Bizarre moment workers tarmac around a woman carrying out pavement protest
The row over access at the kerb in Smith's Wood, Solihull saw fed-up workers tarmac around the disabled woman's mobility walker
THIS bizarre video shows fed-up street workers tarmacing around an elderly woman as she stages a sit-in protest over driveway access.
Footage shows Linda Mills, 70, sitting on her mobility walker reading as the men lay asphalt around her - leaving her stuck inside the new pavement.
"I drove off soon after so I'm not sure what happened but it was really comical at the time.
"But, like me, I don't think people could believe what she was doing."
Great-gran Linda ended up winning her protest after council officials phoned her to promise the kerb would be dropped.
She said: "I was never going to move because I knew I was in the right.
"I have always believed in standing up for yourself so I just did the only thing I could think of doing and took my zimmer frame out and planted myself on the path.
"It was quite comical and the workmen, to be fair, were fine but I knew if I stayed there long enough the council officials would have to listen to me.
"My worry was that if the tarmac was put out on the path the workmen would leave without dropping my kerb.
"In my head I was playing for time, I knew either the workmen would have to come back to tarmac where I had been sitting or they would eventually have to fix my driveway.
"In they end the latter happened so it was worth sitting outside in the street in my slippers for half-an-hour."
Linda, who suffers from mobility problems, applied to her local council to drop the kerb on the driveway outside her £170,000 three-bedroom semi on Greenfinch Road, Smith's Wood, West Midlands.
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council agreed to carry out the work and wrote to the retired carer telling her to expect workmen on June 23.
But when they turned up they told Linda they had only been instructed to resurface the pavement outside her property.
Linda, whose husband George died in 1998 aged 54, said: "They turned up at my home at 9am and told me they would start work.
"I told them I was relieved the driveway would be dropped down because it has been damaging my car but they looked blank and said they hadn't been instructed to do it.
"They were fine but simply said it had nothing to do with them but they must lay the tarmac because otherwise it would go off.
"I told them I didn't want any trouble but they must understand that there has been a mistake and I was not moving until the work was carried out which had been promised.
"They were fine about it and simply laid the tarmac around me. I was sitting there for about half-an-hour until the council called me and sent two officials round to apologise.
"There was quite a crowd who gathered to watch what was happening and they cheered when I told them I had won and the council were going to do what they had promised.
"Once the workmen had been given new instructions they removed the kerb stone and lowered my driveway.
"I didn't really know what all the fuss was about, I have always stood up for myself and having four sons make you strong.
"I'm just glad now I can park outside my house without damaging the my car."
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