspect there is more to this story (the other side, that is)

This is a joke, right?

If I didn't want to get cart or car out, it would not bother me.
Not as if contractor was parking overnight.
If I was going out, I would have just asked the person to let me out.
Attitude is all in those situations!

Ahhhh, classic PIP posting. Previously Important Person. I demand the police drop everything they're doing and respond to my incredibly minor complaint IMMEDIATELY!!! I'm p*ssed off because the landscaper dared to tell me to "F*ck Off!"

If they don't I'm going to make the obligatory donut joke, and post about my whinging in my favorite online forum, and then I'm going to follow-up with an "I pay your salary!" claim.

Yeah- your share of the entire county's taxes broken all the way down is between one quarter and one dollar per police officer's salary. Here's your fricken quarter back, geeez.

:boom:
You beat me to it

And if he had a sudden emergency situation? Sorry blocking someones driving is just wrong.

I would have asked politely though.

Agree. Have the police show up once or twice and maybe they'll stop doing that. I have had contractors half block my driveway many times and they are always facing the wrong direction so when they get out of their trucks they generally are standing on one of my irrigation heads, on one occasion they actually had their tire parked on my irrigation head which was destroyed and no they would not pay for it. I have politely asked them to move, some do and some don't give a crap. I've also found them filling their equipment gas tanks on my lawn and that is a definite no-no. The larger companies don't do this but the small one truck independents that are here today and gone tomorrow are the ones that don't care about anything but getting paid. My neighbor had a moving truck blocking their driveway, it was a van type trailer towed behind a box truck and they refused to move it so he called the police, the police showed up and they got a ticket for expired plates, and promptly moved it. The neighbor also called the company and let them know exactly what happened and why it happened.

if I had an emergency and someone was blocking 80% of my driveway, I would have backed out over my frigging lawn

come on... these guys work in the damn hot sun all year long, doing what we no longer want to do....trying to earn a living

sitting in your A/C home complaining about someone parking close to you driveways is 'bush league'

Sorry have to disagree with you on this one.

The truck was blocking 80% of the driveway and that is wrong. If they guy had something to deliver and said give me a few minutes to unload than all is well but to just leave the truck blocking the driveway is just wrong.

There are many ways to persuade a landscaper to move his truck and trailer. Be creative. No violence of course.

With your donuts slap in your forum it shows your disdain for police. You have to deal with robo phones in many situations. Have patience and follow the prompts.

Dumb question! It doesn’t matter why!

This story is not true. Why do people just make up lies.

I agree we just can’t let the inmates start running the asylum. There is always somewhere to park (not blocking a driveway )even though it may be a little less convenient . The culdesac homes are the toughest because there is very little road frontage that isn’t driveway and courtyard villa hoods are tight too. When Amazon delivers they pull in front of the driveway but they are only there a few seconds. What bothers me about them is they will turn around in a neighbor’s driveway

Did you call 911 or the police department?---wondering if you were calling about a home invasion, with someone hurt in the process.....and received that response

Start the ball rolling
 

exactly
take a pic of vehicle capturing all the info. Contractor license information etc and make your case with the agency he's regulated by

Nice response Skippy

Ask Uncle Joe

No excuse for blocking someone's driveway. They're being a jerk and deserve to get a ticket. I'd at least turn on my sprinklers.

Plenty of excuses, just not valid! And yes some homes don't have enough front space between drives .

As the Martin Mull song “Suburban Blues” says, “Well, I was so upset, I threw my drink across the lawn!”

A typical retort of the uninformed and the disingenuous...blame the police, who can't get there fast enough to smooch your backside. Push 5 for donuts...really? But, I'm sure you are a very nice person who asked the contractor politely to move his vehicle (tongue firmly planted in cheek).

Excellent suggestion.

Service companies make their living by providing--well--service. A report about an employee alienating potential customers is not going to be well-received by the company who is providing the employment.

Good idea though to make the report calmly and reasonably, perhaps even from a perspective of trying to help the company by pointing out that such activity is really bad PR. I suspect that too many people take the opposite approach, with their anger (possibly expressed by yelling and profanity) at the forefront. That may have worked back home (wherever "back home" might be) but it is precisely the WRONG approach in Florida. Politeness and civility go a long way here.

I just wonder if you people that have answered like this person has, with no more than a yawn and derision, might also be the people that go crazy if someone's little dog poops on the edge of their lawn and their owner picks it up and they move along.

That'll show 'em who's boss.

:pray:

Polite
 

OP, did say “please move your truck”. His reply would have “got my back up” rather quickly.

I don't believe he was so nice. His attitude shows he was most likely an entitled jerk.

We have chosen to live in a highly congested area with little street parking. From time to time parking conflicts will occur. I have found service people to be apologetic if their vehicles are in any way blocking (I live in a new neighborhood, lots of work trucks and deliveries). I tell them not to worry about it, as I am able to maneuver my vehicles around theirs should I need to leave.

In any case, I would call 911 if I needed the police. Tell them it's not an emergency.

That's the best response I've read all day.

A better solution than calling police would be to snap a pic of driveway violation and add name of business and their response to you. That way we all know who NOT to hire in the future. IMHO. I would not hire a person who speaks that way to another villager.

I find it very hard to believe what was said ,a guy doing a neighborhood home saying that ,it just doesn’t sound right

Could well be there is more to the story.

introduce him to mr smith and mr wesson

I always love the posts where all these very macho guys always have a solution using there guns, I always picture them standing in front of a mirror wearing there extra large camouflage shirt , waving there gun around and asking the reflection in the mirror “Are You Talking To Me