To think my neighbour shouldn't be using "Police Slow" signs for his own use?

[Pantone363]

EVERYTIME it rains. We like on a straight country road with a wide bend (60 mph limit)

His house is on the corner and EVERYTIME it rains he gets water on the sides of the road, when people drive down the road his car/fence get splashed.

He's taken to putting two of those "POLICE SLOW" signs at either end of the bend so his car/fence don't get splashed with muddy water.

It (probably unreasonably) sets my teeth on edge EVERYTIME I see them. Not to mention it gets bloody annoying having people ask "ooo what's happened down the lane?"

So AIBU or can I call 101 to report nefarious use of police property (should add he is our local councillor )

My autocorrect has capitalised the EVERYTIME!

Call 101 and tell them - i can't imagine they'll be too impressed by official signs being misused like this.

Where did he get the signs from? Ask the police to collect them back if they belong to them - or bring you a set as well, perhaps?

It would annoy me too.

Are those signs only given at the scene of an accident?

Then YANBU.

If the police use them to slow traffic that you are

I want one for my road. I'd only use it if it were legal!

*then you are

Can't you, ah, acquire them when they've been left carelessly about and return them to the police, like a good citizen?

Can you pinch them when he is not around? I so would! What a strange person.

It's the bloody smugness of the man that annoys me, I want to put my own signs out saying "NO POLICE HERE, SPLASH AWAY"

I could pinch them! He has sandbags to weigh them down too...

Call 101 and tell them somebody has stolen their signs and put them up outside the councillors house...

but maybe he has asked the police to supply them ?

I can see the benefits of having an obvious warning - wet and potentially slippy 60mph road with a bend - or is it just me ?

Wow, that's a step up from our neighbours using traffic cones to reserve 'their' parking spaces!

How did he acquire the sign, if not by theft?

The police will be very unimpressed with his actions.

I asked him where he got them..he tapped his nose

Though maybe ask the police if they gave him the signs and if you can have some too. It's possible this is some weird preferential treatment thing.

hormonal no,I agree.

Sounds like a good spot for them.

Take them and drop them at a Police station far, far away!

Honestly, this sounds like the sort of very low-level entitlement or corruption that gets politicians a bad name. I really would be writing to the police, asking what the arrangement is and who else can take part in the scheme.

I asked him where he got them..he tapped his nose

He may have a friend in the service, or he may have purloined them - who knows.

Just read back, so he's a local councillor - quite likely he knows someone in the service then.

Do you know his reason for using them is to stop his fence getting splashed? It sounds like a useful reminder to drivers to take car on a slippery bend on a NSL road (even though you'd hope all drivers would be up to a standard where they could work it out for themselves). Maybe it's more that he doesn't want someone smashing their car through his fence.

Is he worried about people aquaplaning, on the surface water, he could ask for a water warning sign.

I would speak to highways (suggest he does also), as there shouldn't be surface water, sounds like the camber of the road is wrong, or the drainage needs sorting out.

Suggest he colour matches the mud, and paints the fence the same colour.

but next time he puts the signs out phone 101 and ask when they are coming to pick up their signs.

If he's genuinely concerned about the speed of vehicles travelling round the bend, why doesn't he campaign for a lower speed limit? There are several dodgy bends round my way where the limit slows to 40 before going back up to 60. However these have all had fatal accidents and I don't think a couple of 'police slow' signs would have made a difference.

Involve the local press?

Take photos as evidence before you ring 101.

YY to local press. They love a rogue councilor story!

Also the paper will phone the council (I used to work for council press office) for a statement.

God that would annoy me pm me where you live and l will drive past at high speed and drench the smug bastard