Exasperated!
Neighbours eh! Have to say that most of the neighbours are lovely folks, took the new parking scheme pretty well (we pay a yearly fee for our Private Road to be patrolled and any vehicle without a permit is clamped and/or towed away), are major curtain twitchers so no worries about burglars and say Hi to each other.
Well that is except for the ones on the corner... they've now decided to stand the wheelie bins, provided by the Council, on the footpath along with non-council rubbish bags! What happens if one of the kids is playing on the road (football mad around here) and a car comes hooning round the corner as they invariably do. They can't jump on the footpath as it's covered in wheelie bins (four of them may I add) and numerous bags of rubbish, so I guess it's squished kid!
I've left a polite note on the bins advising of this fact, hopefully they'll take heed, if not then perhaps reminding them that it is a private road (they're property actually backs onto it) and the bins could be passed as trespassing may suffice, if not I may just have to get one of those ASBO thingies for the bins instead!!
PS: for those non-UK readers an ASBO is an Anti Social Behaviour Order: any activity that "causes or is likely to have caused harassment or alarm or distress" to someone else who is not of your household.
For example: one lady has been banned from answering her door in her underwear, and a sheep named Colin was threatened with one for eating flowers in a cemetry - in fact it turned out to be wild deer!
Well that is except for the ones on the corner... they've now decided to stand the wheelie bins, provided by the Council, on the footpath along with non-council rubbish bags! What happens if one of the kids is playing on the road (football mad around here) and a car comes hooning round the corner as they invariably do. They can't jump on the footpath as it's covered in wheelie bins (four of them may I add) and numerous bags of rubbish, so I guess it's squished kid!
I've left a polite note on the bins advising of this fact, hopefully they'll take heed, if not then perhaps reminding them that it is a private road (they're property actually backs onto it) and the bins could be passed as trespassing may suffice, if not I may just have to get one of those ASBO thingies for the bins instead!!
PS: for those non-UK readers an ASBO is an Anti Social Behaviour Order: any activity that "causes or is likely to have caused harassment or alarm or distress" to someone else who is not of your household.
For example: one lady has been banned from answering her door in her underwear, and a sheep named Colin was threatened with one for eating flowers in a cemetry - in fact it turned out to be wild deer!
posted by Tresi at 4:55 pm
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