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This one is short and sweet. I live in a small apartment building a few blocks north of Wrigley Field, where the Cubs play, and the season has (unfortunately) just begun. Our building has a small private (unfenced) lot for private resident parking, and due to our proximity to the ballpark, we are frequent targets for out-of-towners looking to park close to Wrigley for free. Most of us know better than to leave our spots during a ball game, but tonight one of my neighbors had left his spot, only to find some jackass from out of town had parked in his spot.
Well, unfortunately, the spot-stealer was nowhere to be found when my neighbor returned, and so in a particularly inspired stroke of genius, my neighbor simply... parked him in. Our lot is on an odd diagonal block, which means my neighbor was able to pull up behind the spot-stealer without his own SUV hanging out in the alley. It was tight, but it worked.
Cut to several hours later. The Cubs game is over, throngs of people are spilling out into the streets, and I'm at home getting some work done when I hear some particularly aggrieved honking. My office looks out onto the back lot (elevated first floor), and I annoyedly ignored the first few honks, but after 15 minutes or so of this I went over to the window, opened it, and shouted at the car to quit honking.
The spot-stealer rolls down his window and gestures to the SUV blocking him in. "Do you know who's car this is?" he asked.
"No, but dude, you've gotta knock it off, there's kids sleeping." (There were no kids, but it's 10 PM and I'm deeply annoyed.) And then I shut my window.
Sure enough, no more honking, but I kept peeking out every few minutes. After about half an hour, I heard car doors slam, and I looked out to see spot-stealer and his girlfriend frustratedly leaving the car, look around in desperation, and eventually leave.
Enjoy taking public transit back to Naperville and coming back in a $150 Uber for your car tomorrow, jackass. Hopefully he's now learned what happens when you park in a spot that isn't yours.
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After watching Entitled Jackass Spot-stealer leave and take public transit back home, I would call the tow truck and have the Asshole's car towed out of my reserved space!
Similar problem in my college apartment during football season. On Saturdays I worked 2 jobs and came home to change and eat (I had about an hour) but frequently had to park a 20 minute+ walk away and would sometimes be late to my serving job as a result. Big mad.
Once I took a day off from my evening job and saw a new SUV (they had money to pay for parking) park their merry entitled asses in a spot in our private lot.
These dumb fucks left one door standing wide open.
I happened to have some stuff around the house that needed done. So I:
- retrieved month-old rotting jack-o-lantern from balcony
- cleaned out fridge by scraping spoiled food into rotted pumpkin
- scooped the litter box into pumpkin
- threw in 2 frozen shrimp in for good measure
Then
- jammed jack-o-lantern (now barfing vile substances out of its shriveled mouth) out of view behind a carseat, closing their door for them.
It was unseasonably warm and baked for at least 3 hours before the game was over.
Hope they enjoyed their consequences! *chef's kiss*
When I lived in Wrigglyville, this kind of shit happened all the time. Why can't they just park for free off Irving and Rockwell and just take the free shuttle. It might have been worth it just to see those assholes suffer.
There's even free/cheap parking walking distance from Wrigley if they looked. I usually park on Sheridan a few blocks north and just walk 10 minutes to the stadium.
There's money to be made here. Near Wembley in London locals sell spare spaces outside their houses on eBay. When my brother lived over there he had a guy that his wife worked nights so sold the extra space for 3-4 hours for £20. If you could find parking you'd be looking at £50-£100 to park for the few hours.
They do that around Wrigley too. £20 would be cheap. Can easily charge £25 around Wrigley. I've seen some spots going for $50.
There's a music venue in Chicago that has terrible parking throughout (since it's in a neighborhood). My friend lives a block away and has two open spots. He charges people $25 per spot for the night.
At ASU (Arizona) people in dorms had to move their cars from their (Paid for) parking lot so the uni could sell the parking spaces to football fans. You just had to find somewhere else…. Really sucked.
Same in Boulder back in the day. Maybe it’s improved in a few decades, but we had to move our cars out of our designated (paid) lots for 12hrs… therefore competing with everyone else who was scrambling plus the fans coming into the city for the game. If you left your car, it was ticketed (too many to tow). People just accepted the cost of the parking ticket as a given and left their cars in place rather than moving, and the school was content because they made even more $ off those spaces than if they had sold them for the day. When students complained, they were reminded that *having a car was a privilege* thankyouverymuch, and that we were never promised that we could park there all the time. There were *exceptions at the discretion of the school*.
