"Someone parked in my driveway"

[George K]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/10c02rt/entitled_parker_parked_in_my_driveway_so_i/

Entitled Parker parked in my driveway so I blocked them in and got drunk all weekend.

Friday night I came home from work to find someone on our block was having a large party and someone decided they were entitled to park in my driveway.

Keep in mind my driveway is a single car width lined with a retaining wall on both sides and a garage at the end. Essentially impossible for a tow truck to come pull them out without property damage.

Seeing this and the lack of street parking I took this as a cue to park right behind them in my driveway. Now a few hours go by and their entitled parker is now knocking at my door demanding I move my car so she can leave. Seeing as they were demanding, I informed them that I had been drinking and would not move my car.

The Entitled Parker then decides to call the police to get them to force me to move. When the police knocked on my door, I was sure to grab a beer from the fridge before I answered to talk to the officer.

I had informed him that after I got home I was unwinding and had been drinking and was in no shape to drive. At this point their hands were tied because they couldn’t tow her car out, I’m in no shape to drive, and I’m legally parked in my driveway.

I ended up telling the Entitled Parker that since it is a long weekend I would be on a weekend long bender and they could come move my car after I go to work on Tuesday.

[jon-nyc]

It’s funny and all but it wouldn’t be worth the likely retaliation.

You just know he’ll have his car keyed at some point.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in "Someone parked in my driveway":

You just know he’ll have his car keyed at some point.

Down in the Reddit thread:

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My neighbors started to do this shit. It did not last long.

Mine also did this. The home owners rented out part of their basement but wouldn't let the renters use the massive driveway, so the renters started parking in mine.

Politely asking them to move resulted in my gas being siphoned, my car being keyed, and chemicals poured on my lawn. There were nails thrown all over my driveway one morning, and I found suspicious dog treats right by the wall between our houses. It was, fortunately, not a place my dog ever went, but I'm guessing eating them would have had disastrous consequences.

I ordered security cameras after the first incident. They took time to arrive, but as soon as they were up, I made sure to mention their existence only to my neighbor. The problems evaporated overnight.
People suck.

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I have a neighbour with a son that would consistently park on my driveway, despite theirs being much larger than mine and pretty much always empty. I've told the guy numerous times that he should stop parking at my place, but it didn't do shit. I've called the tow company, they said they can't tow it because it's on private property. I called the cops, they said they can't do anything because it's on private property and I would need to take him to court. So I used that and me and my wife blocked him in completely, he could not move an inch. After a couple of hours he has the balls to ring my doorbell and demand I move the cars, which I just ignore. He calls the cops, the cops come, ask me to move the car to which I replied that I'm not moving it and that I know they can't do anything due to it being on private property, but he can take me to court and sees how that pans out for him. I suggested he should come back in a week's time since I'm just leaving for vacation. He turned lobster red from anger, it was glorious.

[Mik]

This stuff was the genesis of capital punishment. If someone just couldn't get along with and respect their fellow tribesmen, well, you had little choice besides exiling them or killing them.

I think this kind of behavior should bring a criminal charge with a very stiff fine.

[George K]

@Mik said in "Someone parked in my driveway":

exiling them

The term "outlaw" comes from that idea - you were exiled and without the protection of the law if you committed these transgressions.

An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so that anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill them. Outlawry was thus one of the harshest penalties in the legal system. In early Germanic law, the death penalty is conspicuously absent, and outlawing is the most extreme punishment, presumably amounting to a death sentence in practice. The concept is known from Roman law, as the status of homo sacer, and persisted throughout the Middle Ages.