'You don't live here, you don't park here': Entitled Mom parks on private property to pick up kid from school, resident gets revenge

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    Wheel - "Entitled Parent Parks In My Driveway"
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    Font - Entitled Parent Parks In My Driveway L I own a house a couple houses down from a school, so this was bound to happen eventually. When it's time for the kids to go home, my street is lined bumper to bumper with parents to pick up their kids, the sidewalks are full of families who walk all the way to their cars. I often have to pick up balloons, snack packaging, old homework worksheets, and general garbage that the kids drop. If you're trying to get home around the time school let's out, th
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    Font - There's two places the kids let out, my street, which is a small cul-de-sac with the school at the top, and a main road that's open all the way down to a baseball park with a wider road to allow street parking and two-way driving. Obviously if you can't find parking, the tiny residential road isn't the way to go. There are 3 cars at my home, my car, my roommates car, and my husbands utility van which he parks on the road to avoid blocking our roommate since she's frequently in and out.
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    Font - Fridays, today, I work from home. So when I finished work I poked my head out the window to look at my fruit tree I have near my driveway (it's spring, I keep excitedly looking for blooms) and I notice a big white Buick SUV in the middle of my driveway blocking both spots for my car, which my husband was using since I was home, and my roommates spot. Honestly, why would you park in somebody's driveway?
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    Font - So on top of these entitled parents blocking up our small residential road, this person decided to take up a private residences driveway. I got on the phone with the non- emergency police line and took pictures of the vehicle and plate.
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    Font - Then I got my husbands keys and backed his vehicle up to block the SUV into my driveway and I waited. 15 minutes later the mom, bug eye sunglasses, big ol' diamonds on her jewelry and wearing athleisure and she comes around to hop in the driver seat and smiles and waves at me sitting on my steps. Honestly, she probably thought I was the homeowners kid or something, because I'm in my early 20s rather than the homeowner.
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    Font - EM: Hi, hope you don't mind Me: You're trespassing, why would you park in a private driveway? EM: sorry, won't do it again, we were just leaving. She was being really dismissive and avoiding eye contact despite taking the sunglasses off
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    Font - Me: I don't care, you have no right to park on my property, I'm on the phone with the police EM: it was just for a second, I was just picking up my daughter. Me: it doesn't matter, you don't live here, you don't park here. At this point I realize the non emergency police aren't going to pick up, so I hang up and decide to with her a bit.
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    Font - She got in her SUV and dismissively waved at me, so I got in my vehicle that was blocking her in and waited, pretending to still be on the phone. She starts trying to back out of my driveway because I little bit of a gap between my utility van and my neighbors car, but it was definitely too small for this Buick.
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    Font - I would like to point out this vehicle has a scuffed front bumper, so I had a feeling she has no spacial awareness outside of her backup camera. Everytime she backed up, I honked. Still pretending to be on the phone. She tried again, I honked again.
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    Font - She looked at my grass and I was about to start recording her in case she tried to go through my front yard, I honked again. If she kept trying to back out and hit my big utility van, she would certainly lose. She gets out of her SUV and comes up to my van, recognizing she can't do anything without making it far worse for herself, her face was visibly patchy from the distress, and she asked again,
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    Font - EM: are you really calling the police? Me: Yes, you're illegally parked on my private property, that's illegal. I don't care if it's for 5 seconds, don't f do it, you don't live here. Her kid got out of the car and I decided that was enough, so I waited for her to get back in her SUV and I parked my van back in it's rightful spot and let her out.
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    Font - After that I called the school and gave them the license plate number. Nothing will probably come of it, but I dont think she'll park in someone's driveway again anytime soon. I'll take the hole points because there's a child involved, but you shouldn't put your child in situations like this anyways.
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    Font - SpookyGirl0123. 4 days ago I had the same exact problem when I lived near a school. The entitled parents were rude AF, would curse me out if I told them to move, and one went as far as to threaten me that she would call the police on me when she was blocking my driveway. So, I sent a long email to our city's mayor telling her that due to all the J walking, double parking, and parents/kids walking out between vehicles - it was a matter of time before someone gets killed. I invited her to c
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    Font - Believe it or not she emailed back and said she was going come over and that she would bring breakfast. She also brought with her one of the town councillors who happened to be a former police officer. The Councillor lost his mind. He started ranting about all of the laws the entitled parents were doing (parking on corners, parking in front of fire hydrants, double parking, blocking driveways, and much more). That afternoon town workers dug holes for signs. The next days there was signs f
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    Font - Then they were going to randomly ticket at various times each week afterwards. It was glorious. The best thing was that the mayor called me at the beginning of their next fiscal year to tell me that due to all the fines they gave out, they were able to afford a new bylaw officer to work directly with the school system to tackle this problem in other schools. ✩ 1.0k Reply Share
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    Font - The_Mechanist24 4 days ago I would've called a tow truck 874 Reply Share deletedpearl OP. 4 days ago Legally I could have, but I went for psychological damage instead 613 Reply Share
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    Font - BunnySlayer64. 4 days ago Very similar to what our little neighborhood goes through. We live in a private townhome community that backs up to a high school. Although we are not gated, there are signs at both entrances stating that it is private property, no street parking, etc.
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    Font - Entitled parents think they can swing in one entrance, drop off / pick up their kids, then leave out the other entrance. We took to having our security patrol block off both entrances before and after school. Parents went nuts and called the police multiple times to complain about not having access to "public" roads, only to be shut down by the PD. Needless to say, we get a lot of hate from some parents.
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    Font - Once, a mom was able to get into the community before the patrol service blocked off the driveway. She was told she needed to leave as she was both trespassing and blocking a fire lane. "Just going to be a minute ... not hurting anything ... public street ..." she gave all the usual excuses, so the patrol officer called the PD to have her ticketed for trespassing and blocking a fire lane. When the police officer arrived and approached her car to get her information, she tried to run over
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    Font - Needless to say, it didn't end well for her. BUT, at least we didn't have problems with entitled parents for quite a few months after that! 437 Reply Share
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    Font - Prestigious_Dig_218 - 4 days ago You're nicer than me. We'd still be sitting there. 110 Reply Share
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    Font - pokerninjatx 4 days ago Keep a sprinkler attached to a hose by your driveway. Either have it automatically turn on 15 mins before school lets out, or take pleasure when you walk outside, look the parent in the eye, and turn on the sprinkler, covering your driveway/their car rather than your grass. 107 Reply Share
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    Font - SnooWords4839 4 days ago I would printout her info and put it on a sign, Don't be this parent who trespasses!! Put in a sheet protector and stake it by the end of your driveway!! Reply Share 81
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    Font - deletedpearl OP. 4 days ago Worth getting a camera aimed right at it to film the property destruction when she inevitably gets mad about it 70 Reply Share

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