Resident puts spikes on their yard after entitled neighbor refuses to stop driving over their flower garden, costing neighbor two flat tires: ‘She deserved it’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 10, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Many people take a lot of pride in all the work they put into making the front of their house look beautiful. We've all seen how much effort goes into some front yards. There are even those with sentimental feelings towards a specific decoration, whether it's a gnome gifted to them by their great-grandmother, or a flower bed they planted with a late loved one.

The resident in the story below, for example, planted roses in their front with their mother before she moved to Mexico, so this flower garden is really important to them. When they saw that a neighbor's daughter kept driving over it when she parked her car, they asked her nicely to be mindful of the flowers.

She, however, did not care at all about the damage she was doing and kept driving over the front yard, no matter what the resident put there to stop her. That was until they turned to the HOA to ask for permission to put spikes in their yard, which the HOA agreed.

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  • When the entitled neighbor parked her car the next time, and discovered two flat tires as a result, she was finally “convinced" to stop driving over someone else's property…

  • A young woman stands near her car with a flat tire.
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  • AITAH for putting spikes on the edge of my yard?

    So my neighbors daughter (20-30) has a problem of rolling through my yard to park in the driveway.
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  • I have my mothers flowers (close to the edge of the yard) that she planted before moving back to Mexico and I adore these roses their the last thing my mom left for me and my brother The first few times I let it slide cause I didn't want issues with my neighbor, but after the 10th time you'd think she'd learn to park
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  • correctly so I put up 3 in tall bricks with concrete to keep them in place around the edge of the yard to prevent her from coming into the yard due to just feeling the bricks but not even 2 weeks after putting them up she knocked 3 of them out of the ground.
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  • I asked her to be a little more careful cause she already knocked over some bricks but she gave me a smug look and told me to have my "p ties in a bunch".
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  • So I just fixed the bricks and she knocked them down another 5 times. So I went to the hoa to ask if I capsule make modifications to my yard's perimeter to keep vehicles off it.
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  • Which they said it was fine there was no rules on what I could and couldn't do.
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  • So I removed all the bricks, made molds of the same size. Poured concrete in said molds with nails poking .5in-1 in out of them and laid them around the perimeter of my yard.
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  • The following day when she was pulling in she yet again hit the bricks thinking nothing of it, the next morning when she was going to leave both her passenger side tires were flat to the ground.
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  • And then when she saw the nails poking out, and she got mad called the cops saying I vandalized her car but they couldn't do anything due to it being in my yard and her driving on my yard even after warnings and asking nicely for her to stop.
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  • Now she's careful and hasn't driven over my yard. So now I've takenthose off and put the old bricks back in.
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  • Ruebee90 NTA. I would keep the spikes up though.
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  • OP Cr <head_trp I would've but i took them out for the safety of people and their pets
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  • Mr-Inspector-Gadget Good fences make good neighbors
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  • OP Cra head_tr p My neighborhood doesn't allow fences on the front yard
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  • NTA Familiar_Shock_1542 What's her problem? How come she can't use her driveway properly? Sounds like she's a majorly entitled asshole. She deserved it, so too bad so sad. She brought it on herself. Hilarious that she tried to sic the police on you.
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  • bonzai 113 I had to do something similar about 6 years ago. I have thirty acres of land and had to put collapsing spikes on a few of the entrances to my land. These spikes let you leave but not enter. Local kids used to race their dirt bikes and 4-wheelers across my land.
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  • DanaMarie75038 NTA. You shouldn't have removed it. She'll do it again one of these days
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  • Disastrous-Wildcat NTA. She deserved it. Some people just have to be dragged into being considerate kicking and screaming.
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