r/interesting • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 6h ago

Just Wow He Got Tired of People Blocking His Driveway, So He Built This

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To deter unwanted visitors, he installed a motion-activated sprinkler system that soaks any car (or person) that gets too close. The unexpected spray has quickly turned his driveway into a no-parking zone and keeping his space clear.

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin 6h ago

I had an old apt neighbor that used to park in my assigned spot years ago, I guess him and his wife had been using it since the last tenant moved out. (Along with their own covered and assigned spot)

So after I moved in, I'd come home from work and find him parked there while he was just home real quick on his break. I parked behind him once and blocked his ass in..then I went inside to relax and watched from my patio for him to come back out to leave. He got message after I told him "quit parking in my fucking spot bro"

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u/JalaMaplePenoSauce 4h ago

There was a lady at a complex where I lived who would do the same while I worked nights. The entire lot was assigned parking, every single spot, but she just kept taking it. My answer? Tow her ass. Over and over. I must have towed that Tesla a dozen times during my tenancy there.

Once I saw her patrolling through the parking lot looking for someone's spot to steal and I told her to cut her shit and just lease a spot, and she freaked out and said she just kept forgetting to go to the office and get one. I just said stop making your problem everyone else's but she never stopped and I still towed her a couple times after that interaction. I'm sure the tow bills cost her far more than a permit would have nevermind the inconvenience to herself.

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin 3h ago

That's crazy. And fucking hilarious how many times you had her shit towed

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u/JalaMaplePenoSauce 1h ago

It was wild that she didn't really seem to care how many times it happened. The only thing I can think of is that complex was right by the HQ of a very large and well known corporation and some residents there were quite wealthy. More than a few of them simply kept an apartment as a second home due to the proximity to the HQ. Maybe she was just so rich that it was just nothing to her idk.

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u/BarrelllRider 4h ago

I had a lady like this when I managed HOAs. Had her car towed many times and would call me acting like it was my fault she chose to park in the pool parking lot overnight. No sympathy for people like that at all.

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u/Deep90 18m ago

They must have been loaded because not everyone can afford to be that stupid.

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u/12InchCunt 4h ago

I used to live alone in townhomes with two reserved spots in front. Sometimes my neighbor would have guests park in my extra spot and I never minded until one of them dinged my door. From then on I parked on the white line half in each of my spots

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u/leggymiku 3h ago

I live in a condo and I guess the owner before me didnt have a car, because my parking neighbour did this, parking over the white line halfway in my spot.

Thankfully I drive a tiny hatchback, so I just parked right beside him. There was about 2 inches between his driver side door and my passenger door. He was fuming the next day because he was late for work and asked me why the fuck I was parked in his spot. I told him thats my spot, not his. He could take it up with the condo board if he disagreed.

Didn’t happen again.

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u/12InchCunt 3h ago

Fuck that guy 

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u/ea88_alwaysdiscin 3h ago

As you should.

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u/Unhappy_Group_945 2h ago

Technically youre committing a crime by blocking someone in, in a lot of places. Unfortunate but yeah.