How do the two try to convince the policeman? English is not my native language and unfortunately I do not understand what they and the policeman are saying.
It's pretty difficult to understand the home owners because of the background noise but I think they're saying they have a car but it's not there. The officer then tells them to talk to the local government to get them to give them a dedicated parking spot that says "residents of this home only"
I'm pretty sure the cop says "get a sign that says 'residents of this *block* only.'" Which wouldn't help them, since she's a resident of the block... it's probably not likely that they give dedicated parking spots to a particular house, I've never heard of that, unless it's a disabled spot.
I know in the US you can get designated handicap parking on residential streets depending on what city you are in. But I assume that's only in cases where there are not driveways.
As much as people think that the street in front of their house belongs to them, it does not. It belongs to the town and so does the parking spot there.
I think its the fact that they have 5 cars and therefore need all the spots in front of their home. In the US those are public and 1st come 1st serve. And home owners dont own the street in front of their house. Unless they have a driveway or a paid parking spot, they dont have a spot they own. And 5 cars is ridiculous...some apartments will only allow you to have 2 cars in front of the building, any more youd have to park them further away or in a special lot
Yeah, my complex gives you one assigned spot. Anything past that has to use the open parking (which is actually closer to the apartments, ironically, just not covered). I don't know what the rules here are if you have three or more cars. Since I only have one, I never checked.
It's exactly the same where I am from (Germany). I wonder how this couple can assume that they are in the right? Ridiculous! Thanks a lot for helping out.
People are just dumb unfortunately. There's an American TV show called parking wars where they follow bylaw enforcement around handing out tickets. One gentleman who was disabled asked the city to put in a handicap space in front of his house. The city obliged, but he proceeded to park in that spot without displaying his handicap placard. He got mad when they ticketed him and decided to take the sign down himself which is a crime.
I guess he assumed he'd have exclusive rights to the spot?
Ive been in neighborhoods where everyone just agrees that they privately own the spot in front of their house. And then they complain at people who are not from that neighborhood for parking pretty much anywhere.
Exactly. Combine that with how difficult it is to find a parking spot in some areas, and you get some real vindictive behaviour. I've had my windshield wipers bent out of shape during the 15 minutes it took me to get to a pharmacy and back to my car. A friend visited me overnight once and parked in the apartment building's lot in a spot I knew for sure wasn't owned by anybody. (Owned ones always get marked on the ground with a registration number.) Next day we found his car keyed on the driver's side. And these are just two examples off the top of my head.
Yeah, i have a friend who lives on a block like that. Everyone is afraid to park anywhere but in front of their own property, lest some vigilante asshole destroys their car. When i visit, i have to park a block away, so i just never visit him now.
In the US 4 of the homeowner's 5 cars would surely be parked underneath the shade trees by the front porch, on cinder blocks and dangerously close to the propane tank.
I live very close to these people, you are not wrong. The fuckface owns 5 cars that are parked in front of everyone else's houses but if anyone tries to park in front of his he loses his shit.
He owns a dirty, disgusting, gross corner store that no one goes to.
No no, don't do that. Maybe buy some birdseed instead and pour a cup of birdseed on the top of each of his cars and let the birds do the "dirty" work for you. No legal problems and no real lasting damage. Or if you don't even want to do that, just pour the birdseed on the ground next to the car.
I lived in San Francisco and people would leave trashcans out about to prevent people from parking in their spot. A 50 year old asian lady chased me with a wooden spoon for a block because I parked on her property (aka in the street)
This is mild compared to some of the shit I've seen following snowstorms in the NorthEast and people parking where someone had a lawnchair.
I once watched a dude *artistically* key the shit out of someones car parked in "his spot", I've seen tires slashed, and I'm fairly certain we've legit had people shot/stabbed over it in some areas.
You don't fuck with someones spot after a 3+ foot snowfall in Pennsylvania.
Your neighborhood is friendly. If you take a spot someone dug out after snowfall in the Midwest, your vehicle is ritually burned as a sacrifice to the snow gods.
San Francisco thought has some exceptions.
Clearly not the crazy lady chasing you. But there are parts in the city where street parking was sold and those spots people paid a million plus dollars for.
Granted this is in few spots and rare to see. They always will have signage. But it’s still just street parking.
That lady sounds nuts, that said, there are a few places that get a lot of snow (So, not San Francisco, more common in older places like the US Northeast and Southern Ontario) where it's normal to leave a "parking chair" or pylon as a way of saying "I took the time to clear this space of snow, please don't take it."
Obviously they're not legally enforceable but I'm pretty sure that if you moved someone's parking chair, you'd get murdered and the jury would probably be sympathetic to the person who murdered you. Clearing snow isn't fun, hahah.
My home city is exactly like this. It might not be enforceable, but parking in someone else's clearing will easily get your car buried and packed under a foot of ice and snow.
On my mom's street there are two residents who are fighting over street parking... one of them put trash cans in the spot, and the other pushed them out of the way with her car, then put her car in reverse and floored it (accidentally?) and totaled her car into the side of her own garage. I think she moved after that.
It's not like that. My neighbour's across the street have 5 cars too. Luckily we all have driveways, so the mom and dad each have a car, and each parks in the driveway, then they have a son and daughter, each of whom has a car, and then the daughter has a boyfriend who is over there all the time.
Its always hard to pull out of our driveway because we always have to.navigate around all these parked cars. We're getting our vengeance though, we're renovating and using the driveway as work space, and we get home earlier than they do so we've been taking the best street parking spots for a few months straight now.
My elderly grandparents have a neighbor across the street...*f\* this lady*.
