‘You don’t own this street': Demanding neighbors claim ownership of neighborhood parking, man parks a broken-down car in front of their house for 6 months straight as payback

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Feb 18, 2024 1:00 PM EST

Living in an area with little to no parking spaces can get extremely frustrating very fast. Having to wander around the street for 15 minutes after work just to find a parking space, which is usually at least another five-minute walk back to your home, is a routine none of us want to go through. That obviously leads to people sometimes parking in front of other people's houses, simply because that is the only free space they managed to find. This could be annoying for the people living there, but it is not like they are entitled to the open space in the public street that is in front of their house.

This leads us to this petty revenge Reddit story. OP lives in an area where people park on the street since there are no private driveways. A neighboring family decided to claim the street as their own, and do whatever they liked there, including demanding people to move their cars if they parked in front of their house. Well, OP got an opportunity to get revenge by parking a friend's shabby car right in front of their house for 6 months straight, so he took that opportunity and rolled with it.

Scroll down to read the full extent of this petty revenge. Once you are done, and in the mood for more stories of entitled people, click here for a story of a hotel guest who demanded access to a room that wasn't even his.

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    "You don't own this street"
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    Parked a battered, creepy old van outside fancy house for 6 months.
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    About 10 years ago. Parents live on an old fashioned English street, quite common for streets in England to have no driveways (built a long time before cars), and
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    people will just park in front of houses, ideally their own. But no one is entitled to the 'space' outside their own house.
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    It is what it is, if you can't find a spot you just go to the next street. There is family who make everyone's lives a misery, they will
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    park in ways to ensure they always have a monopoly on the street. Will bloke you in. Knock on your door if you're parked (legally) outside their house, and ask you to move.
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    Now this is quite a fancy street, townhouses we call them. They really didn't like it when cheap cars were parked outside their house.
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    I have a mate called Dave, he was in the army, a paratrooper, an oddball and wonderful bloke of all sorts.
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    He had this project van' I think it was a 1995 Mercedes sprinter. Takes up 2 spaces for sure. It was covered in dents, the back was a like a makeshift caravan. It was
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    rusted white and must have had about 100 strange bumper stickers. The cherry on top was some stencilled writing 'Dave's pet crematorium, you kol em, we grill em' .. or something like that.
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    It wasn't his daily vehicle, just something he kept to play around with and did the odd trip out in the countryside.
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    Anyway! Dave got a 6 month deployment overseas. He asked me if I could start it up and leave it running every month or so, just to make sure the battery wasn't dod when he got back.
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    When I told him about the horrible family by my parents, it was his idea. That's were he was going to keep the van. It was fully taxed, so not illegal.
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    We spent an evening at my parents, a catch up before his tour, and in the brief moment a space was available, he whipped the van round and parked it right
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    outside their front door. It was like a military operation. Neighbours were clearly pised, did a fair bit of foot knocking. Can only assume they called the
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    council but I doubt it led to anything. I was a bit nervous about starting her up as I'm sure there would be a confrontation. But 'luckily' the
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    first time I did, the battery was literally already dod. So it just sat there for 6 months gavering dust. Obviously it made the parking situation worse, but I think everyone secretly enjoyed it.
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    As a favour for Dave, a week before he was due back. I dropped the keys off at a mobile mechanic, and asked them to attend the van and sort the battery out. When
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    they called me to say it was done, they mentioned the house owners flipped out on them, demanding to Know who's van it was. I believe he told them to off.
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    I Will never forgot Dave driving off in that thing, on his way to wales for a camping trip, blasting Tubthumping by Chuwumbawumba
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    FrangibleSoul - 7 hr. ago The music was like icing on the cake. Well done.
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    Flat_Ad_99937 hr. ago I'd like to be besties with Dave, please
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    sxclebo69 5 hr. ago Dave, your medal:
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    Key-Study8648 - 7 hr. ago I have a neighbour who has written notes and put them under the windscreen wipers of people who legally park across the road from her house because
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    apparently she can't turn her head enough to look behind her when reversing and she's afraid she'll hit someone's car. She also has a habit of complaining about
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    EVERYTHING. Side note, anyone who wants to drop their car off for a week or two at a time on the south side of Brisbane let me know.
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