Entitled man fined $11,000, loses car and golf cart after ignoring neighbor's warnings: 'The neighbor would prefer him to "mind his own business"'

Author image for Remy Millisky
Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 16, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Listen to your elders… Otherwise, you might end up like this guy, who had some massive fines to pay off! 

There are some things in life that just get worse if you ignore them, and fines are one of those things. For example, if you get your car impounded, you can just leave it there if you can't afford to get it out right away. But then you start accruing daily fees that add up to cost more and more money. Naturally, most people who get their car towed want it back ASAP, and they throw up their hands and just pay the big fine to avoid paying all those little extra fines. 

This dude happened to incur a fine… and then he left for quite a while. Oh no… His neighbor knew all about it, though, but he wasn't going to push the issue after the dude was impolite to him. This guy learned a very expensive lesson, which you can read all about down below. 

After that, read about the dude who's confronting their 25-year-old GF because she keeps bringing ChatGPT into their personal arguments: 'She needs to stop.'

Advertisement
  • 01
    'Failure to do so within 30 days will result in golf cart and car being towed... at the neighbor's expense' سن
    via Wesley Tingey For Unsplash+

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • 02
    Neighbor tells Gramps he should "mind his own d business". That advice costs neighbor most of his yard and a car. Gramps had just moved into a retirement park with a lot that backed up to county land that was a nature preserve. His backyard was basically non-existent, but he didn't mind as he got to look out over the preserve, however he did marvel at how his next door neighbor's backyard extended a good 8ft past his, giving neighbor a nice space back there.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 03
    Gramps tried to be friendly with all his new neighbors, exchanging phone numbers and the like, and one day he noticed the next door neighbor was putting down expensive pavers that extended from his back door all the way to the old fence posts that designated the preserve boundary. Gramps watched the neighbor yank the three rickety fence posts out of the ground and move them back an extra two feet into the preserve before pounding them back in, then started to clear the land, intending to gain hi
    via u/[deleted]
  • 04
    own d business." Gramps decides not to press the issue. Nothing happens that year, but the following year when most of the park emptied out to head north for the summer the county comes by to check on the preserve. Gramps notices them going back and forth behind his neighbor's house, the workers are pulling out maps and taking photos and making phone calls and soon more guys show up.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 05
    Turns out neighbor has moved the posts several times over the years, and in reality his backyard is supposed to be even smaller than Gramp's backyard! To make it worse, neighbor put pavers in the back specifically to park both his golf cart AND a cherry red sports car back there for the summer, so the county will have to move them before they can do anything else. They tape a notice to the front door and leave.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 06
    Gramps goes over to read it, and it states that neighbor was in violation of encroaching onto protected lands, he has 30 days to move his car, tear up the pavers and pay a fine of $11,000 (because of damage to endangered species who inhabit the protected lands, as well as trespassing fees). Failure to do so within 30 days will result in golf cart & car being towed and impounded, pavers will be dug up and carted off at neighbor's expense and the fine will increased for every additional day past t
    via u/[deleted]
  • 07
    30 days comes and goes, so a week after that Gramps has quite the show as first the car and cart were towed, pavers were dug up and hauled off, and the old fence posts and ropes were replaced with metal posts embedded into buried cement bases, connected by steel cables. Whole process took several weeks to finish, but the preserve looked a lot more legit when they were done. A few solar cameras were installed so the county could monitor the wildlife (and encroachers) remotely, meanwhile more noti
    via u/[deleted]
  • 08
    By November the snowbirds were flooding back into the park, including neighbor. That was Gramps' 2nd show of the summer as neighbor reads all the notices, digging down until he reads the first one, then runs out back and starts screaming and cussing up a storm before running back to his car to dig out his cell phone so he can call the county to find out where his car and golf cart were.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 09
    Gramps stays indoors to avoid the guy as he is frantically trying to unload his car, turn on his water and electricity, get the ac and the toilets going, and all the while trying to get someone at county to pick up the phone and give him some answers. He finally gets a live person and proceeds to scream at them while on speakerphone about his car and cart, so the call keeps getting kicked to other people because who wants to help a screamer? Basically neighbor is told to come to the county offic
    via u/[deleted]
  • 10
    Three days later neighbor catches Gramps outside and asks if he was here when the county "stole his car and destroyed his backyard". Gramps said he was, and neighbor says "well why didn't you call me when you saw them putting notices on my door? You had my number up north!" Gramps said he had thought about doing that, but figured neighbor would prefer him to "mind his own d so he decided against it. business",
    via u/[deleted]
  • 11
    prankerjoker Grandpa played the long con. I like it. Plus he didn't have to lift a finger to get the neighbor cited either. I'm surprised the neighbor didn't accuse your grandfather of calling whatever officials that came out.
    via u/prankerjoker
  • 12

    Some people simply won't see reason, no matter how much you explain it to them

    iskyfire The part I'm wondering is: would the neighbor have even believed Gramps if he had called him. He probably would have ignored the warning from Gramps and told him off again.
    via u/iskyfire
  • 13
    WolfWhiteFire It was over a year, he probably forgot about the whole exchange and the OPs grandpa probably only remembered it because of it being a more memorable situation for him.
    via u/WolfWhiteFire
  • 14
    There is nothing in the world like a Gramps. Thank you for this beautiful story. It makes me miss my crotchety, old lovable Gramps!
    via u/JellyB***Baby
  • 15
    El_Biscotto Assuming gramps isn't the only neighbor, I'd say this guy isn't the most popular on the block.
    via u/El_Biscotto
  • 16
    [deleted] Yeah his behavior really stands out as everyone else has always been super friendly from the day Gramps moved in. They're all retired and mostly chill AF, that one dude just had some issues.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 17
    AgreeablePie Don't mess with protected lands, they will f you up. Ever wanted to know the price of an old endangered tree? You can't afford it.
    via u/AgreeablePie
  • 18
    AngelaMotorman Long, yes, but so, so worth it. Adding, the ending gives new meaning to "punch line". Bravo!
    via u/AngelaMotorman
  • 19
    Cheezburger Image 10494260992
    via The Tampa Bay Estuary Program on Unsplash+

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

  • 20
    [deleted] How long was he gone for? I'm betting that original fine doubled at the least
    via u/[deleted]
  • 21
    [deleted] I think it was just shy of 3 months from the original notice date. Not sure what the final fine ended up being, but Gramps said a few more weeks and the guy's car could have been auctioned off with the proceeds going towards the fines, so he was lucky.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 22
    mchammer2G Great story. One thing I'd like to add is never underestimate old people. You never know what skills and knowledge they had when they were younger that can and will totally f you.
    via u/mchammer2G
  • 23
    rangergirl141 As a former park ranger of 16 years this makes me so fting happy.
    via u/rangergirl141

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

nature neighbors national park fine neighborhood car golf cart yard neighborhood-drama neighborhood-stories
Scroll Down For The Next Article