Actually .. WHBU or was he just a nastly little man?

[ProfessorPreciseaBug]

Ok some of us have car stickers in this referendum malarky .. It's just that my car stickers are 8ft by 4ft! (I have a people carrier and got someone to mount them on the roofrack).. So doing my bit I was parked up on a bridge over a dual carriageway where the message in the boards will be very visible to lots of commuters.

The bridge is not an urban clearway. It has a very wide footpath and there were only about four people come past in an hour... Until one chap comes up taking photographs. I ask him what and he says "I am sending this to the police"

I can only assume that he doesn't like the message on my car stickers and wanted to be nasty. Is this what the referrendum is bringing people to

Class 3(D) permits temporary notices or signs which are intended to advertise
any local event being held for charitable purposes, which may be religious,
educational, cultural, political, social or recreational, but not for any
commercial purpose. This permission would include an advertisement for:
● a church bazaar
● a fete for a parent-teacher association
● a sponsored marathon in aid of charity
● an amateur sports event, but not any sporting event organised for
commercial purposes.
The advertisement permitted by Class 3(D) must not exceed 0.6 of a
square metre.

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/11499/326679.pdf

maybe, 30 yards the other side of the bridge was a RTA, caused by someone glancing up at your sign.

If your sign is deemed a distraction, you could well be in do-do

Lots of people park on the pavement? Oh, that's all right, carry on then. Never mind the pedestrians, people with buggies, wheelchair users whose right of way you are blocking.

Anyway, I must be off now, I have to go and steal some stuff I want from a shop. It's ok - lots of people do it.

Will the sticker make any difference? No, it probably will not.

My neighbours have 'Leave' posters in all four of the windows that face my house. They've been there for three weeks. I'm voting 'Remain'. Their annoying posters have solidified my position if anything, because like most people, I'm a contrary little fucker!

Your car sign would have made no difference at all.

Personally I'd have thought you were a few sandwiches short of a picnic for wanting to sit parked up on a bridge in the first place. I mean, there's at least 6 million better things to do.

People who are overly zealous on either side have little effect on the general public other than to turn them off.

I bet you look like a right plonker!

Sounds stupid and probably illegal to me.

If I saw an 8ft by 4ft "sticker" on any car I would think you are a wanker, whichever side you are on.

I really, really, really hope you weren't really doing that. Twit.

You sound like a loon.

If I was undecided about voting, someone standing on a bridge next to a big sticker telling me what to do wouldn't help.

In that sense, it's a pointless exercise.

All outdoor advertisements must comply with five ‘standard conditions’.
They must:
......
● have the permission of the owner of the site on which they are displayed
(this includes the Highway Authority if the sign is to be placed on
highway land)

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/11499/326679.pdf

Did you drive there with this massive advert on your car? Because surely that would be illegal and unsafe

That's really weird. That isn't a car sticker sbd anyone can take pictures of whatever they want in public.

How is it 'doing your bit' to annoy and inconvenience pedestrians in order to display a sign to a traffic jam full of people at best indifferent to your sign, at worst dangerously distracted by it and most likely irritated by it?

We frequently drive past a lorry parked in the middle of the field emblazoned with a message about Jesus coming to save us from our sins. In the eight years I've been travelling past it, I have remained unmoved from my atheism.

I have passed several lamp posts displaying Leave or Remain posters and each time wondered what on earth the point of them is when all they display is that single word.

I do find it helpful when houses display UKIP posters in their windows as it usefully identifies where the idiots live.

As far as I can see, OP, all you have achieved is to annoy people who have to step in the road around your inconsiderately parked car. If what you have done is illegal then you deserve to be reported, whether the person reporting habitually reports badly parked cars or not. That really isn't the point.

And how much time are you wasting sitting in your car on this bridge getting in people's way?

Lighten up people. the op was trying to inject a little humour by describing it as a car sticker.

And she's already said about 4 people actually passed by her in the hour. The was no obstruction really. She was doing it for the people moving at 10mph under the bridge.
Not my cup of tea whichever way she was campaigning for but she hardly comitted the crime of the century. The grumpy man was being grumpy precisely because he was disagreeing with her or he was a jobsworth. His prerogative too. They were both being unreasonable imo.

We frequently drive past a lorry parked in the middle of the field emblazoned with a message about Jesus coming to save us from our sins. In the eight years I've been travelling past it, I have remained unmoved from my atheism.

There is one in a field near by old house. I waited years for someone to write "look busy" underneath where it says "Jesus is coming". No one ever did.

Lots of people park on pavements.
Doesn't make it legal. Or any less inconvenient to pedestrians.

After the referendum you could turn it into a giant BABY ON BOARD sign and drive round mumsnet meet up hotspots. I am looking forward to any threads on that.

I assumed the banner was a "Leave" one because the Op has said many times on these boards that she backs the "Leave" campaign.

Notbig

I read the OP a few times till I realised people were just assuming it was leave

Oh, I think with this poster we know precisely which camp she supports.

And she's already said about 4 people actually passed by her in the hour. The was no obstruction really

dowhatnow, if you had to push your buggy out into the road on a bridge over the dual carriageway because of some total idiot parked on the pavement, do you think you would consider that there was no obstruction?

Paradisecity there are no baby's on board at a mumsnet meet up!

You sound like a bit of a pillock, to be honest.

Depends what it said or depicted, if it was offensive in any way ywbu.