I support the gate usually as we have an issue in the area with unlicensed motorbikes using the area and tearing up the countryside. We only live a couple of miles away from this village and the villagers have to use our town for shopping as it’s the nearest, so it’s really just an extended community. There is a bit of elitism at play though as the villagers tend to think it’s their area and nobody should go there to use the footpaths which is rather childish.
Climbing over wasn’t the issue, it was the fact my wife’s car was also locked in. Someone in the village saw her drive through it and must have ran over to lock it. This is something a friend of ours told us today, had actually happened before. They’ve now go to weld new hinges on it lol. Nobody entraps my family