Cautioned by the Council Rangers

[AC]

Well i had a visit from two grubby looking Council Rangers this afternoon.
Not exactly clean and presentable as you'd think.

They issued me a formal caution for parking in front of my house.

The commonly known "nature strip". And yes, I know your not supposed to.
Apparently if they come past again they'll issue me with a fine for parking there.
They said i have either park on the street, or park in the driveway or within my own fence line.

The last i heard of them enforcing this is when Sydney 2000 was in full swing.

As far as im concerned, I mow it, I should be able to park there.
But obviously there is some sort of council law which i cannot find that prohibits this.
And being Rangers(Special Constables), I guess they have the power enforce and to issue a fine.

I wouldn't have thought it to be enforced in my tiny tucked away community in the lower blue mountains.

I guess my only recourse is to no longer mow the nature strip....
They can mow it if they value it so much.

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Also...

The last time i heard of someone getting fined for it, the guy sued the council for 20years of lawn mowing on the nature strip, which totaled in the THOUSANDS of $$$$$, His council were quick to settle and withdraw the fine.

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[Laminge]

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

[AC]

Originally Posted by Laminge

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

LOL, Yeah. And get my chucky doll out swinging a 2X4 :P


Just having thought about it some more.
I can only assume... And i mean assume.

That maybe one of my lovely neighbors might have complained about the exhaust from the XC and made a start by sneakily setting the Rangers onto me. 70's muscle cars aren't for everyone, specially as i some times drive it to work at 5am in the morning.
Although, I've been here for over 2 years now, I thought if there was a complaint that i should have had the police, RTA or the EPA on my door step by now.

Maybe i should get the jug on the boil... LOL

[alstar5]

Originally Posted by Laminge

I would have warned the bastards they are trespassing on private property and ask them to leave oh so politely!

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

[blk_frmnt]

Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

Oh gimme a break... The guy who parked the car is responsible for the jogger getting run over? If the jogger can't see the road, he should slow down and look before he crosses, the guy who parked the car shouldn't have to anticipate every conceivable circumstance that might arrise from his parking on the nature strip!

From reading this thread, if I had a nature strip at my place, I'd be parking on it 24/7 just out of spite. What a load of rubbish. I think we should also ban all fires in fireplaces. Think of the birds that could become disoriented in the smoke and crash into telephone poles...

[alstar5]

Originally Posted by blk_frmnt

Oh gimme a break... The guy who parked the car is responsible for the jogger getting run over?

If the vehicle is parked illegally, yep. :

[blk_frmnt]

Originally Posted by alstar5

If the vehicle is parked illegally, yep. :

We're not talking about parking your car in the middle of a 110kph highway here...it's parked off the road, on the grass. If some idiot jogger runs past the car without pausing to look for oncoming cars and gets creamed...he got was coming to him.

[Laminge]

Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

Your not the same bloke that tried that with me in Mt Dandenong are you? I gave 3 warnings, after the 3rd I reserved my right to protect my property and removed you myself.

Not my fault you disturbed my afternoon viewing of Cops and Road Wars.

The fine was well worth the look of terror on your face, or was that your jocks riding half way up your back?

It is a small world... hahaha

[GTPete]

Dont you have more important things to do like catching stray dogs.
Ranger danger lol.....

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by Laminge

Your not the same bloke that tried that with me in Mt Dandenong are you? I gave 3 warnings, after the 3rd I reserved my right to protect my property and removed you myself.

Not my fault you disturbed my afternoon viewing of Cops and Road Wars.

The fine was well worth the look of terror on your face, or was that your jocks riding half way up your back?

It is a small world... hahaha

did the ranger look like this Gary?

[rodderz]

Originally Posted by alstar5

And I would have booked you on the spot then and there. The warning was a courtesy. Have a thought for the child, elderly person or even the jogger wearing an ipod who dashes out onto the road because the nature strip is blocked and gets run over by a car.

I'm not having a go at you, I'm just reminding everyone that most laws are put in place for a reason.

I would call that irresposible on the pedestrians behalf on using an Ipod or walkman when planning on crossing a road used by cars, thats just as dangerous as a driver using it, which is illegal.

Not only that but most nature strips have bushy trees and shrubs which block views also, lift up concrete paths and invade pipeworks.