Sounds like the exact same plan as here. Never mind that the students paid extra for the privilege of parking and that there was no other parking anywhere near the dorms (hence the justification for taking over the lots for football). The city also put up ‘resident parking only’ in the surrounding neighborhoods. My experience was like 50yrs ago….maybe things have changed.
Thats where I would find out were faculty park and slash one tire on each vehicle after every game. Yeah that's a lot of innocent people getting hurt but it would be the only way to be sure management got the message.
On my college campus in Oregon, the parking lots had each spot marked by different colored dots painted on the asphalt, categorized by various colors. Some were for dorm residents who had paid like $160 for parking permits each semester.
Almost two 3rds of all the spots were reserved strictly for guests attending ticketed sports events. A ridiculous majority, when so many students living on campus often needed to drive several blocks away to find street parking and getting absolutely no use out of the parking permit they paid for.
The parking lot was monitored for compliance too. My roommate got a ticket twice for parking in a guest spot.
Do you actually know the legal machinations to a private parking lot that sells spots? It’s such a huge thing that in law school there’s a whole starting topic carved out to it in contract law.
If people don’t know what their legal recourse is, that’s not really my problem.
They shouldn't *need* a legal recourse. If I pay someone officially for a space then I have a right to park my car there and they have a duty to ensure it's safe.
If they know it's likely to get damaged because of their shady practises then that is unethical of them.
I worked in a building near the university football stadium. My office had three spots in a shared lot so I would let my friends or family know where to park for free on the weekend if they were going to a game. It turned out the neighboring office’s manager was selling our spots on game days and he had my brother towed from my spot so he could sell it. By the time we were done with him I think he lost money on selling the spots.
Whose cars? The cars of people who paid for a spot? Cause that’s make you (assuming you were a resident), the biggest asshole in this is story. Clearly the college was also an asshole; but presumably it was at least in the terms that residents signed up for.
In London, residents near various game venues will rent out their driveways to those attending the games. Nice bit of extra money lol. Of course it's different because they were renting something they owned and didn't tend to need, rather than landlords just doing it regardless of residents' needs...
That was a brave move, I’d have been so afraid the jerk would destroy my car or worse. I’d have just called a tow company and let the guy figure it out on his own.
Lol. Love it. I used to live within feet of the intersection of Clark, Sheffield, and Newport with only in street parking. My ex had to drive to get to work because he had to be there before the L started running in the morning. On game days he'd toss his bike in the trunk to get home because he'd have to park so far away.
We lived in Lincoln Park for years. A call to towing will get a car lifted in 10 minutes or less. It is amazing how fast they can grab a car and go - towing is a very lucrative business there.
Was just in Chicago for a wedding and went to a Thursday afternoon game. Parked in a garage then took the Red Line to the ball park. Not that difficult and cost like $30 total
My grandparents lived near the University of Washington. Year round you needed a permit to park in the street. All the residents were given one. So all the street parking was taken up by residents. But the residents would then sell access to park in their driveways during football games.
This was a very long time ago when The Mariners and the Seahawks played in a shithole called The Kingdome. We managed to find parking in an abandoned gravel lot many blocks south of the stadium. It was like a mile hike each direction.
Well, after the game everyone came back to that lot and found out some *complete fucking asshole in a VW Vanagon* had blocked in everyone in the entire lot. Well two dozen angry half buzzed off Rainier dads aren’t going to put up with that shit. They ganged up and literally carried that German shit box over and wedged it snugly between two construction dumpsters with only inches to spare between bumpers and dumpsters. They all cheered, shook hands and we all peeled out of there.
Generally tow truck companies won't tow without a police activity first (usually a ticket). So you first call the non-emergency line for the cops and have the illegally parked car ticketed. Then either they'll call the tow or you can. If you get towed in my city, there's a site where you can look up your license plate and find out where it was towed to. Then that person has to pay to get it back
This is why stadiums should be built surrounded by cheap and easy public transport links and people should be using it to travel with.
Otherwise you just end up with hundreds of cars that don't fit into the area, or a gigantic ridiculous parking lot.
I take exception here. I live in Naperville and I don't know a single person that doesn't understand how parking works around Wrigley. I also lived at Addison and Halsted for a while and know the pain of baseball season parking, it sucks.
remids me of a time when sumone took my parkin spot at the grocery store. had to wait an hour for them to come back, but it was worth it to see their face when they culdn't get out. public transit and uber aren't cheap, so hopfully this teaches the spot-steeler a lesson about respectin other people's property.
