Has anyone considered that the bloke may actually have permission to park there/own the land and has found that other people were freeloading so has taken to locking the gate to avoid the problem?
and OscillateWildly – have a word with yourself. There’s a lot of parents who have children with special needs that have a motability car and a lot of people who don’t appear to have special needs that do as well. That ‘tutting’ thing above resonates – a bloke in Sainsburys end up shouting at a 10 year old boy, a teacher and a teaching assistant from my Wife’s school when they went into the disabled toilets “he walked in there why can’t he use the proper toilets!”. He wound himself up so much some of the staff called security. What the staff couldn’t tell him was that the boy is incontinent (amongst other things) and wears pads.