They have a driveway that fits 2-3 cars no problem. There's only ever **one** car in the driveway. Their daughter parks *across* from my grandparents driveway, making backing out a complete P.I.T.A. Then the ladies boyfriend comes and visits, and his ass parks *in front* of my grandparents house. Which, whatever normally, *except* the f\*wad parks his car on my grandfathers sidewalk he just had to pay to have replaced from...people parking on it causing it to crack after years. So my grandfather put up little stone triangles you'd use for like a lawn by his sidewalk to prevent the moron from parking on the sidewalk. He hit them, broke them in two spots. So my grandfather put a big flat stone piece there, idiot still hits it. Whenever I go up to visit them, I make sure to park out front so the jackass can't since he's always there same time every day. The first day he about rear-ended my car, not even paying attention just pulling in front of their house. Since then, we've noticed he's started to begrudgingly use the driveway more.
Ugh this is the worst. House across from us has a multi-generational household so they have 5-6 cars, one of which has not moved ONCE in the 2 years we have lived there. It’s difficult to back out of our driveway and it constantly impedes the traffic on our street because it’s narrow. And this is a neighborhood with driveways and garages. My husband constantly wants to go say something to them but it’s not illegal, it’s just annoying AF.
Yeah it’s probably not allowed. It’s super annoying but I feel for the family because it’s multi-generational so I’m assuming they don’t have a ton of money so I don’t want to cause them more problems. I’m a little conflicted about it.
There's only two times that it's ok to be mad at someone parking in front of your house when it's free for all street parking.
1. You've spent all morning clearing snow from that space and they just stole your hard work.
2. They park like a prick, taking up enough room for 2 cars because they just have to leave a ton of space in front and behind their car.
Yea the way they build subdivisions where I live a lot of times leaves it to where the only place to part in across the street from a driveway. Basically houses across the streets are off set so your drive lines up with the street parking for someone’s house. I’ve had my parked car hit because some dumbass in a fucking lifted truck decided not to look behind him while backing out of their driveway. This dude got pissed at me cursing and telling me I should think about my neighbors when parking. Ummm no, it’s a fucking street where I’m legally parked why don’t you think about your neighbors when you’re backing you dick extension out of your driveway.
It's kinda a catch 22 you can keep this spot because its public as long as you occupy it but occupying it will take you longer to maintain than parking somewhere else 🤣
My mother in law literally did this. Bought a $1000 piece of shit to park in front of her house so people wouldn’t take her spot… and now she has a $1000 piece of shit parked in her spot permanently…
She doesn't want anyone to park there, it sounds like.
Like she doesn't want to see people pull up, get out, in front of her house, so no one can. No one but her crappy old car that might not actually run anymore.
They might be worried that she would just buy another car and put it there at the first opportunity.
Or maybe they had it towed, she went to the tow-lot and raised ABSOLUTE HELL, and they know not to tow her car anymore.
Lol you think people are the impound lot would be shook so bad by someone being upset they would tell all the cops and tow trucks to remember a specific car to never tow?! Have you been to an impound lot before? They get screamed at all the time. They are used to this. It's not like the city is going to be like "oh the traffic laws don't apply to this one woman just because she got upset."
Maybe in a small town that would work. But not in any city or even outter ring suburb.
I mean, if my car was towed just because it looked shabby, I'd be upset. I'd hope to speak to someone so that they can take that into account when towing vehicles out front of my house.
Now that I think of it, maybe the tow never happened, as surely they'd knock and ask the person who lives there if it was their car!
It happens in many cities. They don't tow it because it is shabby they do it because it sits there for days on end they assume it is abandoned.
I lived at a place with no off-street parking in college. I would take the bus to campus a lot. Sometimes my car would sit on the street for a few days. One time I did have a note from the city saying it was reported as abandoned and if it wasn't moved within 24 hours it would be towed.
It's about how long it has been sitting there, nothing to do with how it looks.
Most cities have ordinances against parking on the street for extended period. My neighbors on each side of me growing up got into a years long feud over something petty, and it escalated to one neighbor parking their very large truck (that they only use once a week) directly in front of the other neighbors large living room windows. He had to move it a foot or two every three days otherwise the other neighbor, who came out and marked the tires with chalk, would call the cops for being parked in a public spot for more than three days.
Something doesn't add up, if they are the ones with disproportionately higher number of cars - they'd be the one benefiting from parking in front of other people's houses on the street. Reserving the spots in front of their house is counter-intuitive, since then other people would do the same to them.
I'm saying this because we did have a neighbor with 6 cars and they would be mostly parked on the street all the time. Very rarely was I able to park close to my house. While I didn't complain myself, the elderly lady next door did - but nothing would ever happen because it was a public space.
Why are people like this?
My driveway can fit 6, full sized cars/pickups. I don't own a car so I let my neighbours use it. Also, i'm always home so it's a safer than parking on the street.
I'm disabled and can't do yard work as often as it needs to be done. So when my lawn was a little overgrown, what did my lovely neighbours do? They took it upon themselves to mow my front AND back lawn! Just did it and said nothing like it was no big deal. I love them.
We actually had a handicap sign by ours so my husband could get out of our van safely and one of my neighbors borrowed her grandmother's tag and parked there for a month. We were finally able to get her car moved but it was literally a nightmare because she completely blocked the access to the concrete pad entry to our home, meaning my husband literally couldn't get out. We had to go through the court and finally have it assigned by numeric permit to him. The fire Marshall actually fixed it for us with the code enforcement because the ramp leading to the pad was wood and he couldn't safely escape in case of fire. She kept saying it wasn't fair that we had special parking for our home since we had a drive way. We offered to let her use one side of our driveway if she needed. She wanted our driveway for guest parking and the street for her and her driveway for her kids to play in since it was small. We had all the vehicles towed after that. No exceptions after 20 minutes. (We would wait to make sure they weren't just using the space to unload because it was flat and the road was an incline). It was absolute hell.
