Never park on anyone’s property without getting their permission first.

That might seem like common sense but, as we all know, common sense ain’t too common these days.

This story comes to us from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page and the person who shared it said that it all started on their parents’ land.

You can’t park there. Ok, you can, but it will cost you.

“My parents had this problem with a guy parking a tractor trailer on their land. He lives right across from one of their pecan groves. The grove has well spaced trees all in neat rows, the grass is mowed super short, the ground is really flat. It looks like an ideal place to pull your rig if you don’t know better.

This trucker was messing the family business.

The ground is so flat because they use mechanical harvesting. Bumps and grooves can cause the machines to leave pecans laying on the ground. A 2 inch deep groove from a big truck like that can hold thousands of dollars of pecans and will until it is fixed. Oh, and you have to get them up by hand. It’s a big deal when someone screws with your livelihood like that.

Their dad talked to the trucker and all seemed to be fine.

So the guy parks there one time. They get it, he probably doesn’t understand he is causing so much trouble. Dad goes down, explains the damage he has done, tells him the grove is private property and not to do it again. Dude, we’ll call him Dude, agrees, apologizes. Dad goes home, fixes damage midweek.

But this guy wanted to play games.

Next Friday there is the truck again, same spot. Dad, not about to put up with this, calls the sherrif dept. Cop comes, truck moves. Dad fixes damage midweek. Next week, no truck. One week later, truck is back. Repeat complaint for trespassing to sheriff. Dude claims he forgot.

He drives over the road and the Home Depot where his car is parked is 30 miles away. It is convenient for Dude to forget because he saves his gas and time by driving his employers rig and parking it on my parents land. (Also, he doesn’t get nailed if his cab isn’t clean, no other driver gets assigned ‘his’ truck. There are plain motivations.) Dude clearly does not forget every time he is home but this is what he claims to the deputies sent out on the complaints.

It took a while, but the guy finally got a citation, at least.

After 7 times the sheriff department is called, he FINALLY gets a trespassing citation. No fine is levied. Drives his car two weeks in a row. Following week, truck is back. At this point my dad has fixed this damage so often he is keeping a tractor and blade on the property so it gets done faster and easier.

Calls the sherrif yet again. The sheriff himself comes out this time. Truck leaves, sheriff comes to see my dad. Says the enforcement problem is that it is hard to explain to a court the harm when pictures hardly show any damage and Dude always apologizes and moves the truck when deputies come.

But then the sheriff had a bright idea…

Says getting Dude for trespassing under those circumstances is going to be tough but he is on this and will see it through for my parents but his office us 30 miles away, not that many deputies to be out patrolling, etc.

And then the sheriff, bless his little elected heart, says, “But if there were something different like a theft of services going on…”

Cue Malicious Compliance.

The next day, signs go up on 80 trees in a row (8000 feet, they are 100 feet apart). “Semi parking. $500/hour. Prepay. Violators will be towed.”

And you know this truck driver wasn’t paying attention to any signs.

Dude doesn’t pay the signs any mind. Dude does, however, pay the tow truck and deputy quite a bit of mind. Comes running and screaming, waving his arms as they are hooking up.

Well, before my dad called to have him towed, everything was documented, including having the sheriff himself drive by and take several pictures of the truck parked with the clearly visible signs.

Everything is put on hold while Dude’s employer, who owns the truck drives out.

And this laziness ended up costing the trucker’s boss a whole lot of money!

After 3 hours, Dude’s boss gives up and writes a check for $7,800 to cover parking and tow truck fees. That actually covered the tow truck, all the repairs, printing the signs, and beer for about a year for my dad’s Tuesday poker gathering.

Dude, who still lives there, does not park in the pecan grove. His boss payroll deducted his checks for 2 years.”

Now let’s see what people had to say about this.

This person was inspired by this story to handle their own problem!

Another individual who works as a truck driver said they’d never do this.

One Reddit user said this truck driver deserved this.

Another person said some folks need to learn lessons the hard way.

And this Reddit user said that it’s all about signage!

I bet that truck driver never does anything like that again…

And you can take that to the bank!