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Can anyone advise me whether the following is legal? A neighbour has two cars. One is parked on his drive. The second is parked on the road directly outside his property. When the second car is not there a traffic cone is put in its place thereby ensuring that no-one else can use this stretch of road to park. The council have been extraordinarily unhelpful and told me to ask the police. Ridiculous as this is clearly NOT a police matter. Can anyone help?
if the drive way does not have a dropped kerb then you can park there and block him in, personally i like to buy knackered cars for scrap price, and then leave them taxed for a year in front these people's driveways. Secondly he has no right whatsoever to place a cone on the road, you can move it and park no problems.

1.Take the cone and wrap it in priest-sock black crepe paper.

2. If you're not actually a crone yourself, obtain one.

3. Ensure crone is familiar with the work of the Brothers Grimm, Aleister Crowley and has some knowledge of rudimentary incantations. Evil ones of some sort.

4. Insert crone's head into cone.

5. Install crone onto neighbour's drive.

6. She should 'arthritis' her fingers, narrow her eyes and mutter vague incantations. All the while interspersed with cackling and raving. I'd let her conduct her own business here. Think 'improv'.

7. Sit back and watch while neighbour initially blusters at crone, then becomes fearful, then scared, then terrified, sells up and moves to Swindon.

8. Smile, sit back, pick up the phone and get a lifetime subscription to Witch magazine.

Oh come on you lot....never have I seen such trite and mediocre solutions to such a blatant form of 'in your face' middle class pettiness.


Now I can see why so many of you would see the cone in question as a means to sodomize the offender with such as Ratty explained but in future you should display more imagination when exacting revenge against your neighbour.


If I were in rubyroo's shoes I'd somehow restrain the enemy and use the traffic cone as a funnel to pour petrol down the guys throat and throw a match down there whilst I made his children watch as he went up in flames.


Simple when you think about it.

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> Actually now I think about it, BBW's solution is

> probably simpler and quicker.

> What with petrol being more likely to be readily

> available than crepe paper.

> And since botox you don't see crones around the

> way you used to, do you?


Thank you Hona. This is testiment that great minds certainly think alike.

Keef


word to the wise mate


Seriously tho, why would anyone have a problem with this - if he has a need to move the car in the driveway and his second car is parked in front, problem solved. If it's someone else parked out front what do people who think he should do?


And people think I'M anti-driver - sheesh

The OP said the cone is placed on the road outside his property, not in front of his drive. So, my understanding was that the neighbour puts one car on the driveway (which I'm assuming has a dropped kerb so no-one is allowed to park in front of it) and uses the cone to save a whole different space for the second car. Which seems unfair and annoying.

If I've misunderstood and the cone is in front of the driveway to remind people not to block the first car in, that's different.

ahhh I see - I read it differently


That being the case then, just park away. What's the worst that can happen? A cone isn't exactly legally binding is it?


But AFN's post suggested it was a driveway-related double parkage.



As well as displaying (yet again) his value to the progression of the human species. Ahem

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