Highway Robbery, ORP Ad.
The Outdoor Recreation Party (ORP) has just released a new ad featuring one of the serious issues of out times, the use of road rules for revenue raising. I have touched on this in a previous post, but this comes from NSW.
The ORP have a great deal in common with the LDP as with the growing influence of the Greens and other zealots such as the gun control freaks, the Liberals and Labor Parties stage a competition each electoral cycle to restrict our access to much of what we traditionally regard as recreational areas. As result many healthy activities such as hunting, fishing, horse riding, four wheel driving, and so on are either being restricted or denied access to many areas.
You are not even allowed to take your dog for a run in many places. These guys are worth supporting if you value what freedoms you have left.
No parking
I’ve found out that in NSW a vehicle parked on private land can not be legally wheel clamped, impounded or towed away except by the police. This is really quite annoying as the police are generally reluctant to act in such circumstances and the land owner is left with few practical options to deter such behaviour.
http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/Files/Information/vehicle.pdf
Perhaps towing companies were in the past being a bit too zealous in terms of the conditions for the release of impounded or wheel clamped vehicles. However these restrictions don’t seem to get the balance right either. If somebody parks their car on your private land and it is clear from signs or other indicators that the land is private then there should be a legal, timely private means of dealing with the offending vehicle.
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