New Zealander who has been painting yellow lines outside his house will finally get his wish


This guy is one of our repeat offenders, so we’ll be sorry to see him go.

But here’s Russell Taylor who has been on a one-man crusade against the drivers of Wellington to prevent them parking outside his home, which he says is on a dangerous blind bend.

Stuff NZ: Wellington man can now stop painting illegal yellow lines outside his home after local authority says they’ll put in an official set

As Stuff explains:

“Holloway Rd is already home to some crudely drawn broken yellow lines courtesy of Taylor. He painted his first guerrilla parking restrictions 20 years ago, then repainted them a decade later.”

And let’s see the spunking good job our man made of his yellow lines.

Almost as good as the real thing, I think you’ll agree.

Of course, there is still one more chapter to come in this story – the day he gets a parking ticket for parking on his own yellow lines. We fully expect to hear the explosion on the other side of the world.

And here are some more people who don’t like yellow lines.

This woman doesn’t like these new yellow lines, even though they haven’t been painted by a mad bloke from New Zealand.

The more eagle-eyed among you will note that in making a point for the Bolton News, somebody (and we’re in no position to say who it might be) has parked on the yellow lines with two wheels up on the pavement. Well done.

And the classic:

Council lifts cars, paints yellow lines, replaces cars, writes parking tickets. Ta-da!