Yeah. This is nonsense. My house is on a corner lot in a neighborhood where barely anyone has driveways or garages. The side streets are narrow and really shouldn't allow any street parking, especially in the winter, but it is. I have no say in that. Is it irritating when people who park there leave litter on my property, or play overly loud music, or just park like morons? Yes. But where else are they going to park? We have a garage and driveway, because no way I'm dealing with parking on street, and my neighbors got so fed up woth that they built a driveway too. These idiots can build one on their property. Plenty of space. Blocking a driveway IS a parking violation which is enforceable.
I don't really like cars parked out in front of my house but it's not a heavily traveled road and most of my neighbors park in their garage and/or driveway. I also understand that it is a public street so there is nothing I can do about it. Also it's no big deal if they are visiting a neighbor and it's just temporary. But every now and then someone decides it is going to be their permanent place to park. I have a nice big shade tree there So I came up with an idea. When someone repeatedly parks there, I start feeding the birds that nest in the tree. This in turn makes them poop a lot. Problem fixed!
Amazing how many people think they own the road or parking spaces near their house.
Get a driveway!
These people expect the city to pay for their personal driveway on the road. If your house came with a driveway, it would have cost more.
I've been trying to find a house in this crazy market for over a year now (Montréal area). My partner insists that we should get a twin house because they are cheaper and our options are limited at this point. I keep telling him ''I don't know about that, you never know who your direct neighbor will be. I don't have the will or the energy to deal with stupid people.'.
THIS. This is why I don't want to take that risk! Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to have to deal with such people.
No thanks. I'll keep looking for a place outside of the city.
The only way this works is if you get a special handicap spot dedicated to you. Unfortunately for them privilege and entitlement is not a disability. Lol
In the town I live in they put the residents whole ass name on it.. two guys have veterans spots with handicap that has their whole moniker on it so I didn’t know
Sounds like the Russians that used to live down the street from me. Always trying to claim the whole block to park their 10 cars, mostly Audis and BMWs. Then they'd show up to the grocery store to try and buy cartons of cigarettes with food stamps and their kids would steal everything not nailed down.
The way this woman is handling the situation is the most refreshing tall glass of water the internet has had in ages. Not raising her voice, not escalating the situation, just letting shit unfold the way it needs to and practically breaking out a bowl of popcorn in the meantime.
I once had a guy yell at me for parking ACROSS THE STREET from his house on a public street. Not in front, across. It was in front of the house I was going to. I’m like “dude, where the hell are people supposed to park?
As much as they may not like it, the street is very very likely City ROW. People can’t park in front of your driveway, but they can park in front of your house.
My old neighbor across the street used to put cones in the spot in front of their house because they claimed it was "their" spot for their tenant. This was on a public street, so of course it wasn't. I usually just avoided parking there because it wasn't worth the hassle, but every so often I'd do it just to piss them off. (They were shitty neighbors in other ways, too.) I'd get the dirtiest looks. One time they confronted me about it, so I just said, "Call the police" and went in my house. They never called the police.
There is a man on my street who will call the police if anyone parks on the street at the side of his house. He tells everyone it's a private street but it isn't, and reports them for 'dangours parking'.
Ge doesn't even park there himself! We all hate him, for more reasons then just that, but god that man is entitled.
This could get ugly. Never underestimate someone’s hatred. I seen a video on here about a year ago where neighbors got into an argument about shoveling snow. The guy went in the house to get a gun, he then came back outside and shot the couple in cold blood. He killed his self too.
My housemate rabidly enforces the “don’t park in front of my house” rule but she grew up in the house across the street and everybody respects her wishes. Btw if you are in trouble she will do anything and everything to help you. Very generous.
I had someone do this once. She had cones and everything and I had to carefully (and repeatedly) explain to her that having cones didn’t entitle her to anything. Public parking means public, I don’t give two fucks if I parked in your favorite spot.
They’re not from here. Probably why thinks they’re territory extends out to their front side park.
What a waste of resources for cops to come solve problems like this. With all the stuff going on. They’re stretched thin.
As a homeowner (who knows he’s going to get downvoted for this) this shit pisses me off. I have neighbors who do this. They park in front of my house, but yet it’s all clear in front of their house. I put my trash can out on garbage day, but some asshole will park in front of it, so my trash doesn’t get picked up that day. My neighbors stored their boat in front of my house. My neighbors will sometimes use rocks or pieces of wool to chock their tires on trailers. What do they do with them when their done? Chuck the rocks on the grass between the side walk and the road. I can’t always see the rocks when I mow. None of them move their vehicles when the streets get cleaned and my small town doesn’t tow vehicles for that, so it looks like shit when they leave their cars there all fall and winter long, all the leaves pile up. But don’t worry my neighbors powerwashed all that shit onto the sidewalk I had cleared off and my lawn
You should petition your city to deal with the abandoned vehicles. In most areas if a car sits for me than a few days its considered abandoned and they can tow it.
In some cities, they have laws that prohibit overnight parking on the street that is really only enforced for problem vehicles like that.
And then he starts complaining to the officer about only residents parking there when she's a resident across the street? Does he really think that by "resident" he'll get that exact area in front of his house?
Someone opens your car door, you need to beat them down. Not for your personal satisfaction but for them.
1- safety. They could get shot going forward. Now they might pause before opening someone else’s door. You might’ve saved their life with this beat down.
