to remove the disabled parking signs?

[DaisyBD]

I live in a small rural town and our road has no pavements and road markings. Someone has moved into a house near the end of the road that has a wide frontage with a small wall. They also have a drive with space for three cars. Many of the people in the road don’t have off-road parking, so park pretty much anywhere there’s space, including in front of this house.

The new owners have put up disabled-only parking signs along their front wall, which has stopped most people parking there. We don’t need the space but occasionally our visitors do. I have seen the new neighbours but not talked to them – we live up the road a bit so they’re not close neighbours or anything – and although I can’t see any signs of disability, I know many disabilities are invisible.

However, they have loads of space on their own drive! I think they’ve put the signs up just to stop people parking outside their house. The signs are just the ones you can buy online, there’s no council disabled white line on the road or anything.

I feel they are being selfish and hogging the road, which they don’t own. WIBU to sneak over under cover of darkness with a screwdriver and remove the signs? Obviously they’ll hate me forever if they catch me, and I don’t want to spark a feud. But it just seems a bit cheeky and I want to be cheeky back. (DH thinks I’m insane, obv.)

I'd suggest removing the signs under the cover of darkness, and actually disposing of them - the neighbours will hopefully soon get bored with having to buy new signs all the time!

Dubious legality though...

I'd suggest removing the signs under the cover of darkness, and actually disposing of them

That's stealing though innit - I want to maintain the moral high ground. Although my BIL thinks that the neighbours have watched us do all of it - 'look, geoffrey, that fucking insane woman from round the corner's here again, pretending to take photos of her dog'.

That's stealing though innit

Maybe, but they're effectively stealing the parking in front of their house... OK so two wrongs don't make a right... but sometimes needs must

the 'uninterrupted use' is referring to the local residents as 'public'.
How many people are there in your street/block?
How many use the shortcut?

You don't need 'evidence' as such
All you need to do is get signatures from a couple of neighbours who are pissed off about that too and you can have the access back.
How long have you lived there and had access?
How long did the previous owner of the house live there?

You've got all the 'evidence' you need to sort out arsey meighbour tactics.

Well it is nearly Christmas, the time of merriment and joy. Drunk people do all kinds of odd things, including taking random signs.