Southampton residents just discovered that the real luxury item of 2025 isn’t a Tesla, a holiday abroad, or even a second-hand boiler—it’s the radical privilege of parking on your own bloody driveway. Labour’s council has threatened fines up to £1,000 if you dare to slightly mount the kerb when entering your own property. Yes, that little hop over the pavement—the same one milk floats, Amazon vans, and every Deliveroo driver does ten times a day—is now apparently a criminal-level offence.
🏠 “Your Driveway, Our Rules”
So let’s get this straight: councils plead poverty, can’t fix potholes, and mysteriously lose half the bins they promised to empty… but they can mobilize faster than a speed camera on steroids if you dare scrape a tyre across their sacred kerbstone. Suddenly, you’re Public Enemy No.1, a fugitive on the run from the Department of Pavement Integrity.
This is less about health and safety, and more about council coffers. Forget traffic wardens patrolling double yellows—soon we’ll have “kerb patrols” in hi-vis, crouched in bushes, snapping pics of residents rolling into their own drives like wildlife photographers hunting the elusive Lesser-Spotted Ford Fiesta. 🦊📸
And the punchline? You’re paying council tax for the pavement they now weaponize against you. They won’t repair it when it cracks, but by God, they’ll slap you with a fine for breathing too close to it.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
How do you even parody this without it sounding like an episode of Black Mirror? Is your driveway now a financial booby trap? Would you risk a £1,000 fine for the crime of owning a kerb? Drop your angriest, funniest, or most absurd takes in the blog comments. 💬🔥
👇 Slam that comment, smash the like, share with a neighbour about to remortgage their house just to park outside it.
The best rants and roasts will be featured in the magazine. 🎯📝
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