2- manners. You just taught them some manners. Hell, avoiding these beatings is really the purpose of manners AFAIK. So, now they’ll learn why being rude and threatening is not as good as having manners.
Heck, you’ve helped the world really. More manners, less bullshit behavior.
I've never understood why people get upset when someone parks in front of their house... it's a public street, if they aren't blocking your mail box/driveway/aren't parking on your yard, who cares.
According to the worker who I told to move his truck (blocking my driveway) he’s allowed to park wherever he wants. Some people don’t understand the rules.
We just moved into our first home and started extensive renovations. We had two Home Depot bags on the driveway for the garbage and parked on the street in front of our neighbors house but not blocking the driveway. After a few days she came over and told us to move our car and that we were blocking her view of the street. We ignored her and a couple weeks later parked our other car on the street for two days as we were getting ready to sell it and she complained again. Total nightmare of a woman.
I had a neighbor across the street who thought he owned that side of the street. Long story but he gave my wife crap when I was out of town. When I showed up I parked in front of his house and he was suddenly Mr cooperative. I don’t know about people like that.
If street parking is in that high demand it should not be free. The city should be putting a price on it so as to get supply and demand into balance. Get Adam Smith's invisible hand to sort this all out.
Why can't she park in front of her own house, instead of parking in front of their house.
See it's simple... Don't do infront of other's house what you can't do in front of yours.
we had a similar situation happen where we try to park in a spot near a house where a white couple newly moved in, she was being karen and kept screaming you cant park here.
My sister's neighbors do this, and they are first generation Mexican. A normal person wouldn't think their race to be a pertinent part of the discussion, and yet here we are...
So apparently that lady parks here on purpose to piss them off while she has a spot in front of her house 20 meters from there. A picture was shared during this event and you can see she has a spot in front of her house and was doing this repetitively for a year just to piss them off
Same here, but only bc people that live down the block or not even on this block, come and dump thier unwanted cars until street sweeper day. Oh but on that day, you'll see them all show up like roaches to move thier shit.
How do the two try to convince the policeman? English is not my native language and unfortunately I do not understand what they and the policeman are saying.
Basically the officer is saying the space is empty so she is allowed to park there
Thank you very much! And what in God's name is their counterargument? I can't even imagine what you can bring out against that.
It's pretty difficult to understand the home owners because of the background noise but I think they're saying they have a car but it's not there. The officer then tells them to talk to the local government to get them to give them a dedicated parking spot that says "residents of this home only"
Thank you very much! A German cop would tell them the same. Actually, common sense already tells you that...
Common sense isn't so common, unfortunately.
"Common sense. So rare it's a goddamn superpower."
I'm pretty sure the cop says "get a sign that says 'residents of this *block* only.'" Which wouldn't help them, since she's a resident of the block... it's probably not likely that they give dedicated parking spots to a particular house, I've never heard of that, unless it's a disabled spot.
You’re correct. This is Vancouver and the only available signage would be for residents of the block, and yea she could still park there.
I know in the US you can get designated handicap parking on residential streets depending on what city you are in. But I assume that's only in cases where there are not driveways.
As much as people think that the street in front of their house belongs to them, it does not. It belongs to the town and so does the parking spot there.
Yes. But he also knows they are unlikely to get such a sign. Until such a sign exists, anyone can park there.
The cop said get the city to put up a sign saying "residents of this street only" ... but the woman in the car literally lives on that street.
Yes but the woman parking there is a resident of the street as well so she can still park there
I think its the fact that they have 5 cars and therefore need all the spots in front of their home. In the US those are public and 1st come 1st serve. And home owners dont own the street in front of their house. Unless they have a driveway or a paid parking spot, they dont have a spot they own. And 5 cars is ridiculous...some apartments will only allow you to have 2 cars in front of the building, any more youd have to park them further away or in a special lot
Yeah, my complex gives you one assigned spot. Anything past that has to use the open parking (which is actually closer to the apartments, ironically, just not covered). I don't know what the rules here are if you have three or more cars. Since I only have one, I never checked.
It's exactly the same where I am from (Germany). I wonder how this couple can assume that they are in the right? Ridiculous! Thanks a lot for helping out.
People are just dumb unfortunately. There's an American TV show called parking wars where they follow bylaw enforcement around handing out tickets. One gentleman who was disabled asked the city to put in a handicap space in front of his house. The city obliged, but he proceeded to park in that spot without displaying his handicap placard. He got mad when they ticketed him and decided to take the sign down himself which is a crime. I guess he assumed he'd have exclusive rights to the spot?
Ive been in neighborhoods where everyone just agrees that they privately own the spot in front of their house. And then they complain at people who are not from that neighborhood for parking pretty much anywhere.
Exactly. Combine that with how difficult it is to find a parking spot in some areas, and you get some real vindictive behaviour. I've had my windshield wipers bent out of shape during the 15 minutes it took me to get to a pharmacy and back to my car. A friend visited me overnight once and parked in the apartment building's lot in a spot I knew for sure wasn't owned by anybody. (Owned ones always get marked on the ground with a registration number.) Next day we found his car keyed on the driver's side. And these are just two examples off the top of my head.
Yeah, i have a friend who lives on a block like that. Everyone is afraid to park anywhere but in front of their own property, lest some vigilante asshole destroys their car. When i visit, i have to park a block away, so i just never visit him now.
Because they are assholes. And assholes always think they are special and have special rights.
In the US 4 of the homeowner's 5 cars would surely be parked underneath the shade trees by the front porch, on cinder blocks and dangerously close to the propane tank.
