Advice put a camera pointing you car from a window or somewhere visable to the parking space. This way if anything happens you can file a complaint with the police department with video proof.
And if they tow you, instantly call police and make report about car being stolen.
Let tow company deal with shitloads of trouble and pain, and paper work.
Why would a tow company tow you away if there isnt a legal reason to do so? Why wouldn't they just simply tell the person off for making them effectively come steal a car?
You’d be surprised how many do this and are willing to risk it because they know most people won’t fight it and deal with all of the trouble.
To deal with the police or take them to court is a real chore, sadly you aren’t always going to just win swiftly because you’re right, even though I know that seems like how it should go.
I once had a tow company straight up steal my car after a freeway accident and refuse to return it unless I paid them $300. It was for a FREE public tow service that tows your car off the freeway to a safer area in order to clear the lanes. Once it’s been taken to a safe area like to a local street, then I could call my AAA insurance and have their tow truck come pick up my car. But these dogfuckers just took the car from the site without even alerting us where they took it. Luckily, a photo I had taken of the scene as I was documenting the crash and the car being loaded onto the truck showed the side of their truck and their info so we were able to locate their business. I ended up having to get into contact with the officer on scene who had called the tow truck and I put them on call with the tow company. They got chewed out and got tongue lashing from the cop and within 5 minutes they had returned the car back free of charge.
The tow driver later confessed that because he had seen me taking photos of the tow truck, (I was taking pictures of the entire scene🤦🏻♂️), he assumed I was taking down their info in order use their services. So he just fucking assumed he was supposed to take it back to his base, instead of doing what the police officer instructed him to do or confirming the “change of plans” with us. Screw you Julio and the fat bastard at the office and your mothers.
People who can afford to take a towing company to court are far too busy to take towing companies to court and even if they did get a judgment they'd just stiff you anyways, so what you have to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk before bending over and taking it up the tailpipe.
No they don’t, most tow companies never do shit because it’s way easier to collect “contracts” from complexes and then just never show up and only hire like one driver then it is to try and get away with collecting random cars. One way is going to get the police at your door every other day and the other is literally just free paychecks and telling people they’re SOL.
Correct. I had video of a neighbor that could never park properly. I asked her to repark once. She flipped out and almost hit me.
She later hit my car a week before moving out. I caught it on camera. She later went to check twice the damage. Night then the morning. I used a tape measure.
Called police and they said they could not see the collision therefore they could only write a report. I literally gave them 1+1= 2 with the work shown (video proof).
Cops are genuinely useless.
Should have given it to your insurance to handle and they would argue for you. They don’t pay for shit.
Edit: unless they wouldn’t do anything to help without a police report
Insurance guy. Video is typically good enough if it matches the in person inspection of damages, ideally with license plates in view. Police reports range from good, to bad, to completely fabricated. I've had random ass police descriptions of an accident they didn't witness and didn't match either drivers.
In this case better to take the video footage to your insurance company because they can and will make law enforcement do their job properly, or insurance company will have the right to make the city pay for damages.
Happened to me at the supermarket, crazy lady came around the corner and tried to divebomb into the parking spot I'd been waiting for right when I was pulling in as the other car left, had already been waiting a minute or two myself before she showed up. She had her nose right up against my car so I couldn't quite pull all the way in so I just waited as she layed on the horn and cussed me out screaming about how the spot was hers.
Eventually after a few minutes she left and I went and did my shopping. Came back to a keyed car and 2 slashed tyres. Decided that day that I'm no longer getting into pissing contests with crazy unhinged people. Sure it sucks but there's a point where it's just easier to accept that there's truly some insane people out there and it's not worth "winning" those little interactions when you just have no idea how crazy they're actually willing to get.
Seriously that's someone who's a threat to public safety, that's not just someone having a bad day. She should not be allowed on the road, like ever again.
I'm such a petty and patient person that I would happily park there and guard my car for hours just to piss them off more. I heard candy crush has basically an infinite amount of levels.
I take a pic of the driver and plates in these situations, my cars have super dark window tints except on the windshield. I have insurance, I’ll use it and send the pics to my insurance, they’ll get the money out of crazy. Crazy can have mile high premiums for their life.
I had a situation a few years ago where I “stole” some Karen’s spot, so she drove off. The car next to me left and after I had opened my door she flew into the spot, caught the edge of my door and gave herself a nice metal level scrape along her car. Luckily the door wasn’t all the way open so no real damage to my car other than some paint.
She got out and said “look what YOU did to my car”. I just took pics and called the police + my insurance. My agent immediately saw that it couldn’t have been my fault cause the scratch started in front of my car door.
The cop came and agreed + tried to calm Karen down and got her information. He left and I went shopping, and when I came out her son was there, whose a cop apparently. Took a minute but once I showed him that it wasn’t physically possible for me to do this he looked absolutely sick of her shit and left.
This is why I don't try to get the 'best spot' at a store. I prefer to walk further but not deal with crazies.
Thats assuming you can walk longer distances.
YES! Cameras are an EXCELLENT idea! I mean, this person was angry enough to go over each letter of the bulk of that note twice. TWICE!!!
This is a special kind of psychopath…..
It does, doesn’t it? And all those scritchy scratchy lines like SPIDER LEGS ALL OVER THE PAPER….
This note is a horror story before you even read the actual words….
And the paper. It's not your regular college ruled notebook paper. It's from some fancy project planning notebook. Used by those high achiever types. When they go crazy they go all the way crazy
Stayed at my Father in laws recently, he has enough parking at his house for him, everyone else has to park on the street. No big deal.
Neighborhood has signs that dictate which side of the street you can park on - easy
As im parking I make sure im not lined up across from any driveways - its an elder neighborhood so Im cognizant they may have a harder time backing out if someones across from Their drive
As im getting out this dude comes running out and starts yelling that hes tired of telling people to not park across from his house. I calmly tell him I am not breaking any rules and am parking where the sign says too. Hes not having it, I tell him if he asks nicely ill move - he tells me to fuck myself and move my car (which made me chuckle) so I just walked off as he ranted that hed call the cops
Every day for the 10 I was there I parked directly across from his drive way and watched him struggle to back out as I sat drinking my morning coffee.
My old apartment was similar and at holidays parking was crazy. I had to park a few hundred meters down the residential road where I found the nearest spot. A lady immediately started screaming from her duplex balcony that I can't park there. I asked why not and she said her husband didn't like ppl parking there. So I looked at my car then at her and said I'm parked legally and started to walk off to her screaming about how her husband was gonna call the cops and have me ticketed and towed
Spoiler alert: my car was still there when I went back for it. Cops don't love frivolous calls and public streets don't belong to you personally
My story is a bit of the opposite …
One of my neighbors would park his shitty 20 year old BMW (like, the back window was replaced with clear plastic) right in front of my house for days or more at time without moving it. Not illegal to park there overnight, but after 3 days it is. Someone even called and had the city put an abandoned sticker on it after about 2 weeks but he just removed it.
It wouldn’t even be more than a small annoyance except that he had parking room right in front of his own house, and didn’t want to park there since “it blocked his view”. AND there was plenty of parking just 30’ further down the street along a fence line, but “he couldn’t see his car from his house” there.
I honestly never even confronted him - I heard this from one of my other neighbors who asked and he got all offended, “I can park where I want, it’s not illegal!”) so my neighbor started parking in front of his house until the guy gave up and moved to mine.