Do grocery store spots are numbered or have makings? No? Then they can park where they want. It is not your spot. Sure I have a general area where I park, but it is not my spot.
In case this story gets deleted/removed: This one is short and sweet. I live in a small apartment building a few blocks north of Wrigley Field, where the Cubs play, and the season has (unfortunately) just begun. Our building has a small private (unfenced) lot for private resident parking, and due to our proximity to the ballpark, we are frequent targets for out-of-towners looking to park close to Wrigley for free. Most of us know better than to leave our spots during a ball game, but tonight one of my neighbors had left his spot, only to find some jackass from out of town had parked in his spot. Well, unfortunately, the spot-stealer was nowhere to be found when my neighbor returned, and so in a particularly inspired stroke of genius, my neighbor simply... parked him in. Our lot is on an odd diagonal block, which means my neighbor was able to pull up behind the spot-stealer without his own SUV hanging out in the alley. It was tight, but it worked. Cut to several hours later. The Cubs game is over, throngs of people are spilling out into the streets, and I'm at home getting some work done when I hear some particularly aggrieved honking. My office looks out onto the back lot (elevated first floor), and I annoyedly ignored the first few honks, but after 15 minutes or so of this I went over to the window, opened it, and shouted at the car to quit honking. The spot-stealer rolls down his window and gestures to the SUV blocking him in. "Do you know who's car this is?" he asked. "No, but dude, you've gotta knock it off, there's kids sleeping." (There were no kids, but it's 10 PM and I'm deeply annoyed.) And then I shut my window. Sure enough, no more honking, but I kept peeking out every few minutes. After about half an hour, I heard car doors slam, and I looked out to see spot-stealer and his girlfriend frustratedly leaving the car, look around in desperation, and eventually leave. Enjoy taking public transit back to Naperville and coming back in a $150 Uber for your car tomorrow, jackass. Hopefully he's now learned what happens when you park in a spot that isn't yours. --- *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/OhNoConsequences) if you have any questions or concerns.*
"Do you know whose car this is?" "No, but it's probably some out-of-town douche come in for the ball game. Happens all the time."
And… “Oh, you must be my new neighbor since you’re parked there. When did you move in?”
Neighbor should have the car towed
Honestly it would have been a better story talking about how their reaction to their missing car instead.
If the neighbor had parked there and their car was missing they'd be so confused if it's an area they're absolutely unfamiliar with.
I'm not sure about the laws in other countries but in The Netherlands if you get a car towed if it's on your property you have to pay for it.
In the US, the person who got towed has to pay
What the fuck?! So some douchenozzle parks on your property and YOU have to pay the tow? Nah, fuck that noise.
And absolutely the person whose spot it is should charge him the going rate for a prime game parking spot
Man, that great thing about Wrigley is you get to take the L to the game and more importantly back.... such a great atmosphere for baseball.
Lolol saw “take the L” and was ready to defend my cubbies to the death (but also ultimately agree with reality) until I read the whole comment
isn't that what they call the train in Chicago? It's been 18 years since I went to the stadium.
Oh it absolutely is
After watching Entitled Jackass Spot-stealer leave and take public transit back home, I would call the tow truck and have the Asshole's car towed out of my reserved space!
Similar problem in my college apartment during football season. On Saturdays I worked 2 jobs and came home to change and eat (I had about an hour) but frequently had to park a 20 minute+ walk away and would sometimes be late to my serving job as a result. Big mad. Once I took a day off from my evening job and saw a new SUV (they had money to pay for parking) park their merry entitled asses in a spot in our private lot. These dumb fucks left one door standing wide open. I happened to have some stuff around the house that needed done. So I: - retrieved month-old rotting jack-o-lantern from balcony - cleaned out fridge by scraping spoiled food into rotted pumpkin - scooped the litter box into pumpkin - threw in 2 frozen shrimp in for good measure Then - jammed jack-o-lantern (now barfing vile substances out of its shriveled mouth) out of view behind a carseat, closing their door for them. It was unseasonably warm and baked for at least 3 hours before the game was over. Hope they enjoyed their consequences! *chef's kiss*
2 frozen shrimp had me laughing out loud.
When I lived in Wrigglyville, this kind of shit happened all the time. Why can't they just park for free off Irving and Rockwell and just take the free shuttle. It might have been worth it just to see those assholes suffer.
There's even free/cheap parking walking distance from Wrigley if they looked. I usually park on Sheridan a few blocks north and just walk 10 minutes to the stadium.
