'I texted, called, DM’d… Nothing': Cousin parks in their relative's driveway, blocking them in for 24 hours, then they get towed after hundreds of messages go ignored

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  • AITA for towing my cousin's car from my driveway after they left it blocking my garage all weekend and ignored every message?
  • Woman complaining on the phone
  • So my cousin asked to "park for a couple hours" in my driveway Friday afternoon and left his sedan square across my garage door. I texted, called, DM'd. nothing. I had a Saturday
  • shift and a Sunday grocery run and still couldn't get my car out. By noon Saturday I left a final message that I'd tow at 2pm if the car wasn't moved; at
  • 3pm it was still there, so I used the tow company listed on our HOA board. He resurfaced Sunday night furious that I "stole" his car and made him pay fees, and some family.
  • members piled on because "it was just the weekend." gave clear notice, documented attempts to reach him, and used the posted process. those
  • fees are the consequence of ignoring boundaries, not my punishment. Access to my own home and car matters more than his convenience. AITA?
  • Car parked in front of a house
  • OverRice2524. NTA your driveway is not his personal parking spot.
  • National-Plasti... . NTA, It's your home. It's your driveway, it connects to your garage. and never agree to anyone using your driveway as a parking lot. Lesson learned.
  • garydeman⚫ Say to him that familie comes first, hè does not respect you, don't worries its just a tow, its only towed for a few hours
  • swanspank NTA. You leave the car, leave the keys. Don't feel safe leaving the keys, don't leave the car.
  • 42AngryPandas · Your cousin asked for an inch and took a mile. It's literally hindering your ability to live your life. You gave all the reasonable notice you could. Screw that jerk.
  • Family or not, if they're being incredibly inconsiderate and you can teach them a lesson, then give them consequences. Otherwise they will keep on doing it.
  • SCCock ⚫ In my 65 years I have never had anyone ask to park in my driveway for a couple of hours.
  • dacaur ⚫ NTA. If anyone to wants to park their car in my driveway they are leaving their keys with me. Weird that neither of you thought of that.....
  • KRed75 I have a beach house and my MIL has the house next to ours. We have a 10' wide gravel drive and they have one as well both next to each other. MIL's step grandson asked if he
  • could park his truck at her house while he was down there at a friend's who had no room for him to park. She allowed it.
  • 2 hours later, my business partner who I own the house with and who was staying there calls me. "Do you know someone with a big red truck with massively oversized tires?
  • He's parked diagonal across the driveways blocking me from leaving." I had no idea at the time who it was so I called MIL only to find out it was the douche step grand kid.
  • They called him and texted. His mom and step father called and texted. Nothing.
  • I finally told him to just the police. The police couldn't do anything other than call a tow company out but grand kid go there before
  • they could get there. It's unfortunate because he's a scumbag and it would have been great to have seen his reaction.
  • Grapefruitloaf WHY do people get unhinged when they get consequences of their own actions? You gave plenty of warning. NTA

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