And finally… rocky road

And finally... rocky road

A man who has a large rock at the end of his driveway to stop people using his drive to turn their cars around has defended his actions.

Motorists who have used Mark Coultous’ driveway to turn around lately have bashed into a big rock with ‘NHS’ written on it in paint.

To show how easy to see the rock is, Mark has set up a camera called ‘Rockcam’ to capture people crashing into it.

In a video on his @RockCamTok TikTok page, he took his followers for a walk around the rock, showing it off from all available angles on his street.



He said: “As you can see, we’ve got all of this [panning around the street] turning space.

“We’ve got all this turning space, so let’s just have a look.

“As you can see, if I’m coming up this road in a car - can you see this rock?

“I can see it.



“Look at all this road.

“I mean, it’s [the rock is] even nice enough to have a bit of a slam, you know.

“Instead of just crunching the cars, it’s got a nice bit of a slam.”

In his defence, there is a lot of room on the street, so the rock should be avoidable.



It’s hard not to believe that there’s a large part of this about him not wanting people turning around on his driveway, though.

In another video, Mark explained his reasoning behind the rock: “People seem to think it’s okay to drive 1.5m over a pavement and onto the drive and seem to say that it’s been done maliciously.

“It was put there for the NHS during Covid. Happy clappy times - the kids did it. Kids did it all over the country.

“It’s been left there ever since because it’s serving a purpose. So yeah, it’s staying there.



“We did realise it was actually serving a purpose when we saw cars hit it. Not many hit it. Most cars don’t.

“In fact most cars now are actually more cautious when they come up the street.

“There’s only one or two that hit it.

“It’s not my problem. I’m not moving that rock because someone can’t see and hits it.

“I can see it, everyone else can see it that comes up the street as you’ll see on the live camera views. Everybody else sees that rock.

“So yeah, people can’t sue me for that. I didn’t think they could.”

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