to ask if I can have this busstop removed?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I have spotted the perfect forever house.

It has a busstop right outside it, meaning that the great unwashed will be resting their bottoms on moi wall.

Do you think the local council would remove it if I asked naicely?

I like the spiky railings idea.... or vandal paint :)

When I lived in posho Kensington, the residents of my block of flats did exactly this. Complained to the Council that Bus Stop People were hanging around Our Entrance in the rain. It got moved.

I couldn't believe it, but maybe that's because I am a Bus Stop Person myself (and found its location very handy in bad weather; could hang around in the entrance and nip out as the bus came).

Maybe the council might move the house for you to somewhere more leafy and secluded

Why not just plant a truckload of leylandii on your side of the wall, so you can't witness the aforementioned bottoms?

My aunt used to have a bus stop inches from her front door (no front garden, doorstep on pavement)

In bad weather she would get randoms knocking on her door asking to come in for shelter until the bus came.

BTP, it's a shelter.

[sob]

With bells and frigging whistles.

And an electronic arrivals board.

Gah, gah and triple gah.

Depatures?

That sounds like a posh bus stop.

Trouble is if they relocate it down the road someone else will want it moved as its outside their house, same will happen again...and again.....and before you know it bus passengers will end up walking to their destination as the bus stop gets further away.

In fact that would solve the problem wouldn't it, as there would be no need for a bus route then?! Result!

Was worried that you wanted to buy my forever house for a moment there. Mine is on the market too - complete with bus stop, wall and idle bottoms! I quite like that though Not so keen on the bin but I guess it discourages people from chucking their rubbish over moi wall!

I like the idea of the council moving the house myself

hmm, what about some of that velcrowy carpet stuff that when sat on sticks? like what people line the tops of their fences with which takes fingers with them?

I could cement some of those oinking frogs to the wall - the motion activated ones.

And paint them lilac.

Ach, that sentence reads badly - to make myself clear - I mean movement sensors in them, not, erm, "motion" sensors.

Oh feck it, you know what I mean.

could always put those railings on top of the wall so that people can't sit on it

I heard about a grumpy bastard, who hated people sitting on his wall while waiting for buses. He took the wall down. They then started sitting on his doorstep instead.

Spiky plants in the front garden, that just happen to be right next to the wall and slightly growing over it. Pyrocanthus is one I think?

Pampas Grass?

A friend of mine had a bus stop outside his house, he went out late one night and sawed it off, smoothed over the hole with cement, took the pole into his back garden, sawed it up and buried it. That was about 5 years ago and no one seems to have noticed.

That is hilarious kara!

Pampas grass might get all sorts of unwanted guests

snort Karabadangbarake .