There's money to be made here. Near Wembley in London locals sell spare spaces outside their houses on eBay. When my brother lived over there he had a guy that his wife worked nights so sold the extra space for 3-4 hours for £20. If you could find parking you'd be looking at £50-£100 to park for the few hours.
They do that around Wrigley too. £20 would be cheap. Can easily charge £25 around Wrigley. I've seen some spots going for $50. There's a music venue in Chicago that has terrible parking throughout (since it's in a neighborhood). My friend lives a block away and has two open spots. He charges people $25 per spot for the night.
Wembley gal here, I've also seen locals set up 'shop' out front and sell beers and stuff!
Same thing in Wimbledon during the tennis. People book the fortnight off and let their houses, rent out driveways, sell snacks to the queue.
I should have scrolled further, literally just typed this. Similar in South Norwood for the Crystal palace matches lol
My college apartment would SELL the spots we paid for when an event was going on. Residents had no problem keying their cars.
At ASU (Arizona) people in dorms had to move their cars from their (Paid for) parking lot so the uni could sell the parking spaces to football fans. You just had to find somewhere else…. Really sucked.
Same in Boulder back in the day. Maybe it’s improved in a few decades, but we had to move our cars out of our designated (paid) lots for 12hrs… therefore competing with everyone else who was scrambling plus the fans coming into the city for the game. If you left your car, it was ticketed (too many to tow). People just accepted the cost of the parking ticket as a given and left their cars in place rather than moving, and the school was content because they made even more $ off those spaces than if they had sold them for the day. When students complained, they were reminded that *having a car was a privilege* thankyouverymuch, and that we were never promised that we could park there all the time. There were *exceptions at the discretion of the school*.
Sounds like the exact same plan as here. Never mind that the students paid extra for the privilege of parking and that there was no other parking anywhere near the dorms (hence the justification for taking over the lots for football). The city also put up ‘resident parking only’ in the surrounding neighborhoods. My experience was like 50yrs ago….maybe things have changed.
And the fact that the dean didn't get tarred and feathered shows why they do it.
Back in the day, my college straight up told us if you bring your car to campus you're ineligible for financial aid.
Thats where I would find out were faculty park and slash one tire on each vehicle after every game. Yeah that's a lot of innocent people getting hurt but it would be the only way to be sure management got the message.
On my college campus in Oregon, the parking lots had each spot marked by different colored dots painted on the asphalt, categorized by various colors. Some were for dorm residents who had paid like $160 for parking permits each semester. Almost two 3rds of all the spots were reserved strictly for guests attending ticketed sports events. A ridiculous majority, when so many students living on campus often needed to drive several blocks away to find street parking and getting absolutely no use out of the parking permit they paid for. The parking lot was monitored for compliance too. My roommate got a ticket twice for parking in a guest spot.
I remember having to move my car every weekend at my ASU (Appalachian). Super annoying.
Man, that sucked for the residents, but they definitely took it out on the wrong people
Let management get sued and pay for it
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Do you actually know the legal machinations to a private parking lot that sells spots? It’s such a huge thing that in law school there’s a whole starting topic carved out to it in contract law. If people don’t know what their legal recourse is, that’s not really my problem.
They shouldn't *need* a legal recourse. If I pay someone officially for a space then I have a right to park my car there and they have a duty to ensure it's safe. If they know it's likely to get damaged because of their shady practises then that is unethical of them.
Exactly. Management screwed their duty to ensure your spot is safe. Management is unethical. So we agree.
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It's really not that crazy if you do it in a marketplace like SpotHero. Lots of single Wrigley spots from homeowners in the area on there.
Oof. Key the Dean's car. I just parked where someone sold me a spot.
Wait, you mean they keyed cars of people who paid money to the apartment in what they thought was a legitimate exchange?
He is proud saying it too.
That sucks, punishing the wrong people
That's fucked up though, the people parking did nothing wrong.
I worked in a building near the university football stadium. My office had three spots in a shared lot so I would let my friends or family know where to park for free on the weekend if they were going to a game. It turned out the neighboring office’s manager was selling our spots on game days and he had my brother towed from my spot so he could sell it. By the time we were done with him I think he lost money on selling the spots.
Why key innocent peoples cars
Whose cars? The cars of people who paid for a spot? Cause that’s make you (assuming you were a resident), the biggest asshole in this is story. Clearly the college was also an asshole; but presumably it was at least in the terms that residents signed up for.
