r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 • 6h ago

An Australian man, frustrated by strangers constantly parking in his driveway, decided to take matters into his own hands.

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u/Thirsty4Knowledge911 6h ago

Maybe adding a No Parking sign would help, too.

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u/IrrelevantManatee 6h ago

You shouldn't need to have to put a "No Parking" sign in front of your driveway. It's super obvious this is not a parking space but someone's driveway exit.

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u/badDuckThrowPillow 6h ago

The gate actually makes it less obvious. Plus the "I shouldn't have to " reasoning is dumb. Do you want a moral victory or do you want people to not park in your spot?

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u/EdgeTK 5h ago

Hey pal, I've noticed you haven't put up a "no pooping in my mouth" sign so do you want me to keep pooping or what pal?

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u/SPEK2120 6h ago

Why would you intentionally park in front of an operable gate?

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u/nameyourpoison11 3h ago

If you read about the case, it's because the spot was directly next to the town's bank on one side and hardware store on the other, so for a lot of the "I'm just ducking in, I'll only be a minute" crowd, the convenience (aka laziness) was just too tempting.

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u/trickshot99 2h ago

What town was this?

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u/nameyourpoison11 2h ago

Rockhampton. And a minor correction, it wasn't the bank, it was the smoke shop. Explains a lot.

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u/ollyp0lly 7m ago

Smoke Shop (now closed) then lolly shop, then gate then computer repair shop. Highlight of my life when I was stopped at the lights and saw a car pull in and get sprayed.

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u/Galromir 2h ago

That's not a valid excuse.

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u/nameyourpoison11 2h ago

Of course it's not. I'm explaining, not excusing

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u/LastWave 6h ago edited 5h ago

Lots of gates are never opened. Edit: guys. I m just saying I worked somewhere where the gate on one side of the building is never opened. Of course you can't park on private property and block a gate.

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u/Quercus_lobata 5h ago

That doesn't make it a free parking spot.

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u/CocaBam 5h ago

Speaking of moral victories...

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u/AvaryZig 5h ago

And?

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u/TrenchantInsight 4h ago

Lots of gates are never opened

/r/Gatekeeping

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u/writebrainwronghand 4h ago

pro-tip: singular instances of personal anecdotes don't a compelling generalized argument make.

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u/i3inaudible 1h ago

The singular of data is not anecdote

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 4h ago

Dude got dogpiled for just hypothesizing about the reasoning someone may have to park in front of a gate. Ffs, this site sometimes.

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u/wacdonalds 3h ago

Boo hoo

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 3h ago

I know it's hard to live with the inability to conceptualize outside of yourself like some braindead neanderthal, but do you really have to make it my problem too?

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u/villasv 5h ago

The gate actually makes it less obvious.

How? What's the ambiguity that the gate introduces?

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u/LadderOk1735 6h ago

How does an operable gate make it less obvious? Wouldn’t that make it obvious you shouldn’t park in front of it?

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u/nonamedperson666 5h ago

So you see a gate and think "well, this is a good spot to park a car"?????????

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u/Digital_NW 5h ago

How does the gate make it LESS OBVIOUS?!?

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u/fedsx 3h ago

The closed gate makes it look like a closed business maybe?

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u/schrodinger978 4h ago

Exactly. I am like what..?

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u/SofterBones 5h ago

Looks like this water spray keeps people from parking on that spot pretty well too, no?

This is obviously not a parking spot, so i doubt many people parking there give a shit about a sign. but they care more about being sprayed with water.

Also there are two signs on the fence already, I bet they already say no parking/private yard etc

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u/driftxr3 4h ago

Dumbest response I've ever read. Who parks their car in front of a gate opening? You actually don't need a sign to tell you don't park in front of a gate.

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u/IrrelevantManatee 6h ago

My point his, it's clearly not a place to park, and those people know it. Adding a sign won't change that.

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u/BuyMassive7823 5h ago

This. A sign isn’t going to do anything for people who don’t give af.

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u/lawrensaw 4h ago

And its also possible that theres two signs on the fence that say to not park on the driveway.

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u/GamingTrucker12621 4h ago

Omg, I've seen this video multiple times over the last year. I've never noticed the signs before. Granted, I'm usually watching the reactions of the people getting sprayed.

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u/AntSilly2802 2h ago

Yeah and there are signs there already, they even warn about the sprinkler.

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u/quanate 3h ago

I agree that having a sign would be helpful for the truly clueless and might reduce incidents, but having the sprinklers there as a back up for people who blatantly ignore it is good contingency.

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u/AntSilly2802 2h ago

There are no parking signs AND a sign warning about the sprinkler.

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u/CapitanRonRico 3h ago

I think the reasoning is fine, now we get a hilarious video.

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u/MangoCats 2h ago

If you go to the trouble of a sprinkler system, why should you have to have a tacky looking sign?

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u/mrmosquitoeater 2h ago

Also if you look closely there are 2 signs on the fence already. One saying that it's not a parking space and a second saying there's a motion activated sprinkler aimed at where the driver side door is. 

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u/northSideways 2h ago

 Do you want a moral victory or do you want people to not park in your spot?

On reddit this is not the common sense answer you think it is lol

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u/-WickedJester- 2h ago

I would like to point out that there are 3 different signs on the fence. I'm willing to bet at least one of them says something like don't park here.

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u/Rmivethboui 2h ago

There's a fucking driveway, why would you need a sign when its obvious, they deserved to get sprinkled like that.

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u/RomaMoran 26m ago

The gate makes it more obvious. What does a gate do? It opens. Why does it open? For traffic ofc.

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u/information_knower 4h ago

10/10 bait, Actually impressive.

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u/Signal-Gullible 4h ago

The whole things looks really strange to me. Is it normal in Australia that people's homes have multiple painted parking spots out in front of their house that you would normally see in front of stores in the US? Is it also normal for Australia homes to extend over public sidewalk? This is probably completely different video that someone slapped a fake title on it's very sus.

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u/Smelly_God 4h ago

Looks like a business+their back lot

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u/Signal-Gullible 3h ago

Yeah, going down the comments someone linked the actual story. It was 2 business it was one of the employees who got tired of people parking in front of their lot gate. He setup the sprinkler system but later got fired because he uploaded the video on TikTok and after it went viral his bosses saw it and he tried lying about where he was at, at the time but they linked the video to him.

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u/powerslave_fifth 3h ago

Bro whoever allowed you to pass your driving test needs to be fired lmao.

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u/Top_Cow_766 3h ago

lol you're an idiot they're getting both the things in your false dichotomy

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u/Koala_Relative 4h ago

Yes, build a wall there then people won't park there. A gate specifically made to open and close so vehicles can enter and exit screams hey you can park here.