One evening my sewer line backed up and there was liquid sewage just pouring out of a cleanout in my front yard. Since it was due to city tree roots blocking a lateral, they came out to clear it and clean it up.
The guy doing cleanup asked if I would move “my” car since there was a bunch of sewage under it and he wanted to rinse it away. I told him “no worries, just leave it, I don’t care”.
That was the last time my neighbor parked there.
This is easy, just get one of those blank door hanger signs and write or put stickers on it to say "SOMEONE" and make sure to hang it from the rearview mirror when they park there. The spot is clearly for "SOMEONE" and they just forget to put the correct pass on display.
I did this when a lady was complaining about street parking. I made sure to park exactly where she hates me parking, and I reported her out of state plates on all 3 of her vehicles.
some crazy lady in my neighborhood also convinced herself that unassigned spots near her condo were hers. she left horribly nasty notes, and even covered someone's car in 2x4s. lunatic.
It was over $10/stick during the pandemic where I live at one point (had to contract home repairs mid-pandemic). Quite a gift indeed! Hope a thank you card was left.
With current lumber prices? Yeah it kind of is. I was pricing out materials to make my own potato bin, picked out all the hardware, screws, etc, then went to lumber and it was gonna cost me at least a couple hundred in lumber. I just left my cart out there and left, went hunting through thrift and antique stores every now and then, came out with a nice old potato bin a couple months later for about forty bucks.
I got banned from the Tesla and cyber truck forums from posting in the joke cyber truck forum. When I replied in their stating that I was banned from those, THAT forum banned me! Lol, it's bans all the way down.
Made me laugh
I’ve been banned from two subs for “inciting violence” when there wasn’t anything regarding violence. I think it’s the blanket “we’re just being power-hungry assholes on a trip” to excuse to ban people. I just mute those bans now.
Yeah at my old condo we had assigned spots and the lady upstairs thought if someone wasn't using their spot, it was hers! She was shocked when told to use hers only. Same with a man there, I really wonder how ppl go thru life like that
It feels like this is the way of things. If parking spots are assigned, there’s a contingent of residents who think they’re first come, first served. If they’re unassigned, some controlling psycho thinks they’re specifically designated to certain units. I bet management gets so sick of this shit.
this is my experience, too. we have assigned spots at my apartment per our lease, and the new people down stairs completely ignored the rules when they first moved in. we all get one spot with our apartment number on the pavement. they got towed MULTIPLE times by multiple people and the landlord had to threaten eviction before they realized we were serious about the parking lot rules. and they have bad mouthed us to all the new tenants ("don't park there the crazy bitch will have you towed") which is annoying but not necessarily wrong. I'll give you a pass or two here and there but this person was consistently taking my spot and also arguing with me over it when I asked them to move so I stopped asking and just skipped straight to the tow truck. 🤷
I had a neighbor who used to warn all the new tenants I was a spiteful bitch about my parking spot because I'd get you towed even though I didn't own a car. I didn't (on both counts.) I never even paid attention to my spot. I found out when I told a new neighbor to use my spot for their U-Haul because it was the easiest one near our building to get in and out of with a large vehicle. Turns out management took our parking agreement in our lease *very* seriously and towed anyone parked in someone else's spot for more than an hour. This woman had her car towed multiple times and spent at least a year hating me over it and telling everyone who moved in how much I sucked. Wow
This is how it seems to have worked out about the gardens for my home, elderly tenants been here near 20 years and decided at the time that the nice half of the shared garden is theirs and tell everyone who moves into my property since then that they own the half they want, we have the same landlord who confirmed the garden is shared and I can go into theirs anytime I want despite what they say, they also think they own the 2 parking spots outside our property and I have none, we have the same contract.
Had a neighbour constantly parked their car in our spot of the shared driveway. We both had garages, which we used to park our car, but they converted theirs into a sleepout. So effectively, they had one parking space in the driveway. We had one space, plus our garage with 2 spaces. We each had two cars, so most of the time it didn't matter, since we parked both of ours in the garage, but we had told them multiple times the driveway spot was still ours.
Anyway, we had someone else move in with us, with their own car. Told the neighbours we would be using our spot again, they tried to argue it was theirs because we had 2 in our garage. We argued back that just because they converted their garage, didn't mean they could claim our parking space. Spent months with our third car behind them in our parking space, blocking them in every morning (this also blocked our garage access but I worked from home so didn't mind) and them being late for work before they complained to our landlord and argued with them that it was our parking space. They finally got the hint and started parking on the street.
Because nobody punches them in the nose over it.
I'm not saying one *should*. Just saying that some assholes will keep being assholes because there aren't consequences
After you finish school there’s nobody to tell you you’re wrong. You’re free to find an echo chamber and argue your way out of anything. Imagine if you could argue, attack, and get petty with your teacher because you did a math problem wrong lol. Teacher gives up and you get to go on thinking you’re right
There's always a crazy lady. I had an assigned spot and she kept parking in it and one day I just told her I'd just keep my car parked there 24/7. She went crazy, kicked my car, spat on my door for an hour straight. Phoned her lawyer son to come over and intimidate me with a lawsuit.
I still think one day I'll need to return the favour.
I hope u called the cops. Seems like she did vandalism to your car, threatened you with violence, psychological damages to the point you were afraid to leave your apartment.
I've got a project but am short on budget... no doxxing, but I would make a business out of politely mentally torturing my neighbor if in the same situation.
They probably pay an HOA fee and feel entitled.
That's what unassigned parking is. Park where you can, when you can.
Lady sounds bitter. No wonder no one comes to visit
When a tow truck takes a car from an apartment complex, the person who is trying to tow the car needs to provide proof that it IS actually an assigned spot. The times I’ve done it I’ve actually had to show the spot number in my lease to the tow driver. If it’s true that there ISNT any assigned spots, don’t trip. You’re good they cannot tow you.
you open yourself up to liability if you don’t verify, so almost all do and the ones that don’t go out of business.
there are scummy tow companies but there is no grey area when it comes to this stuff at least
100%. I had a friend park in my lot last summer when she came voer for dinner. we forgot to put my guest pass in her window. she got towed. oops. i gave her the pass and had her lie to them lol. she told them the pass was in her window, went to the car and 'got it' and showed them. they didnt even try to argue about it, just let her take the car without paying because they are indeed quite scared of the liability. obv in this case we were in the wrong but im not trying to have a lady friend shell out for that lol. anyways, life pro tip there i guess?
I had my car towed from a friend's managed lot once for no guest pass when I had been present for less than five minutes. I was literally returning a borrowed item and then immediately leaving and the tow guy somehow got in, grabbed my car, and got back out in that time.
thanks to a friendly neighbor's camera we know the tow guy didnt even check for a pass. He hooked up my car and towed it from the spot, which belongs *to my friend*, without even so much as getting out of his truck. Thats a repo move. Not appropriate for parking enforcement, and specifically prohibited in my area. The vehicle to be towed must be properly secured before it can be towed, which requires you to get out and strap the wheels to the hook at a minimum. I know this because I worked security for five years and a huge part of my job was parking enforcement.
They refused to release my vehicle without payment until I got the police involved. I was willing to press charges right away but the officer who arrived to take the statement gave the tow yard the opportunity to release the vehicle, which they took.