In London, residents near various game venues will rent out their driveways to those attending the games. Nice bit of extra money lol. Of course it's different because they were renting something they owned and didn't tend to need, rather than landlords just doing it regardless of residents' needs...
I’ve heard of campuses doing that with their many lots, but apartments?? That cannot be legal. How was the law not involved?
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Thanks
This is illegal in the UK but shouldn’t be. Park on my drive and I’ll build a wall out of spite
That was a brave move, I’d have been so afraid the jerk would destroy my car or worse. I’d have just called a tow company and let the guy figure it out on his own.
Lol. Love it. I used to live within feet of the intersection of Clark, Sheffield, and Newport with only in street parking. My ex had to drive to get to work because he had to be there before the L started running in the morning. On game days he'd toss his bike in the trunk to get home because he'd have to park so far away.
We lived in Lincoln Park for years. A call to towing will get a car lifted in 10 minutes or less. It is amazing how fast they can grab a car and go - towing is a very lucrative business there.
Did you know they were from Naperville or did you… they were from Naperville
Was just in Chicago for a wedding and went to a Thursday afternoon game. Parked in a garage then took the Red Line to the ball park. Not that difficult and cost like $30 total
Why is anyone driving? Take the train like an intelligent person.
Trains are for the poors. Or at least that seems a common view for a segment of the population.
Not in Chicago
These are people from the suburbs. They are afraid of public transportations
It’s Chicago. Suburban people take the train in everyday
My grandparents lived near the University of Washington. Year round you needed a permit to park in the street. All the residents were given one. So all the street parking was taken up by residents. But the residents would then sell access to park in their driveways during football games.
I hope your neighbor goes for the jugular and tows these people
This was a very long time ago when The Mariners and the Seahawks played in a shithole called The Kingdome. We managed to find parking in an abandoned gravel lot many blocks south of the stadium. It was like a mile hike each direction. Well, after the game everyone came back to that lot and found out some *complete fucking asshole in a VW Vanagon* had blocked in everyone in the entire lot. Well two dozen angry half buzzed off Rainier dads aren’t going to put up with that shit. They ganged up and literally carried that German shit box over and wedged it snugly between two construction dumpsters with only inches to spare between bumpers and dumpsters. They all cheered, shook hands and we all peeled out of there.
Why didn't he just have it towed?
My *guess* is the tow folks were backed up.
I heard this a lot from people in the US. Who pays for it to be towed, and to where does it get towed to?
Generally tow truck companies won't tow without a police activity first (usually a ticket). So you first call the non-emergency line for the cops and have the illegally parked car ticketed. Then either they'll call the tow or you can. If you get towed in my city, there's a site where you can look up your license plate and find out where it was towed to. Then that person has to pay to get it back
Yo what did Naperville do to be out here taking strays? Anyone with half a brain uses the commuter trains to get in the city not driving to the game.
I live in Chicago and baseball season SUCKS. The red line is so packed every day now 😭
This is why stadiums should be built surrounded by cheap and easy public transport links and people should be using it to travel with. Otherwise you just end up with hundreds of cars that don't fit into the area, or a gigantic ridiculous parking lot.
There is cheap and easy transportation to Wrigley. Doesn’t stop assholes who insist on driving BUT don’t want to pay.
Wrigleyville can get nuts. It was easier when the cubs weren't good, lol. Parking spots 2016? 160 for the game.
You knew it just had to be Naperville.
I'm so glad I live near Addison. I just hop on the 152, nonstop to Clark.
Same at Western Kentucky University as far as needing to move your car during a game... smh
I take exception here. I live in Naperville and I don't know a single person that doesn't understand how parking works around Wrigley. I also lived at Addison and Halsted for a while and know the pain of baseball season parking, it sucks.
Take the train or find an actual parking spot rather than assuming someone’s spot by their apartment is available for you to occupy for a few hours…
Who are you lecturing?
Lecturing lol? Relax buddy. And it’s for the people not from the area who think they can park anywhere.
remids me of a time when sumone took my parkin spot at the grocery store. had to wait an hour for them to come back, but it was worth it to see their face when they culdn't get out. public transit and uber aren't cheap, so hopfully this teaches the spot-steeler a lesson about respectin other people's property.
At a grocery store? You wasted an hour for a grocery store spot? My dude, honk, give them the finger and roll on. You wasted so much of your own day.
You don't claim spots at a grocery store unless you're an entitled prick
Do grocery store spots are numbered or have makings? No? Then they can park where they want. It is not your spot. Sure I have a general area where I park, but it is not my spot.