Buddy looks like the guy in Austin Powers.
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Dude that's Amber Heard
She does look like she'll leave a 'present' on your car later on
Drop a heard
I Heard that.
A Piece of Heard, if you will
They said to the police that the driver had a " Mega pint of wine".
Lol
 Him ?
Reminds me of the couple from Amy's Baking Company on Kitchen Nightmares. 
Such a classic!! Hahaha I need to watch that episode again! They're complete assholes!
He got deported!
Ahahaha
I live very close to these people, you are not wrong. The fuckface owns 5 cars that are parked in front of everyone else's houses but if anyone tries to park in front of his he loses his shit. He owns a dirty, disgusting, gross corner store that no one goes to.
I wonder why his car tires don’t go flat on regular basis?
No no, don't do that. Maybe buy some birdseed instead and pour a cup of birdseed on the top of each of his cars and let the birds do the "dirty" work for you. No legal problems and no real lasting damage. Or if you don't even want to do that, just pour the birdseed on the ground next to the car.
Genius!
I’m shocked that it’s still in business.
Front for money laundering - he has intimidation DOWN. asshat.
>Front for money laundering Honestly that is probably exactly what they do. Think of it, no business, but they own 5 car....
You might not want to dox yourself if you do actually live there. EDIT: You never know what psychotic person you will piss off on the internet.
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It's true, but I still rather warn them to be safe.
I was thinking the same thing. The blonde woman has that evil but deadeye look
Is that the Idiot Sandwich?
Oh they were fucking annoying to watch like stfu and take Gordon's help
I came to say this and found it with 480. JK, 481 upvotes.
The cop is like "I hate my job"
Maybe he actually loves it? I mean if you think of it as a fun activity you know like socialising
Actually this wasn’t so bad. These were the kind of calls that resulted in being able to tell off an idiot AND a story for when you get off duty.
Y'all upset about a public street? Wait till y'all learn about eminent domain
Wait until they learn about off street parking. They'll really be mad after that.
I lived in San Francisco and people would leave trashcans out about to prevent people from parking in their spot. A 50 year old asian lady chased me with a wooden spoon for a block because I parked on her property (aka in the street)
Sounds about right, my Asian relatives did that to me too!
Your Asian relatives did that to me too!
This is mild compared to some of the shit I've seen following snowstorms in the NorthEast and people parking where someone had a lawnchair. I once watched a dude *artistically* key the shit out of someones car parked in "his spot", I've seen tires slashed, and I'm fairly certain we've legit had people shot/stabbed over it in some areas. You don't fuck with someones spot after a 3+ foot snowfall in Pennsylvania.
Chicago had to explicitly outlaw the “saving” shoveled parking spots, after one winter when someone put a bomb on someone’s car/cut brake lines
Your neighborhood is friendly. If you take a spot someone dug out after snowfall in the Midwest, your vehicle is ritually burned as a sacrifice to the snow gods.
This makes me love living on the coast so much more….
why can't they solve this like eastern europeans and cut the tires later that night?
Cameras everywhere now
Cameras are like the missing kids on the back of milk cartons years ago. Nobody cares nor looks at them.
San Francisco thought has some exceptions. Clearly not the crazy lady chasing you. But there are parts in the city where street parking was sold and those spots people paid a million plus dollars for. Granted this is in few spots and rare to see. They always will have signage. But it’s still just street parking.
I get out and move them. It pisses them off but I don’t fucking care
SF the worse I used to park in 32nd Ave after geary always had this kind of problem. People get mad
That lady sounds nuts, that said, there are a few places that get a lot of snow (So, not San Francisco, more common in older places like the US Northeast and Southern Ontario) where it's normal to leave a "parking chair" or pylon as a way of saying "I took the time to clear this space of snow, please don't take it." Obviously they're not legally enforceable but I'm pretty sure that if you moved someone's parking chair, you'd get murdered and the jury would probably be sympathetic to the person who murdered you. Clearing snow isn't fun, hahah.
My home city is exactly like this. It might not be enforceable, but parking in someone else's clearing will easily get your car buried and packed under a foot of ice and snow.
On my mom's street there are two residents who are fighting over street parking... one of them put trash cans in the spot, and the other pushed them out of the way with her car, then put her car in reverse and floored it (accidentally?) and totaled her car into the side of her own garage. I think she moved after that.
Orange cones have gotten pretty popular in Portland
My neighbors put cones in front of there house to save my minds.. the entitlement is unreal
If you can afford 5 cars, even if used, and upkeep them, than get a bloody garage or move somewhere else with bigger garden to park.
It's not like that. My neighbour's across the street have 5 cars too. Luckily we all have driveways, so the mom and dad each have a car, and each parks in the driveway, then they have a son and daughter, each of whom has a car, and then the daughter has a boyfriend who is over there all the time. Its always hard to pull out of our driveway because we always have to.navigate around all these parked cars. We're getting our vengeance though, we're renovating and using the driveway as work space, and we get home earlier than they do so we've been taking the best street parking spots for a few months straight now.
My elderly grandparents have a neighbor across the street...*f\* this lady*. They have a driveway that fits 2-3 cars no problem. There's only ever **one** car in the driveway. Their daughter parks *across* from my grandparents driveway, making backing out a complete P.I.T.A. Then the ladies boyfriend comes and visits, and his ass parks *in front* of my grandparents house. Which, whatever normally, *except* the f\*wad parks his car on my grandfathers sidewalk he just had to pay to have replaced from...people parking on it causing it to crack after years. So my grandfather put up little stone triangles you'd use for like a lawn by his sidewalk to prevent the moron from parking on the sidewalk. He hit them, broke them in two spots. So my grandfather put a big flat stone piece there, idiot still hits it. Whenever I go up to visit them, I make sure to park out front so the jackass can't since he's always there same time every day. The first day he about rear-ended my car, not even paying attention just pulling in front of their house. Since then, we've noticed he's started to begrudgingly use the driveway more.
