Neighbors are a gamble, and it seems that every neighborhood has at least one crazy neighbor.

The crazy neighbor in today’s story is named Jane, and her new neighbors find out the hard way just how unreasonable she can be. However, they’re not going to let her get away with it!

Find out how they stand up to the rude neighbor…

Call the police? Sure!

In our mid twenties my husband and I purchased and moved into our rather modest first house with our infant daughter.

I made a big effort to meet and befriend our neighbours, and all of them warned me to be careful of one particular person “Jane”.

Jane had lived in the street for three years at this point and had earned herself the nickname “Big Fat Jane,” as she was manipulating, intimidating and thoroughly awful.

Here are examples of Jane’s behavior…

Jane ran a daycare from her house, but neighbours on both side reported hearing her scream at the children and leave them unsupervised in the garden.

It’s important to note that Jane’s partner is a police officer, [and] the neighbours were scared of retaliation if they reported her or stood up to her.

It seemed Jane would use this to get away with her horrific behaviour.

One day, they had to park in front of Jane’s house.

Our house had a driveway with a dropped curb big enough for one car, but we could fit both if you blocked in the first and only used the second car.

Parking on the street was very limited, and we had double yellow lines outside our house (not allowed to stop/park there).

During some essential roof work, our driveway was taken up by scaffolding and a skip, so we parked in the street and my husband parked outside BFJ’s house.

The next day when he went to his car, BFJ came running down her path shouting at him.

It was quite a dramatic scene!

She screamed about his “anti-social parking”, that his car would be towed, and that he could expect it to be scratched up if he left it there any longer.

My husband calmly explained it was a public road, and she had no right to police the space.

Her screeches, at this point, were loud enough that I (and several neighbour) heard and came to see the commotion.

Her partner was perched at the door during all of this, saying and doing nothing.

They threatened to call the police.

When she saw me on pavement with our daughter, she pointed and screamed, “You’ll have the Social on you if you don’t back off! I’ll scratch you right up!”

At this point, I told my husband to come back, and we were calling the police.

She responded, “Call the police! I dare you! He’s (pointing at her partner) a police man! He’ll sort you out! You won’t know what hit you!”

She called the police anyway.

At this point, my husband looked at her husband and said, “Is that right? And you’re agreeing with what she’s said!”

The partner nodded and said, “You need to move or accept the consequences. You call the police, it won’t get you anywhere!”

Funnily, when I then took out my phone and dialed the non-police emergency number (on speakerphone) and made a police report, both of them looked a lot less confident.

BFJ stood there open-mouthed, then grabbed her partner, and slammed the door. And we haven’t heard from her since!

There were major consequences for Jane and her husband!

Her partner was placed on suspension due to the allegation and further allegations from our neighbours. He then returned to an admin role.

After our confrontation, BFJ was given a warning for a public order offence. However, due to a number of reports, her daycare closed, and she is no longer able to mind children.

Their house is up for sale, however, as she made a number of modifications without proper planning or works people, it’s price is significantly lower than they expected, and they’re in negative equity.

All because of a parking space!

WOW. This couple’s life crumbled — all due to their pettiness about a parking spot!

What does Reddit have to say about all this?

Of course, Redditors sang their praises for the revenge.

People really cheered these homeowners on for standing their ground.

Readers even went so far as to say this situation helped the neighborhood.

However, some Redditors noted that corrupt authority is no laughing matter.

This couple ruined their whole life over one lousy parking space!

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