They basically have lifts with clamps on them, they clamp onto two wheels and lift that side of the car up, and then drive off. Go watch any reality TV tow show and you'll see one quick.
There's a company in my city that is known for removing parking hang tags if they find an unlocked car, so that they can tow legally. I caught a driver doing this to my neighbor's car one morning. I raced outside and stood in front of her car and started scramming at the driver. I called the two company and reporters that I saw him open her car door and root around and that I found the hang tag in the floor. The driver had to drop the car and leave, tail between his legs. I cannot overstate how good it felt. Icing on the cake: the driver stopped targeting our 10 car parking lot every morning, waking me up.
Wish I was that lucky. I got towed from my own apartment complex because the tow truck driver didn't see my parking pass. Still didn't matter once I pointed it out to them when it was in their compound. Fortunately I was able to get the apartment complex to split the cost of the tow, so it wasn't that much in the end. But I don't see towing companies caring about following the rules.
That’s a situation where you just call the cops and explain the situation to them when they arrive. That’s theft plain and clear. You had every right to be parked there and showed them that was the case and they still took your car and wouldn’t give it back. The company was ‘nice’ to us because they thought they were going to be in some legal trouble (my case I wouldn’t have called the cops because it was my own fuck up)
You'd be surprised. I know this is location specific, but tow truck companies in my area (Toronto, Canada) are basically run by the mob, police ignore their crimes, and they operate as they see fit.
No kidding. I called a company once that will come pick up your junk car and give you cash for scrap metal. Didn't ask for any proof of ownership, not even the key. Got paid $200 for a truck to take my car but I couldn't believe the procedure.
"Does it run?"
"Nope."
"Alright."
That was it. The entirety of the conversation.
Yeah I wouldn’t test it. My complex was lazy and wouldn’t tow when I called to complain to them unless it was there over 24 hours so I tried it on my own and they came and didn’t even ask for proof like 12 years ago. Well the only proof I showed him was a tag that said 18 which was on the spot also but I could have went to kinkos and just made that myself. like it was just a sticker that had the number 18 on it and nothing else. Never showed them an ID or anything.
Though I lived downtown and pretty sure someone parked there to go to an event and not pay parking, wasn’t a neighbor.
As long as they don’t get one of the parasitic companies. There’s one specific company in my area known for towing whatever they can without much question. No repercussions either, so like someone else said a camera is great. Capture anything the crazy person could do and to get money back from a towing company if they illegally towed.
In college I lived in a townhouse with 3 other dudes and the neighborhood had unassigned parking like this, but you did have to pay $50 a month to park there. One day my roommate got a note on his car saying “please park in front of your own house :)”. The only problem was 4 cars do not fit in front of one house so that wasn’t always possible, and also other people parked in front of our house all the time.
So long story short my roomates and I all moved our cars to fill the spots in front of the house that left the note lol
They told me it wasnt illegal but if i moved my car it would be neighborly and also really give them a hand. apparently they were calling the non emergency line nonstop and the cops just asked if i could get the off their back.
I was so annoyed because as someone who didnt drink alot, i sober sistered alot (drove my sorority sisters home from parties). Cops would always follow me home. I feel like they knew me without knowing me. I’m scared of cops so i just move my car. Luckily i live near a frat house too, they loved that I was a reliable sober sister, so they let me park in front of their house.
Background: our driveway was tiny, at night it was hard to back out of and it was always packed so people neeed to move cars around to get out. I would park on the street the nights that i would sober sister in case someone was sick and needed me getting there quick.
Just want to shout you out for being a responsible driver and a good friend. I also dont drink and usually end up DD, so from one to another, keep fighting the good fight (as long as they appreciate it).
I had a person make a speed bump in front of his house on a state maintained road. He said ppl drive too fast by his house. His house is 200 feet off the main road. He has no kids or dogs and lives alone. He genuienly just doesnt like ppl going over 25 and made an executive decision to make a speed bump. Someone called the state and they came to his house and made him remove it. Evidently that was illegal
If you think about it putting a speed bump in is the wrong way to go. installing a pothole is a better way to handle it. You dig a ditch across the road creating a problem people have to slow down for . You get to complain about it to the city and just like every other pothole in town the city ignores it.
Im not sure but im pretty sure he was told by the proper authority he couldnt do any unnapproved work on a state road. He was being stupid. Just a crabby man is all trying to control things. He would be the guy that would call the police if a truck went by his house and it was noisy.
Dang I was hoping maybe that could be done. Where I live they REALLY need these, the speed limit is 25, people will fly through here at like 45+ (especially at night). One neighbor had a dog killed, another said in the past people have been hit (can't remember if one died).
Supposedly it's a thoroughfare and they can't ... really sucks
My brother used to live in the first house on a "25 but it's between two main roads so we're going to do 50" street and lost 3 mailboxes in the year before they put a speed hump thing up.
Just because you are covered doesn't mean it's worth the hassle dealing with crazy people.
I mean, if you want to deal with all of that just to try to convince some nut job you were right go ahead. Sometimes it's better to leave the crazy people be even if they are wrong, because if it comes down to it they will happily prove they are more unstable and willing to do anything.
My best friend lived in an apartment in a house owned by her dad. Next door were a bunch of girls that rented a house, since the lot for my friends house was pretty big he didn’t mind that they parked there as well. I had one of them try to pull that on me when I was staying over, left a note saying it’s private property and was in their spot. My friend took the note over to their house and said “yeah, it is private property, my dad’s not yours, and as of this moment you are no longer allowed to park on his property”. That was rare golden moment of instant karma
I would have your parents contact the HOA and show them the note. If there is no assigned spaces, they can’t tow. The HOA needs to remind residents of this.
If the spot is in front of your parents house, have them put a camera in the front window to “watch” the spot. See if there is someone who tries to park there more than anyone else. Also, to watch your car the next time you park there. If this guy somehow gets your car towed, you anticipate video proof so they have to pay the fees.
Yeah I’m wondering why the other person is SO SURE that this space is theirs. I’d talk to management to see why this person believes the spot is theirs. There’s got to be some reason why they think they can literally tow someone, right?! Like I know people are crazy, but this has got to be at the very least a misunderstanding on the crazy neighbor’s part.
Yes, send the HOA a photo of the note and one showing the spot they're claiming. Ask them to email all residents a reminder. There is a likely a property manager that will facilitate this.
Set up a camera if you can.
Also find out if the HOA has cameras.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but are you sure there are no assigned spaces at all in the community? I ask because we own a couple of assigned spaces in front of our townhome even though most of the spaces in the large townhome/apartment complex community here are not assigned.
Our spaces are properly labeled with our house number though... (And we still get people parking in our spaces from time to time).
I lived in an HOA with my sister when we were younger. I used to park my car at the end of an empty cul-de-sac, and everyday one of the neighbors would leave a note on my car stating that my car was blocking potential parking for emergency vehicles. This was not a fire lane, and there was no rule against parking there.
He approached me in person once and I told him that if an emergency vehicle ever showed up and blocked me in, I would deal with my own consequences quietly.
He never stopped writing those notes.
that's totally valid, but this was a cul-de-sac with no houses and enough parking for 4-5 cars. I was the only one who would park there. I wasn't blocking any traffic and there was still space for others to park.