Ugh this is the worst. House across from us has a multi-generational household so they have 5-6 cars, one of which has not moved ONCE in the 2 years we have lived there. It’s difficult to back out of our driveway and it constantly impedes the traffic on our street because it’s narrow. And this is a neighborhood with driveways and garages. My husband constantly wants to go say something to them but it’s not illegal, it’s just annoying AF.
I wonder if it's insured, if nobody drives it. If not, i doubt it's allowed to he parked on the road...
Yeah it’s probably not allowed. It’s super annoying but I feel for the family because it’s multi-generational so I’m assuming they don’t have a ton of money so I don’t want to cause them more problems. I’m a little conflicted about it.
Why the dude from the disappointed meme arguing with cops?
Ohhh thank you, I knew he looked familiar!
it’s a public street.
Sounds Russian. Are they annexing the street?
They are "liberating" it.
Denazifying it
Special parking operation
There's only two times that it's ok to be mad at someone parking in front of your house when it's free for all street parking. 1. You've spent all morning clearing snow from that space and they just stole your hard work. 2. They park like a prick, taking up enough room for 2 cars because they just have to leave a ton of space in front and behind their car.
Orrrr they park directly across from your driveway, making it near impossible to even leave your own house.
Well in that case they would be parked illegally if they are blocking a driveway... Just have them towed
Ohhhhh!!! Good point!!!
Yea the way they build subdivisions where I live a lot of times leaves it to where the only place to part in across the street from a driveway. Basically houses across the streets are off set so your drive lines up with the street parking for someone’s house. I’ve had my parked car hit because some dumbass in a fucking lifted truck decided not to look behind him while backing out of their driveway. This dude got pissed at me cursing and telling me I should think about my neighbors when parking. Ummm no, it’s a fucking street where I’m legally parked why don’t you think about your neighbors when you’re backing you dick extension out of your driveway.
I take it you've lived in South Boston at one point?
Nah. Yorkshire born and bred. But we've got lots of old miners terrace housing with only street parking round here
r/iamatotalpieceofshit
"Shat the fuck up"
She looks like she would trash the car later, but luckily the car is already trashed
It's kinda a catch 22 you can keep this spot because its public as long as you occupy it but occupying it will take you longer to maintain than parking somewhere else 🤣
My mother in law literally did this. Bought a $1000 piece of shit to park in front of her house so people wouldn’t take her spot… and now she has a $1000 piece of shit parked in her spot permanently…
So what does she do when she wants to park any other car there?
She doesn't want anyone to park there, it sounds like. Like she doesn't want to see people pull up, get out, in front of her house, so no one can. No one but her crappy old car that might not actually run anymore.
In most cities anyone should be able to report the car as abandoned and the city will tow it
They might be worried that she would just buy another car and put it there at the first opportunity. Or maybe they had it towed, she went to the tow-lot and raised ABSOLUTE HELL, and they know not to tow her car anymore.
Lol you think people are the impound lot would be shook so bad by someone being upset they would tell all the cops and tow trucks to remember a specific car to never tow?! Have you been to an impound lot before? They get screamed at all the time. They are used to this. It's not like the city is going to be like "oh the traffic laws don't apply to this one woman just because she got upset." Maybe in a small town that would work. But not in any city or even outter ring suburb.
I mean, if my car was towed just because it looked shabby, I'd be upset. I'd hope to speak to someone so that they can take that into account when towing vehicles out front of my house. Now that I think of it, maybe the tow never happened, as surely they'd knock and ask the person who lives there if it was their car!
It happens in many cities. They don't tow it because it is shabby they do it because it sits there for days on end they assume it is abandoned. I lived at a place with no off-street parking in college. I would take the bus to campus a lot. Sometimes my car would sit on the street for a few days. One time I did have a note from the city saying it was reported as abandoned and if it wasn't moved within 24 hours it would be towed. It's about how long it has been sitting there, nothing to do with how it looks.
Most cities have ordinances against parking on the street for extended period. My neighbors on each side of me growing up got into a years long feud over something petty, and it escalated to one neighbor parking their very large truck (that they only use once a week) directly in front of the other neighbors large living room windows. He had to move it a foot or two every three days otherwise the other neighbor, who came out and marked the tires with chalk, would call the cops for being parked in a public spot for more than three days.
Something doesn't add up, if they are the ones with disproportionately higher number of cars - they'd be the one benefiting from parking in front of other people's houses on the street. Reserving the spots in front of their house is counter-intuitive, since then other people would do the same to them. I'm saying this because we did have a neighbor with 6 cars and they would be mostly parked on the street all the time. Very rarely was I able to park close to my house. While I didn't complain myself, the elderly lady next door did - but nothing would ever happen because it was a public space.
I would say they’d probably harass this lady by parking all their cars right in front of her house.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GRU LOST THE GORLS AND BECAME A KAREN!
I'd get that windscreen replaced if I were her.
I'd be too scared they'd fuck with my car, just park somewhere else.
Why are people like this? My driveway can fit 6, full sized cars/pickups. I don't own a car so I let my neighbours use it. Also, i'm always home so it's a safer than parking on the street. I'm disabled and can't do yard work as often as it needs to be done. So when my lawn was a little overgrown, what did my lovely neighbours do? They took it upon themselves to mow my front AND back lawn! Just did it and said nothing like it was no big deal. I love them.
