Fwd: [bikeqld] Hilton owns the footpath too!

[Mick Fanning]

Mick Fanning

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> From: Mick Fanning <cameraperson at bigpond.com>
> Date: 25 March 2009 17:31:16
> To: "matt at people.net.au" <matt at people.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [bikeqld] Hilton owns the footpath too!
>

> A few years ago the shopping centres were wheel clamping cars that  
> were overstaying their welcome. The courts decided that this was  
> interfering with private property so they had to stop. I would guess  
> that cutting a bike lock in this circumstance would also be  
> interfering with private property.
>
> Mick Fanning
>
> On 25/03/2009, at 13:21, Matt <matt at people.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, as of 1:05pm today, it became evident that the Hilton Hotel  
>> owns the section of footpath that runs past their dingey dump on  
>> Elizabeth St in the city (Brisbane).
>>
>> Someone on a not-inexpensive MTB had chained their bike up to one  
>> of the poles out the front (ie: on the taxpayer side of the  
>> property) and someone has left a nasty note on it: (paraphrasing)  
>> "This is not a bike parking spot. It is a hotel flagpole. DO NOT  
>> leave it here again or it will be cut off and removed!!!"
>>
>> I couldn't take a photo as I have a mobile phone that actually  
>> makes phone calls and doesn't do much else.
>>
>> Just thought I would throw it out there should anyone want to take  
>> issue with the hotel....  Myself, I wouldn't care and would get an  
>> old bike and a proper krytonite lock and sit across the road  
>> watching them try and remove it >:)
>>
>>
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