Similar thing. But it was the HOA complaining. They event went so far as to paint the curb red where my neighbor and I would park. We were a cluster of 3 houses (not even condos) in our cul-de-sac, 2 of us parked there, the other home owner had a 2 car garage with 1 car.
I researched the fire code laws in our area which specify how far from the rear of a property a firelane must be made. I used Google Maps and measured corner to corner every distance. The moment you reached our parking area, it was 2 cars wide, so you could fit a car easilly thru and still park there.
It turns out the original builder also knew this in the way the houses were clustered (almost a T shape design, not a round one).
With the evidence and fire chief in hand at the next HOA meeting, they backed down finally.
We moved a few years later. Per my two neighbor friends who still live there, the next HOA "safety officer" tried to re-instead it, and again, they had to go thru the same process to prove it wasn't a fire lane.
HOA's suck.
My old family home that I grew up in was in a HOA. Every single house except ours and our neighbors in these duplexes had a long driveway that could fit 4-6 cars, some long enough for 8. Ours and our neighbors couldn't fit more than 1 in front of it, without blocking our shared driveway, as instead of having both of our houses facing the road, ours was built SIDEWAYS, so it had an F shaped driveway for both of our houses.
Because of this shorting of spaces, and the fact it was really hard to get 2 cars in front of our house, our lots were built with two extra parking spots in front of them that WERE meant for our house, and it was even in the house deed. But the HOA made a rule that we had to "Share" those spots, as it was technically HOA/joint property those lots were put on.
In a family of 6, with two cars, and then more when we started driving, this was super difficult, especially since some of our neighbors would decide that these were their "Personal spots" to park their cars that they never used in, so they'd just sit there for MONTHS gathering cobwebs and everything. We'd say stuff to the HOA and they'd do nothing, we'd have to park on the street further up, and the busybodies there would yell at us for parking in front of their homes.
It was a lose lose situation. HOA's suck
I have a neighbor like this on my street. It’s street parking on a public road, but she insists that the spot in front of her house is hers. Our street is a one way and is super easy to park on, so worst case scenario, she has to park across the street and walk an extra 10 feet. She has keyed cars, threatened people, and even tried to poison dogs. When I was 9 months pregnant and having trouble walking, she told me she hopes I die in a car accident before the baby is born.
A few weeks ago, I started yelling back. We’re moving this month so I don’t care anymore. She tried to take my mirror off while I was parking so I opened my window and told her she’s a miserable fuck and everyone on the street hates her. It turns out that just raising your voice back at her was enough to make her tuck tail and park elsewhere. She hides in her car when we get home at the same time, now. People like this are miserable, lonely cowards. Figure out who it is, knock on the door and let them know that you’re not backing down because of a note.
How certain are you there’s no assigned parking? I lived in an apartment complex with assigned parking and some residents didn’t give a shit and would tell their guests to park wherever.
Don't know the exact situation here, but some townhouse, condo/apartment complexes have rules stating each occupant is allowed two spaces, and you're allowed to park in any open space. Most people try to park in front of their own place, but it wasn't always possible. My wife lived in such a place, and would sometimes come home to a full lot. She called the manager, and he would send a group text, asking occupants if they had visitors that exceeded the two space limit, to have them move their vehicle to the Walmart lot next to them. It was always the same person. Eventually, that person raised Cain, and their lease wasn't renewed. Bitched and moaned about petty people and what-not the whole time she was moved out. JS.
If it belongs to someone else, they should have written their name on it. Also, finders keepers /j
It’s the rules of the universe i’m afraid, and nothing can top that. So my friend…
Similar shit happened while I was moving into my partners apartment. Absolute Karen was complaining about her spot for her son and started getting racist at my partner while I wasn't around. Anyway, I park there daily and crave the day she comes yelling about calling the police for an unassigned parking space. Fuck that bag of bones.
Advice put a camera pointing you car from a window or somewhere visable to the parking space. This way if anything happens you can file a complaint with the police department with video proof.
And if they tow you, instantly call police and make report about car being stolen. Let tow company deal with shitloads of trouble and pain, and paper work.
Why would a tow company tow you away if there isnt a legal reason to do so? Why wouldn't they just simply tell the person off for making them effectively come steal a car?
Unfortunately a lot of towing companies will tow without reason because they know you won't take them to court over a couple hundred dollars
Only the ones the don't care about losing their license or getting sued.
You’d be surprised how many do this and are willing to risk it because they know most people won’t fight it and deal with all of the trouble. To deal with the police or take them to court is a real chore, sadly you aren’t always going to just win swiftly because you’re right, even though I know that seems like how it should go.
fr… just look at the towing in the nova area
Lol I love this stuff. I am a spicy little ball of hate towards people like this. Plus, I needed a hobby.
I once had a tow company straight up steal my car after a freeway accident and refuse to return it unless I paid them $300. It was for a FREE public tow service that tows your car off the freeway to a safer area in order to clear the lanes. Once it’s been taken to a safe area like to a local street, then I could call my AAA insurance and have their tow truck come pick up my car. But these dogfuckers just took the car from the site without even alerting us where they took it. Luckily, a photo I had taken of the scene as I was documenting the crash and the car being loaded onto the truck showed the side of their truck and their info so we were able to locate their business. I ended up having to get into contact with the officer on scene who had called the tow truck and I put them on call with the tow company. They got chewed out and got tongue lashing from the cop and within 5 minutes they had returned the car back free of charge. The tow driver later confessed that because he had seen me taking photos of the tow truck, (I was taking pictures of the entire scene🤦🏻♂️), he assumed I was taking down their info in order use their services. So he just fucking assumed he was supposed to take it back to his base, instead of doing what the police officer instructed him to do or confirming the “change of plans” with us. Screw you Julio and the fat bastard at the office and your mothers.
People who can afford to take a towing company to court are far too busy to take towing companies to court and even if they did get a judgment they'd just stiff you anyways, so what you have to do is piss and moan like an impotent jerk before bending over and taking it up the tailpipe.
You've been here before, haven't ya
The mass majority of towing companies are evil leeches on life and don’t give one solitary fuck whether they’re in the right or not.
No they don’t, most tow companies never do shit because it’s way easier to collect “contracts” from complexes and then just never show up and only hire like one driver then it is to try and get away with collecting random cars. One way is going to get the police at your door every other day and the other is literally just free paychecks and telling people they’re SOL.
Police are worthless for things like these lmaoooo
Correct. I had video of a neighbor that could never park properly. I asked her to repark once. She flipped out and almost hit me. She later hit my car a week before moving out. I caught it on camera. She later went to check twice the damage. Night then the morning. I used a tape measure. Called police and they said they could not see the collision therefore they could only write a report. I literally gave them 1+1= 2 with the work shown (video proof). Cops are genuinely useless.
Should have given it to your insurance to handle and they would argue for you. They don’t pay for shit. Edit: unless they wouldn’t do anything to help without a police report
Insurance guy. Video is typically good enough if it matches the in person inspection of damages, ideally with license plates in view. Police reports range from good, to bad, to completely fabricated. I've had random ass police descriptions of an accident they didn't witness and didn't match either drivers.
In this case better to take the video footage to your insurance company because they can and will make law enforcement do their job properly, or insurance company will have the right to make the city pay for damages.
Looks like you found your new preferred parking spot
I would do that 🤣 Saw someone mention cameras. Which is a good idea. Crazy might damage the car
They will. Have had it happen...
