My neighbour has nails poking up on his driveway.

[Nico101]

My neighbour has a motorbike that he stores in his garage.

We have a shared driveway / parking area enough for one car each.

Running a motorbike on gravel is dangerous for bikes so he has replaced it with some slabs set in sand up the center of his two tyres.

These are path slabs and not drive slabs so unsuitable for driving on.

Someone during the day reversed down the turning circle used to get to our driveway and has gone up his slabs and broken them all.

I think it was a removal lorry.

Now because of these he has replaced them and now decided an appropriate course was to put a camera facing his drive.

That's all fine with me. He can do what he wants.

My main concern as he had placed some 2-3 inch nails with the pointy end facing any unlucky person who wants to drive on his slabs.

He has 2 young children and I have a lovely little cat.

Where do i stand with this? I can't go and remove them as he will see me do this with a proximity camera he has set up.

I can't call the police as he know it will be me .

If for any reason I forget they are there then I will risk an injury or worse my cat does. Who loves to roll on the slabs on the drive.

I'm open to suggestions!

Cheers

Nico

I think what he has done is illegal. Speak to the CAB and find out if it is along the same lines as barbed wire on top of a fence.

I'd go and knock on his door and politely ask him to remove then and explain why.

If he doesn't then go to CAB as PP said.

hope he never has an ambulance need to come up his drive! I am pretty certain it would be illegal like others have said.

i think if it's a private driveway then he can do as he likes, not sure it would be illegal? although it's pretty bloody stupid

HOWEVER... I do think your first course of action should be to go and talk to him. say you understand he's annoyed about the slabs but that you;re concerned about children and cats and what about the postman? or any other delivery drivers or people on foot coming up there?

I think it is not legal as it is dangerous to people who are lawfully there, for example the postman, meter-reader, milman, window-cleaner, political canvasser, charity collector.

Don't know if it counts as a man-trap.

p.s.

if he wants to block unauthorised entry, a few large plant-pots will do the trick. Concrete ones are very sturdy. I currently have begonias and trailing fuschias in mine, in spring it will be tulips and narcissi. Some people grow useful herbs or prickly roses.

Thank you for your responses,

I have spoken to him about it and persuaded him not to do it.

Then of course next day he has put nails in the ground. It's like he has multiple personality disorder.

I think he suffers from sad little man syndrome.

Yawn.

I will talk to me other next door neighbour, he is in the p

He is in the police force. He will probably have some better reasoning.

Tell the neighbour he is in for making huge payout if someoneis injured on his property.