Sometimes it can be hard to find a parking spot for a car, but I never realized that in some countries it’s also really hard to find a parking spot for a bike!

Today’s story happens in Japan, and one bicycle owner shares that he had a reserved parking spot for his bike. When a stranger uses his parking spot, it’s war!

Let’s see how the story plays out.

Using my parking space? All good, you will be using it forever

So Im living in Japan now and here people ride bicycles a lot.

You cant leave your bike anywhere and you have to pay for parking, between 1 and 2 dollars per day.

There are very few free parking areas for bicycles.

Most people leave their bikes at the same place so they pay monthly because its cheaper and you have your own space.

This sounds so annoying.

This started a couple of weeks ago.

Someone in my building started having a guest who decided to steal my bicycle parking space whenever they came to visit.

Sometimes they stayed the whole night so I had to go to the station, pay one dollar and come all they way home walking, which meant I would need to walk to the station the next day (getting up earlier, walk like 20 minutes to the station while carrying my heavy bag).

He tried to deal with things in a reasonable enough way.

All the bicycle spaces have a number, which means they are reserved for someone.

Mine is the 105 but this jerk decided to take mine whenever they came to visit.

The second time this happened, I told the building manager but they didn’t do anything.

The third time I saw the bicycle there (it was the same red expensive bicycle) I left a note in Japanese saying “please don’t leave your bicycle here, this is my space and I am using everyday.

The parking spot thief only made things worse.

I found the note taped (with the tape I used to tape it on their bike) to my parking space and it had a couple of bad words in Japanese at the end.

Basically he was not only stealing my space but making fun of me by insulting me.

Fine, its just fine…

He bought a new bike lock.

I probably wouldn’t have done anything about it if he hadn’t written those words, this triggered me and got the worst in me.

This person did it again a couple of times, so I knew this would continue.

I was thinking about buying another bicycle, a better more expensive one I could use to go on cycling trips so a good chain/ luck was needed anyway.

I bought one of the thickest they had at the store and decided to try its efficiency.

The parking spot thief is getting desperate.

I locked his bicycle next time I saw it there.

It hasn’t moved for the last 7 days.

There where two notes, the first one was a very aggressive one, with more bad words and threats about going to the police (which I don’t care, lets go that way buddy).

Second note days later was an apology and they begged for me to unlock the bike because they tried to brake it but they couldn’t.

He wants to savor his victory.

I guess he has learned his lesson.

Im pretty sure he wont do it again but I just want to enjoy this feeling of victory a couple of days more.

I will free it in 2-3 days I guess.

That is great revenge!

It must be so frustrating for the parking spot thief!

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This is a good idea.

Here’s another vote for making the spot thief pay.

This person would be worried about retaliation.

This is a good suggestion!

Don’t steal another person’s reserved parking spot!

That’s just common sense.

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