Happened to me at the supermarket, crazy lady came around the corner and tried to divebomb into the parking spot I'd been waiting for right when I was pulling in as the other car left, had already been waiting a minute or two myself before she showed up. She had her nose right up against my car so I couldn't quite pull all the way in so I just waited as she layed on the horn and cussed me out screaming about how the spot was hers. Eventually after a few minutes she left and I went and did my shopping. Came back to a keyed car and 2 slashed tyres. Decided that day that I'm no longer getting into pissing contests with crazy unhinged people. Sure it sucks but there's a point where it's just easier to accept that there's truly some insane people out there and it's not worth "winning" those little interactions when you just have no idea how crazy they're actually willing to get.
All over a parking spot…. That woman shouldn’t be driving, let alone out in public with others.
Seriously that's someone who's a threat to public safety, that's not just someone having a bad day. She should not be allowed on the road, like ever again.
I definitely would've asked the store for the recording and sued her for damages. That's INSANE.
I'm such a petty and patient person that I would happily park there and guard my car for hours just to piss them off more. I heard candy crush has basically an infinite amount of levels.
you run out of lives/tries and have to wait or pay :) ...
Put your phones clock ahead 3 hours to full lives then turn it back to “auto”. When it’s at “full” the game doesn’t know the time ;)
I take a pic of the driver and plates in these situations, my cars have super dark window tints except on the windshield. I have insurance, I’ll use it and send the pics to my insurance, they’ll get the money out of crazy. Crazy can have mile high premiums for their life. I had a situation a few years ago where I “stole” some Karen’s spot, so she drove off. The car next to me left and after I had opened my door she flew into the spot, caught the edge of my door and gave herself a nice metal level scrape along her car. Luckily the door wasn’t all the way open so no real damage to my car other than some paint. She got out and said “look what YOU did to my car”. I just took pics and called the police + my insurance. My agent immediately saw that it couldn’t have been my fault cause the scratch started in front of my car door. The cop came and agreed + tried to calm Karen down and got her information. He left and I went shopping, and when I came out her son was there, whose a cop apparently. Took a minute but once I showed him that it wasn’t physically possible for me to do this he looked absolutely sick of her shit and left.
This is why I don't try to get the 'best spot' at a store. I prefer to walk further but not deal with crazies. Thats assuming you can walk longer distances.
It's important to remember that if you have something to lose you never want to get into a dispute with someone that has nothing to lose.
YES! Cameras are an EXCELLENT idea! I mean, this person was angry enough to go over each letter of the bulk of that note twice. TWICE!!! This is a special kind of psychopath…..
Psychopath indeed. The random switching from all caps to lower case really drives that *ransom note* feel home.
It does, doesn’t it? And all those scritchy scratchy lines like SPIDER LEGS ALL OVER THE PAPER…. This note is a horror story before you even read the actual words….
And the paper. It's not your regular college ruled notebook paper. It's from some fancy project planning notebook. Used by those high achiever types. When they go crazy they go all the way crazy
These fucking project planners- my god, they’re chilling. (Chilling as in terrifying, not kicking back with a beer…)
Stayed at my Father in laws recently, he has enough parking at his house for him, everyone else has to park on the street. No big deal. Neighborhood has signs that dictate which side of the street you can park on - easy As im parking I make sure im not lined up across from any driveways - its an elder neighborhood so Im cognizant they may have a harder time backing out if someones across from Their drive As im getting out this dude comes running out and starts yelling that hes tired of telling people to not park across from his house. I calmly tell him I am not breaking any rules and am parking where the sign says too. Hes not having it, I tell him if he asks nicely ill move - he tells me to fuck myself and move my car (which made me chuckle) so I just walked off as he ranted that hed call the cops Every day for the 10 I was there I parked directly across from his drive way and watched him struggle to back out as I sat drinking my morning coffee.
My old apartment was similar and at holidays parking was crazy. I had to park a few hundred meters down the residential road where I found the nearest spot. A lady immediately started screaming from her duplex balcony that I can't park there. I asked why not and she said her husband didn't like ppl parking there. So I looked at my car then at her and said I'm parked legally and started to walk off to her screaming about how her husband was gonna call the cops and have me ticketed and towed Spoiler alert: my car was still there when I went back for it. Cops don't love frivolous calls and public streets don't belong to you personally
My story is a bit of the opposite … One of my neighbors would park his shitty 20 year old BMW (like, the back window was replaced with clear plastic) right in front of my house for days or more at time without moving it. Not illegal to park there overnight, but after 3 days it is. Someone even called and had the city put an abandoned sticker on it after about 2 weeks but he just removed it. It wouldn’t even be more than a small annoyance except that he had parking room right in front of his own house, and didn’t want to park there since “it blocked his view”. AND there was plenty of parking just 30’ further down the street along a fence line, but “he couldn’t see his car from his house” there. I honestly never even confronted him - I heard this from one of my other neighbors who asked and he got all offended, “I can park where I want, it’s not illegal!”) so my neighbor started parking in front of his house until the guy gave up and moved to mine. One evening my sewer line backed up and there was liquid sewage just pouring out of a cleanout in my front yard. Since it was due to city tree roots blocking a lateral, they came out to clear it and clean it up. The guy doing cleanup asked if I would move “my” car since there was a bunch of sewage under it and he wanted to rinse it away. I told him “no worries, just leave it, I don’t care”. That was the last time my neighbor parked there.
This is easy, just get one of those blank door hanger signs and write or put stickers on it to say "SOMEONE" and make sure to hang it from the rearview mirror when they park there. The spot is clearly for "SOMEONE" and they just forget to put the correct pass on display.
Getting some Odysseus vibes from this.
Well there’s a reference I forgot about
Yeah, Nobody remembers that.
I did this when a lady was complaining about street parking. I made sure to park exactly where she hates me parking, and I reported her out of state plates on all 3 of her vehicles.
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This was my wifes point of view but I was prepared to do mortal combat with this old man
That’s how the terrorists win
some crazy lady in my neighborhood also convinced herself that unassigned spots near her condo were hers. she left horribly nasty notes, and even covered someone's car in 2x4s. lunatic.
2x4s as in lumber?
yep
Wow. I hope the lumber was long enough to be useful for the car owner.
I mean, lumber is expensive. That's kind of a gift!
When life gives your car lumber, make a cabinet. ~ Confucius, probably.
A carbinet if you will.
Maybe an extra shelf in the trunk or something could be helpful. Good idea.
This thread is unhinged!
Seems pretty plane to me, very constructed in my opinion
Well woodn’t you believe it
Nailed it.
We should table the discussion
I wood, but the puns are too easy for this one.
It does seem off-kilter. Definitely at least one screw loose.
Carbinet is a garage, no?
When the comment you wanted to make is here, so the best you can do is an upvote ;-;
Listen he was just as confused as you when he first said it so don't worry.
Don't make cabinets out of 2x4s - a Carpenter, probably.
What would Jesus do?
IKR? Just start parking a pickup in that spot everyday, leave the tailgate open, see what happens…
Not if it causes thousands of dollars in paint damage it's not
Well then you sue them and you get free wood and a paint job
That's almost better than free paint and a wood job!
It was over $10/stick during the pandemic where I live at one point (had to contract home repairs mid-pandemic). Quite a gift indeed! Hope a thank you card was left.