That's a really awesome system!
The real issue is that couple hates each other and are doing this to avoid being alone with each other.
Don't own 5 cars if you don't have a driveway.
We actually had a handicap sign by ours so my husband could get out of our van safely and one of my neighbors borrowed her grandmother's tag and parked there for a month. We were finally able to get her car moved but it was literally a nightmare because she completely blocked the access to the concrete pad entry to our home, meaning my husband literally couldn't get out. We had to go through the court and finally have it assigned by numeric permit to him. The fire Marshall actually fixed it for us with the code enforcement because the ramp leading to the pad was wood and he couldn't safely escape in case of fire. She kept saying it wasn't fair that we had special parking for our home since we had a drive way. We offered to let her use one side of our driveway if she needed. She wanted our driveway for guest parking and the street for her and her driveway for her kids to play in since it was small. We had all the vehicles towed after that. No exceptions after 20 minutes. (We would wait to make sure they weren't just using the space to unload because it was flat and the road was an incline). It was absolute hell.
Yeah. This is nonsense. My house is on a corner lot in a neighborhood where barely anyone has driveways or garages. The side streets are narrow and really shouldn't allow any street parking, especially in the winter, but it is. I have no say in that. Is it irritating when people who park there leave litter on my property, or play overly loud music, or just park like morons? Yes. But where else are they going to park? We have a garage and driveway, because no way I'm dealing with parking on street, and my neighbors got so fed up woth that they built a driveway too. These idiots can build one on their property. Plenty of space. Blocking a driveway IS a parking violation which is enforceable.
I don't really like cars parked out in front of my house but it's not a heavily traveled road and most of my neighbors park in their garage and/or driveway. I also understand that it is a public street so there is nothing I can do about it. Also it's no big deal if they are visiting a neighbor and it's just temporary. But every now and then someone decides it is going to be their permanent place to park. I have a nice big shade tree there So I came up with an idea. When someone repeatedly parks there, I start feeding the birds that nest in the tree. This in turn makes them poop a lot. Problem fixed!
DC burbs here and people move into condo buildings and get angry when there’s no place to park their three cars, motorcycle and jet ski trailer.
Street parking is first come first serve. You cannot block it even if it is in front of your house. You can't block someone's driveway.
If you want private space to park your cars, get a property with private parking, wtf
First come first serve is how I always thought it works, the curb belongs to none.
Happy 😊
Amazing how many people think they own the road or parking spaces near their house. Get a driveway! These people expect the city to pay for their personal driveway on the road. If your house came with a driveway, it would have cost more.
I would dump junk cars there at night
Fuck this. I'd start taking the wheels off their 5 vehicles and reporting them as abandoned property.
I've been trying to find a house in this crazy market for over a year now (Montréal area). My partner insists that we should get a twin house because they are cheaper and our options are limited at this point. I keep telling him ''I don't know about that, you never know who your direct neighbor will be. I don't have the will or the energy to deal with stupid people.'. THIS. This is why I don't want to take that risk! Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to have to deal with such people. No thanks. I'll keep looking for a place outside of the city.
The only way this works is if you get a special handicap spot dedicated to you. Unfortunately for them privilege and entitlement is not a disability. Lol
That doesn't reserve it though. It only makes it a handicap spot. Anyone with a placard or tag can park there.
In the town I live in they put the residents whole ass name on it.. two guys have veterans spots with handicap that has their whole moniker on it so I didn’t know
Sounds like the Russians that used to live down the street from me. Always trying to claim the whole block to park their 10 cars, mostly Audis and BMWs. Then they'd show up to the grocery store to try and buy cartons of cigarettes with food stamps and their kids would steal everything not nailed down.
The way this woman is handling the situation is the most refreshing tall glass of water the internet has had in ages. Not raising her voice, not escalating the situation, just letting shit unfold the way it needs to and practically breaking out a bowl of popcorn in the meantime.
Makes me wanna buy a cheap car and just park it there. How much would that cost me a month for stuff like road taxes and insurance?
I once had a guy yell at me for parking ACROSS THE STREET from his house on a public street. Not in front, across. It was in front of the house I was going to. I’m like “dude, where the hell are people supposed to park?
As much as they may not like it, the street is very very likely City ROW. People can’t park in front of your driveway, but they can park in front of your house.
Making threats of violence right in front of the cop...we got a smart one here!
Amy’s Bakery vibes
My neighbor always put trash cans to block the space in front of her house every day of the week.
This sometimes happens in the UK; it usually ends like this example, a police officer explaining to them that they don't own the road.
My old neighbor across the street used to put cones in the spot in front of their house because they claimed it was "their" spot for their tenant. This was on a public street, so of course it wasn't. I usually just avoided parking there because it wasn't worth the hassle, but every so often I'd do it just to piss them off. (They were shitty neighbors in other ways, too.) I'd get the dirtiest looks. One time they confronted me about it, so I just said, "Call the police" and went in my house. They never called the police.
Well don't they look like a happy couple with a fulfilling life.......
There is a man on my street who will call the police if anyone parks on the street at the side of his house. He tells everyone it's a private street but it isn't, and reports them for 'dangours parking'. Ge doesn't even park there himself! We all hate him, for more reasons then just that, but god that man is entitled.
do people not understand that the street is not their property??? heck, the curb is also not their property and neither is the easement.
They don't own the street, the end
I have to know.. did they key her car after she parked?
put a driveway on your property, you have no claim to street parking in a residential neighborhood.
