On Fri, 9 May 2008 10:26:42 -0700 (PDT), FoggyTown
wrote:
>In a village near me there is an office building with a large car park
>behind it. Running alongside the building is a paved, two-laned
>access way to the car park. People not associated with the offices
>are always parking on the access way. The suspicion is that the
>office building does not own the access - only uses it. One night
>double yellow lines suddenly appeared running down each side of the
>access. And these signs appeared
>
>http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l317/foggytown/sign.jpg
>
>My reaction is . . . yeah, who do you think you're fooling? They have
>said everything possible to deter someone from parking on that road
>without actually saying "This is private property/our road and we
>don't want you parking on it." This tends to confirm that the
>building doesn't have any control over or legal claim to the access
>way and they are using scare tactics to keep people off.
>
>Leaving the question of ownership aside, would there be any way of
>enforcing any penalty that was levied per the terms of this sign?
What bright legal spark dreamt up this "you agree to pay" fiction
(much used by clampers and other legally-sanctioned scamsters)?
I fail to see how the presence of a notice, even if it is actually
read by anyone, can constitute an "agreement" to anything. |