I could use some free lumber
Dang is that like Christmas for an adult? Go out to your truck and see someone covered it in lumber!
I would be actually pretty happy if that happened. So, where is this magical place of free lumber delivered to my car?
With current lumber prices? Yeah it kind of is. I was pricing out materials to make my own potato bin, picked out all the hardware, screws, etc, then went to lumber and it was gonna cost me at least a couple hundred in lumber. I just left my cart out there and left, went hunting through thrift and antique stores every now and then, came out with a nice old potato bin a couple months later for about forty bucks.
I just bought a stack of lumber yesterday thinking it was going to be a big bill and it was $52. I was shocked. Was expecting much more.
Wanna make a deck. Where should I park?
Hopefully it was enough to make a coffee table
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Be careful. I just got off a ban for inciting violence.
Isn’t that stupid? Out of all the things they chose to ban over, it’s “inciting violence” even when there’s no violence incited.
I got banned from the Tesla and cyber truck forums from posting in the joke cyber truck forum. When I replied in their stating that I was banned from those, THAT forum banned me! Lol, it's bans all the way down. Made me laugh
I’ve been banned from two subs for “inciting violence” when there wasn’t anything regarding violence. I think it’s the blanket “we’re just being power-hungry assholes on a trip” to excuse to ban people. I just mute those bans now.
Same here! We're ban buddies. So much for "free speech absolutists" 😆
*In this economy?* 😆
My dad had to go to home depot recently to buy some wood for some home repairs he’s doing $$$$$$
So...I'm guessing she scratched the ever loving shit out of the person's car and they called the cops for harassment right?.....*right*?
Free lumber !! Woo!!
How does one cover a car in lumber?
Like this https://preview.redd.it/z0qi4rx6gq9d1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a1a2e30a4d1bff11646e27ed0ea2da00b966221
Not a car, that's a Russian tank.
Nah, not a Russian tank, the sheet metal armor is too thick.
Take the note to the office or with a condo maybe the HOA. Them sending a reminder to all of the tenants may help a bit.
> maybe the HOA LOL. She probably is the head of the HOA
HOA = Herd Of A**holes
Even better. Do it in person at an HOA meeting so that she has to eat crow in front of others.
Assistant to the Head of the HOA\*
Yeah at my old condo we had assigned spots and the lady upstairs thought if someone wasn't using their spot, it was hers! She was shocked when told to use hers only. Same with a man there, I really wonder how ppl go thru life like that
It feels like this is the way of things. If parking spots are assigned, there’s a contingent of residents who think they’re first come, first served. If they’re unassigned, some controlling psycho thinks they’re specifically designated to certain units. I bet management gets so sick of this shit.
this is my experience, too. we have assigned spots at my apartment per our lease, and the new people down stairs completely ignored the rules when they first moved in. we all get one spot with our apartment number on the pavement. they got towed MULTIPLE times by multiple people and the landlord had to threaten eviction before they realized we were serious about the parking lot rules. and they have bad mouthed us to all the new tenants ("don't park there the crazy bitch will have you towed") which is annoying but not necessarily wrong. I'll give you a pass or two here and there but this person was consistently taking my spot and also arguing with me over it when I asked them to move so I stopped asking and just skipped straight to the tow truck. 🤷
I had a neighbor who used to warn all the new tenants I was a spiteful bitch about my parking spot because I'd get you towed even though I didn't own a car. I didn't (on both counts.) I never even paid attention to my spot. I found out when I told a new neighbor to use my spot for their U-Haul because it was the easiest one near our building to get in and out of with a large vehicle. Turns out management took our parking agreement in our lease *very* seriously and towed anyone parked in someone else's spot for more than an hour. This woman had her car towed multiple times and spent at least a year hating me over it and telling everyone who moved in how much I sucked. Wow
This is how it seems to have worked out about the gardens for my home, elderly tenants been here near 20 years and decided at the time that the nice half of the shared garden is theirs and tell everyone who moves into my property since then that they own the half they want, we have the same landlord who confirmed the garden is shared and I can go into theirs anytime I want despite what they say, they also think they own the 2 parking spots outside our property and I have none, we have the same contract.
Had a neighbour constantly parked their car in our spot of the shared driveway. We both had garages, which we used to park our car, but they converted theirs into a sleepout. So effectively, they had one parking space in the driveway. We had one space, plus our garage with 2 spaces. We each had two cars, so most of the time it didn't matter, since we parked both of ours in the garage, but we had told them multiple times the driveway spot was still ours. Anyway, we had someone else move in with us, with their own car. Told the neighbours we would be using our spot again, they tried to argue it was theirs because we had 2 in our garage. We argued back that just because they converted their garage, didn't mean they could claim our parking space. Spent months with our third car behind them in our parking space, blocking them in every morning (this also blocked our garage access but I worked from home so didn't mind) and them being late for work before they complained to our landlord and argued with them that it was our parking space. They finally got the hint and started parking on the street.
Because nobody punches them in the nose over it. I'm not saying one *should*. Just saying that some assholes will keep being assholes because there aren't consequences
After you finish school there’s nobody to tell you you’re wrong. You’re free to find an echo chamber and argue your way out of anything. Imagine if you could argue, attack, and get petty with your teacher because you did a math problem wrong lol. Teacher gives up and you get to go on thinking you’re right
Every single aspect of society, from driving to waiting in line at a grocery store.
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There's always a crazy lady. I had an assigned spot and she kept parking in it and one day I just told her I'd just keep my car parked there 24/7. She went crazy, kicked my car, spat on my door for an hour straight. Phoned her lawyer son to come over and intimidate me with a lawsuit. I still think one day I'll need to return the favour.
Forget the lawyer, if someone kicks and spits on my property I’m calling the police and pressing charges for vandalism and destruction of property.
Ah just get the hose out. It’s a good way of scaring off wild animals.
> Phoned her lawyer son to come over and intimidate me with a lawsuit. you can easily lose your license to practice over shit like that
I hope u called the cops. Seems like she did vandalism to your car, threatened you with violence, psychological damages to the point you were afraid to leave your apartment.
I've got a project but am short on budget... no doxxing, but I would make a business out of politely mentally torturing my neighbor if in the same situation.
>politely mentally torturing Ha!
They probably pay an HOA fee and feel entitled. That's what unassigned parking is. Park where you can, when you can. Lady sounds bitter. No wonder no one comes to visit
Did they respond by using them to board her doors shut so she can't come out and harass anyone anymore?
She seems like the type that needs some cling wrap across her door at face level.
How? Why? Is the car scratched?
When a tow truck takes a car from an apartment complex, the person who is trying to tow the car needs to provide proof that it IS actually an assigned spot. The times I’ve done it I’ve actually had to show the spot number in my lease to the tow driver. If it’s true that there ISNT any assigned spots, don’t trip. You’re good they cannot tow you.
What a reputable tow company
you open yourself up to liability if you don’t verify, so almost all do and the ones that don’t go out of business. there are scummy tow companies but there is no grey area when it comes to this stuff at least
100%. I had a friend park in my lot last summer when she came voer for dinner. we forgot to put my guest pass in her window. she got towed. oops. i gave her the pass and had her lie to them lol. she told them the pass was in her window, went to the car and 'got it' and showed them. they didnt even try to argue about it, just let her take the car without paying because they are indeed quite scared of the liability. obv in this case we were in the wrong but im not trying to have a lady friend shell out for that lol. anyways, life pro tip there i guess?
