• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    we have issues in the UK with something like this. if you pay road tax you can park anywhere that isn’t parking controlled, including outside peoples houses (so long as you’re not restricting their access to the highway). some homeowners started putting traffic cones out to “reserve” the spot outside their homes (you cant legally do this btw).

    People would just push them out of the way with their cars so homeowners started filling them with concrete.

    Putting one of those in the road absolutely can and does get you in trouble

    • Mesophar@pawb.social
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      3 days ago

      Doesn’t it depend where the obstacle is, though? I’m assuming these are cars parking on the road, or at least a shoulder or driveway. If the cars are pulling up onto a front lawn and parking under the kitchen window of a house, that’s entirely different. I’m pretty sure filling a traffic cone with concrete and placing it in a path a car is expected to drive on is going to get you in trouble anywhere. I doubt building a snowman with a stump or concrete core in the middle of a lawn on private property would get you in trouble in most places.

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        2 days ago

        It would be illegal for others to park if it was actually on the property people want to own the public road next to their property

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, so if a snowman was built on their lawn, on their property, and not on the street, and that snowman happened to have a solid core, whoever built the snowman should not be liable for any damages