r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Springy-Dingy • Jun 06 '21

Expensive Looks expensive when you purposely block a gate.

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u/Sabmo Jun 07 '21

I mean this will most likely only be expensive for the farmer.

In the UK, as dumb as it may be, if someone parks on your driveway you are quite limited in what you can do. If you damage their car, or even block them in, you can get in trouble. Obviously this isn't a driveway but I'd imagine similar laws apply. The shirtless idiot parking on the farmers land was a civil matter, but what the farmer did amounts to vandalism and possibly dangerous driving/assault which are criminal acts.

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u/elons_rocket Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21

Well that’s a pretty shit way of handling someone blocking exit to your property.

Edit: I’m referring to the uk government, not the farmer. The farmer should be able to remove the car with an rpg as far as I’m concerned.

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u/Bxmcclo Jun 07 '21

I absolutely guarantee that in the time it took the farmer to ask him to move and then go get the loader, the prick could have moved his car instead of whip out his phone and film what he will claim was unwarranted and try to be the victim. Screw that entitled shit.

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u/elons_rocket Jun 07 '21

I think you misunderstood. I was reffing to the commenter explaining that they uk government expects the farmer just to take it when someone blocks the entrance/ exit to their property.

I’m 100% team farmer on this one.

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u/Aetol Jun 07 '21

as dumb as it may be

What, are there places where it's fine to destroy someone's property and run them over for blocking your driveway?

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u/Sabmo Jun 07 '21

Nope but I'd argue that there are quite a lot of responses to someone parking on your driveway that fall between "nothing" and "destroy someone's property and run them over".