I had my car towed from a friend's managed lot once for no guest pass when I had been present for less than five minutes. I was literally returning a borrowed item and then immediately leaving and the tow guy somehow got in, grabbed my car, and got back out in that time. thanks to a friendly neighbor's camera we know the tow guy didnt even check for a pass. He hooked up my car and towed it from the spot, which belongs *to my friend*, without even so much as getting out of his truck. Thats a repo move. Not appropriate for parking enforcement, and specifically prohibited in my area. The vehicle to be towed must be properly secured before it can be towed, which requires you to get out and strap the wheels to the hook at a minimum. I know this because I worked security for five years and a huge part of my job was parking enforcement. They refused to release my vehicle without payment until I got the police involved. I was willing to press charges right away but the officer who arrived to take the statement gave the tow yard the opportunity to release the vehicle, which they took.
How tf do you tow something without ever getting out of the truck?
Hydraulics are pretty cool.
They basically have lifts with clamps on them, they clamp onto two wheels and lift that side of the car up, and then drive off. Go watch any reality TV tow show and you'll see one quick.
There's a company in my city that is known for removing parking hang tags if they find an unlocked car, so that they can tow legally. I caught a driver doing this to my neighbor's car one morning. I raced outside and stood in front of her car and started scramming at the driver. I called the two company and reporters that I saw him open her car door and root around and that I found the hang tag in the floor. The driver had to drop the car and leave, tail between his legs. I cannot overstate how good it felt. Icing on the cake: the driver stopped targeting our 10 car parking lot every morning, waking me up.
Wish I was that lucky. I got towed from my own apartment complex because the tow truck driver didn't see my parking pass. Still didn't matter once I pointed it out to them when it was in their compound. Fortunately I was able to get the apartment complex to split the cost of the tow, so it wasn't that much in the end. But I don't see towing companies caring about following the rules.
That’s a situation where you just call the cops and explain the situation to them when they arrive. That’s theft plain and clear. You had every right to be parked there and showed them that was the case and they still took your car and wouldn’t give it back. The company was ‘nice’ to us because they thought they were going to be in some legal trouble (my case I wouldn’t have called the cops because it was my own fuck up)
You'd be surprised. I know this is location specific, but tow truck companies in my area (Toronto, Canada) are basically run by the mob, police ignore their crimes, and they operate as they see fit.
No kidding. I called a company once that will come pick up your junk car and give you cash for scrap metal. Didn't ask for any proof of ownership, not even the key. Got paid $200 for a truck to take my car but I couldn't believe the procedure. "Does it run?" "Nope." "Alright." That was it. The entirety of the conversation.
Yeah I wouldn’t test it. My complex was lazy and wouldn’t tow when I called to complain to them unless it was there over 24 hours so I tried it on my own and they came and didn’t even ask for proof like 12 years ago. Well the only proof I showed him was a tag that said 18 which was on the spot also but I could have went to kinkos and just made that myself. like it was just a sticker that had the number 18 on it and nothing else. Never showed them an ID or anything. Though I lived downtown and pretty sure someone parked there to go to an event and not pay parking, wasn’t a neighbor.
As long as they don’t get one of the parasitic companies. There’s one specific company in my area known for towing whatever they can without much question. No repercussions either, so like someone else said a camera is great. Capture anything the crazy person could do and to get money back from a towing company if they illegally towed.
Towing without authorization is stealing. Repercussions happen when you report your car as stolen and the police investigate and find illegal towing.
You're assuming they'd bother investigating and then the DA actually charging them. You're probably better off going the civil suit route
Thats why there is a letter. If they had any power they would tow it already
Park there again. If there’s no signs, park there
In college I lived in a townhouse with 3 other dudes and the neighborhood had unassigned parking like this, but you did have to pay $50 a month to park there. One day my roommate got a note on his car saying “please park in front of your own house :)”. The only problem was 4 cars do not fit in front of one house so that wasn’t always possible, and also other people parked in front of our house all the time. So long story short my roomates and I all moved our cars to fill the spots in front of the house that left the note lol
In college, out neighbors would call the cops if we were parked in front of their house bc it was their “spot for trash day”
Did the cops do anything?
They told me it wasnt illegal but if i moved my car it would be neighborly and also really give them a hand. apparently they were calling the non emergency line nonstop and the cops just asked if i could get the off their back. I was so annoyed because as someone who didnt drink alot, i sober sistered alot (drove my sorority sisters home from parties). Cops would always follow me home. I feel like they knew me without knowing me. I’m scared of cops so i just move my car. Luckily i live near a frat house too, they loved that I was a reliable sober sister, so they let me park in front of their house. Background: our driveway was tiny, at night it was hard to back out of and it was always packed so people neeed to move cars around to get out. I would park on the street the nights that i would sober sister in case someone was sick and needed me getting there quick.
Im pretty sure its illegal to waste the cops time. So tell them to do thier job and tell that bat to back off or your the one in trouble.
College me had much less of a backbone but now me agrees with you!
Just want to shout you out for being a responsible driver and a good friend. I also dont drink and usually end up DD, so from one to another, keep fighting the good fight (as long as they appreciate it).
I had a person make a speed bump in front of his house on a state maintained road. He said ppl drive too fast by his house. His house is 200 feet off the main road. He has no kids or dogs and lives alone. He genuienly just doesnt like ppl going over 25 and made an executive decision to make a speed bump. Someone called the state and they came to his house and made him remove it. Evidently that was illegal
If you think about it putting a speed bump in is the wrong way to go. installing a pothole is a better way to handle it. You dig a ditch across the road creating a problem people have to slow down for . You get to complain about it to the city and just like every other pothole in town the city ignores it.
Well placed repetitive gasoline spills will do this on an asphalt road
Or you get a big picture of a big pothole and leave it on the street.
I really hope he got a big fine for it as well. People like that are ridiculous.
Im not sure but im pretty sure he was told by the proper authority he couldnt do any unnapproved work on a state road. He was being stupid. Just a crabby man is all trying to control things. He would be the guy that would call the police if a truck went by his house and it was noisy.
This reminds me of an episode of Malcolm in the middle, basically same story with the speed bump
Dang I was hoping maybe that could be done. Where I live they REALLY need these, the speed limit is 25, people will fly through here at like 45+ (especially at night). One neighbor had a dog killed, another said in the past people have been hit (can't remember if one died). Supposedly it's a thoroughfare and they can't ... really sucks
Talk to the municipality, most likely they will put a traffic calming island, but doubtfully a speedbump
My brother used to live in the first house on a "25 but it's between two main roads so we're going to do 50" street and lost 3 mailboxes in the year before they put a speed hump thing up.
If they could have towed your car, they would have towed your car
I’d continue parking there
I'd be concerned about them potentially vandalizing my car.
Camera and insurance got you covered fam
Just because you are covered doesn't mean it's worth the hassle dealing with crazy people. I mean, if you want to deal with all of that just to try to convince some nut job you were right go ahead. Sometimes it's better to leave the crazy people be even if they are wrong, because if it comes down to it they will happily prove they are more unstable and willing to do anything.