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

[blk_frmnt]

Originally Posted by rodderz

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

This is what alstar5 doesn't understand, and probably never will. Let him be safe and happy drowning in endless ridiculous legislation.

/my contribution to this thread.

[4Vman]

Originally Posted by rodderz

The laws these days seem to cater for the idiots who have no responsibilities or their actions. Drivers need too watch for pedestrians but pedestrians need to watch for cars too

Welcome to the world we now live in, where over litigious zealots will race off to their solicitor at the slightest hint of "someone's doin me wrong"..
Where said zealots are pushing public liability insurance premiums through the roof, and clogging up our courts for years with boundry and fence disputes and trip and slip cases...
Where laws are introduced to protect the stupid (and ethically/morally corrupt) from themselves.. and councils and the authorities spend more time protecting their butts (and enforcing rediculous naturestrip laws) from being sued than doing constructive management..

[Bent8]

This is what happens when the Govt get's too big, it get's greedy when it should remain small and serve/protect the people instead of it's corporate interests...

[onfire]

Im glad our resources are going into something so worth while.. my gawd, someone think of the nature strip.

[kyro_02]

my brother was warned that he(cop) could fine him, but he was there for a different matter. my bro was fined by a cop for a defected car /an defecting it, (more the the story, but thats all you need to hear lol)... apparently if a kid steps out to cross the road.. others may not see the kid(s) and could get hit?

we still park on the nature strip.

[AC]

Originally Posted by kyro_02

apparently if a kid steps out to cross the road.. others may not see the kid(s) and could get hit?

My nature strip has enough width to park two cars side by side and to open doors.

Go to whereis and look up Glossodia NSW.

I dont exactly live in the thick of the suburbs.
Curb and guttering only applies to the main road and a few streets that run off it, We dont have town sewerage, only pump out or envirocycle. And the town water stops outside of my small town. After that your on rain water tanks or bore water only.

As you'll see, very rural and away from the suburbian ant farms.
Where this petty Reg really shouldnt apply, But does.

[Van D]

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

[Psi-Pop]

Originally Posted by Van D

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

This only applies if they are VK/VN or XF/EA

[T-BOOST]

Originally Posted by Van D

I've got 3 cars on ours, sister has one too, lol. Mum always says it makes us look like a scummy a Frankston family.

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??

[Van D]

Originally Posted by T-BOOST

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??

It's a joke mate :P

But hey, the yarra valley does have a lot of class, apparently.. And i've got million dollar houses just down the road!

[Sourbastard]

Originally Posted by Van D

It's a joke mate :P

But hey, the yarra valley does have a lot of class, apparently.. And i've got million dollar houses just down the road!

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

[Van D]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

Oh?

*takes house off market*

[blk_frmnt]

Originally Posted by T-BOOST

Hey not all of frankston is scumy thank you very much!
It's only a very small part, 'the north'.

I hate hearing this. Not half a km away from the CBD of Frankston there are multi million doller houses and lots of them. You'll have trouble finding a house in the south for under half a million.
When Tom Cruise and Nicole were together they were looking for a house to buy on olivers hill (1km from the centre of Frankston)

We were voted the best town in the world 4 years ago (i think it was the same year melbourne was voted the best city in the world)
Has your area had this type of recognition??

It's okay in Frankston, don't be insecure. j/k.

Originally Posted by sourbastard

$700,000 worth of cocaine inside a $300,000 house does not equal a million dollar house.

and LOL.

[jason71]

Just politely remind them of how much they owe you for maintaining it!

We had an extension done recently and the council wanted as to put fire proof
sarcing in the roof as we backed onto a reserve.

Funny thing is they do not maintian the fire strip.

I now get onto the fire brigade when the grass gets six inches long telling them that there is a fire risk as the council have not maintained the fire strip.

[Yellow_Festiva]

This issue is a funny one actually,

What about those new suburbs where they put in that curved curb, the one that actually invites you to mount the gutter and park your car on the nature strip, or half of it at least?

[Sourbastard]

delcare independance, annex the nature strip citing that you need breathing room.

[Nostalgia]

Originally Posted by sourbastard

delcare independance, annex the nature strip citing that you need breathing room.

Thats great. Honestly though, id tell em to Get Stuffed.

[prydey]

stop mowing it! then every week or two ring the council and tell them to come and mow the nature strip. prolly wouldn't gain anything but it would annoy them.

[LUXO_8]

^^^ bloody funny