Evening all,
A few years back there was a local grazier taken to court (yup, up before the beak) for grading the gravel road that he lived on because the council was behind in its gravel roads program due wet weather and his road was becoming quite rugged. He apparently took too much material off and it cost them to cart in the material to repair it. The back story is that he had moved in from another district where they had welcomed his efforts!
It cost the council more in legal costs than it cost to repair the road! A simple 'thanks for trying to help but what's happened is that you've........but thanks for trying.....' would have been a far more civilised was of dealing with the thing.
That said our council is well known for being agresssive and not very rate- payer friendly.
Cheers,
