New Neighbors Ignored Everyone’s Complaints About Their Parking—So the Neighborhood Hit Back Where It Hurt
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When you move into a neighborhood, you should do your best to get along with everyone else.
What would you do if your new neighbors moved in and immediately began burning bridges and causing trouble by parking in a way that made life difficult for everyone else?
That is what happened to the neighborhood in this story, so they plotted some amazing revenge with the help of the police and some friendly tow truck drivers.
Read through the full story below and see what you think of the story.
Illegally park and block driveways in our neighborhood and do it consistently, while throwing a party, expect what’s coming.
Two years ago a new family moved into our quiet little neighborhood and began their reign of terror.
It used to be a very nice neighborhood.
We’ve lived here for over twenty years in this neighborhood and except for these past two years, it’s been wonderful. I love our neighbors. Except this family. This just family sucks.
I’m not even sure where to begin. They are loud, they are dirty, they are obnoxious, their dog barks at all hours, they constantly yell at each other, they throw parties well into the night.
There is no shortage of complaints about these new neighbors.
They steal my older neighbors paper, they actually trained their rottweiler to fetch the neighbor’s paper, impressive but wrong. They throw their dog’s poo into other yards.
Argh, so much… They even cut my 80 something year old neighbor’s prized roses for themselves. Who does that?
There are about a hundred issues I could write about in how we’ve all dealt with them but this past weekend was my own glorious take on it all.
Parking is always a hassle in these neighborhoods.
Oh, and yes, we tried talking to them, we tried inviting them over, we’ve done nice things for them, and all we’ve expected is that they act like decent neighbors. That’s never happened.
In our neighborhood parking is scarce. Most of these homes are classic 1950’s with single lane driveways and parking is limited even on the streets.
There’s a busy road a few blocks away that has a great nightlife and popular restaurants which means that at times, especially on the weekends, the street can fill up.
Why can’t they park in front of their own house.
This family has four drivers and five vehicles with only enough space for two in their driveway at a time.
Constantly they would park and leave their vehicles for days, and sometimes weeks, in front of other’s homes – sometimes leaving their driveway empty for no reason with all of their cars parked on the road.
So, this is intentional to make the neighbors mad.
I kind of believe that, in itself, isn’t that big of a deal except for how and when they would do it. They were intentional about it all would do so to try to and cause the most grief with everyone.
And this went on for months. A complete screw you to everyone. After months of this, and no one retaliating or giving them the satisfaction of how mad we all are, they started parking deliberately in ways to make it difficult to get out of our driveways.
It would be tempting to just hit their car.
I had to have my husband come out most mornings to guide me so I wouldn’t hit their car as I backed out of my own driveway.
There were also times where they squeezed my neighbor’s car on the street to where they couldn’t get out.
The neighbors are finally going to try to take action.
Finally, an older retired neighbor goes down to city/police station and inquires about what to do. They found a code or law stating that so much space from the sides of driveways and yadda-yadda-yadda is required.
So, we come home one night to freshly painted yellow curbs outlining every house surrounding this one.
A few weeks ago, my husband’s car breaks down and he has to get towed. On his way back he starts talking with the tow truck driver about these jerk neighbors and their cars.
Now they have an ally to help them in their revenge.
He tells my husband that if these cars are parking illegally, we should call the non-emergency line and if they receive a ticket, to call him and he can tow them at owner’s expense. “It’s the law.”
My husband and him keep talking and even meet up for a beer a few nights later — they are big fans of the Blazers! Rip City! He’s a real good guy.
Things are really coming together.
About a month ago, we met a couple in our fair city and it just so happens that the husband is an officer. We were already planning on meeting that Friday night and when we met I brought the jerk neighbors and their parking.
He says that he’ll drive through on his shift if he gets time and if he sees them parked in the yellow, he has no problem ticketing them. Great!
He also gets some of his friends to check it out when they have time too. Fantastic! We’ve been calling almost daily at this point about their cars parked illegally but nothing was happening.
If they don’t learn their lesson from the tickets, it needs to be escalated.
That Saturday night he sends me a text saying he ticketed three cars. I missed that text so no tow-truck, but I kind of figured with the three tickets they’d get the idea. They didn’t. Off and on all week it was the same.
This past Saturday the teenage son throws a party and everyone, I mean every single one of their guests and them, parked in the yellow of someone’s driveway or blocked someone out altogether.
It is time for revenge.
Obviously the little jerk told all of his friends to block our driveways or block our cars in. I sent a text to our officer friend who told me to call the non-emergency line and he’d be the one to look into it.
But I’m scheming bigger.
I call up the tow truck driver and tell him that there are at least fifteen cars parked illegally and all are about to receive parking tickets for blocking driveways and cars.
This is the perfect opportunity.
I let him know we are friends with an officer and he and I scheme a little further. We get a solid plan.
I call our officer friend back and tell him our plan and I also mention that the party is likely going to be filled with underage drinkers.
Now, I hate busting parties but I make exceptions for little jerks and especially little underage drinking and driving jerks. He and I finalize the plan.
This is going to turn into a very expensive party.
Here’s how it all went down. Officer and three of his partners go through the neighborhood citing all of the cars. Meanwhile, our tow truck driver friend has assembled a group of drivers in the nearby grocery store parking lot.
My husband and I make anonymous call about a possible underage party. The tow truck drivers start at the ends our street grabbing the cars as quickly as possible.
The neighbors have no idea what is happening.
A few alarms here and there but no way could they hear it in the party. When they approach the house, my husband makes an anonymous call about an underage party in our neighborhood.
Conveniently, our officer friend just so happens to still be in the neighborhood, so he and his partner go over to the house to check on it.
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There is no good option for the kids.
As they knock on the door, lights go out, music shuts off, and the house goes quiet. At this moment, the tow trucks come in and are now towing the remaining five cars right from in front of their home.
I just wish I could see the kid’s faces inside as they are all having a dilemma about what to do.
Do they go out and bust themselves for underage drinking and try to stop their cars from being towed, or do they just sit and bite the bullet and watch $250+ go down the drain.
Finally, they have learned their lesson.
On Sunday, they had three cars return from being towed and all three are parked just shy of the yellow lines. I’ll call this a win.
My husband and a couple of neighbors also spent Sunday putting up some new cameras.
They were all very giddy and loud about it all – something about “all the lights and police on Saturday made them nervous”. LOL!
When a neighbor is as awful as these are, you have to take action to stop them, and that is just what this neighborhood did.
Let’s take a look at what the people in the comments have to say about it.
Having cameras should have been step one.
This really was a great story.
Here is someone who says the bad neighbor deserved worse.
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This commenter is exactly right.
The two truck guys made a mint.
You can bet that the neighbors won’t be parking like that again. Unfortunately, you can also bet that the neighbors will be out for revenge.
This type of feud generally never fully ends and hurts everyone.
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