Locked parking thread 4 - The End

[BlueEyesWhiteDragon]

We hope!

Very much agree, curtain twitcher!

Why be so bitter that a woman could possibly have a back bone!

@ShamelessCurtainTwitcher

I love how now OPs farm dogs are now being portrayed as frothing at the mouth junkyard pit bulls.

I'm surprised that the son isn't being portrayed as some sort of valiant 'Indiana jones' figure having to some how negotiate the wicked traps and animals that the OP and family have left in place.

Those cuddly toys would have scared anyone.

But then some people will go to any lengths to protect CFs

I wonder how much the collective productivity of the female workforce has declined in the last 2 days as we're all invested in this saga?

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

but he hasn't played the "don't you know who i am card"

Does that card ever work? If their perceived importance is in how well-known they are - and the fact that they have to ask the question suggests that they aren't that well-known - surely everybody is just going to answer "Not a clue, mate" or "Clearly some sort of arrogant idiot" (or the amazing airport check-in desk assistant who instantly put an announcement on the tannoy to the effect of 'we have a gentleman here who doesn't know who he is - is there a carer in the building whose charge has gone missing?!')

What is the likelihood of the question not yielding an embarrassing and humiliating (for the would-be celeb) reply?

not to my knowledge but that doesn't stop would be slebs using it

FC are missing a trick, they should use this opportunity as a training exercise on how they would handle their access being blocked in the event they need immediate access.

@ShamelessCurtainTwitcher

I love how now OPs farm dogs are now being portrayed as frothing at the mouth junkyard pit bulls.

If they are anything like every other soft idiot wannabe junkyard pitbull I have ever owned they are now strutting around wearing "come an avago if you fink you're 'ard enuff" t shirts and feeling soooooo pleased with themselves but also secretly relieved now that all the scarey stuffed animals have gone away.

The OP said that his vehicle doesn’t inconvenience her access to the stable behind as she can drive in there and out again cross country on another track … what worries me is that he has a ranger and with a bit of satellite/maps he can work this out …. and do the same especially with a Ranger.

OP please tell me that the back access also has a locked gate …. If not park that lovely old tractor up behind him.

Settle in for the v long game - because he has no need for this vehicle and if you have lifted the curtain on his fragile narc ego …. he will be doubling down ! Reckon we will still be here at Xmas

@LakieLady

FYi these are the excuses I hear often from defendants, it would not stand up in law. Also just because the defendant had CCTV the owness is not on the driver to prove any thing, I suggest you learn how these things work before quoting me. hmm

If you're actually some sort of legal bod, I suggest you learn how to spell "onus". Spelling it "owness" makes you look a bit - well, twattish, frankly.

Merely inaccurate. The owness is definitely on the driver, whether that proves anything or not.

The only dictionary I can find with that word in it is the Urban Dictionary.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=owness

Only they are not accurate either; it ought to be "wannabe alpha male".

I can’t see how this is going to end now.

Is owness the new naice?

Sorry if this has been suggested, but you should build a wall around it. It doesn't need to be very high. It's your land, you can build a wall anywhere you like.

Sod the cost. This is a once in a lifetime event that will go down in your family history.

@AtillatheHun

Omg! It’s the former horse owner poster! She has given me so much already in teaching alternative grazing methods! Hurrah for OP.

Was that the old horse owner who was basically stalking the new horse owner and then went on to the track system grazing? I loved that thread!

@BlueEyesWhiteDragon

it is a criminal offence to clamp, tow, block-in or immobilise a vehicle without lawful authority on private land under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012

I can well believe this and honestly it's the type of stuff that gives me the rage. Where is the protection for my land, my stuff? I'm cross again now.

