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  • Cannon_Fodder
    Cannon_Fodder Posts: 3,980 Forumite
    throw the cones on the pavement...
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    If they're not 'police' cones, just regular ones, phone the council's transportation department and ask 'why have you got cones out on (road name) and how long will they be there?'

    OR

    TELL the council that their workmen left some cones behind after working on (road name) and ask when they're going to collect them....
  • dboswell
    dboswell Posts: 309 Forumite
    I leave two cones out on the road infront of my dropped kerb. its probably strictly illegal but it stops households with 2 or 3 cars or one household with 5 cars (including visitors every weekend) from hogging all the space and obstructing the traffic. They should thank me.

    I digress.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    dboswell wrote: »
    I leave two cones out on the road infront of my dropped kerb. its probably strictly illegal but it stops households with 2 or 3 cars or one household with 5 cars (including visitors every weekend) from hogging all the space and obstructing the traffic. They should thank me.

    I digress.

    How dare they park their cars on a public highway. Shooting's not good enough for them.
  • QTPie
    QTPie Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    We use a cone outside our house, but it is a marked, allocated, deeded (so owned) space in a housing development on a private road.

    One of the neighbours tried this on the private road outside their front door which WASNT their allocated space (their space was round the back). They even left Snotty notes when people moved their cone and parked there... But they eventually got the message...

    QT
  • mynameisdave
    mynameisdave Posts: 1,284 Forumite
    edited 27 July 2010 at 1:13PM
    FTBFun wrote: »
    How dare they park their cars on a public highway. Shooting's not good enough for them.

    As they were doing it in front on their garden I would agree but if it is infront of a dropped kerb I assume it menas his car is on the driveway and potentially blocked in.

    If somebody is ignorant enough to block somebones driveway then I have no problem with that someone making it harder for them to park.
  • sarah_elton
    sarah_elton Posts: 2,017 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    FTBFun wrote: »
    How dare they park their cars on a public highway. Shooting's not good enough for them.

    I thought it was illegal to park in front of a dropped kerb, which is what dboswell seemed to be having trouble with...

    EDIT: Nope, google says that parking in front of a dropped kerb isn't illegal, but the Highway Code says don't do it. Some people are so rude. I would never dream of parking in front of someone's driveway and blocking them in or out!
  • Riq
    Riq Posts: 10,430 Forumite
    Someone used to leave cones out near my parent's house so purposely parked my car right outside their house to annoy them.

    I'm an awesome neighbour, but then I don't live there anymore!

    Huzzah!
    "I'm not from around here, I have my own customs"
    For confirmation: No, I'm not a 40 year old woman, I'm a 26 year old bloke!
  • princeofpounds
    princeofpounds Posts: 10,396 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Covered under the highways act. They are potentially committing a criminal offence. The police should give them a talking to and remove the cones. They may prosecute if they offend persistently.

    http://www3.hants.gov.uk/roads/highways-policy/obstructions.htm
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    FTBFun wrote: »
    How dare they park their cars on a public highway. Shooting's not good enough for them.

    ....and I've just realised what a dropped kerb is.

    Sorry for that - come to think of it is rather rude to park your cars there!
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