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Kelly-Ann Mills

Man builds wall of scaffolding to blockade 'badly parked' car left outside warehouse

A frustrated businessman blockaded a "badly parked" car outside his warehouse by building a scaffold around it.

Colin Shaw was fed up after having to deal with cars parking in front of his building in Seaham, County Durham, for a long time, despite a clear "no parking" sign.

Seeing yet another car blocking the entrance on Tuesday was the final straw for the business owner and he set about constructing a makeshift scaffolding blockade around the vehicle to teach its owner a lesson.

The director of Seaham-based company Shaw Scaffolding Service, left a business sign for the driver to find with a list of phone numbers to discuss his parking, which he said caused him and his workers to miss out on work.

He said: "It's not the first time it's happened to my allotment where I store my materials, we have 'no parking' signs but people won't adhere to them.

"Today I went to get some materials from there to do a job, and I couldn't get in properly to get my equipment out due to somebody parking their car there, even though it was all signposted.

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