On Monday, 15 August 2016 01:37:54 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:27:34 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , James Wilkinson
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 22:34:17 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , James Wilkinson
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:37:03 +0100, Chris French

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"NY" Wrote in message:
"harry" wrote in message
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On Sunday, 14 August 2016 16:37:05 UTC+1, James Wilkinson wrote:
If someone parks in front of your house, simply use a large power
tool such as a brush cutter, and start sending bits of twig
flying everywhere.
The car will get moved very quickly :-)

The road in front of your house is not yours.
Anyone can park there subject to yellow lines etc.

Does that include parking across your drive so you can't get your
car in or out? I know that you can't lay claim to the road
*opposite* or *either side of* your drive.

Well, you can't lay claim to the road, but it is a parking offence
to leave a vehicle parked across a dropped kerb (introduced in the
2004 Traffic Management Act)

That's daft, it should be "across a driveway". I've seen plenty
dropped kerbs left where there is no longer a driveway, or driveways
where they haven't bothered dropping the kerb.

Which is illegal to drive across.

Yet everyone does it. There are countless drives like that around here.
It is no more dangerous to anyone to drive over one than a dropped one.

Nothing to do with danger. A dropped kerb implies that the pavement has
been strengthened where it will be driven over, to protect the services
underneath. Not the case where it's not dropped.

Yes, very obvious round here where the pavements are badly cracked where
people drive over them. Driveways aren't cracked!



That's due to trucks driving on the pavement.