If you think this is harsh I got towed off the driveway in front of my detached garage once.
Lets see if this works: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=kingsdown+bristol&ll=51.460925,-2.599922&spn=0,0.00066&gl=uk&t=h&z=21&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=51.460925,-2.599922&panoid=uzLdyemj1kedoP8dmcbAbg&cbp=12,186.78,,0,20.28
I had lived their for 1.5 years (at Uni) and many a time had been parking there when traffic wardens parked opposite to check cars in the 1hr bay. One day they sent 3 tow trucks and took away my car and 4 others belonging to elderly neighbours who had all been parking their short cars (Micras, Fiats etc)there for years. A friend watched out of the vet school window and saw an old lady standing in the road trying to stop the tow truck.
£180 each to get our cars back + a taxi ride for the elderly people.
Would have been nice for the council to have posted notices saying that parking was not allowed and giving us X days to move them. Wish I had fought it to be honest but they charged about £20 a day for storage and if you try and fight it afterwards they scare you with the threat of court costs etc. Hell, even a ticket would have been nicer than being towed.
PS I knew about the double yellow lines and pavement law but when we checked the land registry maps they had the spaces in front of the garages down as parking.