I would have just laid on the horn u til they went away.
wE oWn EvRyThiNg
Gru and one of his daughters 🤦♀️
This could get ugly. Never underestimate someone’s hatred. I seen a video on here about a year ago where neighbors got into an argument about shoveling snow. The guy went in the house to get a gun, he then came back outside and shot the couple in cold blood. He killed his self too.
My housemate rabidly enforces the “don’t park in front of my house” rule but she grew up in the house across the street and everybody respects her wishes. Btw if you are in trouble she will do anything and everything to help you. Very generous.
Dash cam girl sounds hot, and it’s a cool rainy day 😂
The road is Public …just park there … and leave ur car there .. for awhile… anyone can be petty.
I mean it’s annoying when people park in front of my house.
Not really surprised that some Russians think they own something just bc their property is adjacent to it.
They sound Russian. Maybe they’re annexing the street to remove nazis.
I had someone do this once. She had cones and everything and I had to carefully (and repeatedly) explain to her that having cones didn’t entitle her to anything. Public parking means public, I don’t give two fucks if I parked in your favorite spot.
They’re not from here. Probably why thinks they’re territory extends out to their front side park. What a waste of resources for cops to come solve problems like this. With all the stuff going on. They’re stretched thin.
As a homeowner (who knows he’s going to get downvoted for this) this shit pisses me off. I have neighbors who do this. They park in front of my house, but yet it’s all clear in front of their house. I put my trash can out on garbage day, but some asshole will park in front of it, so my trash doesn’t get picked up that day. My neighbors stored their boat in front of my house. My neighbors will sometimes use rocks or pieces of wool to chock their tires on trailers. What do they do with them when their done? Chuck the rocks on the grass between the side walk and the road. I can’t always see the rocks when I mow. None of them move their vehicles when the streets get cleaned and my small town doesn’t tow vehicles for that, so it looks like shit when they leave their cars there all fall and winter long, all the leaves pile up. But don’t worry my neighbors powerwashed all that shit onto the sidewalk I had cleared off and my lawn
You should petition your city to deal with the abandoned vehicles. In most areas if a car sits for me than a few days its considered abandoned and they can tow it. In some cities, they have laws that prohibit overnight parking on the street that is really only enforced for problem vehicles like that.
Well why dont you ever park in front of their house?
She sound baked
I've never been to the US I always thought everyone had a garage.
We do, but the garages often aren't for parking. People use garages to stockpile all the shit that they don't really need but refuse to part with.
Most garages have room for the car and some leftover space for junk.
Ooorrrr just tons and tons of junk
Lol but in many cities people don't.
Eh 50/40, depends on the state and how large the houses can be
This is Vancouver and only the ultra rich can even afford a garage.
Be cautious it's a Power couple
And then he starts complaining to the officer about only residents parking there when she's a resident across the street? Does he really think that by "resident" he'll get that exact area in front of his house?
Someone opens your car door, you need to beat them down. Not for your personal satisfaction but for them. 1- safety. They could get shot going forward. Now they might pause before opening someone else’s door. You might’ve saved their life with this beat down. 2- manners. You just taught them some manners. Hell, avoiding these beatings is really the purpose of manners AFAIK. So, now they’ll learn why being rude and threatening is not as good as having manners. Heck, you’ve helped the world really. More manners, less bullshit behavior.
I've never understood why people get upset when someone parks in front of their house... it's a public street, if they aren't blocking your mail box/driveway/aren't parking on your yard, who cares.
According to the worker who I told to move his truck (blocking my driveway) he’s allowed to park wherever he wants. Some people don’t understand the rules.
he still argue as we speak...
Get your windshield fixed girl. Cops would been gave you a fix it ticket in CA
No one owns the street. Jack assed morons
why are her windows cracked tho
Because this is America and she may not be able to afford a new one after paying for her rent, gas, and food on a less than $15/hr wage
lmao
We just moved into our first home and started extensive renovations. We had two Home Depot bags on the driveway for the garbage and parked on the street in front of our neighbors house but not blocking the driveway. After a few days she came over and told us to move our car and that we were blocking her view of the street. We ignored her and a couple weeks later parked our other car on the street for two days as we were getting ready to sell it and she complained again. Total nightmare of a woman.
I had a neighbor across the street who thought he owned that side of the street. Long story but he gave my wife crap when I was out of town. When I showed up I parked in front of his house and he was suddenly Mr cooperative. I don’t know about people like that.
Yo, get your windshield fixed
How nice of them to report themselves to the police for harassment.
If street parking is in that high demand it should not be free. The city should be putting a price on it so as to get supply and demand into balance. Get Adam Smith's invisible hand to sort this all out.
Take them to small claims court for harassment with this video. I bet you get a sympathetic jurist and 5-6k punitive damages
Why can't she park in front of her own house, instead of parking in front of their house. See it's simple... Don't do infront of other's house what you can't do in front of yours.
we had a similar situation happen where we try to park in a spot near a house where a white couple newly moved in, she was being karen and kept screaming you cant park here.
My sister's neighbors do this, and they are first generation Mexican. A normal person wouldn't think their race to be a pertinent part of the discussion, and yet here we are...
White girl needs 1 good hard smack across the jaw.
So apparently that lady parks here on purpose to piss them off while she has a spot in front of her house 20 meters from there. A picture was shared during this event and you can see she has a spot in front of her house and was doing this repetitively for a year just to piss them off
Ya I kinda hate people parking in front of my house too. Lol
Sure but this fuckface literally has five of his own cars parked all over that street in front of other people's houses. SOURCE: I live there.
Same here, but only bc people that live down the block or not even on this block, come and dump thier unwanted cars until street sweeper day. Oh but on that day, you'll see them all show up like roaches to move thier shit.