All the jackass had to do was any one of the following.
A) move like he said he would do originally
B) knock on the door on Sat
C) leave a note on his car with a number if he was unable to work out how to access my front door
D) collect the car on Sunday
E) not turn up when I specifically said I'd be out.
F) collect the car when I said I'd be in.

this is s54 of the Act:

54Offence of immobilising etc. vehicles
(1)A person commits an offence who, without lawful authority—
(a)immobilises a motor vehicle by the attachment to the vehicle, or a part of it, of an immobilising device, or
(b)moves, or restricts the movement of, such a vehicle by any means,intending to prevent or inhibit the removal of the vehicle by a person otherwise entitled to remove it.
(2)The express or implied consent (whether or not legally binding) of a person otherwise entitled to remove the vehicle to the immobilisation, movement or restriction concerned is not lawful authority for the purposes of subsection (1).
(3)But, where the restriction of the movement of the vehicle is by means of a fixed barrier and the barrier was present (whether or not lowered into place or otherwise restricting movement) when the vehicle was parked, any express or implied consent (whether or not legally binding) of the driver of the vehicle to the restriction is, for the purposes of subsection (1), lawful authority for the restriction.

I reckon you've got 3 ways in which this Act doesn't apply to you:

1. You're not intending to block him in. You're simply parking in the only space available to you.
2. You've told him you'll let him out if he turns up.
3. You have implied consent to close the gate.

Placemarking again!

We own a small private car park, no we cannot clamp but we can put up the barrier and lock them in. Registered holders have a key to lower the barrier.

We have resorted to this in the tourist season

Surely CF needs use of his vehicle?
At some point, he will need to come get it & obviously he will need to arrange this with you, & only you.

I can only imagine the tangled yarns he is weaving for those around him about the disappearance of the vehicles.

How long ‘til this saga appears in DM?

Ahh I remember the track grazing thread! I have a pony on someone else's land and I would love to implement it! little fatpants would be much slimmer (she says, glancing down at her stretchy lockdown leggings)
OP thanks for the threads

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Someone's started a thread about a tank parked on their drive insinuating this is all made up

I didn't see it that way at all - I thought it was just that, following the Ranger left on OP's farm and then the caravan left on another person's drive, somebody took it 'ad absurdum' for comedy effect - not to cast doubt on the veracity of the other stories (well, at least this one - I currently have the caravan one on hold, so I can't speak for it myself!)

Maybe not the Op but some posters definitely are.

What are the rules about abandoned vehicles being removed?

Does they apply to vehicles abandoned on private land?

Do the principles around getting unwanted goods picked up apply in this case, say if you give him notice to remove within x days otherwise the goods became lawfully yours?

Imagine the CPF failing to get the car started and having to call out his rescue service or ask if OP has jump leads and will help...

He would have to be polite, so probably not going to happen.

@UniversalAunt

Surely CF needs use of his vehicle? At some point, he will need to come get it & obviously he will need to arrange this with you, & only you.

I can only imagine the tangled yarns he is weaving for those around him about the disappearance of the vehicles.

How long ‘til this saga appears in DM?

It's his weekend poser. Lots of folks around here have the sensible car, the convertible and the 4x4. The third less used just now

FORD RANGER
Let Nothing Stand In Your Way

Oh the irony 😂

Place marking as I cannot believe this CF business is still going on!

Love the tag line! 😂

He must have at least one other vehicle, the way he refers to the ‘ranger’ instead of ‘my car’.

We do that when referring to one of our 2 cars when talking to each other. But not with other people, it’s just oh I parked my car over there for eg. But to DH it might be, I’m taking the Renault, so are you ok with the Mini?

I don’t think he’ll be back in touch again for a while, he doesn’t need it, just wants it at some convenient to him point in the future.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
but he hasn't played the "don't you know who i am card"
Does that card ever work? If their perceived importance is in how well-known they are - and the fact that they have to ask the question suggests that they aren't that well-known

My experience of genuinely well-known people (in the Mick Jagger range of well-known, say) indicates that mostly, they would very much rather not be recognised but allowed to go about their day undisturbed. Living where we did, I met a few imagine the embarrassed teenager wishing the ground would open up and swallow them when their mum tears someone off a strip for riding his bicycle on a footpath and running into her, and I knew he is Paul McCartney and they never pulled that card even if it might have got them out of a fix, let alone just for swank.