herald article again > not well written balanced i think not.

[eldog]

There is an intersection in Cromwell (I lived there for a few years) where a car went through a give way ... narrowly missing another car, but went though a fence and took the corner of his house off.

He built a reinforced concrete post type fence ... and a few months later a car drove into it. The fence survived unscathed ...

there is another in Otara, a mate of mine was sick of late night drunks crashing into his fence/house. Reinforced fence with some steel offcuts.
cars bounced off fence after dat.

I had a and a neighbour who kept cutting across my drive/lawn to get to his place.
chucked a 250+kg rock on my side of boundary, sorted the one out later that night.
the rock didn’t move......

[jasonu]

Let's not forget the iwi.

I'm doing my best to do just that.

[russd7]

had a neighbor who's letter box kept getting targeted (Rural) and bowled over, knew who was doing it but couldn't prove it so he put a big paice of concrete in the ground with a piece of railway iron for the post, council made him take it out because it might do some serious damage if a vehicle hit it, kinda thought that was the point

[pritch]

its not even his land

Sorry dude gotta disagree. Whoever is responsible has done nothing, so he came up with his own solution. He should not have had to, but TPTB were missing in action. The fact that lemmings are still crashing there shows he was right to do something.

Better the congenital idiots write themselves, or their cars, off than that they torpedo his house and take an innocent life.

[WALRUS]

I just checked out the corner/fence in question in Google Street View...

I don't see how someone could stack it on this corner.. Like.. How??

Even if you were hooning around it in your mad, black Honda Teggy, I don't see how you could fuck it up that much?

[EJK]

I just checked out the corner/fence in question in Google Street View...

I don't see how someone could stack it on this corner.. Like.. How??

Even if you were hooning around it in your mad, black Honda Teggy, I don't see how you could fuck it up that much?

That's what happens when vtec kicks in... Yo.

[BMWST?]

i used to live just down the road from this place.Its a sweeping corner.They must be absolutely flying round there to lose it.There is a school just back down the road a bit too.I see some speeds bumps coming

[jellywrestler]

i used to live just down the road from this place.Its a sweeping corner.They must be absolutely flying round there to lose it.There is a school just back down the road a bit too.I see some speeds bumps coming

have you googled the thing from the air, it's not far off 90 degrees, the school empties out onto another street half a mile away

[pete376403]

Thats funny. Waddington Drive starts of as "lower socioeconomic" (ex state house, decile 1 type area) but towards the southern end (NaeNae road) turns into a hoity toity snob city mcmansions residential zone. If the corner in question was the next corner towards the better end the council would be right on top of putting up "traffic calming / resident protection" measures.

[eldog]

Anywhere near Cannons Creek?

I grew up in an area bordering a similar zone

[Grumph]

6 its not even his land there on . athought i mow the shit out are verge.
its techncally not my job. who cares it looks nice so i do it.

He's responsible for the upkeep of his verge - as are most property owners in NZ.

He's simply keeping cars off it in a little more emphatic fashion than posts and a bit of string...

[FJRider]

its not even his land there on . athought i mow the shit out are verge.
its techncally not my job. who cares it looks nice so i do it.

It may be council property ... but it IS (in the Council bylaws) ... the adjacent property owners RESPONSIBILITY to maintain it.


Give the guy a break ... he was just taking care of the grass ...

[BMWST?]

have you googled the thing from the air, it's not far off 90 degrees, the school empties out onto another street half a mile away

it empties onto waddington drive and wheatley street.Its a 50 k zone and its a sweeping bend.I have traversed it many many times on several diffferent bikes and cars,note the school to the left,the house in question is in the right background

[jellywrestler]

it empties onto waddington drive and wheatley street.Its a 50 k zone and its a sweeping bend.I have traversed it many many times on several diffferent bikes and cars,note the school to the left,the house in question is in the right background

oops, when i looked at the house the school was over the back fence and i was sure it emptied the other way

[actungbaby]

He's responsible for the upkeep of his verge - as are most property owners in NZ.

He's simply keeping cars off it in a little more emphatic fashion than posts and a bit of string...

Yes true that ;-) yeah admit i take alot pride in mine i even mow the guys over the road. esp when been wet weather as he uses a push mower.

Guy next door saw me mowing his and i wasint looking for anything offered me 20 bucks . ever two months its only small as i thought why. not i was going do for free anyways. am not sure i should put 2 tonne block on though.

keep telecom from digging them up. i surpose chould upload videos to his new youtube channel . of councill spiting tacks over it . that be fun.