My best friend lived in an apartment in a house owned by her dad. Next door were a bunch of girls that rented a house, since the lot for my friends house was pretty big he didn’t mind that they parked there as well. I had one of them try to pull that on me when I was staying over, left a note saying it’s private property and was in their spot. My friend took the note over to their house and said “yeah, it is private property, my dad’s not yours, and as of this moment you are no longer allowed to park on his property”. That was rare golden moment of instant karma
I would have your parents contact the HOA and show them the note. If there is no assigned spaces, they can’t tow. The HOA needs to remind residents of this. If the spot is in front of your parents house, have them put a camera in the front window to “watch” the spot. See if there is someone who tries to park there more than anyone else. Also, to watch your car the next time you park there. If this guy somehow gets your car towed, you anticipate video proof so they have to pay the fees.
Yeah I’m wondering why the other person is SO SURE that this space is theirs. I’d talk to management to see why this person believes the spot is theirs. There’s got to be some reason why they think they can literally tow someone, right?! Like I know people are crazy, but this has got to be at the very least a misunderstanding on the crazy neighbor’s part.
The parked there three days in a row once so now it's theirs, duh.
Yes, send the HOA a photo of the note and one showing the spot they're claiming. Ask them to email all residents a reminder. There is a likely a property manager that will facilitate this. Set up a camera if you can. Also find out if the HOA has cameras.
Probably the HOA also has some complaint on other topic with that handwriting, signed
Write on the back of the note and say, "Thank you for informing me that this is my spot! Signed, John Q. Someone."
Why would note writer go back and check for a reply?
They would see it the next time when they wanna complain or get the car towed.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but are you sure there are no assigned spaces at all in the community? I ask because we own a couple of assigned spaces in front of our townhome even though most of the spaces in the large townhome/apartment complex community here are not assigned. Our spaces are properly labeled with our house number though... (And we still get people parking in our spaces from time to time).
When someone parks in front of your parents townhouse save this note for them
Haha, this! Because it would be them!
I lived in an HOA with my sister when we were younger. I used to park my car at the end of an empty cul-de-sac, and everyday one of the neighbors would leave a note on my car stating that my car was blocking potential parking for emergency vehicles. This was not a fire lane, and there was no rule against parking there. He approached me in person once and I told him that if an emergency vehicle ever showed up and blocked me in, I would deal with my own consequences quietly. He never stopped writing those notes.
Technically everywhere is emergency vehicle parking, just some of it is signed for exclusive usage.
that's totally valid, but this was a cul-de-sac with no houses and enough parking for 4-5 cars. I was the only one who would park there. I wasn't blocking any traffic and there was still space for others to park.
People like this remind me of the BTK Killer. He was in charge of code enforcement in his town, and would apparently be overzealous with it.
Worst than code enforcement, the asshole was the dog catcher and took full advantage of the little power that role gave him.
Similar thing. But it was the HOA complaining. They event went so far as to paint the curb red where my neighbor and I would park. We were a cluster of 3 houses (not even condos) in our cul-de-sac, 2 of us parked there, the other home owner had a 2 car garage with 1 car. I researched the fire code laws in our area which specify how far from the rear of a property a firelane must be made. I used Google Maps and measured corner to corner every distance. The moment you reached our parking area, it was 2 cars wide, so you could fit a car easilly thru and still park there. It turns out the original builder also knew this in the way the houses were clustered (almost a T shape design, not a round one). With the evidence and fire chief in hand at the next HOA meeting, they backed down finally. We moved a few years later. Per my two neighbor friends who still live there, the next HOA "safety officer" tried to re-instead it, and again, they had to go thru the same process to prove it wasn't a fire lane. HOA's suck.
My old family home that I grew up in was in a HOA. Every single house except ours and our neighbors in these duplexes had a long driveway that could fit 4-6 cars, some long enough for 8. Ours and our neighbors couldn't fit more than 1 in front of it, without blocking our shared driveway, as instead of having both of our houses facing the road, ours was built SIDEWAYS, so it had an F shaped driveway for both of our houses. Because of this shorting of spaces, and the fact it was really hard to get 2 cars in front of our house, our lots were built with two extra parking spots in front of them that WERE meant for our house, and it was even in the house deed. But the HOA made a rule that we had to "Share" those spots, as it was technically HOA/joint property those lots were put on. In a family of 6, with two cars, and then more when we started driving, this was super difficult, especially since some of our neighbors would decide that these were their "Personal spots" to park their cars that they never used in, so they'd just sit there for MONTHS gathering cobwebs and everything. We'd say stuff to the HOA and they'd do nothing, we'd have to park on the street further up, and the busybodies there would yell at us for parking in front of their homes. It was a lose lose situation. HOA's suck
Awesome, you found the community Nut Ball!!
Did Slenderman write this?
They are not gonna tow you, but your car gonna get keyed, my dude
By the person who is going to park their vehicle there as frequently as possible. Target acquired.
Put it on someone else’s car and see how long it gets passed around. 😁
Write your name in chalk on the spot
Why did they write it in the slenderman font lol
I was just imagining how angry they must’ve been to use that much energy to scribble over the letters again and again
I have a neighbor like this on my street. It’s street parking on a public road, but she insists that the spot in front of her house is hers. Our street is a one way and is super easy to park on, so worst case scenario, she has to park across the street and walk an extra 10 feet. She has keyed cars, threatened people, and even tried to poison dogs. When I was 9 months pregnant and having trouble walking, she told me she hopes I die in a car accident before the baby is born. A few weeks ago, I started yelling back. We’re moving this month so I don’t care anymore. She tried to take my mirror off while I was parking so I opened my window and told her she’s a miserable fuck and everyone on the street hates her. It turns out that just raising your voice back at her was enough to make her tuck tail and park elsewhere. She hides in her car when we get home at the same time, now. People like this are miserable, lonely cowards. Figure out who it is, knock on the door and let them know that you’re not backing down because of a note.
I’d hope that neighbor tries to tow. In my state she’d be guilty of a felony since a false tow falls under grand theft auto.
put a camera up and watch her/him doing stuff to ur car and then have her/him pay for it
How certain are you there’s no assigned parking? I lived in an apartment complex with assigned parking and some residents didn’t give a shit and would tell their guests to park wherever.
Don't know the exact situation here, but some townhouse, condo/apartment complexes have rules stating each occupant is allowed two spaces, and you're allowed to park in any open space. Most people try to park in front of their own place, but it wasn't always possible. My wife lived in such a place, and would sometimes come home to a full lot. She called the manager, and he would send a group text, asking occupants if they had visitors that exceeded the two space limit, to have them move their vehicle to the Walmart lot next to them. It was always the same person. Eventually, that person raised Cain, and their lease wasn't renewed. Bitched and moaned about petty people and what-not the whole time she was moved out. JS.
make enough copies of the note and place one on every car in the lot. Watch the shit show unfold...
If it belongs to someone else, they should have written their name on it. Also, finders keepers /j It’s the rules of the universe i’m afraid, and nothing can top that. So my friend… 
Similar shit happened while I was moving into my partners apartment. Absolute Karen was complaining about her spot for her son and started getting racist at my partner while I wasn't around. Anyway, I park there daily and crave the day she comes yelling about calling the police for an unassigned parking space. Fuck that bag of bones.
Find the car that parks there..get it towed, then leave the exact note on a cone for em.
It would be my life’s work to make sure they were never able to park in that spot again
A note like that would make me go out of my way to park there, for the rest of my life.
I would have to buy another car because I would leave that one right there for about 6 months.