‘Enjoy your long walk home’: Resident blocks man's car after he parks it in their private spot, forcing man to abandon his car and find another way home

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
May 10, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

When one looks for a place to live, they have to consider all kinds of different elements that would allow them to have the best experience living there. Some of those may be - The size of the house, the cost, the neighborhood, and how close it is to a supermarket, a mall, or even a school. Those are all different elements that people have to think about when they are in the process of looking. Another extremely important element is the parking situation in the area and making sure you have your personal parking spot. Without it, it can be really frustrating to have to look for a place to park every day, especially if you live close to, let's say, a stadium.

If you haven't guessed it already, I am talking about the person who wrote this Reddit story, who lives next to a stadium but also has a personal parking space near his place. Unfortunately, the fact that it is private didn't stop a random person from parking his car there when going to see a game, which caused a whole dispute when the owner decided to block this person in.

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    "If you park here, you will get blocked"
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    Entitled driver parks in a private lot, is surprised when he can't leave.
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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
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    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
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    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 from out of town had parked in his spot.
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    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...
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    "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.
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    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
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    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
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    tomorrow, ⚫. Hopefully he's now learned what happens when you park in a spot that isn't yours.
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    kempff 1 day ago "Do you know whose car this is?" "No, but it's probably some out- of-town come in for the ball game. Happens all the time."
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    • QuietDustt 1 day ago And... "Oh, you must be my new neighbor since you're parked there. When did you move in?"
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    Historical_Agent9426 1 day ago Neighbor should have the car towed 626 Share itredneck01 1 day ago • Honestly it would have been a better story talking about how their reaction to their missing car instead.
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    • bowmyr 1 day ago 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.
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    00Lisa00 1 day ago • And absolutely the person whose spot it is should charge him the going rate for a prime game parking spot
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    • PermanentlyDrunk666 · 1 day ago My college apartment would SELL the spots we paid for when an event was going on. Residents had no problem keying their cars.
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    caffeinatedangel · 1 day ago That was a brave move, I'd have been so afraid the would destroy my car or worse. I'd have just called a tow company and let the guy figure it out on his own.
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    duckrollin 1 day ago 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.
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