A Car Owner Got Frustrated When Someone Kept Parking in One of Their Spaces, So They Used a Mobile Car Jack to Move the Vehicle Elsewhere
by Matthew Gilligan

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Folks, you’re gonna get a HUGE kick out of this story!
Well, at least I did…
And I’m 99.9999% sure that you will, too!
Read on and see what happened in this tale from Reddit.
AITA for moving someones car who illegally blocked me in my private property parking space?
“I live in an apartment building which has tandem parking with two spaces per apartment.
Access to the parking levels (1-5) are done via a locked automatic roller door which people can only get through if they have a remote for it (or sneak through behind someone else).
I only have a single car, and sometimes I let my friends park in the space in front of my car if they give me notice, so I generally park at the back of the double space (plus, it’s easier for my neighbours who have two cars).
Hmmm…
Earlier this year a random car began parking in front of mine on Friday afternoons, meaning I couldn’t go out with my car on Friday nights. Annoying, but not the biggest issue when you live super close to the city.
This continued nearly every week over about 5 weeks when I didn’t park my car at the front of the bay (which I began doing), but times I planned to leave the space free for friends coming over or whatever, the car appeared again.
They tried to be nice about it…
I made repeated attempts to stop this behaviour by leaving notes, which escalated into leaving print outs of a photo of the car with the license plate clearly visible and an explanation that if it happened again I’d press charges and/or have the vehicle towed.
It happened again and this time it was still there Saturday afternoon when I had been planning on going away with a group of my mates.
My guess is, someone went out on Friday, got wasted, and decided to pick up the car “later”, not concerning themselves with the inconvenience it caused anyone else.
It clearly hadn’t moved, as my aggressive note telling them to **** off was still there sitting limply under their wiper blades.
They were done dealing with this joker.
I figured enough was enough, it was time to have the vehicle towed, so I called building management and eventually calling a towing company, who refused to help because the space was on the third floor, and they can’t get any trucks up to that level because of the height and space restrictions.
I had previously called the police when other vehicles had blocked me in and the response was some variation of “Unless it’s been there for long enough to be considered abandoned there’s nothing they can do, however I am welcome to have it removed sooner.”
Fortunately for me, however, my parents only live 30 minutes away, and have a garage where I work on one of my cars that’s getting at the tail end of a minor restoration.
One of the things I use pretty often is a set of Vehicle Positioning Jacks, to jam my project car right up against the wall of the garage to minimize the space it takes up.
For anyone that doesn’t know, Vehicle Positioning Jacks are basically devices that slot under each wheel, then lift the car up on hydraulics so you can free wheel it in any direction.
They got an idea…
Whilst I hadn’t originally gone to retrieve them, when I had to take my project car off them, a bright idea came to my head.
None of my mates minded spending an extra hour to screw someone over that had interfered with us, so we grabbed the jacks, and went back, propped the car up, and wheeled it out.
Six guys can easily move around a small hatchback, so we pushed across the level slowly and carefully, to an area where there isn’t parking, but is a load supporting pillar with space enough for a car behind it, in a little section of the garage where it isn’t lit and is completely out of the way.
Typically there’s a guy on my level that parks a motor bike there, but he isn’t meant to, and I doubted that he minded.
We dumped it between the pillar and the wall, with the nose pointing towards the wall, I took back my angry note, the jacks, and we left to enjoy our weekend. This is how the car ended up positioned.
When he came back Monday afternoon after the long weekend the car was still there, which was no real surprise considering there was only about a foot of space for movement between the pillar and car, and another foot or so between the car and the wall.
From the fact the front wheels had changed we’re guessing they did try to get it out, unsuccessfully. It eventually went later in the week, though I’m not exactly sure how they managed it.
AITA for moving his car away from mine, and putting it in a position where it wouldn’t inconvenience anyone else?”
Here’s what readers had to say.
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This Reddit user spoke up.

Another reader weighed in.

You gotta give them credit for getting creative in this situation!
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