Cities are great for many reasons, but the ease of finding a good parking spot for free is rarely one of them. Still, if you live there, spending a little extra to park your car safely and close to home is wise.
But not everybody is willing to pay. As this Redditor shared, some people will ignore every sign and park where they’re not supposed to until you do something about it. When her neighbors kept blocking her car and laughing at her complaints, she decided to take matters into her own hands using cheese, snow, and fake parking tickets. Scroll down to read the full story!
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Some people feel entitled to park their car wherever they want and refuse to change their behavior until they face the consequences
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When she didn’t receive help from her landlord, she resorted to throwing expired cheese down on the cars below
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The cheese tactic was ignored, so the woman and her garage buddies shoveled in one of the cars with snow
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The offenders dealt with the snow and continued parking where they wanted, so the woman started placing fake parking tickets, which finally got them scared away
The story took place a couple of years ago. The OP lived in an apartment off campus and rented one of the three garage spots while studying. The layout near the garage spots was made so that if any car were parked there, all of the garage spots would be blocked.
There were clear signs around that parking there was not allowed, but some people in the poster’s building didn’t seem to care and parked there anyway. She tried to confront them but was only met with laughs, which irritated her even more.
The landlord didn’t respond to the complaints either, so the three garage renters banded together and decided to take action. First, the woman started dropping slices of expired cheese on the cars whenever there was one standing in the driveway for too long.
When that method didn’t bring much change, the woman and her buddies decided to use their shovels and barricaded one of the illegally parked cars in the snow. Then, they hid their instruments and, for a little while, watched the owners struggle to clear their vehicles.
Unfortunately, the message was ignored nonetheless. So, the OP came up with a solution. She designed and ordered parking tickets and placed them on the illegally parked cars. While she could not legally fine them, the tickets seemed real enough to scare most offenders away.
The story amused the commenters, but most agreed that this was excessive and that many other solutions could’ve made this much faster and easier. The poster admitted that, at the time, she wasn’t aware they could just call the authorities and get the cars towed, but she had fun doing what she did either way.
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Just like the commenters said, the situation could’ve most likely been dealt with in an easier and more efficient way. But in that scenario, we wouldn’t have gotten a chance to read about OP’s endeavors, and where would the fun be in that?
Since the story was so amusing, we wanted to get more details, soBored Pandareached out topeachfruitscato, who loved our interest in the story and was glad to answer our questions.
The woman added that, at the time, she and her garage buddies weren’t sure if they could get the offenders’ cars towed, as the driveway did come with their building. But on the other hand, the suggestions people had for the poster amused her. “I definitely wouldn’t personally do most of those, seeing as many of them are actually illegal, but I loved the creativity and support for the cause!”
Besides cheese, snow, and fake parking tickets, the poster also tried using ketchup, which didn’t work because she couldn’t risk getting close enough. “I had to water it down for it to work though, which made it too watery for it to really show on the car, so I scrapped that idea,” said the woman, explaining her idea of putting the ketchup into a squirt gun.
For anyone dealing with anything similar, the OP recommended trying to handle it through legitimate ways first. But if that bears no results, the next best thing is to get as malicious as you legally can. “I was very careful to pick methods that were annoying to others but that I couldn’t get in legal trouble for,” added the author, encouraging others to be careful doing something like this.
In the end, we all deal with our problems how we best see fit. Some of these methods might really make us delve into pettiness and seem excessive to some, but who’s to say you can’t have fun along the way, too? After all, when you think about it, “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time,” just like Marthe Troly-Curtin wrote.
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