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

I don't think it does depend what the notice said or depicted. On any interpretation, OP's action was stupid, and the man may well be right about it being illegal given the obstruction she was causing.

I can imagine the insurance claims already from the pile up when you distract traffic. The claim processor will look .
@ 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)

Oooh OP, you should maybe try one of them sandwich boards. And go up and down Oxford Street saying that the end of the world is nigh! Those guys get hella respect

Is this your car, OP?

pax 😂😂😂😂

fuckincuntbugger thanks - that makes more sense and I feel like a numpty for not realising

Lots of people park on pavements

Lots of people shop lift too.

Sometimes only about 4 people walk down our street in a whole morning and fuckers park on the pavement. One of those people is a woman with a buggy. Because of these insensitive prats she sometimes has to wheel out into the road to get to her own house.
It doesn't matter if it's 1 person an hour or 100, you were still blocking people from walking safely if you were parked on the pavement.
I bet you'd have whinged if someone had tried to squeeze past and scratched you car as well...

Maybe OP is currently explaining herself to the local cops. Here's hoping.

This thread is MN bingo

• it's illegal
• you were obstructing
• (my favourite) your insurance is invalidated

All from people who have no idea whether that is true. Ahhhhh, mumsnet.

I think you're quite funny OP. Not the type to give a crap about being reported to the police by way of photo. What are they going to do after the event anyway?

Buckin, you know what, parking on a pavement is illegal and an obstruction. Why do you think it might not be?

Unless there are signs permitting pavement parking. Which I guess there weren't.

It's vanishingly unlikely that there would be signs permitting pavement parking on a bridge over a dual carriageway.

I would have moved if people started coming past in such numbers as there was an obstruction. But with only four or so pedestrians and no mums with buggies there was no cause for a problem. And as I say, the traffic below the bridge was doing less than 10mph in a long queue to a junction where there is always a traffic jam in the afternoon crawl hour.

Interestingly, a traffic officer from the local parking control saw me on another bridge earlier in the day.. He told me that bridge was an urban clearway and he was authorised to issue a tick on the spot. I said I would obviously respect him doing his job professionally but I hoped he would not do so and he said he won't "because you are about to move".. so I said thank you and left straight away.

Can I say, If someone was doing the same as me but supporting the other viewpoint I would not be offended to the extent of reporting them to the police. It seemed to me that the man, in his fifties with a small beard, was a little bit smarmy in the way he came up behind, then walked to the front and only spoke when I would down the window to say hello.

You were causing an obstruction even if only one person wanted to get past.

You were acting like an idiot on a second bridge? Really? I suspect that you've single handedly pushed the Remain vote in your area up by several hundred, if not more.

Crikey, I didn't realise you were serious!

You are barking mad OP.

I don't care which side you're on. I don't even know which you're supporting.

I think you are a massive berk regardless.

in his fifties with a small beard

Oh, well in that case he was definitely unreasonable. In his fifties! With a small beard! What an evil bastard!

Was it the master.

Stop thrusting your views down people's throats op!

I'm sick to death of people thinking they have the right to thrust their opinions on the EU referendum in everyone's faces.

We all have access to the same information you driving round in your car getting in people's ways and picking up tickets won't change my vote or anyone else's so just leave people to make their own mind up.
I'll be pleased when this whole rigmarole is over.

But it doesn't matter whether it's illegal or her insurance is invalidated. The OP clearly doesn't care about that.