'My driveway is BLOCKED': Entitled neighbor takes over resident's private garage, blocking their driveway, resident has car towed, sparking neighborhood feud

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 15, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

Neighbors will often surprise you in the most inconvenient and infuriating ways. Just when you think you understand them inside and out, they will decide to build fences on your property, throw loud parties during the work week, and, as was the case here, park exactly where they have been told not to do so.

Now, under most circumstances, we allow a grace period for innocent mistakes. Perhaps there was an emergency that would justifiably explain why your neighbor opted to park in your personal garage, thereby blocking your own car from your own driveway. That being said, you would think that in an emergency, this person would notify you in some way beforehand, even if it's last minute, before invading your property without your expressed approval. 

Keep scrolling below for this resident's account of the time they decided that it was the last straw and ultimately called to get this woman's car towed. 

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  • One can imagine that all future encounters with this woman will be tense at best. How do you recover from that kind of disagreement? You cannot just live peacefully with someone after you've gotten their car towed? Just as the neighbor learned the hard way that actions have consequences, we suspect that this author is going to experience some unforeseen consequences of their own as well.

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    AITA for towing my neighbor's car for blocking my driveway (even though the cop said I should've just driven over my grass)?
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    So here's the tea. I live in a neighborhood where parking is a little tight but there is a copious amount of space around the block. It's not impossible. or a super far walk. I pay
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    more rent than most around my home (Somewhere around $100-$250 dollars extra) specifically because I have a driveway and a garage. Like a whole a garage. It's not a mystery
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    that it's there. It's not hidden at all. It's very visible and my driveway has grass along it but is still noticable as a driveway as i've lived here for 2 years and use it semi regularly.
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    The other day, I left my house late (around 10:30 pm or so) to grab something from the store and visit a friend. I came back around 12 am and boom-my driveway is BLOCKED. Not like they
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    slightly nudged into it. I mean parked right in front of it, like they own the place. It was street sweeping so the street parkers moved their cars to our side street. (I live on a corner.)
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    I checked my security cams (I have multiple, because I'm not new to neighbor nonsense), and saw what happened but I could barely make out that it was a woman, but not who exactly it was.
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    This woman, who I now know lives on the next corner across the street, used my driveway to turn around (re) and then decided to just park there. Bold. There were
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    multiple spots available on the street at the time. I have receipts. Oh, and some light backstory: our daughters used to be friends, but
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    after a kid drama moment, this woman told her daughter not to play with mine anymore. Okay, fine. My daughter and I moved on. But now this?
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    Now she's parking in front of. my driveway like she pays rent for it.
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    Anyway, I waited. I gave her time. I hoped she'd come move it. She parked at 10:30pm. I tried to be a good neighbor and parked elsewhwere. At
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    8:00 AM, I had someone coming to help me fix my car (you know, IN MY DRIVEWAY), and her car was still there. So I called the cops at 8:30, who
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    called a tow company and had it taken. No warning. Just 1. Consequences. Why would I be neighborly when they weren't even courteous to me.
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    Here's where it gets fun: The cop who came gave me flack for it. He was like, "Well, you could've driven partially through your yard, up on the curb to get in." Sir. Sir. No. I'm
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    not damaging my grass or squeezing past someone else's car and damaging both just because you don't want to wait for a tow.
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    Then he said he didn't want to tow it because there was a car seat inside. Cool? Should've parked legally then. The baby can't drive.
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    Then, and this is where I almost popped off, he said, "Don't be surprised if they retaliate."
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    Oh? Retaliate against me for...using my own driveway? I told him, "That's why y'all are here."
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    And then I found out who the neighbor was. Found out they are from Jamaica, and was inclined to give them a pass if the rules were different there,
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    but surprise, it's ALSO illegal to block driveways in Jamaca. So like... you already know better, girl.
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    Anyway, she hasn't said anything to me, but she did come out as it was being towed and probably paid a cute little bill.
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    Should have moved your car if you were awake then. I feel O guilt. Some neighbors said I was mean for doing that. So now I'm wondering...
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    Tldr: AITA for towing the car instead of knocking on her door (again, despite not knowing initially who it was, and knowing this wasn't an accident and she had other parking options)?
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    Or was I just enforcing boundaries that other people conveniently ignore? Also, how do I handle her and other neighbors who may be upset with me because of it?
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    R, drag me or clown me. I'm good either way. Also I wasn't about to go around knocking on doors at midnight or early in the morning. Like? People are crazy.
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    supertwicken • 20h ago NTA. You were nice enough to wait until morning even; I would've called at midnight because I do not f tolerate entitled AHs like your driveway-blocking neighbor.
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    7625607. 19h ago NTA Everyone knows not to block driveways. This is on her.
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    ConvivialKat • 19h ago NTA Is that cop dating this woman or something? I have never, ever had a cop argue with me about following a legal course of action. If she parks there again, call the cops again.
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